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Published: March 9, 2025 14:22

From WSJ. This is Hungary-level authoritarian stuff. Add big law to big media & big business. “Back-channel efforts to persuade major law firms to sign public statements criticizing Trump’s actions thus far have foundered, in part because of retaliation…

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Published: March 9, 2025 14:04

Odious on multiple levels. Perhaps the worst is there’s not even a pretense of a legitimate federal or governmental interest. Just sheer personal retribution—l’etat c’est moi. …

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Published: March 9, 2025 00:32

DOJ, and newly confirmed Deputy Todd Blanche, have an interesting choice in front of them in the Adams case. Ho is not going to dismiss without prejudice, as DOJ has moved. And the second circuit unlikely to change that. So do they buy reasonableness…

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Published: March 7, 2025 23:17

Clement tells judge that he has the power to do additional evidentiary investigation, but strongly suggests he dismiss the case with prejudice and leave it at that. Separation of powers, principles and public confidence in justice system support rejecting…

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Published: March 7, 2025 22:55

Clement tells Ho he can look into the facts but advises him to dismiss but WITH PREJUDICE and suggests he not do much more investigation into Bove etc. scholarly 33 page brief

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Published: March 7, 2025 20:11

DOJ puts on leave the other prosecutors from the Eric Adams case -- not the lead ones, who resigned. absolute brass-knuckles low blow against DOJ excellence and accepted practice

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Published: March 7, 2025 19:36

It is patently unlawful; and good for Perkins Coie! Trump is relying not on legality but on big firms' being scared to challenge him. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 6, 2025 17:50

revolting. and shades of 2017. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/

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Published: March 5, 2025 23:53

With little explanation, court of appeals permits administration to remove Hampton Dellinger as special counsel. Not clear if they’re predicting that the Humphrey’s Executor case is no longer good law, or it’s something to do with the remedy of forced…

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Published: March 5, 2025 19:55

https://substack.com/@parkermolloy/note/c-98214059?r=gpifb

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Published: March 5, 2025 17:49

@stevevladeck.bsky.social as always has valuable post with quick reaction to Sup Ct opinion. I'm a little more of the glass 1/2 empty school though (it's really just a matter of emphasis)--I think w/ Kavanaugh again w/ the 3, we have a near built-in 4…

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Published: March 5, 2025 17:46

#JonAlter had an excellent suggestion on the @contrariannews.org live coverage of SOTU yesterday. With R advisers telling R members to avoid town halls, there should be an organized effort to hold them anyway, w/ empty chairs for the missing members and…

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Published: March 5, 2025 15:08

OK Patriots, I’m going LIVE on Substack at 9AM PT / 12PM ET for our Is It Legal? weekly series to break down the just-off-the-presses Supreme Court opinion in the USAID case. Join me here: harrylitman.substack.com

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Published: March 5, 2025 14:54

another way to put it. you saw 10 minutes, you saw it all; except then you had to suffer through 100 more. Hard to imagine that the person who has growing doubts about him had them assuaged. And of course for the rest of us it was like chewing on aluminum…

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Published: March 5, 2025 14:51

Agreeing w/ @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social,the aspect of the speech that I think really will not wear well was its triumphalism. He came across as a Chaplinesque tinpot dictator, not infrequently a raving one. Greenland, Panama, Pocahontas, Biden. The…

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Published: March 5, 2025 03:42

That was his way of dissing and threatening Rubio for his obvious discomfort at the Zelensky debacle

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Published: March 5, 2025 02:43

Nice to know who’s in charge of DOGE.

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Published: March 4, 2025 05:56

Purged after telling field agents he would "dig in" for them. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/politics/james-dennehy-fbi-new-york-division-retire

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Published: March 3, 2025 20:44

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers. …

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Published: March 3, 2025 19:27

Really dangerous narrative developing among Rs in Congress to the effect of even if Trump was a boor, peace is not possible with Zelensky as president. That is simply Trump reprisal agenda based on 2017 and later. Zelensky remains a figure of singular…

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Published: March 3, 2025 14:58

Here you go, an ALL-NEW @talkingfeds.bsky.social with a great roundtable of @tarasetmayer.bsky.social, @bobshrum.bsky.social, & @jacobweisberg.bsky.social, tackling budget vote, Musk, public discontent, legal successes, and Trump’s “perfect” dressing down…

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Published: March 3, 2025 00:28

The Rs squeak by on a budget that jumps directly on the 3rd rail of Medicare/Medicaid and looks DOA in the Senate. Musk’s role grows stranger and more pernicious; signs of popular discontent grow;Trump shames the US before the world. All in an ALL-NEW…

