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Immigrant justice lawyers representing 13 plaintiffs sued to overturn the first Trump administration's asylum ban in "Noem vs. Al Otro Lado"
The lawsuit was filed in July 2017 by Al Otro Lado, along with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, the American Immigration Council, and other organizations located near the border.
“Customs and Border Protection officers would confront people literally standing at the line and obstruct them from coming in,” said Melissa…

US Is Legally Obligated to Provide Asylum. SCOTUS May Help Trump End It Anyway.
The federal government is appealing a case from Trump’s first term to reinstate an asylum ban at the southern border.

Paralegal (n): portmanteau of "paratrooper" and "legal".
Highly trained elite attorneys who are airdropped onto a defendant's premises to serve papers and demand discovery before they have time to react.
(With how much lawyers cost these days you probably could afford to parachute drop one lol)

Trump, corruption in plain sight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.A-BQ.iixOJRNKHFTL&…

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.

Is CA's AG the Next to Fall? Rob Bonta's Campaign Spent $468K on Lawyers During Federal Criminal Probe (Jennifer Van Laar/RedState)
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/11/19/is-californias-attorney-general-next-n2196353
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p158#a251119p158

Law lists fake critical elements "friezium" and "stralium" based on coal lawyers’ names #NorthDakota
https://northdakotamo…

In the latest defense filing,
Luigi Mangione's lawyers claim
Pam Bondi was a partner at the lobbying firm
Ballard Partners
before she became attorney general,
and the company lists UnitedHealth Group (UHG) as a client.
As a result,
Bondi derives and continues to receive personal and financial benefits from Ballard
"in the form of a profit-sharing plan from Ballard's professional association with UHG,"
according to cour…

Luigi Mangione Says Pam Bondi Has Financial Ties to Murder Victim's Company
Luigi Mangione says he now knows the real reason why Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking the death penalty against him ... she allegedly has deep ties to the murder victim's health care company.

On ne pourra pas toujours compter sur l'incompétence des méchants et la méticulosité de certaines vigies pour sauver l'Etat de Droit.
On ne sera peut-être pas aussi chanceu.x.ses que les Tazunien.ne.s sur ce point. Parce que niveau incompétence des damnés de la méchanceté, ils posent la barre super haut.

Justice Department insists Comey indictment was properly approved
The Trump-appointed prosecutor overseeing the James Comey case is insisting in a new court filing that the full grand jury approved the final indictment against the former FBI director. She is reversing course from statements a day earlier that defense lawyers had seized on to ask for a dismissal. The latest statements from Lindsey Halligan, the hastily named interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, represent an attempt to backtrack on earlier comments the prosecution team ma…

Andreessen said that mandatory NASDAQ rules that imposed diversity criteria on corporate boards were "crazy", recounting that on one occasion he was tempted to describe himself as "bisexual" to help Meta meet those criteria, as he felt for Peter Thiel, who was horrified when Meta lawyers suggested that he classified himself as "diverse".

BBC lawyers argue that the Florida court has no jurisdiction over President Trump's case; Trump's lawyers counter that BritBox showed Panorama in Florida (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb0d4335-c324-438c-951d-b46d40277a73

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter,
who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
The situation has no parallel in American history, as Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election,
ta…

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.

“At one point, Ms. Halligan admitted that she had never shown the second — and final — version of the Comey indictment to the full grand jury before the foreperson signed the charging document. Mr. Comey’s lawyers immediately seized on that irregularity, calling it another reason to dismiss the case entirely.”
This alone should be enough to dismiss the case with prejudice.
#comey

Lindsey Halligan Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment
Grand jurors have to vote on indictments to approve them, but a prosecutor told the judge in the case that only the foreperson formally approved the second charging document, a move that could cripple the case.

'Breaking point': Distrustful conservative judges turn up the heat on Trump lawyers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judges-2674210696/

Jack Smith's lawyers ask Jordan for open hearing after closed-door testimony (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/jack-smith-jim-jordan-trump-00699653
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p30#a251219p30

This isn't going away.
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-hegseth-admin-lawyers-warn-boat-strike-illegal

Trump Admin Lawyers Warn Second Boat Strike May Be Illegal
As defense secretary Pete Hegseth tries to pass the buck, a Trump admin lawyer says, ‘If The Washington Post is right, then a crime was committed.’

