Carrie Johnson

🔊 Listen Now: Trump administration reverses course on law firms, vowing to appeal All Things Considered on NPR One | 3:59

A whirlwind at the Justice Department as it reverses course on law firm appeals.

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NEW: A federal appeals court swiftly rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay next steps in the fight over tariff refunds for importers after the US Supreme Court struck down the president’s signature economic policy
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Adorable. He doesn’t look too bothered.

Judge Cannon has just denied @knightcolumbia.org & @weareoversight.bsky.social motions to intervene and permanently barred DOJ from disclosing Jack Smith's report. She says (again) that Smith was appointed unconstitutionally, and that the report is the fruit of the unconstitutional appointment.

Reunion 🐶

The Acela just erupted in applause

I loved Book World so much 😢

My happy place

Still the best

17 years? Where has the time gone?

Helen Frankenthaler, Provincetown, 1964

Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions President Trump is asking the federal government for billions of dollars in damages, putting his own Justice Department on the spot and creating an unprecedented ethical morass.

Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions

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This is how you live a life

A genius. May he rest in peace.

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The news cycle is so crazy. Can’t wait to just rest on Saturday afternoon. And… cue:

Pink and Red start to St. Valentine's Day. Saturday sunrise in Chicago.

H/T @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · 02/13/2026 · 36m

My New Yorker interview with David Remnick. Give it a listen.
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The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof (RNS) — ‘I’ve had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they’re citizens. That’s not America,’ the Chic...

NEW via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Cardinal Blase Cupich, who runs the Archdiocese of Chicago, says that DHS has stopped priests under his purview and demanded proof of citizenship “because of their color.” religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...

Federal judge acknowledges 'abusive workplace' in court order The order did not identify the judge in question but two sources familiar with the process told NPR it is U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby, a Biden appointee.

Federal judge acknowledges ‘abusive workplace’ in court order

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Lawsuit from families of men killed in boat strikes is the first to reach U.S. court Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. airstrike last year are suing over what they call extrajudicial killings. It's the first such case to land in an American courthouse.

Valuable story by @carriejohnson.bsky.social on an important US lawsuit re US boat strikes

Thanks so much for your insights

Newly released court records reveal misconduct inquiry into federal judge A federal judge said he retired to speak out about threats to the rule of law. Newly released court orders suggest his exit coincided with a misconduct inquiry that ended when he stepped down.

The latest in my reporting on misconduct allegations and workplace issues involving federal courts -

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Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice' In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Please read this impt thread 🧵

Whoa. D.Minn's chief judge Patrick Schiltz dockets a list of "96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases."

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National Guard Deployment to Chicago Cost $21M, Congressional Budget Office Says In all, President Donald Trump’s decision to send federalized National Guard troops to six American cities cost approximately $496 million through the end of December, according to the report.

BREAKING: The decision by the Trump administration to send 375 members of the Texas and Illinois National Guard to Chicago cost taxpayers $21 million, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office. @wttw.bsky.social