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Fmr #FBI dir #JamesComey, reviled & targeted by #Trump as part of his #retribution campaign, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wed in federal court in Alexandria, VA.

The judge set a trial date for Jan 5. But Comey’s lawyer, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, said he intended to file to motions to dismiss the case before then [TYVM], including one accusing the govt of malicious & selective prosecution based on Trump’s public demand that Comey be prosecuted.

#law #LegalEthics
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/08/us/james-comey-arraignment-fbi/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share

"The president instructed federal agents to use extralegal violence against both immigrants and citizens in Chicago. When the citizenry of Chicago objected to these violent acts, the president used their First Amendment demonstrations of protest as pretext to deploy the Texas National Guard into the city, so that armed soldiers from Texas could impose the president’s will on the people of Illinois."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #military #Chicago
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-triad-the-chicago-rubicon-and-what-comes-next

#TROOPS IN #US CITIES

#NationalGuard deployments by the #Trump admin

#Chicago area: 500
About 300 #Illinois troops & 200 #Texas troops are expected on the streets soon.

#Portland, #Oregon: Currently None
Federal judge temporarily blocked deployment of #California troops staged near the city.

#WashingtonDC: 2,400
Deployed in August in what the admin called a *crime* fighting push.

#LosAngeles: 300
Peaked at 4,700 in June. Trump is appealing a ruling that the deployment was #illegal.

#law

Lawyers for #CookCounty, #Illinois, which includes #Chicago, have filed a court brief supporting efforts to block the deployment of #NationalGuard troops, saying Trump’s action would “intrude on #state & local #sovereignty” & increase public fear. A hearing in that case is scheduled for tomorrow.

#Trump #Chicago #law #RightToProtest #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #PoliceBrutality #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/08/us/trump-national-guard-chicago-illinois/5d3048b1-471b-51f7-90f2-97e0e24288c8?smid=url-share

More delays and disrespect

Via Kyle Griffin:

The #Trump Justice Department has missed the deadline to provide answers in the Alien Enemies Act case.
 
Judge #Boasberg had ordered the government to answer questions about Trump's deportation flights or "invoke the state-secrets doctrine and explain the basis for such invocation."

Via Kyle Griffin:

In her ruling, Judge Howell questions how #Trump could not have noticed he had highly sensitive #documents in his bedroom.

"Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago." https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/21/trump-classified-documents-bedroom-00159182

JFC!

#MarcoRubio promised to betray #US #informants to get #Trump the #ElSalvador prison #CECOT for #deportations

To secure Washington’s access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, the secretary of state made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele.

#GiftArticle

#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary
https://wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Your periodic reminder that #TikTok is co-owned by (and he did the initial funding for #ByteDance) #JeffYass.

Jeff Yass is *the* largest #GOP donor.

Jeff Yass funded a right wing #Israel thinktank to corrupt the judiciary for #Netanyahu.

Jeff Yass was the largest investor in #TrumpMedia (#TruthSocial), they sold recently.

Oh and look at the news today:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-joins-tiktok-years-trying-ban-app-rcna155072

"#Trump joins TikTok years after trying to ban the app"

Get

the

fuck

off

Tik

Tok

#TikTokban

If this is a war as #Trump pretends, then these are #WarCrimes

#ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in #Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in #Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

#immigration #law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #HumanRights
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-third-country-deportation-monarchy-eswatini-legal-black-hole-trump/

#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker responds to #Trump threat to #jail him & #Chicago mayor over #ICE: 'Come & get me'

Speaking to reporters at a federal workers rally at Federal Plaza later Wednesday, Pritzker responded to Trump’s threat.

“Look, he’s a coward. He says a lot of things. He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come & get me,” Pritzker said.

#StochasticTerrorism #incitement #law #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/08/jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-truth-social-jail-threat

#Trump Crime Wave in 2 minutes:

https://youtu.be/_OEc7y-JypQ?si=9lCsG8snGSetPbPl

Via Katie Phang:

Before the lawyers depart, Judge Merchan strongly tells Blanche that he doesn’t think it was an accident when Blanche told jury that the jury should think twice before “sending a man to prison.”

