The Supreme Court remanded the Alien Enemies Act case back down to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and at least one of the judges isn’t happy about it. Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake. Tulsi Gabbard’s Chief of Staff ordered intelligence analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating Trump and Gabbard from being attacked for the administration’s claim that Venezue...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 12 min
"The President has invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), Rev. Stat. §4067, 50 U. S. C. §21, to remove Venezuelan nationals who are members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a designated foreign terrorist organization. See Presidential Proclamation No. 10903, 90 Fed. Reg. 13033 (2025). Applicants are two detainees identified as members of TdA and a putative class of similarly situated detainees in the Northern District of Texas. All of the alleged TdA members in the putative class are currently being held ...
May 19, 2025•55 min
Judge Xinis holds a hearing over whether certain discovery in the Abrego Garcia case is subject to state secrets and deliberative process privilege. Trump administration lawyers submitted documents under seal to Judge Boasberg they say show the US "does not have constructive custody over" El Salvador CECOT detainees. Ed Martin reveals that he’s under investigation by the ethics office that handles attorney discipline in Washington, and reveals he’s working with January 6th defendants in his role...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 12 min
There are now multiple cases challenging the administration’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation; including a hearing by Judge Boasberg for an amended complaint filed on behalf of all the detainees in El Salvador. Judge Xinis has had to pause the discovery in the Abrego Garcia case to contemplate the Trump Administration’s invocation of the state secrets and deliberative process privilege. Justice Department lawyers continue to lose credibility before judges who are upset by their shoddy work. Presi...
May 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Discovery in the Abrego Garcia case resumes after Judge Xinis denies the trump administration an additional extension Ed Martin’s nomination as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia is teetering on the brink after Senator Dick Durbin says that the Senate is not going to move forward with it. Department of Justice civil rights attorneys leave in droves as the administration guts programs for crime victims Pam Bondi rescinds Biden-era protections preventing the Justice Department fro...
May 04, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Judge Xinis postpones discovery in the Abrego Garcia after the government files a request to delay under seal. A conservative three judge panel for the DC Circuit Court of appeals temporarily blocks Judge Boasberg’s opinion that probable cause exists to hold the government in criminal contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case. The Supreme Court issues a late night order blocking the rendition of hundreds of additional detainees to El Salvador. A Reagan appointed judge lambasts the Department of Jus...
Apr 27, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Judge Boasberg issues a memorandum opinion that concludes that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt for defying court orders in the Alien Enemies Act case. The Fourth Circuit denies Trump’s bid to block Judge Xinis’ order to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, as she orders two weeks of discovery prior to considering holding the government in contempt. The ACLU has filed a new habeas petition pursuant to Judge Boasberg’s order for due process for those remaining ...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 2 min
The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals being deported under the alien enemies act proclamation are afforded due process, and that the courts can ask the government to facilitate the return of wrongfully deported detainees The Department of Justice is seeking to drop the charges against the alleged MS-13 leader they held a press conference about arresting. FBI Director Kash Patel has been quietly removed as the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives afte...
Apr 13, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Donald Trump once again taps his bench of veteran private attorneys to staff the department of justice by nominating Stanley Woodward as associate attorney general. Trump’s White House directly fired two line prosecutors in a stunning escalation of the war on the independence of the Department of Justice. A federal judge in Virginia has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to fire ODNI and CIA employees who recently worked on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. There are generally no...
Apr 06, 2025•58 min
At least 18 Trump administration officials used an unsecured Signal chat to discuss real-time attacks on Houthi militants in Yemen earlier this month as investigative journalist for the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the group. The Department of Justice is drastically changing their policy of prosecuting crimes in the United States prior to deportation. The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigati...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr
Kash Patel is pushing ahead with a plan to decentralize the FBI by dividing it into three regions except for the three largest field offices which would report directly to Dan Bongino. Interim DC US Attorney Ed Martin– an election denier– has announced he has opened a criminal investigation into 2020 election fraud. American intelligence agencies circulated findings last month that the Tren de Aragua gang is not controlled by the Venezuelan government– a key component of the Trump administration...
Mar 23, 2025•1 hr 7 min
The Trump Administration is gutting the Justice Department's unit that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption. Emil Bove has fired the Chief of the Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Task Force, and Todd Blanche has fired the Justice Department Pardon Attorney. Judge Beryl Howell has blocked sections of Donald Trump's executive order punishing the Perkins Coie law firm. The top ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee calls for the Department of Justice Inspec...
Mar 16, 2025•1 hr 2 min
US Intelligence shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees. The head of the FBI New York Field Office James Dennehy has been forced out as the GSA shutters FBI, DOJ and CIA facilities. The American Bar Association has received a request to open a disciplinary investigation into Emil Bove from Judiciary Committee Democrats. The Trump Administration goes after the law firm Perkins Coie and Georgetown law. Plus listener questions. Questions for the pod? Questions...
Mar 09, 2025•59 min
U.S. attorney Ed Martin personally submitted a seizure warrant that was rejected by a U.S. magistrate judge in D.C. Kash Patel ordered FBI officials to relocate 1,500 employees from Washington DC to cities with high crime rates including Minneapolis, Detroit and Cleveland, at a cost of over $100M. Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a federal judge Wednesday for an outright dismissal of his criminal corruption case, citing alleged misconduct by prosecutors. President Trump said th...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Emil Bove has filed his rule 48(a) motion to dismiss the bribery and fraud charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. The judge in the Adams case held a hearing with Eric Adams, his attorneys, and Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove. As in the case of Mike Flynn, the judge has adjourned Adams’ trial and appointed an amicus curiae to oppose the dismissal of the charges. The weaponization of the Justice Department is in full swing causing the resignation of the chief of the Criminal Division ...
