Brad Heath

Speaker Johnson was a lawyer.

Peter Carr comments.

JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

NEW: One of the unintended consequences of the Trump administration’s focus on mass deportations: Corrections officers from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. @keribla.bsky.social

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

The AP has gone and talked to relatives of some of the men, including those of a fisherman and a bus driver.

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump: SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!

Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”

If Comet or one of the other AI browsers checks "I agree" on one of those click-wrap agreements, is there still a contract?

Govt "takes no position" on whether to unseal its inexplicably sealed original sentencing memo in case of Taylor Taranto, which had removed paragraphs describing the J6 "mob of rioters" & had referenced the role a Trump post played in one of Taranto's crimes. Judge orders memo unsealed.

Breaking: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin “I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin.

“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.

New, at Law Dork:

Understatement.

I've never read a dissent quite like this one.

Judge Presses Comey Prosecutors Over Revised Indictment

"The spectacle, which played out over nearly 90 minutes of tense courtroom colloquy, drove home just how slapdash the prosecution of Mr. Comey appeared to have been from its inception."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

From @raphae.li and @ajvicens.bsky.social:

"The story maps the pro-Trump machinery of retaliation now reshaping American political life, detailing its scale and tactics, ranging from shaming on social media to public pressure on employers and threats to defund institutions."

President Donald Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The DOJ letter on Texas' congressional maps was circulating in the White House more than a week before it went out.

The federal court that struck down Texas' redistricting plan says the letter from a Trump DOJ appointee that kicked off the whole thing is "challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors. "

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: This is a 2-1 decision of a three-judge district court blocking the mid-decade Texas redistricting map as a racial gerrymander. It will (undoubtedly) be appealed, and it goes directly to the Supreme Court.

A man charged with assaulting an officer during Trump's show-of-force in D.C. has asked a judge to throw out the case because prosecutors waited too long to bring him to trial, part of "a pattern of gross neglect of the government’s legal and constitutional obligations."

JUST IN: A federal appeals court panel (with 2/3 Trump appointees) calls his lawsuit against CNN — over use of the term Big Lie — "meritless" and affirms the decision by a lower court to throw it out. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.

Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent.

theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury

Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed ‘Misconduct’ in Comey Case The ruling by a magistrate judge in Alexandria, Va., was only the most recent setback in the department’s efforts to bring charges against the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.

Breaking News: A federal judge said that the case against James Comey, the former FBI director, could be in serious trouble because of apparent misconduct by the Justice Department's inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to handle the matter.

NEW: A "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" by Lindsey Halligan imperils Comey case, magistrate judge finds.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(Politico) - An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

Sometimes, even when you basically know what's been going on, seeing it all in one place is pretty striking -> www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations

DHS agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown.

A probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down because of the shift.

And efforts to combat human smuggling have languished.