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Friday, April 4th, 2025 Today, the acting Inspector General for the Department of Defense has launched an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal chat messages; the Senate has voted to rescind some of Trump’s tariffs which caused the third biggest stock market crash in modern history; federal prosecutors have dropped the charges against the guy Nancy Mace says assaulted her; massive layoffs at th...

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 Today, Susan Crawford has defeated Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race while Democrats ate into Republican leads in two Florida House districts; Elon Musk's disclosure of a planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials; Judge Dale Ho has dismissed the charges against Eric Adams with prejudice; ousted DOJ officials are set to test...

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 Today, possible results in the Wisconsin and Florida elections; Senator Cory Booker takes to the Senate floor to disrupt business as usual; Mike Waltz used GMAIL to discuss national defense information; Senator Adam Schiff says he will put an indefinite hold on the confirmation of Ed Martin as D.C. US Attorney; multiple plaintiffs have filed suit to block Trump’s voter s...

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 Today, Wisconsinites are hitting the polls and casting votes in the state Supreme Court election between Brad Schimel and Jennifer Crawford; The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Trump administration's request to allow immediate removal of transgender troops from the military; a federal judge has barred the Trump administration from ending "temporary protected st...

Monday, March 31st, 2025 Today, we’re just hours away from the Wisconsin Supreme Court election which will decide the balance of the highest court in the state; law firm Skadden Arps gives $100M in free legal services; the plaintiffs in the Alien Enemies Act case have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction as Judge Boasberg extends his temporary restraining orders; the Trump administration is...

Friday, March 29th, 2024 Judge McAfee seems skeptical of Trump’s arguments in Fulton County today; the Republican Vice Chair in Georgia has been found guilty of voter fraud; Matt Maddock posts photos of NCAA Gonzaga busses and tells his followers the busses are full of “illegal invaders”; crypto chode Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison; two bodies have been recovered from a...

Monday, March 28th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: The Manhattan DA has begun returning evidence in the stalled case against Trump; depositions have been scheduled for Donald and his kids in a civil case against their pyramid scheme; an update in the We Build the Wall fraud case; the 1/6 committee weighs a subpoena for Ginni Thomas after the release of 29 text messages to the former White House Chief of S...

Friday, March 28th, 2025 Today, a Tufts University grad student was snatched off the street by unmarked cops wearing masks; Judge Reyes rejects the Pentagon’s new guidance for banning transgender people from serving in the military; Trump has pulled his nomination of Elise Stefanik for UN ambassador; Kari Lake backs down in the legal fight to shutter Radio Free Europe; Judge Boasberg holds his fir...

Thursday, March 27th, 2025 Today, Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic has released the entire Signal chat except for the name of the CIA agent; the Republican Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Wicker and the ranking member Jack Reed have called for an investigation into the Signal chat; a Democrat has won a Pennsylvania State Senate seat for the first time in history; the Supreme Court h...

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 Today, one of the Venezuelan men deported to CECOT in El Salvador was a legal refugee; Trump has signed an executive order that will upend voter registration; members of Congress react to the Signal chat Yemeni war plans leak; a judge has enjoined Kari Lake from shuttering Radio Free Europe; American Oversight is suing members of the Signal chat for violations of the Fe...

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 Today, Judge Boasberg denies Trump’s motion to vacate his orders to turn the planes around in the Alien Enemies Act case; top Pentagon and intelligence officials shared Yemeni war plans with a journalist on Signal; a Ukrainian man is the third to die in ICE custody in a facility in South Florida; a federal judge in New Jersey has barred the Trump administration from takin...

Monday, March 24th, 2025 Today, the Pentagon set up a briefing with Elon Musk on Chinese war plans; Trump rescinds an executive order attacking the Paul Weiss law firm after the firm agrees to give him $40M in free legal services; Leland Dudek has threatened to shut down the Social Security Administration; the Trump administration has re-hired nearly 25K probationary employees; the military has ag...

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...