David Kurtz
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Holy shit How do you find an outfit in your collection that matches the damaged reflecting pool? Seriously
David Kurtz@davidkurtz.bsky.social · 2h agoBeyond the reality-TV-style palace intrigue among the ridiculous personas of Donald Trump, Jeanine Pirro, and Doug Burgum is how hard the former defendants in the now-dismissed “vandalism” cases push for court-ordered consequences for the bogus prosecutions. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Beyond the reality-TV-style palace intrigue among the ridiculous personas of Donald Trump, Jeanine Pirro, and Doug Burgum is how hard the former defendants in the now-dismissed “vandalism” cases push for court-ordered consequences for the bogus prosecutions. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Reflecting Pool Turns Into Quicksand for Jeanine Pirro
Saga Not Over Yet While most of the reflecting pool coverage focuses...
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About a month ago, it emerged from upstate New York that DHS was targeting online critics of ICE by trying to force them to sign a heretofore unheard of “Warning Notice” admitting that their criticisms were unlawful. Now the WSJ reports that those cases ... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics
ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...
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What Blanche did and did not do overnight reinforces what a parody of a negotiation with Sens. Cornyn and Tillis this has been. It was enough tho, as Tillis just posted on the other site that it met the demands that the two senators had laid out. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Faux Deal Ends Faux Fight Over Blanche Nomination
Wet Noodle Award: Cornyn and Tillis Trump is Lucy. GOP senators are...
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In a social media post this morning, President Trump threw all of toys in the air and declared that he still thinks the “anti-weaponization” slush fund was the way to go after all. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Forget the Blanche Nom, Trump Now Wants His $1.776B Slush Fund Back!
Talk About Losing the Thread In a social media post this morning,...
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Thanks for having me on, @gregsargent.bsky.social
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d agoThere's a real sense that Trump is running into serious limits on his power right now on many fronts. So I asked @davidkurtz.bsky.social: Are we constraining Trump, or not? His answer is so, so good. I pushed back and he went with it well. Check it out on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
@davidkurtz.bsky.social joined @gregsargent.bsky.social on The Daily Blast to talk about the barrage of new filings in the James Comey “86 47” case — and about Trump bumping up against the limits of his powers in several different realms. Check it out: open.spotify.com/episode/2kcd...
Trump Humiliated by Iran, Comey Flops as Aides Leak: He’s “Frustrated”
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It’s hard to argue that the delay of today’s crucial Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination isn’t a big deal, but I harbor a growing suspicion that a collective hoodwinking is going on w/ Sen. John Cornyn's purported resistance to Blanche. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Is John Cornyn Playing Us All For Fools in the Todd Blanche Nomination Fight?
Let’s See The Actual Language I harbor a growing suspicion that a...
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Come for the glimpse of President Trump tracking the Secret Service investigation of James Comey for the "86 47" seashells in real time from Air Force One and stay for the cameos from Rudy G and former mobster Sammy the Bull Gravano. It's a helluva ride: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Juicy and Hilarious New Details About Trump’s Crusade Against Comey
Comey Offers Judge an Easy Way Out In new court filings last...
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More than a year after arresting him, the Trump DOJ moved Monday to drop the criminal case against California labor leader David Huerta arising from his June 2025 protest of an ICE raid in Los Angeles. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Another ICE Protester Prosecution Bites The Dust
One of Dozens of Failed Prosecutions More than a year after arresting...
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A new federal court order, first flagged by Politico’s Kyle Cheney, reveals that another Salvadoran national has been unlawfully deported *twice* by the Trump administration in the past 8 months in violation of orders by a federal judge and an immigration judge. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Another Abrego Garcia: Man Unlawfully Deported Twice
Now Lost in Salvadoran Prison System A new court order Friday in...
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TPM unpacks more of the centrality of far right criminals, including Jake Lang, to the Minnesota Antifa case. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jayden-...
Extremely Online: Minnesota ‘Antifa’ Cases Born of Internet Beef With Far-right Activists
In two cases this year, federal prosecutors announced that they had finally...
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CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The responsibility for the Trump DOJ’s unlawful use of subpoenas as a tool of retribution against NYT reporters falls most heavily on acting AG Todd Blanche and USA Jay Clayton, both of whom are awaiting Senate confirmation for promotion to higher offices. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
A Huge Win for the NYT In Air Force One Subpoena Debacle
Blanche and Clayton Own This Mess The responsibility for the Trump DOJ’s...