A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

Meta Lawyers Advised Blocking Teen Harm Research to Avoid Suits
Meta Platforms Inc.'s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm in order to reduce legal liability, a Washington, DC, court determined Thursday in a ruling that could ripple into the multi-district litigation faced by the tech company in California.

Sehr schön: #Trump und das #DoJ kriegen beim Schauprozess gegen #Comey gut einen auf die Mütze:
Judge orders DOJ to turn over grand jury transcript to Comey lawyers — suggests ‘government misconduct may ha…

Ex-BC Coroner Testifies about Failures to Prevent Toxic Drug Deaths via @… https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/17/Ex-

Ex-BC Coroner Testifies about Failures to Prevent Toxic Drug Deaths | The Tyee
Lawyers for DULF are arguing the compassion club had to take matters into its own hands.

Color me confused - I see that el cheeto's dog, Lindsey Halligan, is listed as a lawyer in Virginia.
Yet, when go to the Virginia bar website and search for her in their lists of Virginia attorneys I get zero hits.
Huh?
The page below says that she is a member of the Virginia Bar, but the Virginia Bar seems not to know who she is?
Am I fat fingering something on the Virginia bar's attorney search site?

Lindsey Halligan - Civil Rights, Criminal Defense Lawyer | Lexinter Law Directory
Lindsey Halligan, attorney and political appointee, became Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2025 under Donald Trump.

Exactly how thoroughly is SCOTUS the lapdog of POTUS?
We'll soon find out whether they're happy to sort out his personal difficulties for him.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-abuse-defamation-supreme-court-be62…

Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out Carroll verdict
President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. Trump’s lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court Monday that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propens…

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/

Border Report Live | Unaccompanied migrant children being sent to Rio Grande Valley, lawyers say | WKRG.com
https://www.wkrg.com/border-report-tour/unaccompanied-migrant-children-being-sent-to-texas-border-to-be-deported-lawyers-say/

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges,
including the only count for which he could face the death penalty,
from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive.
In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and …

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO
In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and amm…

WE'RE GETTING SUED | The Rest Is Bulls*!t -
Spitting Image
"Well, all our videos got taken down by the Studio C-Anal lawyers."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUON9JOLTu4

There is never a shortage of critical cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--With cyber grants dead in Congress, states scramble to build their own defenses,
--Cl0p is extorting executives and tech departments for up to $50m,
--Nursery chain hackers remove repugnant posts,
--UK government takes another bite at an Apple backdoor,
--Oz judge continues to protect Qantas lawyers fr…

With cyber grants dead in Congress, states scramble to build their own defenses
Cl0p is extorting executives and tech departments for up to $50m, Nursery chain hackers remove repugnant posts, UK government takes another bite at an Apple backdoor, Oz judge continues to protect Qantas lawyers from hacker retribution, Allianz says attack affected 1.5m customers, much more

Google lawyers navigating European anti-monopoly laws: oh noes, too complex! can't innovate! reset plz?
Google lawyers navigating European tax laws: Double Irish with Dutch Sandwitch.

"Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’"
#Plastic #Plastics #Pollution

The Callover
A Queensland Law Society podcast created by young lawyers, for young lawyers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-callover/

The BBC apologizes to President Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his January 6 speech together but rejects his demands for compensation (Noor Nanji/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c874nw4g2zzo

BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation
Lawyers for the US president have threatened to sue the corporation for $1bn (£759m).

LA Times Investigation:
Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucl…

Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their investigation. Here's why.

Eve, an AI assistant for plaintiff lawyers, raised $103M led by Spark, with a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo participating, at a $1B valuation and has 450 clients (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/eve-…

Remember the Torture Memos? The Boat Strike Memos May Be Worse. (Ankush Khardori/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/11/trump-boat-strikes-lawyers-torture-memos-column-00685071
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p14#a251211p14

"Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman... [may] use the tribunal to challenge the sanctions the UK levied against him after the invasion of Ukraine. He has already started suing Luxembourg for this reason, demanding $16bn (£12.1bn): half that government’s annual revenue. Among the lawyers representing him there? Cherie Blair, wife of the former British prime minister"
#Kleptocrats<…

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-02/lawyers-say-ice-shot-us-citizen-from-behind-as-he-stopped-to-warn-them-of-childre

Lawyers who care should run for positions in their respective state bar ethics committees.
We need to hold these people accountable, and make sure they never practice law again.
https://…

