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Trump’s Lawless Rampage Is Only Accelerating

Don’t Overcomplicate the Scandal of Trump’s Lawless High Seas Attacks

Trump White House Throws Military Under the Bus For Lawless Attack

‘The Order Was to Kill Everybody’: A Savage Incident at Sea

The Contempt of Court Buck Stops With … Kristi Noem?

Pam Bondi’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Aileen Cannon Is Back In A Bad Sequel To Her Trump Debut

A Brutal Ending to One of the Worst Trump II Cases

Will Emil Bove Have to Testify in AEA Contempt of Court Inquiry?

What Is Lindsey Halligan Hiding From Letitia James?

Trump Gives Himself an Enormous Out on the Epstein Files

Trump’s New Sham: The House Should Vote to Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That I Won’t Release

Nevada Supreme Court Revives Fake Electors Case

The Corrupt Roots of America’s Elite Run Deep

Big Coverup Exposed in Bogus Mortgage Fraud Cases

Shutdown Deal Lets GOP Senators Personally Sue Over Jack Smith Probe

Trump Completes Jan. 6 Autocoup With Mass Preemptive Pardons

The Absurdity and the Abuse: Another Day In Trump II

Heritage Foundation Implodes Over Carlson-Fuentes Lovefest

What a Glorious Time for Criming in America

Pam Bondi Waves Magic Wand to Solve Her Lindsey Halligan Problem

Big Win for Voting Rights as Judge Blocks Trump EO

Trump-Appointed Judge Praises Suspended DOJ Prosecutors

The MAGA Disinfo Machine Takes New Aim At Jack Smith

Judge Gives LA U.S. Attorney the Alina Habba Treatment

The Administration’s Ghastly Game Plan For Savaging Abrego Garcia

In Our New Gilded Age, Everything Is For Sale

Under Fire for East Wing Demo, White House Grossly Trolls Last 3 Dem Presidents

How Little We Really Know About What Trump Is Up to in Latin America

How Does Mike Davis Know Who a New Federal Grand Jury Will Target?

Lindsey Halligan Gets Her Very Own Signal Chat Fiasco

Lindsey Halligan Fires Prosecutor Who Resisted Indicting Letitia James

Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro a Big L

In Oval Office Screed, Trump Shows Who’s Really Running DOJ

Mystery Solved: Trump US Attorney Was Forced Out For Not Investigating the Investigators

The Justice Department Is the Tip of Trump’s Retribution Spear

Stephen Miller Has ‘Central Role’ Probing Liberal Groups

Bondi’s Wedding Ring Made Trump Bleed … and Other DOJ Absurdities

Key Witness Undercuts Trump DOJ’s Witch Hunt Against Jim Comey

Lindsey Halligan Will Have to Overrule Career Prosecutors to Indict Letitia James

A Major New Constitutional Clash Erupts in Oregon

Day by Day, Trump Brings DOJ More Fully Under His Thumb

Trump Lays Siege to the Federal Government From Inside Its Walls

The Test of Our Time: Even the Military Can’t Resist Trump on Its Own Forever

Trump’s Venezuela Saber-Rattling Revives Bad Old Days of US Policy in Latin America

New Purges Continue to Hollow Out the Trump DOJ

Trump Thoroughly Corrupts DOJ, Forcing It To Eat One of Its Own

Trump’s Retribution Requires a New Way of Covering Bogus Criminal Cases

Ed Martin Comes To The Rescue … of Alex Jones?!?

Grifter-in-Chief Peddles Snake Oil From White House Podium

Emil Bove Shut Down Bribery Probe of Trump Border Czar Tom Homan

Trump Poised to Fire US Attorney for Not Indicting Letitia James

Convinced Yet That No One Is Safe From Trump’s Depredations?

