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March 22nd, 2022 In the Hot Notes: Confirmation hearings begin for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson; the US Secret Service takes the stand in the Couy Griffin bench trial; a witness tells the 1/6 committee that Meadows helped organize the march on the Capitol; and some Reuters reporters tell Politico they’re over the Reuters partnership with Russian media partner TASS; plus Allison and...

Friday, March 24th, 2023 In the Hot Notes; more delays for the Manhattan DA Grand Jury as Alvin Bragg claps back at Jim Jordan; a judge rules that E. Jean Carroll jurors can remain anonymous for security reasons; Kari Lake loses Arizona again; Trump’s lawyers make an appearance in the Pence subpoena case; Ray Epps has sent a letter to Tucker Carlson demanding a retraction; and abortion is legal ag...

Friday, March 21st, 2025 Today, a judge had ordered Musk and DOGE to get out of the Social Security systems and to uninstall all their software; Judge Boasberg has issued a show cause order in the Alien Enemies Act case; the Trump administration believes they can enter homes without a warrant; Trump has signed the executive order eliminating the Department of Education; a Georgetown researcher has...

Thursday, March 20th, 2025 Today, Judge Chutkan has blocked Trump and Musk from cancelling $20B in climate grants; Judge Ana Reyes has blocked the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military; Trump has fired the Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission; Judge Beryl Howell has denied the temporary restraining order for the US Institute of Peace; Republican mem...

Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 Today, A federal judge found on Tuesday that efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the United States Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways”; a German national with a United States Green Card is being held in an ICE facility; the Trump administration has gutted the US Institute of Peace; an update on th...

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 Today, Judge Boasberg holds another emergency hearing over whether Trump defied his order to turn the deportation planes around; a Brown University professor has been deported despite a court order; a Navy veteran and his wife say that TRICARE rescinded a $100K healthcare claim paid over a year ago; what musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellatio...

Monday, March 17th, 2025 Today, Chuck Schumer caves on the continuing resolution and leaves House Democrats in the lurch; Trump and Marco Rubio have defied Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining order barring the administration from deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act; a second judge orders thousand of probationary employees to be reinstated; classified U.S. intelligence reports cast doub...

Thursday, March 17th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: Biden identifies 50 Russian elites as targets in a global hunt to seize assets after Zelensky addresses a joint session of Congress; a judge orders the DoJ to produce documents in the Steve Bannon contempt case; the 1/6 Committee obtains the Proud Boys’ documentary crew footage; the DoJ charges five people for targeting US residents critical of Beijing;...

March 17, 2021 Biden’s ODNI has confirmed that Russia tried to interfere in the 2020 election; Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg’s former daughter in law is cooperating with prosecutors in the Manhattan DA’s office; the Biden administration is racing to blunt a potential fourth surge of COVID cases; the Arizona GOP has been ordered to pay the legal fees for their frivolous election lawsuit against t...

Friday, March 14th, 2025 Today, Judge Alsup has reinstated all probationary employees fired across the government on February 13th and 14th and demands testimony from an Office of Personnel Management official; Trump has ordered the Pentagon to draw up options for troop deployment to Panama; Texas pastor Robert Morris has finally been indicted for sex crimes; a new CNN poll shows Americans disappr...

Thursday, March 13th, 2025 Today, Judge Beryl Howell has granted the law firm Perkins Coie a temporary restraining order blocking challenge sections of Trump's executive order; MSW media has partnered with national security counselors to file a FOIA request for the USAID destroyed document logs; House Republicans have passed a bill to fund the government, but Senate Democrats are divided; the Trum...

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 Today, Judge Alsup has denied Trump's request to block the under oath testimony of the head of the Office of Personnel Management in court; Republicans in Congress are cobbling together a terrible resolution to fund the government; a Justice Department official was fired when she refused to restore Mel Gibson's gun rights; Ukraine and Russia have agreed to a 30 day ceas...

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 Today, a damning affidavit is filed in the lawsuit against Musk gaining access to the Social Security Administration systems; the Department of Homeland Security has begun polygraph tests to determine who is leaking to the press; the Trump administration is backtracking on forcing Maine parents to visit Social Security offices to register newborns; Trump's Department of J...

