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This is the list of demands the Trump administration sent to Harvard to avoid having its federal research grants cut off, which Harvard has rejected. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

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Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Trump Escalates Use of Official Power to Intimidate and Punish His Perceived Foes A presidential decree instructing the Justice Department to scrutinize whether a former official broke the law crosses a new line. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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wrongthink

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Forever Wars/drone war update: Trump Team Divided Over Future of US Counterterrorism Operations in Somalia State Dept officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants. W/ Eric Schmitt www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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Trump directs DOJ to open criminal investigations into Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs www.c-span.org/video/?c5160...

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

New friend-of-the-court brief filed in the lawsuit over Trump's order targeting Perkins Coie, signed by a long list of former national security officials. Mostly D admin vets, but some R admin vets too. Calls Trump's order illegal/unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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We asked the Office of Legal Counsel whether it reviewed Trump's executive orders for form and legality. This is the letter we received in response. cc: @charliesavage.bsky.social @martylederman.bsky.social @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

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Trump Sidelines Justice Dept. Legal Office, Eroding Another Check on His Power As President Trump claims expansive and disputed powers, his administration has curbed the influential Office of Legal Counsel. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

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Trump to Pick Ohio’s Solicitor General for Top Justice Department Legal Post T. Elliot Gaiser will be nominated to lead the influential Office of Legal Counsel, a department official said. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

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Ken Wainstein joins Mayer Brown

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Congress Wrote a Deportation Law to Be Used ‘Sparingly.’ Trump Has Other Ideas. A crackdown targeting foreign students protesting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians conflicts with free-speech protections that lawmakers added in 1990. nyti.ms/4ifjdcl

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The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”

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I thought the entire point of protectionist tariffs is that U.S. producers can raise their prices and yet stay competitive in the market. Isn't making U.S. products more profitable the incentive mechanism by which tariffs are supposed to spur more domestic manufacturing? www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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Appeals Court keeps restraining order in place that for now is preventing the Trump admin from carrying out more summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

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New: The State Secrets Privilege and the Trump administration fight with Judge Boasberg, explained www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/u...

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The yellow “Black Lives Matter” lettering on 16th St NW above the White House is gone and they are putting the road back together.

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Roll Call: The WH has taken down a public spending "apportionments" database showing when/where $ goes after Congress appropriates it. A 2022 law - a reform stemming from Trump's withholding military assistance from Ukraine - requires making the data public. rollcall.com/2025/03/24/w...

submitted 22 days ago • 49 comments

This is pretty amazing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Latest: I'm told that the U.S. is now holding 21 migrants at Gitmo, nationalities unknown, and all now housed in the prison building that formerly held suspected Al Qaeda members or affiliates.

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exclusive: Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict Trump on Venezuelan Gang To invoke wartime deportation powers, Trump asserted that Venezuela’s government controls a gang. U.S. intelligence analysts think that is not true. w/ @julianbarnes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

Boasberg gives DOJ another day to answer his basic questions about the flights to El Salvador, while reminding it of the impediments it will face if it tries to invoke the state secrets privilege to avoid answering them. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Análisis noticioso Los tribunales se someten a las afirmaciones fácticas del ejecutivo. Trump lo complica. www.nytimes.com/es/2025/03/1...

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Court Face-Off on Deportations Tests Trump’s Power to ‘Find and Declare’ Facts Litigation unleashed by Trump’s 2nd term, combined w/ his distortions and lies, is testing the judicial system practice of deferring to executive branch determinations about what is true. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

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Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States. w/ Ken Bensinger www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

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Trump admin suddenly empties out all the migrants it brought to Gitmo for a second time - this time bringing them back to the United States. Big court hearing on Friday in lawsuits over the policy. w/ @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

Mark Klein, whistleblower about Room 641A for people who care about NSA surveillance issues, has died.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

My colleague Adam Goldman, who abandoned Twitter/X but has not to date joined Bluesky, has posted on LinkedIn this memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi personally barring DOJ buildings from procuring paper straws www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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NEW: Perkins Coie sues the Trump administration over EO targeting the firm. "The Order is an affront to the Constitution …plain purpose is to bully those who advocate points of view that the President perceives as adverse to the views of his Administration" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trump Administration Prepares to Revive and Expand Travel Bans President Trump’s first-term policy grew out of his 2015 campaign call to bar Muslims from entering the country and evolved amid court battles. w/ @ewong.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 40 days ago • 30 comments

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

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President Trump to Chief Justice Roberts, author of the presidential immunity decision: “Thank you again. I won’t forget.” Slaps him on the shoulder.

submitted 41 days ago • 35 comments

I hate that TV just has commentary blather when they should be just pointing mics at lawmakers and Supreme Court justices talking to Trump so we can listen in. Even PBS, which in the past has been better about shutting up.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Climate Groups Were Counting on $20 Billion. Trump Won’t Let Them Access It. The DOJ and FBI are investigating $20 billion in climate funds, despite a top prosecutor’s decision that there was not sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. w/ Lisa Friedman and Claire Brown www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/c...

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Senate Armed Services Committee Democrats send letter to Pete Hegseth objecting to his purge of the top military service JAG officers

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New Lawsuit Challenges Legality of Trump’s Sending Migrants to Guantánamo The new case, which for now is asking for a court to block the transfer of 10 men to the offshore base, is the first to directly challenge the policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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