Buffoonish Ed Martin Flails to Make His Bogus Case Stick Against Letitia James

Trump Loses Bid to Keep Lisa Cook off the Federal Reserve

Trumpist Right Launches Purge of Anyone Who Dares Criticize Charlie Kirk

Man Arrested in Killing of Charlie Kirk

Insiders Describe the Trump FBI Clown Show in Vivid, Buffoonish Detail

Judge Blocks Trump’s Firing of Lisa Cook From the Federal Reserve Board

Trump Lays the Groundwork to Rig the 2026 Midterms

Treasury Secretary Comes Unglued: ‘I’m Gonna Punch You in Your F—ing Face’

Pirro Unleashes Vicious Attack Against Sitting Judge

A Dangerous Line Was Crossed in Trump’s Lethal High Seas Attack

Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act Declared Unlawful From the Get-Go

Trump Administration Caught Trying To Sneak One By The Courts Yet Again

RFK Jr.’s FDA Denies COVID Vax to Millions of Americans

CDC Massacre Came After Unprecedented New Limits on Access to the Covid Vaccine

DC Grand Jury Declines to Indict Sandwich Thrower

It’s Not Enough But It’s Something: DC Tenuously Holds The Line Against Trump

Trump’s Brutalization Of Abrego Garcia Now Involves Uganda

Retribution Alert: FBI Raids Home of Trump Nemesis John Bolton

How the New Attack on Lisa Cook Gives Away Trump’s Abuse of Power Game

Trump Pushes White Nationalist Agenda Across Multiple Fronts

A Fired Trump Appointee Goes Off on Pam Bondi’s Corrupt DOJ

Ed Martin Confirms Ed Martin’s Witch Hunt Against Elected Democrats

D.C. Sues to Block Pam Bondi’s Newest Power Grab Over Local Police

The Courts Can’t and Won’t Save Us, Part 805

Trump Forces His Brand Of ‘Americanism’ On The Smithsonian

The Trump Presidency Reboot Suffers From Predictable Plots

How Judges Held One Of Their Own Out To Dry In Historic Case

A New Round Of Unlawful Purges Hits FBI

The Long, Hot Summer of Trump II Depredations

We Need to Talk About Why Trump Judicial Nominees Won’t Talk About Obergefell

‘Successful Businessman’ Trump Mobilizes Business Economists Against Him

Trump Breaks His Campaign Promise to Fund IVF

Senate Democrats Estimate DOGE Caused Billions of Dollars In Government Waste

Trump and Allies Flounder on Epstein Files While Senate Dems Forge Ahead

A Third Whistleblower Challenges Bove, and a Criminal Defendant Challenges Habba

Trump Targets NGOs to Dismantle Civil Society

She’s Baaack! Trump Re-Installs Alina Habba as U.S. Attorney

LA Grand Juries Are Refusing To Indict ICE Protestors

Making Sense Of The Weird Jeffrey Epstein-MAGA Moment

Appeals Court Stirs Awake in Long-Delayed Contempt of Court Case Over AEA Flights

What’s Next Now That the CECOT Detainees Were Freed?

Morning Memo: A Special Reader Questions Edition

Nearly All The Trump II Depredations Run Through DOJ

The Trump Administration’s Absurd Obsession With Secrecy

Trump Corruptly Targets Schiff With Criminal Investigation

How One Appeals Court Has Miserably Failed to Defend the Rule of Law

It’s Dangerous When Pam Bondi Is Under Pressure To Be More MAGA

Inside the Corrupt Inner Workings of the Trump DOJ

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Only KBJ Recognizes The Historic Stakes Of Trump’s Purges

Trump Stages Another Boffo Reality TV Episode In LA Park

On Not Losing Perspective In The Trump II Madness

Trump’s Assault On Separation Of Powers Made Explicit In His Megabill Vote Whipping

Mike Johnson Reminds House GOP That Legislating Isn’t That Important Right Now

Trump Threatens Elon With Monster of His Own Making

Trump Can’t Decide If Migrant Farm Worker Industry is Worthy Sacrifice for His Mass Deportation Agenda

Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets?

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Federal Courts Gets More Shockingly Authoritarian

Polling Shows Americans Are Souring on Trump’s Big Initiatives

Supreme Court Abets Trump’s Defiance of Court Orders

A MAGA Schism on Iran? Not So Fast.

