Court Watch

A Florida man just wanted some tomatoes www.courtwatch.news/p/196-judges...

Grateful to @pwbeck.bsky.social and @courtwatch.bsky.social for covering my recent co-authored Journal of Strategic Competition piece on agroterrorism with an excellent contribution of their own.

Your Sunday long-read -- Court Watch looks at a newly-released academic report that’s raising alarms about the resilience of the country’s food supply and how law enforcement have been building a series of criminal cases to counter a ‘black swan’ event. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

“Since 2022, at least 154 Bureau of Prisons employees and contractors have been charged in federal court for crimes ranging from fraud, abuse, and bribery to violating constitutional rights, according to a new analysis of federal charges by Court Watch” www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

For this week's roundup, we checked in on how one of the illegal voting prosecutions is going. www.courtwatch.news/p/194-anarch...

Our Sunday morning deep dive on a case out of Louisiana that may test the reach and power of the Justice Department’s new taskforce on October 7th. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

To aspiring journalists, your reminder to just send that cold email today.

Illegal voting is legal and other things we learned this week. www.courtwatch.news/p/193-illega...

Scoop: Feds have charged two men, Omar and Abdel Adhami, for raising money for Hamas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's a quiet but necessary part of my job: making sure every case we write about is followed through the system: “ If I’m naming someone in a story, their life is now being changed." Spoke with @courtwatch.bsky.social about how McClatchy's mass layoffs will impact legal coverage.

Flying under the radar: the FBI got geofences of parts of Gaza to investigate October 7th. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Read @courtwatch.bsky.social review the stories that don't get told as corporate media (in this case, McClatchy) lays off all the legal journalists. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Honestly we’d quit lawyering if we ever got this order. www.courtwatch.news/p/192-holy-l...

Dozens of convicted terrorists will be released from prison soon. Most will move on from the violent ideology that got them locked up. Some won’t. What happens will not be the result of any govt or outside program. It’ll entirely be of their own volition. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Our entire brand is taking stuffy legal documents and making them accessible to the masses, but it’s still a bit jarring to see the First Circuit employ our writing style. www.courtwatch.news/p/190-stoppi...

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Mike Lindell was facing an existential threat to My Pillow existence due to rising debts. So he offered a potential government settlement over the Arctic Frost investigation as collateral. www.courtwatch.news/p/189-settle...

A Judge Believed He Was Being Threatened, His Colleague Disagreed www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

“The assailants at Abundant Life Christian, Antioch, & Evergreen high schools, among others, appeared to be lone wolves, too. If you have trouble recalling all those specific mass shootings, it's because we, as a society, have become accustomed to such depravity” www.courtwatch.news/p/the-church...

There’s some curious developments in a terrorism case that everyone missed, the LA Lakers’ new owner gets subpoenaed, and the feds quietly restart a hacking case. www.courtwatch.news/p/188-charit...

“Westman wanted a reaction from everyone, about everything, anything, or perhaps nothing at all. Not only to be whispered about in polite society, but to live on loudly in infamy in the manifestos of the mass killers that come after.” www.courtwatch.news/p/the-church...

My coauthor and I put everything we had in this piece. I would appreciate if you read and shared it widely. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-church...

Thank you @404media.co for republishing my story for @courtwatch.bsky.social about the network of volunteers working to make immigration-related habeas corpus petitions available online! www.404media.co/how-a-networ...

“M.B. became hesitant because it sounded like she was being scammed,” court records said. But the bank employee who generously spent all day on the phone with her assured her by saying, “We’re in this together” and “You’re helping catch the bad guys." www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Scooplet: A former Assistant U.S. attorney was indicted threatening to use AI to create child exploitation materials of a senior officials in the U.S. Attorney office and wanted to use ChatGPT to track down their kids. www.courtwatch.news/p/187-the-ju...

I look forward to my @courtwatch.bsky.social newsletter for stuff like this and the stuff I hadn’t heard was happening yet. Thanks for your service!

TIL: Gemini gives pretty good legal advice? “Yes, sending a message like this can absolutely be illegal. Depending on the context and how it is delivered, it frequently crosses the line into serious criminal offenses.” Great scoop by @courtwatch.bsky.social . bsky.app/profile/cour...

We’re gonna level with you: between the memetic orders, the Gemini is this illegal prompts, and the ransomware involving J.P. Morgan, this may be our best weekly roundup ever. www.courtwatch.news/p/186-ok-goo...

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Now's a great time to support journalism that is filling a critical function that many other journalists depend on. www.courtwatch.news/p/judge-rule...

In the last several weeks, @courtwatch.bsky.social has been behind two HUGE scoops on surveillance and security. First, they discovered Trump had resuscitated an old never-used terrorist deportation court. And today, a judge ruled cell dumps unlawful--which we know bc of CW's push last year.

BREAKING - A federal judge has just ruled that 'Tower Dumps' are inherently unconstitutional. Story below, details on a case that was only unsealed because of our court motion. www.courtwatch.news/p/judge-rule...

It’s a moment of truth for us and you. www.courtwatch.news/p/moment-of-...

For our Sunday long read, reporter Peter Beck looks at the legal consequences of chasing shadows. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

A strained analogy. A pentagon defamation case falters. DOJ is settling with water. These and more in this week’s weekly roundup of interesting federal court cases. www.courtwatch.news/p/185-a-quar...

Breaking — First Alien Terrorist Removal Court Case Revealed The Justice Department seeks to remove a Texas woman linked to ISIS plot. www.courtwatch.news/p/first-alie...

“But for 30 years, the ominously named court lay dormant, never hearing a case. That was until this month, when a website for the court suddenly appeared with two single-page documents.” www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

“For this piece, we spoke with half a dozen legal experts and attorneys, reviewed far too many academic journals and law briefs, and almost convinced a judge on the court to talk to us about process.” Our Sunday deep dive on the Alien Terrorist Removal Court www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Coming Sunday: 4,000 word definitive piece on the newest (and somehow old) court that recently awoke from its slumber. Includes new details not previously reported. We'll lift the paywall for free and paid subscribers who get the story in their inbox. courtwatch.news/subscribe

The FDA may not know the source of the Cyclospora outbreak, but ambulance chasers do www.courtwatch.news/p/184-an-out...