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This was an odd podcast, because Nicole and I went back and opened live to talk about Trump's ambush of Zelenskyy. I'll say more in coming days. One thing I think is super important is that the SEC is moving to settle with Justin Sun,…

Russ Vought set out to make people like Ryleigh Cooper villains. Thus far, firings of government workers around the country have instead made the functions of government visible, and cherished.

By getting his job reinstated for two weeks, Hampton Dellinger was able to issue a ruling treating Trump's purge as a reduction in force, which creates obligations on the agencies doing the firing.

A bunch of contentious town halls in heavily Republican congressional districts this week are a kind of politics that Democrats have too often eschewed in recent years as consultants told candidates that they couldn't swing voters in culturally conservative areas. This kind of politics is not sufficient to reverse the fascist trend in America, but it is an irreplaceable part of any effort to try.

In her first big public appearance, her first public effort to substantiate claims of weaponization, Pam Bondi lied. She lied about threats to America. She lied about foreign influence peddling. She lied to cover up lies to the FBI.

Dale Ho just asked right wing superstar lawyer Paul Clement to serve as amicus to assess DOJ's request to dismiss the Eric Adams prosecution.

The decision on what to do with Emil Bove's motion to dismiss the charges against Eric Adams looks a bit different when you consider that Dale Ho may have non-public details about what Mohamed Bahi told the FBI about Eric Adams' role in obstructing the investigation in June 2024.

Less than two hours after Chad Mizelle wrote a long screed suggesting that Pam Bondi's DOJ won't be bringing any bribery charges, the DC US Attorney brought a bribery information in an investigation first unsealed last September.

Until someone confesses differently, we need to treat Elon Musk's role in DOGE as exclusively one of propaganda, spinning false tales of corruption from decontextualized files Musk doesn't understand.

Lawyer ethics aren't a joke.