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

I don't know about you but I am rather tired of judges who respond to fed or trump lawyers with mere "warnings" or "scoldings".
It is long past time since judges ought to have realized that dithering and lying and besmirching defendants is the maga play-book. And in response judges should haul up any lawyer who uses those tactics onto a judicial yardarm (metaphorical yardarm) and impose contempt (both civil and criminal) sanctions (involving jail and fines), di…

Judge warns Justice Department officials over comments in Mangione case
A New York judge warns Justice Department officials they could face sanctions for public comments about Luigi Mangione's prosecution. Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Judge Margaret M. Garnett on Wednesday said at least two senior Justice Department officials likely broke court rules governing the conduct of lawyers by reposting comments President Donald Trump made about Mangione. Defense lawyers say these comments have prejudiced the case. Mangione has pleade…

AI has created the best job market in years... for lawyers.

Trump Admin Lawyers Now Warn Boat Strike May Be Illegal, as Hegseth Passes the Buck (Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-hegseth-admin-lawyers-warn-boat-strike-illegal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p166#a251202p166

Judge shoots down Trump lawyers' effort to keep evidence hidden from James Comey - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comey-discovery/

Since 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-ai-courts-lawsuits/

AI is helping judges to quickly close cases, and lawyers to quickly open them
Brazil’s overburdened courts and lawyers are adopting artificial intelligence. But experts wonder whether it serves justice.

Magistrate judge William Fitzpatrick ruled on Monday that
the justice department engaged in a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps”
on its way to indicting Comey.
The federal judge directed prosecutors to produce to defense lawyers all grand jury materials from the case.
Fitzpatrick wrote that problems include “fundamental misstatements of the law” by a prosecutor to a grand jury that indicted Comey in September,
the use of potentially privileg…

This really is shaping up to be one of the worst governments in living memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/25/moj-considering-extreme-proposal-to-scrap-jury-trials-for-all-but-most-serious-cases

So much winning.
https://www.ft.com/content/c51fc02c-0859-4908-9c3d-c3c1d12550c4

@… there's already a website tracking lawyers getting caught using AI-hallucinated citations: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/

Bickering over Bovino: Lawyers complain to judge of obstruction, 'sandbagging' during deposition (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/03/bickering-over-bovino-lawyers-complain-to-judge-of-obstruction-sandbagging-during-deposition
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p72#a251103p72

I regret to inform you all that I went back in time intending to only fix one little thing, but I couldn't help myself and I messed with some other things too. Now I've changed the present to be all wrong; not only do you have to deal with that Berenstain Bears nonsense, but you also now have to deal with Trump and Mamdani being besties. I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm really not - it was totally worth it*.
* My lawyers have advised me not to say anything further.

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration?” TRUMP: “I would. I really would.”

@…
©️: I’m mistakenly under the impression that the date attached to this thing should be updated every Jan 1st, despite the work being from sometime in the past.
™️: I came up with a really clever word/phrase and I’d hate for you to use it.
®️: I’m a pompous corporation and my lawyers tell me to put this everywhere I go.

Supreme Court to consider when lawyers can be barred from speaking to their client - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/supreme-court-to-consider-when-lawyers-can-be-barred-from-speaking-to-their-client/

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29102025/ai-sperm-whale-communications-legal-rights/
I love this idea that understanding the communication…

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News
The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’ legal rights.

UK Government wants to remove the right to jury trials. Constitutionally terrible, etc, but
During my jury service, I only saw the inside of the waiting room, not the court room. Every case I was assigned to had the defendant plead guilty just before the case was about to start.
I can't tell if this is part of a defence strategy, or just a side-effect of scheduling, where the trail date is when the defence and client are actually in the same place.
I'd fix that fir…

David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan for England and Wales, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’

Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucla-antisemitism-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p59#a251213p59

Since taking office, Donald Trump and his government have placed restrictions on some lawyers and law firms, including their ability to freely represent clients, mostly because they have done legal work that the president has opposed or they have been associated with prosecutors who investigated him.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct/03/trumps-crackdown-on-lawyers-shows-no-place-is-immune-says-us-bar-chief?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is an example of why our class action systems must be changed.
Class actions are good things for certain kinds of cases.
But many lawyers have found them to be a lucrative way to generate prodigious fees (while leaving the victims with only paltry amounts.)
Here's a case where the law imposed a terrible, and unjust, penalty on many small businesses. Like in many class actions the defendants settled, despite having a meritful defense. But did that settlement money…

"One group ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper-sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call."
ICE is transferring people in its custody away from family, lawyers
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/28/2345571/-ICE-is-transferring-people-in-its-custody-away-from-family-lawyers

