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Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms

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The administration did not respond by last month’s deadline for evidence in the Good shooting. The deadline for it to respond in the other two shootings is today. Moriarty is considering suing the administration if it does not cooperate.

the Trump administration continues to refuse to cooperate the state investigations into the federal shootings Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis. Moriarty previously sent formal demand letters to federal agencies for evidence in those three shootings.

YouTube video by KARE 11 Witness video of ICE agents at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis

Bovino was also present at the high school incident, where chemical irritants were deployed: www.youtube.com/shorts/v17lo...

Bovino’s conduct in Mueller Park is one of 17 incidents that Moriarty says her office is now investigating. The only other incident under investigation that she identified was the immigration enforcement operation conducted at Minneapolis Roosevelt High School on Jan. 7, the same day Renee Good

Specifically, Moriarty is looking into Bovino’s deployment of a chemical irritant in a local park on Jan. 21, which was captured on video:

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Greg Bovino Under Criminal Investigation in Minneapolis Transparency and Accountability CBP commander Gregory Bovino is under criminal investigation in...

CBP commander Gregory Bovino is under criminal investigation in Minneapolis for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in a Monday press conference.

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1. defending democracy at home in order to preserve the capacity for legitimate regime change here via free and fair elections;

2. defending the rule of the law and the independence of the judiciary; and

3. protecting blue states and marginalized peoples from a weaponized federal government.

The conundrum for Americans opposed to Trump is that while foreign affairs may be the realm in which he sows the most long-term chaos, the best way to rein him in remains in the domestic arena:

The misadventures on the high seas of the Western Hemisphere, in Venezuela, and now in Iran are just the beginning of what is likely to be more cowboying abroad, as his lame duck status becomes increasingly obvious and his political power at home begins to wane.

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The scale of damage that President Trump could wreak in a second term was always greatest in foreign affairs, where the president’s powers are, generally, most robust and least subject to judicial oversight.

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3 Revealing Moments from a Year of Trump II Legal Fights Scenes from the Trump II Era Over the past few months, certain...

In covering the Trump II rampage, I keep bumping up awkwardly against a comforting notion that so many of us have long harbored as a way of making sense of this complicated, dynamic, sprawling world: Someone must be taking care of that.

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David Kurtz Reports from Abrego Garcia’s Vindictive Prosecution Hearing Morning Memo spent spent much of today covering, in person, a hearing in Nashville in which the Trump administration sought to prove it did not pursue a vindictive prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Ga...

More on what is now the preeminent vindictive prosecution case:
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For the Trump DOJ, the most uncomfortable fact to intrude on its narrative in today’s testimony was that Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh already knew more about the criminal investigation of Abrego Garcia than the local U.S. attorney did when they first discussed the case.

The Trump DOJ’s Defense Of The Abrego Garcia Prosecution Only Works If You Squint Real Hard NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE–The Trump DOJ has spent the last several months constructing a...

My report from Nashville on the Abrego Garcia case, where the Trump DOJ tried to keep the spotlight narrowly focused on the work of one U.S. attorney but, as hard as it tried, couldn’t keep some uncomfortable facts from sneaking into the glare of its spotlight: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

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Correct!

(About NOT prosecuting nonexistent voter fraud…)

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The 2007 Story That Brought TPM Into The Major Leagues When Justice Department leadership asked Paul Charlton, then a U.S. attorney in...

Among the reported contenders for the role who arguably fits the criteria for someone willing to challenge their presumptive firing: John McKay, the former USA famously fired in the Bush II admin in the U.S. attorneys scandal where TPM made an early mark. talkingpointsmemo.com/20th-anniver...

"Former US attorneys said a surefire public firing shrinks the candidate pool for a traditionally highly coveted job. That leaves retirees, law professors, or people in small law practices nearing the end of their careers as the more likely contenders."

The Bloomberg piece does a good job of describing the practical reasons—beyond faintness of heart or the complex legal questions involved—it's hard to judges to challenge the firings: finding a candidate willing to put their legal career on hold to fight it out with the Trump admin isn’t easy:

Showdown Over Interim US Attorneys Brewing In Seattle Greetings from Nashville It’s 4 a.m. as I begin to write here...

Alum of the Seattle U.S. Attorney’s Office are pushing for the judges there to pick an interim USA who is willing to sue when the Trump DOJ purports to fire them, as it’s already done to judge-appointed interim U.S. attorneys in NDNY and EDVA, Bloomberg reports.
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Memorandum Opinion – #62 in In the Matter of the Search of the Real Property and Premises of Hannah Natanson (E.D. Va., 1:26-sw-00054) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER that (1) The Court GRANTS the Motion to Intervene. (ECF No. 8.) (2) The Court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part the Motion for Return of Property. The Court GRANTS the mot...

Magistrate Judge Porter’s ruling yesterday in the
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search case was not surprising, but is worth reading. The factual backdrop, and MJ Porter’s multiple interactions with DOJ, are quite interesting. ...
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Newly Uncovered Document Reveals An 'Alarming And Disturbing' Trump Threat The Trump administration is turning the screws on kids who’ve arrived in the United States without adults accompanying them.

... word of which begin to emerge in November in a separate lawsuit and was spotted by former TPMer @mattshuham.bsky.social, whose report on the policy is cited in the request for a contempt finding.
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The injunction was later extended by Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee who found that the administration’s claims about the deportations fell apart on closer examination. Kelly is now being asked to find the administration in civil contempt over the new policy ...

The original injunction blocking the Labor Day deportations was issued by Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, the duty judge on call over the holiday, who raced to respond to reports that children were already being loaded aboard planes in Texas, in an echo of the swift and secretive Alien Enemies Act flights.

In one of the declarations filed in support of the contempt request, the legal director of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project recounted several alleged examples of children being coerced to self-deport, including this one: