Barbara Comstock

Judges have a warning about Trump’s rapid deportations: Americans could be next Judges across the country continue to note that if courts don’t protect the rights of the least popular and most vulnerable, everyone is at risk.

NEW: Federal judges across the country are increasingly warning of a due process crisis caused by President Donald Trump’s deportation blitz.

Their message: If we eliminate due process for the ‘least’ of us, Americans could be next.

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“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

The president of the United States and the president of El Salvador have conspired to kidnap a man and hold him hostage in an El Salvador prison. This criminality ignores the rule of law and thumbs its nose at a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate his return.

JUST IN: Five Jan. 6 prosecutors are joining a group of prominent Trump critics to urge the DC Bar’s disciplinary office to investigate U.S. Attorney Ed Martin.

They include: Matt Beckwith, Sean Brennan, Isia Jasiewicz. Brendan Ballou and Mike Romano

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Just disgusting. All of them. Garcia is not a terrorist. Innocent people were put in that El Salvador prison. What a disgrace Trump is turning America into.

America, every day he forces us to decide what kind of country we want to be. Like today - he wants to put American citizens in El Salvador prisons. It’s illegal, it’s unconstitutional, but he wants to do it & he’ll try to do it. So what say u America? The Constitution/the law or Trump? You choose.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

Jenner & Block, truly one of the preeminent law firms in America today, sued the Department of Justice and essentially the entire Federal Government this morning in a devastating 64-page complaint,

YouTube video by The Bulwark The MOST DISGRACEFUL Action By A Law Firm EVER (w/ George Conway)

I recorded a special episode of my Bulwark podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social this morning to discuss Paul, Weiss’s appalling capitulation to the First Extortionist of the United States. I didn’t mince words. Link below.
@thebulwark.bsky.social

Hundreds Dead: Inside the Trump Ukraine Fallout The U.S. intelligence pause has undercut supply lines to Kursk, cut satellite imagery and tanked morale.

Only one week into Trump having cut the intelligence feeds that Ukraine relied on, already hundreds dead.

This is the new America, aligned with Russia to kill democracy.

Americans need to get ready for this new reality.

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How's this going to play in Michigan and Ohio?

Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.

Breaking NYT:

The Justice Department's pardon attorney was dismissed a day after she refused to recommend that the actor Mel Gibson — a prominent Trump supporter — should have his gun rights restored.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

Fighting bird flu by encouraging people to spend more time in close contact with birds.

How embarrassing for them. Can’t wait to hear Trump’s “Chickens in every backyard” riff at tomorrow’s speech.

This is not a solution.

Trump’s cabinet is mocking you.

Democrats are fighting to lower prices for you.

Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

Danielle Sassoon’s letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi is what honor, integrity and a commitment to #justice look like—a desperately needed, clarifying reminder of what should be the norm in America. Grateful for this; may it inspire and fortify us all.

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Doge is auditing NASA today.

This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA.

It’s a massive conflict of interest.

Come see @gtconway.bsky.social, @comstockb.bsky.social & Judge Luttig speak at the @principlesfirst.bsky.social Summit in Washington DC from February 22-23!

They'll appear alongside dozens of other leaders from the pro-democracy community for two days of panels, networking, and community-building.

The Sound of Fear on Air It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said.

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it.

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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

I’m an ex sex crimes prosecutor. I can attest it’s degrading to have a rape kit done. If an alleged victim submitted to one, I knew we had a real rape on our hands when I prosecuted cases.

Actually it’s @robertfkennedy.bsky.social who wants to take away the hamburgers and Trump wants him to be HHS Secretary. But the morons like Gorka line up now anyway. (And he’s stuffing every last burger in)

It will be hard to find someone worse than Matt Gaetz for attorney general. But if anybody can do it, I trust it's the president-elect.

Trump’s unqualified disgraceful picks like Matt Gaetz for AG, Pete Hegseth for Sec Def, and RFK Jr. for HHS - for the largest govt. agencies - show Trump’s putting himself first - not the American people.