Judge blocks prosecutors' access to James Comey's lawyer's emails and data (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/06/judge-blocks-prosecutors-access-to-james-comeys-lawyers-emails-and-data-00679805
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p61#a251206p61

Donald Trump’s weaponization of the US department of justice
to focus on retribution against political foes,
on fulfilling Maga goals and on granting pardons for allies
has seen thousands of lawyers depart or be fired
and weakened investigations in civil rights, national security and other areas, say ex-prosecutors and legal experts.
Data compiled by the nonpartisan Justice Connection showed that overall DoJ employment has dropped by about 5,500 lawyers and non-…

Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith to Launch Firm With Ex-DOJ Lawyers | On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it had reached a settlement with the state of Missouri to end the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, which allowed more than 7 million mostly low-income Americans to reduce their federal student loan payments.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-jack-smith-special-counsel/2025/12/09/id/1237718/

Sources: legal AI startup Harvey raised $150M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from a $5B valuation in June, bringing its total raised to over $1B (Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/10/29/le…

AI Startup Harvey Raises $150 Million At $8 Billion Valuation
The San Francisco-based startup that provides AI tools for lawyers has raised a new round of funding, its third in 2025 alone, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Luigi Mangione's lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO (Associated Press)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/us-news/luigi-mangione-asks-for-federal-charges-to-be-dropped-in-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-murder/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p12#a251011p12

Speaking to a room full of generals and admirals late last month, Hegseth derided
“stupid rules of engagement,”
and urged those assembled to get on board with his vision to
“untie the hands of our war fighters.”
He also said he wanted to raise the bar for troops to be investigated for misconduct.
“The rule of law at DoD has been under attack since day one of this administration,”
one of the current JAGs told CNN.
“There is a real dismissiveness of la…

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technology/google-ad-tech-closing.html<…

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

Podcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs https://www.404media.co/podcast-landlords-demand-your-workplace-logins-to-scrape-paystubs/

Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents "intentional harassment" (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/47b00423-1060-43c9-8c28-23631cb7a4d1

Lawyers for the Trump administrationargued in court on Thursday that
the administration has the authority to send migrants to military bases around the globe, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported on Thursday on an exchange between Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the Federal District Court in Washington and August E. Flentje, a senior Justice Department lawyer.
The two argued over whether the Trump administration could detain migrants abroad, a question that…

Trump lawyer uncorks startling new claim about where it can ship migrants next
Lawyers for the Trump administration argued in court on Thursday that the administration has the authority to send migrants to military bases around the globe, according to a new report. The New York Times reported on Thursday on an exchange between Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the Federal District...

Many lawyers and career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department ...
who had raised concerns about using lethal force against "narcotraffickers" ...
either left government or were reassigned or removed.
https://skywriter.b…

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technology/google-ad-tech-closing.html<…

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.
In late January, Lt. Gen. Joe Berger, who had taken the top posting in July 2024, was asked for his advice about the legality of using Texas National Guard soldiers for immigration enforcement.
Berger told Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George that he was skeptical and wa…

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.

Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them https://www.404media.co/reddit-mods-sued-by-youtuber-ethan-klein-fight-efforts-to-unmask-them/

Sean Charles Dunn,
the former Department of Justice employee who threw a sandwichat a federal agent during Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington DC
was found NOT GUILTY of assault by a DC jury on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

The Optimal Long-term Outcome Of The Shutdown (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-optimal-long-term-outcome-of-the-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p48#a251101p48

An army of lawyers?
Justice Dept. Agents to Protect ICE Facilities, Bondi Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/doj-agents-ice-facilities.html

Immigration activists and lawyers say Somali residents have been
🔥pulled over,
asked for their passports
and detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week
❌after Donald Trump called Minnesota’s Somali immigrants
“garbage” that should go back to Somalia.

“I have been getting calls all day and night from people who should not be at risk,”
said Cameron Geibnik,
a Minneapolis immigration attorney who described talking to n…

In Minneapolis, Somalis say they’ve been targeted since Trump called them ‘garbage’
Minnesota has been a magnet for Somali immigrants for decades and now has America’s largest population of people of Somali descent.

Stephen Miller, who has overseen Trump’s hard-line agenda on drugs and immigration, and other top advisers never lost sight of their goal of crushing the cartels.
And in pursuing this goal they were aided in part by a personnel restructuring that removed potential obstacles.