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Published: March 2, 2025 19:23

There’s a landscape out there, a metaphoric landscape. We used to call it the federal government. It’s now strafed and bombed out, sirens going off that no one is attending to, people wandering around wounded and bewildered. 3/4 of everything broken and…

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Published: March 2, 2025 19:13

Warning Will Robinson Also @normeisen.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 2, 2025 19:02

Even if a new team normal displaced the entire team crazy – including Trump and Musk– tomorrow, the damage to certain areas would take months or years to repair, or would be irreparable. Foreign policy, public health, and federal law enforcement all…

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Published: March 2, 2025 17:13

@joeconason.bsky.social : “And just as "America First" was subsidized and sometimes directed by agents of Hitler's Germany, MAGA now appears to be the Western front for Russia's ongoing subversion of democracies around the world.” …

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Published: March 2, 2025 05:46

What can I say? From my substack this am: "And it will be lampooned within hours. I’m looking forward to SNL’s Mikey Day playing Zelensky, growing increasingly incredulous at Trump’s nasty patter & little by little letting his bafflement and contempt…

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Published: March 2, 2025 02:50

Judge Amy Berman Jackson grants permanent injunction for Hampton Dellinger, ordering he remain as special counsel. The law clearly says so, and it’s not unconstitutional given the nature of the power Dellinger exercises. It’s the constitutional issue that…

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Published: March 1, 2025 20:25

Make a list of all our closest and most important allies as of two months ago. Where do all those alliances stand now?

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Published: March 1, 2025 20:22

We seem now to be isolated on the world stage, with an improved relationship only with Russia in exchange for demolished relationships with all our main allies. Has there ever been a time in human history when a national leader has undermined so many…

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Published: March 1, 2025 18:51

“In a fireworks-like 10-minute display of socio- and psycho-pathologies, Trump brought shame on the country and made the world less stable.” https://open.substack.com/pub/harrylitman/p/can-ukraine-survive?r=gpifb&utm_medium=ios

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Published: March 1, 2025 18:20

Remarkable. 👇👇👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 1, 2025 17:51

Back to David Jo. Lots of good stuff about and by him in this oral history. https://images.app.goo.gl/38HvHHtQaCcffRRXA

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Published: March 1, 2025 17:41

Marco Rubio is 53 years old. Whoever has his best interests at heart should tell him to resign.

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Published: March 1, 2025 17:23

David Johansen solo singer songwriter youtu.be/al0hg1iLcLY https://youtu.be/al0hg1iLcLY

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Published: March 1, 2025 17:21

Oh no David Jo The great front man for the New York Dolls, king of the downtown scene, then full inhabitor of two different musical personae, actor, underrated solo performer (Funky But Chic), street intellectual, and, God bless him,…

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Published: March 1, 2025 17:14

Vance played such a strange role in yesterday’s debacle. Trump picked him as a lifeline and he seemed to re-double and then again re- double Trump‘s rage. Mainly by playing the infantile talking point: you haven’t thanked us enough.

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Published: March 1, 2025 17:04

Heartbreaking what they’re doing to the place. “I cannot continue to serve in such a hostile and toxic work environment, one where leadership at the highest levels makes clear we are not welcomed or valued, much less trusted to do our jobs” …

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Published: February 28, 2025 23:27

@lizcheney.bsky.social : "History will remember this day--when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 28, 2025 23:25

P's brief very strong, adopts line suggested in the substack: "The government comes to this Court with an emergency of its own making...Following entry of the TRO, however, the government took no steps toward compliance." The Administration That Cried…

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Published: February 28, 2025 22:34

There are some areas where we’ve passed the break glass point and are in an authoritarian regime. Foreign policy is now one of them. The President of the United States is an unadulterated monster.

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Published: February 28, 2025 22:29

Deeply eloquent summary by Jon Alter of singularly low point for America in our lifetimes. https://open.substack.com/pub/oldgoats/p/a-low-point-for-america?r=gpifb

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Published: February 28, 2025 22:23

Need to preserve this one for the truth and reconciliation commission.

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Published: February 28, 2025 22:15

What he said. 👇👇👇

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Published: February 28, 2025 21:56

@davidfrum.bsky.social "The pro-Trump party exposed its face to the world in the Oval Office today. Nobody who saw that face will ever forget the grotesque sight." …

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Published: February 28, 2025 19:43

This was no blunder by Zelensky. It was a set up job to justify Trump‘s complete embrace of Putin. He made him an offer he couldn’t accept, and with brutal rancor designed to force a walk out

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Published: February 28, 2025 19:38

I doubt that there’s a more mortifying and repugnant treatment of a foreign leader by a president in American history. Somebody needs to spank Trump and Vance and send them to bed without any dinner. He’s a historic, national embarrassment.