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There are two people among the most responsible for this abject violation of the First Amendment -- And the Republican-led Senate is contemplating confirming them for Attorney General of the United States and Director of National Intelligence.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2w ago4/ In NYT case: "'Subpoenas are the last step, not the first step, but the last step,' the judge said, citing rules set to protect against violations of the First Amendment. He said the government’s actions had turned the law and the regulations 'on its head.' apnews.com/article/usme...
Upshot of the hearing: With the near certainty that the judge was going to quash its subpoenas of NYT reporters over their Air Force One reporting, the Trump DOJ voluntarily withdrew the subpoenas—but not before the deputy U.S. attorney for the SDNY endured a professional humiliation in open court.
Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · 2w ago3:11 pm Buckley: The Government is prepared unilaterally to withdraw the subpoenas at this time. If under Gonzalez we find it appropriate to seek new subpoenas, we'll come to the court. Judge: Moving forward, we would have the issues that have plagued it so far
President Trump's corrupt U.S. attorney scheme is so sweeping that even the outside judge brought in to hear a first-of-its-kind legal challenge to the scheme in Seattle comes from a district (Spokane) where Trump is also engaging in U.S. attorney shenanigans. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
What’s Really Behind Trump’s Corrupt US Attorney Scheme
Only Loyalists Need Apply A new and ironic development in the first-of-its-kind...
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On Tuesday, the full Fifth Circuit granted DOJ's request for a "precedential stay" of district court rulings holding that the Due Process Clause requires bond hearings for immigration detainees w/in 90 days of their arrest. Today's "One First" explains why that's a really big (and problematic) deal:
Bonus 239: The Fifth Circuit's "Precedential Stay" in Sosnava Rodriguez
The Fifth Circuit once again did the government's bidding on immigration detention—this time through an unexplained procedural move I've never seen before.
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had fun with @leahlitman.bsky.social chatting about brett 'girl dad' kavanaugh and sam 'pickled brain' alito www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUhE...
Sam Alito Has Gone Feral
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Trump’s U.S. attorney scheme is about to be put the test by a carefully planned, first-of-its-kind legal challenge from the judge-appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, Roger Rogoff, who was fired last week by the president within an hour of his appointment. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
New Attack Launched Against Trump’s Corrupt U.S. Attorney Scheme
A Low-Key U.S. Attorneys Scandal Eighteen months in, President Trump’s strategy to...
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The calls of voter fraud are coming from inside the house.
Nicole LaFond@nicolelafond.bsky.social · 2w agoAccording to Lindell, proof that he is, in fact, registered in the North Star state is his temp MN license, a copy of which he shared with TPM in a text message. (The doc he shared with TPM had a Sept 19, 2025 app date and a Jan. 17, 2026 expiration date.) More from @khayahimmelman.bsky.social:
JUST IN: Roger Rogoff, court-appointed US attorney in Seattle who Trump immediately fired, has sued to regain his post. The novel challenge takes aim at White House authority to bypass judiciary & Senate in choosing prosecutors news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Seattle’s Fired US Attorney Sues Trump and DOJ to Resume Post
Seattle’s judicially selected US attorney is alleging President Donald Trump illegally terminated him last week, filing a novel and high-stakes lawsuit taking aim at the administration’s constitutiona...
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The admin’s AF1 leak investigation targeting the NYT is encountering severe turbulence. In an overnight filing, the Trump DOJ admitted to making serious errors in the case—and, in a huge concession, put on hold for 2 weeks the subpoenas aimed at NYT reporters. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Conceding Major Screwups, DOJ Pauses NYT Subpoenas
A Huge Clusterf*** The Trump administration’s Air Force One leak investigation targeting...
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President Trump’s mass deportation operation continues to embody all of the worst elements of his 2d presidency: the retribution, the destruction, and the corruption in a lawless trifecta that subjugates immigrants while eroding the rights of American citizens. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
The Lawless Trifecta of Trump’s Mass Deportation Apparatus
Retribution, Destruction, and Corruption President Trump’s mass deportation operation continues to embody...
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The Trump administration’s effort to create a new bogeyman of left-wing terrorism has now resulted in a major policy change unveiled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday in a speech to officials from more than 60 countries whom he gathered in DC. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
In Major Shift, Trump Admin Prioritizes Fight Against ‘Left-Wing Terror’ Over Islamic Extremism
Inside Rubio’s Confab on Lefty Terrorism The Trump administration’s effort to create...
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Look, I mean I guess you have to respect the idea that the guy is qualified. Who better to investigate and prosecute 'antifa' (a non-existent group that the admin says is trying to overthrow the government) than a guy who marched with very real groups trying to overthrow the government?
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3w agoEXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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