Monday, March 10th, 2025 Today, a multi-state lawsuit seeks to reverse the purge of federal workers; Trump walks back his idiotic tariffs, but probably not after he dumped all of his stock in Canadian aluminum; Republicans joined Democrats in Montana to defeat anti-trans legislation; the Trump administration has said it will not comply with a court order to produce agency heads to testify; a feder...

Mar 7, 2021 Democrats have passed the American Rescue Plan propping up the middle class with $1.9T; a Trump campaign aide and State Department appointee is arrested for his role in the insurrection; the FBI finds a contact between a member of the Proud Boys and the White House before the attack on the Capitol; Rep. Zoe Lofgren catalogs GOP members spreading the big lie leading up to the siege; Eri...

March 10th, 2022 The judge in the John Eastman Chapman University emails case has ruled in favor of the January 6th committee; Stephen Miller’s MOM files a lawsuit for him against the 1/6 committee to block a phone records subpoena; Mesa County Colorado clerk Tina Peters and deputy Belina Kinsley have been indicted on a combined 17 counts for breaching their own county’s voter database and leaking...

Friday, March 7th, 2025 Today, Governor Gavin Newsom opposes trans athletes in women’s sports; Trump held a Cabinet meeting today to clarify to his agency heads that they're in charge of ruining people's lives and not Elon Musk; a federal judge has held Mike Lindell in contempt for failure to comply with disclosure in the Smartmatic defamation case; judges face increased threats after being called...

Thursday, March 6th, 2025 Today, the Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration must unfreeze foreign aid; a US district judge has blocked Trump’s cuts to NIH funding; a US district judge in Maryland has issued a preliminary injunction against Trump withholding funds to hospitals that provide gender affirming care; the Merit Systems Protection Board has ordered Trump to reinstate thousands...

Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 Today, Senate Judiciary Democrats are asking the bar association to launch an investigation into acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove; Trump abruptly walks back his directive to fire thousands of federal workers; Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has filed a motion to stop the firing of 5000 USDA employees; the oligarchs on the Supreme Court have ruled that the EPA c...

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 Today, federal workers are being asked again to provide five things they did last week and it’s going about as well as a Cybertruck strapped to a SpaceX rocket on Twitter; DOGE is pressing to check benefit payments against IRS tax records; the National Institute of Health’s ban on renewing senior scientists adds to the assault on its in-house research; Trump firings at NOA...

Monday, March 3rd, 2025 Today, Trump and Vance capitulate to Russia during the Zelensky visit as Marco Rubio sinks into the couch; the Democratic Party has sued the Trump administration for his attempt to control independent watchdog agencies; Republicans are terrified of crossing Trump and Musk; a federal judge has barred the administration from issuing executive orders barring gender affirming c...

Originally Published 2/28/2023 In the Hot Notes; a new filing in the Dominion defamation case reveals that Rupert Murdoch knew the election fraud claims were lies; DoJ is set to brief the Gang of 8 in Congress about the risk posed by the classifieds documents in the Trump, Pence, and Biden spills; SCOTUS is going to weigh-in on student debt cancellation; Fani Willis has empaneled a regular grand j...

March 1, 2021 Twitter exploded this weekend with images of the CPAC stage which is the shape of a common Nazi symbol; sexual misconduct allegations emerge about both Madison Cawthorn and Governor Cuomo; the FBI has singled out a suspect in the death of Capitol officer Sicknick; lawyers for an 18-year-old insurrectionist push to have him released to his parents; NASA officially names its DC headqua...

Friday, February 28th, 2025 Today, a judge has ordered Trump administration officials to give sworn testimony about DOGE; a judge has dismissed Ric Grenell’s defamation case against Olivia Troye; the DHS has quietly eliminated the ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity; Andrew and Tristan Tate have left Romania and landed in the sex pest sanctuary state of Florida; a f...

Thursday, February 27th, 2025 Today, the Office of Personnel Management sent out a memo directing massive reductions in force; the Trump administration threatens a permanent visa ban for trans athletes; Musk cancelled contracts that help veterans only to reinstate them the next day; Jeff Bezos announced a revamp to the Washington Post op ed section causing the editor to quit; a Democrat in Maine w...