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Published: February 28, 2025 17:30

Don’t miss Talking San Diego on March 21 for an unforgettable evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd! We’ll dive into her latest book, Notorious, delivering sharp insights, cutting cultural commentary, and unfiltered…

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Published: February 28, 2025 04:54

This sort of thing happens I would say…. Never. Flagrant weaponization, and kudos to career prosecutors for standing up to it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: February 27, 2025 20:20

@talkingfeds.bsky.social 1 on 1 this week is a conversation with @raskin.house.gov about how to articulate the current constitutional danger and what we can do to fight back. https://substack.com/@domenicaalioto33/note/c-96688831?r=gpifb

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Published: February 27, 2025 16:10

The circumstances will lead to follow up detective work, but shouldn't obscure the headline, which is that one of the very greatest of American movie actors has died. Range, nuance, subtlety. From Popeye Doyle /Harry Caul to Royal Tennenbaum/Lex Luthor. …

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Published: February 27, 2025 14:56

@stevevladeck.bsky.social nails it on the broader harm and offense of the Administration attack on law firm representing Jack Smith. Yes, it’s supremely petty but that’s just for starters. …

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Published: February 27, 2025 14:48

Two problems with the administration emergency appeal to the Supreme Court: 1) just what were they doing for the last two weeks?, and 2) are their “now we need weeks” protests credible?. Looking forward to discussing on @msnbc.com at noon ET.

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Published: February 26, 2025 19:49

Good and important piece on the FCPA and Trump's irrational antagonism for it by my partner @erichavian.bsky.social "The FCPA does not disadvantage American companies but in fact enhances American competitiveness and levels an otherwise unlevel playing…

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Published: February 26, 2025 19:15

"Make Orwell fiction again." It's a scientific finding!!! not a policy preference. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/epa-greenhouse-gases-00204866

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Published: February 26, 2025 17:45

OK patriots, the White House’s punishment of the AP for not genuflecting at Trump’s name change was a raw violation of the most fundamental 1st Am principle, & it will not stand Trump vs. the Media: He Won Round One, but He’s Going to Lose Bigly…

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Published: February 26, 2025 14:54

The analogy is precise. And the White House response was nasty and disingenuous. This will be a major test of the courts – I think that they will pass it; but it is fundamental. I’ll have an article up on this at @thenewrepublic.bsky.social shortly plus a…

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Published: February 26, 2025 14:46

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Published: February 26, 2025 14:23

‪Going live on Substack with @mikepod.bsky.social at 12PM ET to discuss the key weapon against Trump that everyone is missing. Catch us here: harrylitman.substack.com

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Published: February 26, 2025 04:05

“Never mind.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Published: February 25, 2025 23:09

Some of his measures push the envelope; some are stunningly improper. This one is stunningly improper. We are talking about security clearance here, not M&M's from the White House mess Trump Takes Aim at Law Firm Aiding Jack Smith…

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Published: February 25, 2025 19:33

Court suspends wholesale freeze on refugee admissions: “To be sure the president has substantial discretion … to suspend refugee admissions, but that authority is not limitless,” noting Congress’ detailed framework for refugee admissions." …

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Published: February 25, 2025 14:31

Mind blowing Ed Martin Jr on the DOJ defense of Trump’s ostracizing of AP for not using “Gulf of America.” "As President Trumps' lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President &we are vigilant in standing against entities like…

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Published: February 25, 2025 04:43

More possible Ed Martin Jr problems. @joshmarshalll.bsky.social has the scoop. Big, Big Scandal Brewing at DC US Attys Office https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-big-scandal-brewing-at-dc-us-attys-office

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Published: February 24, 2025 19:33

Going live on Substack with @sykescharlie.bsky.social just after 3PM ET to discuss Dan Bongino, the Trump administration’s pick for FBI deputy director. Catch us here: harrylitman.substack.com

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Published: February 24, 2025 18:34

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Published: February 24, 2025 14:55

Our latest foreign policy episode comes just in time to assess the ruinous damage of Trump’s perverse new policies. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, #MichaelMcFaul & #SteveSestanovich join me for a clear-eyed uneasy view of his wrecking ball approach to Europe,…