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Acting US Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the Southern District of New York to dismiss the bribery and fraud charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The office’s refusal to do that precipitated a standoff and ultimately several resignations and firings. The Thursday Afternoon Massacre - by Jay Kuo Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Bondi Questions for the pod Submit questions for the pod here https://formfacade.com/sm/PTk_BSogJ Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@mue...
Feb 16, 2025•58 min
Multiple FBI agents filed a lawsuit against the department of justice to stop them from compiling and releasing lists of agents who worked on January 6th cases. Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, took a $25,000 payment from a Kremlin- connected filmmaker for his work on an anti-western documentary that aired on Tucker Carlson's online network. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a flurry of memos this week including one that disbands the Foreign Influence Task Force, greatly limiting cri...
Feb 09, 2025•1 hr 23 min
The Department of Justice has moved to drop the appeal of Judge Cannon’s dismissal of the charges against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira in the classified documents case. The Trump’s administration has told at least six top FBI officials in charge of cyber security, criminal investigations, and national security to resign or be fired by Monday as Kash Patel sits for his confirmation hearing to head the agency. Trump’s administration fires DoJ officials who investigated Donald, and has launche...
Feb 02, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Former Trump defense attorney and current Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove has issued orders to US Attorneys to investigate and prosecute local law enforcement officials who fail to enforce the Trump Administration’s deportation policies; career DOJ officials are being reassigned and purged to make way for Trump loyalists; Judge Cannon has issued an order blocking Congress from accessing Volume 2 of Jack Smith’s final report; the new US Attorney in DC begins dropping pending January 6th ...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Allison and Andy read the first volume of Jack Smith’s final report. Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One The co-conspirators: 1 - Rudy Giuliani 2 - John Eastman 3 - Sidney Powell 4 - Jeffrey Clark 5 - Kenneth Chesebro 6 - Boris Epshteyn Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump W...
Jan 22, 2025•55 min
Allison and Andy read the first volume of Jack Smith’s final report. Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One The co-conspirators: 1 - Rudy Giuliani 2 - John Eastman 3 - Sidney Powell 4 - Jeffrey Clark 5 - Kenneth Chesebro 6 - Boris Epshteyn Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump W...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Jack Smith has resigned; the Justice Department released Volume One of the special counsel’s final report; the fate of Volume Two remains to be seen; plus listener questions. Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump We would like to know more about our listeners. Please participate in this brief survey Listener Survey and ...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Allison and Andy read the first volume of Jack Smith’s final report. Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One The co-conspirators: 1 - Rudy Giuliani 2 - John Eastman 3 - Sidney Powell 4 - Jeffrey Clark 5 - Kenneth Chesebro 6 - Boris Epshteyn Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump W...
Jan 17, 2025•57 min
Allison and Andy read the first volume of Jack Smith’s final report. Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One The co-conspirators: 1 - Rudy Giuliani 2 - John Eastman 3 - Sidney Powell 4 - Jeffrey Clark 5 - Kenneth Chesebro 6 - Boris Epshteyn Questions for the pod Submit questions for the pod here https://formfacade.com/sm/PTk_BSogJ Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his boo...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Allison reads the first volume of Jack Smith’s final report. Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One The co-conspirators: 1 - Rudy Giuliani 2 - John Eastman 3 - Sidney Powell 4 - Jeffrey Clark 5 - Kenneth Chesebro 6 - Boris Epshteyn Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump We would ...
Jan 14, 2025•49 min
Judge Cannon has temporarily blocked the release of Jack Smith’s final report at the request of Nauta and De Oliveira, we’ll see what the 11th Circuit has to say; Donald Trump is now a convicted and sentenced felon in New York; plus listener questions. Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump We would like to know more abo...
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Jack Smith has handed off what remains of the Mar-a-Lago case to the US Attorney’s office in the Southern District of Florida; what that means to Trump’s co-conspirators and the eventual report; plus listener questions. Questions for the pod Submit questions for the pod here https://formfacade.com/sm/PTk_BSogJ Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 6 min
A DC Police Officer has been found guilty of leaking information to Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio before the January 6th attack; Jack Smith’s team is lawyering up in preparation for Trump’s promised retribution tour; the House Ethics Report on Matt Gaetz goes public; plus listener questions. Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Threat The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and T...
Dec 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min
This week; Chris Wray announces that he will resign as FBI Director before Trump would have to fire him; Trump names Harmeet Dillon to head [upend] the Civil Rights Division at DoJ; DoJ OIG releases its January 6th report; as the plus listener questions. Thanks to GiveWell for sponsoring our show Go to Givewell.org pick PODCAST and enter Jack at checkout. Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book The Thre...
Dec 15, 2024•1 hr 9 min
This week; Jack Smith files a second motion to dismiss the coup case in DC to be extra thorough; Fani Willis is ordered to release any communications she had with Jack Smith after Judicial Watch wins a default judgment; in light of Chinese hacking, the FBI urges people to use encrypted communications; Andy has thoughts about Kash Patel; plus listener questions. Follow AG Substack|Muellershewrote BlueSky|@muellershewrote Andrew McCabe isn’t on social media, but you can buy his book Th...
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 12 min