Many of the lawyers and other career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department
who had over the preceding months raised concerns about using lethal force a…

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/27/dc-traffic-stop-shooting-dispute/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p142#a251027p142

Judge Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, called an emergency hearing Sunday,
then broadened her restraining order to cover “the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon,”
telling Justice Department lawyers that the president was ”in direct contravention” of her order.
The blizzard of moves by the Trump administration,
from Texas to California, Illinois to Oregon,

Judge Blocks National Guard Deployment in Oregon as Trump Expands His Targets
A federal judge in Oregon accused the administration of circumventing her order, even as the president turned to Texas for troops aimed at Chicago and other cities.

Trump administration turned to Pentagon after CIA lawyers nixed drug boat attacks: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-boats-2674333957/

Trump administration lawyers must tell two federal courts on Monday
when funding will be restored.
Both judges found fault in the government’s attempt to stop funding benefits during the federal shutdown, now in its second month
https://www.nytimes…

Trump Administration Says It Will Make Partial SNAP Payments This Month: Live Updates

DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise https://www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to-unmask-ice-spotting-instagram-account-by-claiming-it-imports-merchandise/

Kennedy Katch And Kill Kontinued (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/kennedy-katch-and-kill-kontinued
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p37#a251127p37

Let's Make Sure No One Wants To Visit America (Erik Loomis/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/lets-make-sure-no-one-wants-to-visit-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p120#a251126p120

While many of the US CITIZENS detained have immediately declared their U.S. citizenship to officers,
they have routinely been ignored,
according to interviews with the men, their lawyers and court documents.
In some cases they have been handcuffed,
kept in holding cells and immigration facilities overnight,
and in at least two cases held without access to a lawyer or even a phone call.
How many U.S. citizens have been swept up in the Trump administration’s…

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet
As immigration agents take a more aggressive approach, they have stopped and in some cases detained American citizens.

Harmeet Dhillon, a former Trump lawyer placed in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,
bragged to the Wall Street Journal that she “wakes up around 6am and begins her workday scrolling through X, searching for claims of discrimination …
After spotting ‘a list of new horrors,’ she said,
‘I text my deputies, and we assign cases, and we get cranking.’”
Dhillon’s office has been bleeding staff, since experienced lawyers are largely disinclined to waste…

The triumph of bullshit
Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

November 3, 2026:
Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House
—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election,
and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud.
He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social.
In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting,
arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under f…

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

The indictment of former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey
was just two pages long and contained so little detail that it was hard for legal experts to assess its merits.
Some former government lawyers, as well as prominent Democrats, said the case appeared so flimsy that it was likely to fail.
Some Republicans also expressed concerns

Brief Comey Indictment Prompts Questions and Criticism
The two-page indictment of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, offered little indication of the evidence that would be presented at a trial. Some legal experts called it flimsy and dangerous.

Marc Elias, a prominent Democratic election attorney, has not shied away from standing up to the Trump administration, and has been targeted for retribution this year multiple times as a result.
He’s one of scores of lawyers the Trump administration has named in executive actions,
joining a list that includes big law firms and attorneys who worked for people Donald Trump considers his opponents.
Elias has for decades represented high-profile Democrats, including the president…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Sunday that
the United States has revoked the visa for British journalist
Sami Hamdi,
alleging that he has supported terrorism and worked to
"undermine American national security."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) confirmed that Hamdi has not been deported but remains in custody,
and lawyers for the advocacy group are "working to address this injusti…

DHS Revokes Visa for British Journalist Accused of Supporting Terrorism
British Journalist Sam Hamdi has been accused of supporting terrorism and remains in custody as the U.S. looks to deport him.

Federal prosecutors reportedly gave US attorney a memo suggesting not to file charges against James Comey
ABC news has reporting that federal prosecutors in the eastern district of Virginia presented the rookie US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, with a memo that detailed why NOT to file criminal charges against the former FBI director.
ABC cites sources familiar with the memo, who also noted that justice department lawyers would be unable to secure a conviction of Comey by proving th…

Trump's pardon of Rudi Guilliani
could wind up having a huge effect on election conspirators like Matthew Alan Laiss,
who is accused of voting in both Pennsylvania and Florida in the 2020 election.
According to a federal indictment handed down in September,
Laiss moved from Pennsylvania to Florida in August of 2020 and voted first with a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania and then in person in Florida on election day.
Both votes were for Trump, Laiss’ lawyers …