Merchan to Blanche: Your statement was “outrageous” & “highly inappropriate.”

Merchan’s tone was tempered but you could tell he was angry w Blanche. Merchan noted that Blanche’s experience as a federal prosecutor suggests that this was no accident on his part #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal

Tues 28 May 2024 🧵 #ClosingArguments to Begin in #TrumpTrial

#Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a #HushMoney payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.

#law #ElectionInterference
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/28/nyregion/trump-trial-closing-arguments?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 #Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept #Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Putin had said he would “destroy” #Ukraine if it did not agree.

The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time”, FT reports.

1/2🧵

https://www.ft.com/content/7960c6aa-dbfa-4a55-91e8-ae44601842ec

Archive: https://archive.is/XBC5s

#usa

Pure #fascism

#Trump’s war on the #left: Inside the plan to *investigate* #liberal groups

Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances & activities of liberal non-profits & groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide #StephenMiller playing a central role, according to officials.

#law #FirstAmendment #WeaponizationOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #propagsnda #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-war-left-inside-plan-investigate-liberal-groups-2025-10-09/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Btw, I am reading live posts of the #TrumpTrial but unable to post for you (sorry). Prosecution is killing it.

FYI: Via Kyle Griffin:

Judge Merchan tells the jury that Trump lawyer Todd Blanche's comment was "improper, and you must disregard it."

"If there is a verdict of guilty, it will be up to me to impose a sentence." He adds: A "prison sentence is not required in the event of a guilty verdict." #legal #Trump

#BREAKING 💥🔥
TO REPEAT, #TrumpTrial

#TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

#TrumpTrial Thurs 30 May 2024 🧵#Deliberations continue

Justice #Merchan says he believes that the #jury wants him to repeat a significant portion of the #JuryInstructions.

He will read pages 6-35.

Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.

Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.

#criminal #law #Trump

Around 1,000 anti-#Trump protesters marched peacefully in downtown #Chicago last night, as the first #Texas #NationalGuard soldiers prepared to deploy near the city.

#law #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/08/texas-national-guard-broadview-illinois

A federal judge in #Chicago is now hearing arguments over whether to block the #Trump admin’s deployment of #NationalGuard troops into #Illinois. The hearing comes after National Guard troops could be seen on the ground near the Broadview #ICE facility Thursday morning.

#law #immigration #RightToProtest #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Gestapo #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://chicago.suntimes.com/live/2025/10/09/national-guard-lawsuit-judge-ruling-illinois-trump

"This Bondi performance is designed to send an authoritarian message of total scorn for democracy: Congress as a place where the opposition can grill government officials is an outdated and offensive notion. Doesn't happen in Russia or China, why should they have to tolerate it anymore?"

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #PamBondi #Republicans #Congress #contempt #authoritarianism
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https://substack.com/@lucid/note/c-164331117

PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.

The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-pfna-forever-chemical-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #EPA #Environment #Health #Safety #Water #Government

#Democrats in #Congress have been relentless about casting the #shutdown clash as a fight over helping Americans pay for #health #insurance.

But there is another, far deeper issue driving the impasse: their outrage about what is happening across the country under a president they regard as #lawless & #unchecked.

#Trump #law #democracy #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary #legislative #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/democrats-shutdown-trump-administration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Like @arjenlubach says, we need to get the remaining 68 tons of gold owned by the Netherlands away from the US ASAP

#Trump is so corrupt, it’s not safe there anymore

Remember how batshit crazy the #FarRight got when they thought Biden standing with Ukraine meant boots on the ground, even though it didn’t?

The #US is sending ~200 troops to #Israel to help *support* & *monitor* #ceasefire deal in #Gaza

#Trump is sending ~200 troops to Israel to help support & monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations & “private sector players” [ummm…?].

https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaza-israel-hamas-us-military-c19caf7b193dbb3bfaf056366f9e2369?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-09-Breaking+News