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Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate the leading platform through which Democrats raise money for their campaigns. Less that 100 days in, Trump is weaponizing DOJ to prevent his political opponents from funding opposition campaigns. Where is the outrage?

submitted 4 days ago • 459 comments

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

submitted 5 days ago • 1422 comments

The SCOTUS order is like 4 pages, total. The opinion of the court is 3 paragraphs. This isn’t something you just miss or overlook. It’s a brazen, completely inexcusable misrepresentation of the Supreme Court’s order.

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

submitted 10 days ago • 337 comments

Note import of what Geidner is saying. Alito dissent may simply say, "this appeal isn't before us, even on rocket docket." But some majority (not clear it's 7) thought they had to stay up late on most important Catholic weekend to intervene to protect due process for people being loaded on planes.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 289 comments

🚨 SCOOP: Trump Treasury Department official in March asked the IRS to review a decision to audit My Pillow guy Mike Lindell -- "a high profile friend of the president" -- per sources and emails I've obtained. Follows admin threat to strip Harvard of tax-exempt status. Story tk.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Who wrote the decision for the panel? Judge Harvie Wilkinson, a long-time conservative 1972-3: Clerked for Justice Powell 1984: Appointed to bench by President Reagan 2004: Short list for Bush SCOTUS appointment Oh, and his daughter clerked for Justice Roberts

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

submitted 12 days ago • 1596 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 14 days ago • 871 comments

NEW: The govt has filed it's daily status report on Abrego Garcia. ICE official Evan Katz declares Abrego Garcia was removed illegally, but that's okay now because the government has declared he's a member of MS13, and they have no further updates. WOW. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 15 days ago • 664 comments

Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

submitted 17 days ago • 290 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court says the government must facilitate the RETURN of Abrego Garcia from El Salvador to the United States. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 18 days ago • 1027 comments

I'm one of these civil servant/ career govt attorneys (27 yrs - but only one was federal... in the federal court in NDNY in 1998-99) and this world where we are potential targets of the administration is incomprehensible. I cannot believe my lack of respect for it &for the US Supreme Court now too.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Supreme Court in a 5–4 vote granted the Trump administration’s request to vacate a lower-court ruling preventing it from deporting people using an 18th century wartime law. However, it stipulated that those subject to law are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.

submitted 20 days ago • 288 comments

NEW: Bessent flew to Florida to tell Trump to change his messaging on Tariffs: ‘The markets will keep melting unless you shift" to trade deals. Then mysteriously, as if Trump wanted you to know, people who were at the meeting called the press to tell them about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 21 days ago • 81 comments

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 21 days ago • 314 comments

Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸

submitted 22 days ago • 1328 comments

Sign of the day…Chicago

submitted 22 days ago • 251 comments

Incredible news on TDOV. The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 28 days ago • 305 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

submitted 28 days ago • 600 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

submitted 28 days ago • 2144 comments

JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.

submitted 33 days ago • 281 comments

New: The federal judiciary on today launched a task force focused on ensuring the continued security and independence of the courts as President Donald Trump and his allies ramp up their criticism of judges who block his agenda. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 33 days ago • 1921 comments

Quick overview of the opinions in the DC Circuit's decision (linked in the thread below). The 2-1 opinion is technically not written by a specific judge (per curiam), but we know how the vote came out because two judges (Henderson and Millett) concur in support and one judge (Walker) dissents.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 34 days ago • 1058 comments

NEW: Judge Boasberg says he'll give DOJ one more day to produce the information he asked for by noon, "although their grounds for such request at first blush are not persuasive" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 40 days ago • 91 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Howell has convened an emergency hearing on US Institute of Peace's lawsuit alleging they were "forcibly ejected" from their HQ by DOGE amid an attempt to shutter the agency. Howell noted that the building looks like a "dove" and is a "pretty building."

submitted 40 days ago • 19 comments

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submitted 45 days ago • 1017 comments

NEWS: Judge Chutkan has granted a request by several state attorneys general for discovery on DOGE — namely the identities of DOGE personnel and the “parameter’s of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”

submitted 47 days ago • 73 comments