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BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

Alaska. The Comeys. California. East Potomac Golf Course. All of today's key court developments in one place. Catch up here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-day-ev...

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge extends court-ordered block on Trump's renovation plans for historic public golf course in Washington.

BREAKING: the 9th Circuit REJECTED the DOJ’s desperate attempt to prevent 20,000 votes from being counted in CA Tomorrow, @democracydefendersfund.org @campaignlegal.org NAACP & @lulacorg.bsky.social address the merits head-on in District Court This is a major win for voters in CA & everywhere! -TN

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Join us tonight, Monday, at 8pm ET for a special Substack Live. There’s an anti-authoritarian movement afoot in elections around the world. Voting allows us to alter the course of history. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-in-th...

NEW: Press freedom groups have sued the Trump administration — alleging in federal court that attempting to bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House violates the First Amendment rights of ordinary citizens to access information about the U.S. government.

Republican Shellie Flockhart, who called Iowa Democratic House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott "dangerous" for kids, actually pleaded guilty to endangering kids herself after authorities said she drove drunk with her children in the car in 2017.

@marcelias.bsky.social : “Mr. Blanche... we have beaten you and your team in court like a drum. So I hope you don't do what you are threatening or insinuating you might do. But if you do, I will see you in those courtrooms. I will win. And then I will dance on your head for those victories.”

Trump is considering mass pardons for his enablers. I have some ideas about how they could be undone. youtube.com/shorts/JyhSV...

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Epstein trafficked hundreds of vulnerable girls and young women to other powerful men. - New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez in new bombshell lawsuit against Epstein’s lawyer and accountant DOJ has no evidence Epstein trafficked girls to other men. -AG Todd Blanche Who do you believe?

NEW: Trump’s DOJ isn’t the Apprentice. The AG can’t just tell an AUSA “You’re fired” at will. Judge finds AG’s firing Maurene Comey VIOLATED the separation of powers and federal law, and GRANTED her retroactive reinstatement and back pay through 12/20/25 - when she got a new job.

A U.S. military psychiatrist found the USS Cole bombing suspect to be suffering from PTSD but cogent enough to face trial at Guantanamo Bay. Carol Rosenberg reports:

This weekend's news roundup: - Melania Trump says she brokered ceasefire in Oleshky - Musk accuses Ukraine of using Starlink for military activity - Lula wins Brazilian election but Bolsonaro calls for an election annulment 👇️ www.justsecurity.org/162014/early...

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

A report released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on President Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein included new details from a young Swiss woman raped by Trump in an Atlantic City hotel room in 1993, whose meeting was arranged by Jeffrey Epstein. time.com/article/2026...

New must read in our #ReinventionBlueprints series, by @chiraagbains.bsky.social It's easy to see the system is broken. It's harder to develop concrete, bold, practical plans to fix it, tied to actual stated goals. In this Blueprint: ➡️ How to achieve "muscular and fair enforcement" of federal law

184 yr old newspaper reverses policy of no political endorsements to endorse @amyactonoh.bsky.social share.newsbreak.com/jyruhha5?s=i16 🗳️🌊💙

Maurene Comey must be REINSTATED to her federal prosecutor job with backpay, a federal judge has ruled. He adds that accepting Trump DOJ's position would "unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system." Doc buff.ly/CDtADgH

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The next administration should lean into federal enforcement as a strategy to advance fairness, justice, and the rule of law, writes @chiraagbains.bsky.social. Read the latest in Just Security's Reinvention Blueprints series:

Christopher Hale: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent

Trump's DOJ told a judge how to rule. Then it pulled her from court. Karen Donoso Stevens' allegations, which she's sharing publicly because of her deep concern for the court's integrity, were corroborated by contemporaneous notes as well as colleagues, family and attorneys interviewed by WaPo.

Here is the TLDR of the 9th Circuit hearing: DOJ will lose. It will be either 2-1 or 3-0. It will be on jurisdiction and perhaps on the merits. The argument was a debacle for Trump and the DOJ lawyer who argued it. Watch for details. www.youtube.com/live/EsuYPbm...

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With the midterm elections just days away, I’m doing a special episode of my podcast, Is This Really Legal⁩. You can drop your questions about elections in the comments or email them to ask@isthisreallylegal.org. I’ll answer as many as possible on the show. youtube.com/shorts/eGKMS...

The Arch, The Golf Course, The Election, The Free Press, & something you may have forgotten about entirely, Trump’s former NSA John Bolton gets sentenced this week. Everything you need to know is here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

🚨BREAKING: A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit is hearing arguments at 4pm ET TODAY in the DOJ effort to force California to disenfranchise voters. I will go live right after the hearing concludes to break down what happened and what comes next. Tune in at 5:15: www.youtube.com/live/EsuYPbm...

apnews.com/article/ukra... Ukrain disputes Elon Musk’s claim that the country’s military violated Starlink’s terms of service by using the civilian satellite internet network for offensive drone strikes.

The president is considering mass pardons for his enablers. But they’d be foolish to assume the next administration will honor them. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/buyer-bewa...

It was a big week with lots going on. I’ve collected all of the Civil Discourse posts here so you can catch up on anything you missed, especially last night‘s round up of pre-election litigation. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-sunday...

The next 10 days will test our democracy. Trump hasn’t been able to suppress votes systemically like he wanted to & now there's a lot going on, especially in courts. Get caught up on what you need to know now, like recent developments in California and Alaska. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

Sen. Adam Schiff tells NBC that Pete Hegseth and "anyone who has knowledge of what happened" should testify before the Senate on Ukraine's Starlink disruptions. "Somebody is lying here. Maybe they're all lying in different ways, but we need to find out."

🚨BREAKING: DOJ urged a federal appeals court to reject California’s motion to dismiss the federal government’s dangerous lawsuit to stop state officials from counting ballots from tens of thousands of people the Trump administration claims may be noncitizens. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

apnews.com/article/anth... As tech companies race to build the most powerful artificial intelligence, some are also asking how to teach a chatbot right from wrong. Their answer? Religion.

VOTE Out The Spineless Congress! #VoteBlue go.bsky.app/UC6waXh

www.cnn.com/2026/10/24/p... Justice Department ordered California election officials to identify suspected noncitizens on voter rolls and set aside their mail-in ballots — warning that officials who knowingly count ballots cast by noncitizens could face criminal liability.

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Corey Lewandowski is reportedly under DOJ investigation for profiting from public office. But why only him? @weissmann.substack.com tells @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social why the scrutiny raises bigger questions about who gets investigated for corruption in Trumpworld, and who gets a pass.

NEW: Blanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certification of the state's election results. The actual complaint says it does. His attempt to reframe the lawsuit is a bid to push back against how it's been correctly interpreted: a dangerous effort to subvert the midterms.

Local and state election officials face a choice this midterm season: 🗳️ Count ballots in accordance with state law OR 🚨 Do what Donald Trump wants. “Either way, they face risk,” Marc Elias says. This is just the start. Follow us to see what happens next.

President Obama: There seems to be "no line" Vivek Ramaswamy will not cross. "There's a decency that we should expect out of our public officials. And I don't know what's happened where the standards of behavior have gotten so low that somebody can run an ad like that."