Nearly 150 Deportees Remain Wrongfully Detained After Months Of Trump Stonewalling

It’s Clearer Than Ever That Jan. 6 Wasn’t The End But The Beginning

Trump Has Already Thoroughly Corrupted One Major Election

Tina Smith Calls Out Mike Lee’s Rancid Social Media Posts

A Searing Weekend Of Political Violence In America

Right-Wingers Sound Like They WANT Anti-Trump Protests To Turn Violent

Abrego Garcia Wants A Judge To Seize Pam Bondi’s Phone

How Some Very Bad Luck Has Made It Even Harder To Rein In Trump

Stephen Miller Demanded ICE Target Home Depots

Trump Has Long Been Itching To Use The Military On American Streets

Trump Admin Laments South Sudan Deportation Debacle It Created

In Historic First, Trump Orders Investigation Of Biden White House

Donald Trump Sets Out To Create His Own Deep State

Trump White House Hires Harvard Law Review ‘Whistleblower’

Appeals Court Tries To Get To The Bottom Of A 4th Wrongful Deportation

New Details Emerge On Trump Administration’s Defiance Of The Courts

Trump Admin Signals It Will Return One Wrongfully Deported Man

Trump Stonewalls Federal Judges In New Round Of Brazen Defiance

Trump’s Weaponization Of DOJ Takes An Even More Sinister Turn

The Supreme Court Just Handed A Match To An Arsonist

Welcome To The White Christian Nationalist Presidency

Trump’s Defiance Of Courts Reaches Incendiary New Level

Nothing Normal About Trump DOJ’s Case Against Dem Rep

Trump DOJ Admits It Used Bogus Info In Key Deportation Case

Trump Team Pretends To Be Horrified As Pretext To Target Comey

Trump Exacts New Retribution Against His Prosecutors

Ed Martin Announces He Will Abuse The Powers Of His Next Office, Too

Trump DOJ Uses State Secrets Claim To Stonewall Abrego Garcia

Don’t Get Conned By Trump’s Big, Beautiful Air Force One Boondoggle

In The Trump II Presidency, Things Can Always Get Worse … And Often Do

Courts Rush To Beat Back A New Round Of Trump Lawlessness

SCOTUS Allows Trump’s Purge Of Trans In Military To Proceed

Federal Judge Orders Dem Win Certified In NC Supreme Court Race

3 Prosecutors Resign Over DOJ’s Highly Irregular Move In Police Brutality Case In LA

Rogue DOJ Probe Of Columbia Protestors Alarmed Federal Judge

MAGA Marco Puts On A SCOTUS-Defying Show For Trump

Trump Dares SCOTUS To Do Something About His Blatant Defiance

Trump DOJ Decimates The Civil Rights Division And All It Stood For

Judges Are Starting To Catch On To Trump’s Utter Lawlessness

New Filing Blows Up Key Parts Of Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Defense

Judge Pauses Abrego Garcia Case After Parties Reach Secret Agreement

Trump DOJ Launches New Secret Gambit In Abrego Garcia Case

The Constitutional Clash Began When Rubio Cut A Deal With Bukele

SCOTUS Has No One To Blame But Itself For Alien Enemies Act Mess

GOP Judge Darkly Warns Of Last Chance To Avoid Tyranny

We’re Now On The Fast Track To A Historic Constitutional Clash

The Abrego Garcia Case Is A Microcosm Of Everything Bad About Trump II

Trump II Hits A New All-Time Low In Oval Office Debacle

A Slo-Mo Constitutional Clash Is Already Well Underway

Credulous Roberts Court Still Pretends To Believe Trump And His DOJ

Trump Shifts Into Full-Bore Retribution Mode

No One Is Safe From Being Rendered To Foreign Prisons

SCOTUS Launches Itself Into The Worst Of The Trump Cases

Trump Admin Faces Deadline To Return Wrongly Deported Man

Laura Loomer Says Jump. Trump Asks How High.

