Alison Frankel

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

God did exist. He died. He was very small. Mystery solved!

The world has a brief period of mourning. And then it's business as usual.

Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Deleted post about hockey team captain Hilary Knight responding to Trump “invitation” because I’m told the video was AI generated. Should have known it was too good to be true

👇The lead federal prosecutor on the Minnesota fraud investigation quit because of the disastrous ICE surge. Trump’s DOJ doesn’t even have any lawyers in Minneapolis to bring fraud cases.

An incredible fall from grace from the guy who is basically the founder of modern cert. practices.

Gambling. It's not a good idea.

Judge Rules Government Cannot Search Washington Post Reporter’s Electronics Judge Rules Government Cannot Search Washington Post Reporter’s Electronics

The judge said it is "the equivalent of leaving the government’s fox in charge of the Washington Post’s henhouse.”

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Jeanine Pirro's office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say A federal grand jury in D.C. unanimously rejected the attempt to indict six lawmakers who told military and intelligence community members on social media not to obey unlawful orders.

Breaking NBC:

Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Picking Off The Post After The Washington Post’s retreat from local news and sports, rival outlets are racing to fill the void, scooping up displaced talent and capitalizing on the opportunity.

Scoop: As The Washington Post gutted metro and sports, the Baltimore Banner quietly secured the domains DCBanner. com and TheDCBanner. com, as competitors look to capitalize on the vacuum in local coverage

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Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

People really need to check the opinion for statements like "we are not saying anything about other statutory tariff authorities" before writing that the Court delivered a blow to the administration; if you don't, you are just doing PR for the Court.

The Conservative Legal Advocates Working to Kill Trump’s Tariffs The New Civil Liberties Alliance is mounting a constitutional challenge to one of the biggest policy questions of our time. Will others follow?

I wrote about some of them here. But there are so many other lawyers and businesses who stepped up.

They all should be celebrated today. Not the Supreme Court. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Rare ✊🏼 for the Supreme Court

A detainee died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody reut.rs/4aY1wgH

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election

If you can serve as a poll worker, now is the time. The US has numerous, redundant checks to prevent vote-count fraud, but competent, honest poll workers are critical. If you want to make sure your small part of the election is run by the book, learn how to sign up here: www.eac.gov/help-america...

Subarus! ICE-mobile is not the corporate image

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

Prime Minister Mark Carney and members of his cabinet stand in a CAE manufacturing hall. Podium says: BUILDING CANADA sTRONG

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Montreal this morning to unveil Canada's new defence industrial strategy. The plan is nothing short of standing up a massive new dual use industrial base, independent of the U.S.

File this under: America's allies are unplugging from the US with gusto.

Haha why bother? Trump will just pardon him in one of his waves of pardons for white collar fraudsters

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.

NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

My god, this thread by a Minnesota lawyer who handling pro bono cases for DHS detainees is horrifying. DOJ's complicity in ignoring court orders shouldn't be shocking anymore yet somehow it still is.

It's unusual when the government can't persuade a sufficient number of grand jurors to return an indictment. But this is a whole other kind of unusual.

Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

The Trump administration’s decision to remove the Pride Flag from the Stonewall National Monument is despicable.
 
This administration’s bigotry will not erase the history of Stonewall.
 
I'll always stand with our LGBTQ+ community.

Newspaper article by Sarah Nelson. Headline: Former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson to represent Don Lemon. Text: Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon will be represented by former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in his criminal case tied to the anti-ICE demonstration at a St. Paul church service on Jan. 18, according to court records. Thompson, who departed the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid a wave of resignations mid-January, notified the court Tuesday about appearing as Lemon’s lawyer. Lemon was among several people charged by the Justice Department with conspiracy against religious freedom in the aftermath of the disruption at Cities Church. He, along with Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Allen, Will Kelly and Jerome Richardson are slated to be arraigned Friday in St. Paul.

The Star Tribune reports that former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, in one of his first acts since joining private practice, will be representing Don Lemon.