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Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

I learned how to write courtroom dispatches by studying good sports reporting—the play-by-play zip, the punchy verbs, etc. But honestly, sports journalists could learn a thing or two from legal journalists, too. Lesson for both: always read the local rules!!!

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

Wow. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQ_...

A federal judge has just ordered DOJ to turnover five categories of items from the Epstein Files that it previously failed to disclose by July 2 in a lawsuit brought by Katie Phang. Read the details here: joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-a-...

This is indispensable reading -- what judges are saying about the Trump Administration's behavior in court.

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

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Yesterday, the Haitian plaintiffs trying to preserve their temporary protected status, & who won in courts below, SCOTUS to drop review in light of new evidence showing, they say, "deliberate" misrepresentations by Secy Noem & DHS. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Listen. The message of this weekend! www.lawdork.com/p/kennedy-ce...

NEW IMAGE: Worker removes a letter from Donald Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center. There is a tarp covering the building at this time. His name had to come down last night after a court order.

As we wait on decisions in the slush fund & cage fighting cases, read up on a Florida case where a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump bench slapped the government out of court for its misbehavior joycevance.substack.com/publish/post...

Extraordinary Letter to Senate Intel. Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger. "The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr."

A YouGov poll has the percentage of US adults who identify as MAGA as just 18% of citizens. However they account for 57% of Republicans. Both percentages are much lower than you would expect from the noise they make.

President Ulysses S. Grant created our nation’s first national park. President Theodore Roosevelt expanded them. And incompetent President Donald Trump is destroying them.

I have never had a doctor ask me to take a cognitive test. Why? Because they have never seen signs of cognitive decline that needed to be gauged and monitored. Doctors have asked Donald Trump to take FOUR of these tests in the past two years. Why? Because they are VERY concerned about his decline.

There was a time when an obviously rapidly deteriorating president could get away with lying to the public about being in excellent health—it was before video cameras and televisions were invented.

On this day May 30, 2024 Donald John Trump was found guilty by a jury of his peers of 34 Felonies. At that point, he should have been ineligible to hold any political position in the entire country. And yet….here we are!

"The most underappreciated aspect of the Trump era is the extent to which Trump demonstrated the inadequacy of law as a mechanism for protecting the government from unscrupulous presidents." We published this *before* Trump began his second term.

Donald Trump would have us believe that he “needs” a billion dollar ballroom to be safe. And yet the next big event he’ll attend will be outdoors on the White House lawn. Maybe he’s lying about “needing” a ballroom . . .

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

Who knew it was still even possible to stand out for vulgarity in America?

Does Trump mean this Ken Paxton? • Indicted for securities fraud • Impeached by Texas Republicans • Accused of bribery • Investigated by the FBI • Sued by his own whistleblowers • Accused of abusing office • Tried to overturn the 2020 election Texas Republicans impeached him 121-23.

📌REPEATING: If Trump hadn't unilaterally withdrawn from the Iran nuclear agreement crafted by Obama it would NOT have a stockpile of highly enriched uranium today. Iran was IN FULL COMPLIANCE with the agreement. This mess was created ENTIRELY by Trump. This isn’t reported near enough.

In summary - Bret Baier: Did you mean to tell the American people to fuck off? Trump: I said fuck off. I meant for the American people to fuck off and I'm telling them again: fuck off.

Kash Patel's "VIP Snorkel" with 9 guests, accompanied by Navy Seals, over the tomb of 900 sailors at Pearl Harbor: "[A]s disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

As a Crim Law prof and casebook author, this physically pains me. It commits basic errors that my 1Ls would never make. First, it conflates vicarious/conspiracy liability with accomplice/derivative liability. You can't use vicarious liability (Pinkerton) w/out a conspiracy charge. 1/

Yesterday a few folks pointed out that Trump has changed major details about his reflecting pool project since he announced it in late April. I've created a video with graphics that point out how much he's lied about it. This includes edits of longer rambling statements.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

A win! Florida will shutter “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has submitted its response to the weird Truth Social as court filing Stan Woodward filed after the WHCD attack. They note 4 lies in it and that it was signed by DOJ's top lawyers. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A United States Senator is posting this.

Trump: Windsor Castle, a structure that's so long it never seemed to end. It was built by a gentleman named William the Conqueror. I asked the king, I said, 'was he a nice man, William the Conqueror?' He said, 'I tend to doubt it.'

in the history of speeches that have been read right off a sheet of paper, nobody has a read a speech off a sheet of paper harder than what Trump is doing right now

Jesse Watters: “You know what I always say — best way to not fire a woman? Not hire them.”

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

When the topic turns to "what comes next" and "what should we do," we should defer to historians in the same way we defer to doctors on vaccines, lawyers on criminal defense and military generals on strategy and tactics. They're going to tell us stuff like this and it's vital to America's future.