Trump’s Tariffs Are A Colossal Self-Own For The Ages

Trump Keeps Leaving The Judicial Branch In His Dust

State Dept. Spox Bungles Questions On New Deportations To Salvadoran Jail

Judges Hold The Line On Trump’s Attacks On Big Law

Pam Bondi Takes Point On Covering Up Trump’s Signal Fiasco

Kristi Noem Records Chilling Video At Jail Holding Alien Enemies Act Detainees

Under Threat Of Contempt, Trump DOJ Tells Judge To Pound Sand

Trump DOJ Refuses To Give Judge Info On Alien Enemies Act Flights

Smelling Blood In The Water, Trump Escalates Attacks On Law Firms

Judge Orders DOGE Out Of Personal Social Security Data

MAGA Is Raging Hard Against The Judges Who Get In Its Way

Trump Suffers Series Of Court Setbacks On Dramatic Day

Showdown Between Trump And The Courts Comes To A Head

Trump’s Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand

Trump Targets Higher Ed In Pure Authoritarian Move

Federal Judge Slams Trump Executive Order Targeting Perkins Coie

Behold The Golden Age Of Public Corruption In America

Trump DOJ Befools Itself Over Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights

Senior Ranks Of DOJ Hit With New Wave Of Trump Purges

Trump Abuses Power To Target Law Firm In Retribution Spree

Acting DC US Attorney Ed Martin Is Out Of Control

Donald Trump Personally Thanks John Roberts For Keeping Him Out Of Jail: ‘I Won’t Forget It’

Trump DOJ Meddles In State Conviction Of Big Lie Agitator Tina Peters

USAID Whistleblower Boldly Drops Truth Bomb On Trump

Career Prosecutors Balk Again At Corrupt Ask From Trump DOJ

Trump Is Already Low-Key Defying A Judge’s Order

Imperious Trump Retaliates Against Jack Smith’s Lawyers

It’s Taking Judges An Awfully Long Time To Get To The Bottom Of Who’s Running DOGE

Pentagon Purges Portend Perils Of Politicization

Kash Patel Takes Over At FBI And DOJ As We Knew It Is Gone

Pam Bondi Lets Acting Officials Do All Her Dirty Work

Trump Must First Destroy The Gov’t In Order To Corrupt It

Trump Preened As A Strongman For Presidents Day

DOJ Enters The Darkest Period In Its Long History

The White House Is Now Running The Justice Department

The Musk-Trump Pact Is Sealed In Bizarre Oval Office Circus

Trump Is Predictably Sloppy And It’s Hurting Him In Court

Stephen Miller Is The White House Point On Investigating The Investigators

This Ain’t The Apprentice. Stop Calling Them Firings. They’re Purges.

What Was Elon Musk’s Team Really Up To At Treasury?

A Full-Blown Constitutional Crisis With No End In Sight

The Most Dangerous Line Trump Could Still Cross

Trump II Went On A Weekend Bender The Likes Of Which America Has Never Seen Before

The Worst Nightmare For DOJ Is Already Coming True

D’oh, Trump’s Press Secretary Is Off To A Brilliant Start!

Don’t Let The Chaos Mask Trump’s Lawless Power Grabs

Trump Takes His Corrupt Retribution Against The Justice Department

Trump Purports To Fire IGs En Masse In Friday Night Purge

The Trump II Destruction Is Already In Full Swing

Jan. 6 Judges Let Out A Collective Primal Scream Over Trump Pardons

The Trump II Retribution Begins In Earnest

With Trump Pardons, The Jan. 6 Coup Attempt Is Finally Complete

Biden Issues Preemptive Pardons Against Trump Retribution

On The Cusp Of Trump II, A Way To Make Sense Of The Coming Madness

Bondi Confirms The Obvious: She’s No Firewall Against Trump

Trump Has Destroyed The Utility Of The FBI Vetting Nominees

Trump Loses Last Ditch Effort To Block Jack Smith Report

Aileen Cannon Tries To Run Out The Clock On Jack Smith’s Report

The Race Is On To Release Jack Smith’s Report Before Trump Takes Over

Trump Bullies The Judiciary To See If It Has Any Spine

Trump Begs Supreme Court To Do His Bidding Again–In Hush Money Case

Trump Is Big Mad About Jack Smith’s Forthcoming Report

Don’t Be So Quick To See Jan. 6 As A Thing Of The Past

The House GOP Has Been Ungovernable For More Than A Decade

Trump Traffics In Racist Disinfo After New Year’s Day Attack