The South Carolina Judge weighing the legality of the appointment of Lindsey Halligan has demanded the Lindsey Halligan grand jury tapes after DOJ withheld large portions of them. A different judge in the Comey case berates Halligan for her “indict now, investigate later” approach after the DOJ failed to produce communications seized between Comey and Daniel Richman. The 11th Circuit orders Judge Aileen Cannon to rule on motions to release Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. Pam Bondi attemp...
Nov 09, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Jim Comey alleges that the single FBI agent’s testimony to the grand jury in his case was tainted by privileged information, and asks the court for the grand jury transcripts. Comey has also filed a bill of particulars asking the government to clarify the charges, and has filed a motion to dismiss under the Bronston literal truth doctrine. Two assistant US attorneys have been placed on administrative leave for referencing the January 6th attack on the Capitol and Donald Trump’s Social post that ...
Nov 02, 2025•57 min
We’ve had so much news to cover that we haven’t gotten to as many listener questions as we would like. So we have gathered some of your most frequent and most pertinent questions for this Q&A bonus episode. F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents - The New York Times Do you have questions for the pod? Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow AG Mueller, She Wrote Substack Mueller She Wrote on Bluesky https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https:/...
Oct 30, 2025•54 min
Jim Comey and his legal team have filed their motions to dismiss his charges on selective and vindictive prosecution grounds, and Comey and Letitia James have filed motions to disqualify Lindsey Halligan. Marco Rubio gave El Salvador US government cooperators in exchange for use of their CECOT Prison. Jack Smith goes to paper in a letter to Chuck Grassley and Jim Jordan about potential Congressional testimony, and the Republican mischaracterization of his work. Trump is seeking $230M from his al...
Oct 26, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton has been indicted on 18 felony counts of transmitting and retaining national defense information under the Espionage Act. The judge in Comey’s case has denied the government’s motion to restrict the sharing discovery with Comey himself and other witnesses, and sets a blisteringly fast classified materials process. Jack Smith speaks out about his Trump prosecutions, and is called to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in a letter from ...
Oct 19, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Trump’s hand picked US Attorney Lindsay Halligan has secured an indictment of New York Attorney General Leticia James on two felony counts of fraud. Jim Comey has pled not guilty to both counts during his arraignment and indicated he’d be filing multiple motions to dismiss, including a challenge to Lindsay Halligan's appointment as US Attorney. Republican Senators have denounced Jack Smith over phone records he subpoenaed during his investigation of the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol. T...
Oct 12, 2025•1 hr 9 min
The purge of career prosecutors at the Department of Justice continues as the regime fired a US Attorney in Sacramento hours after she reminded a Border Patrol Chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids. President Trump sharply escalated his attacks on the Bureau this week by falsely accusing the FBI of fomenting the violence at the Capitol on January 6th. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo this week directing agencies to arrest every person suspected of threatening ...
Oct 05, 2025•1 hr 1 min
The Department of Justice installed one of Trump's personal lawyers, Lindsay Halligan as the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, and, four days later, she obtained a two-count indictment against former FBI Director Jim Comey for lying to Congress and Obstruction. The Trump Administration continues to imperil criminal cases with extrajudicial statements as a federal judge finds multiple Department of Justice employees may have violated local rules guaranteeing Luigi Mangione’s right ...
Sep 28, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Former Special Counsel in the Trump investigations, Jack Smith, speaks at length about the weaponization of the department of justice at an event at George Mason University. Trump Administration officials push to fire the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia over his refusal to indict NYAG Tish James and former FBI Director Jim Comey. A trial jury finds a Los Angeles protestor not guilty of assaulting a Border Patrol Agent; and another assault case is dismissed in the District of Colu...
Sep 21, 2025•1 hr 8 min
The suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk has surrendered himself to authorities as more details emerge about him and his family. Three former top FBI officials sue the government alleging they were terminated for political reasons, and outlining the problems with purging the FBI of experts. More cases are dropped as Department of Justice prosecutors continue to fail to return indictments. The Department of Justice asks the court to keep secret the names of two people who received large paymen...
Sep 14, 2025•1 hr 4 min
The American Civil Liberties Union files a motion for an en banc re-hearing of Judge Boasberg’s criminal contempt opinion after a three-judge panel stayed his ruling. Attorney General Pam Bondi continues her assault on the Department of Justice by sidelining career attorneys causing every member of the Sanctuary Cities Working Group to resign. The DC US Attorney’s office fails to return indictments from federal grand juries as another judge lambasts federal prosecutors. CIA Director John Ratclif...
Sep 07, 2025•56 min
The Department of Justice was unable to secure three high profile indictments from federal grand juries against people accused of assaulting federal agents. Congressional Democrats have launched an investigation into the Trump administration’s retreat from public corruption cases. Trump’s clash with the courts over the legitimacy of Alina Habba as the US Attorney in New Jersey is grinding criminal proceedings in the state to a halt. Jack Smith’s legal team pushes back against the Office of Speci...
Aug 31, 2025•1 hr
The FBI searched former National Security Adviser John Bolton's home in Maryland on Friday in search of classified records. More details have emerged about the purge of top officials at the FBI as the agency lowers recruiting standards and the Trump Administration appoints a Co-Deputy Director to assist Dan Bongino. The Department of Justice misses the deadline to hand over Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. A federal judge calls Alina Habba’s appointment as US Attorney in New Jerse...
Aug 24, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Attorney General Pam Bondi has purportedly removed the District of Columbia police chief and replaced her with the head of the DEA as an emergency police commissioner. The DC Attorney General has filed suit against this takeover. DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office has admitted it’s having a hard time securing grand jury indictments against DC protesters for interfering with immigration and customs enforcement. A group of former national security and FBI officials has issued a warning about th...
Aug 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min
The Department of Justice ratchets up Trump's revenge tour by launching investigations into Leticia James, Adam Schiff, Jack Smith, and the 2016 Russia investigation. Several former justice department attorneys are seeking elected office. CIA officials worried that the release of a House report on 2016 Russian election meddling could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources, but the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard authorized a lightly redacted version with President Trump’...
Aug 10, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Convicted sex trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell, was granted limited immunity for her interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. A week later, her sex offender status was waived and she was moved to a minimum security prison in Texas. Judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals press Department of Justice lawyers on deportation quotas as the Attorney General files a judicial complaint against Chief Judge Boesberg. A criminal defendant is challenging the appointment of Alina Habba as the ...
Aug 03, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Tulsi Gabbard declassifies new documents in the latest attempt to cast doubt on the 2016 Russia investigation. A former January 6th prosecutor and former DOJ employees are suing the Trump Administration for wrongful termination. The Department of Justice circumvented the Vacancies Act to install Alina Habba as the interim US Attorney in New Jersey after the NJ District court judges rejected her. One of the people Trump freed in the prisoner swap with Venezuela using the CECOT detainees is a conv...
Jul 27, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Attorney General Pam Bondi fires 20 Department of Justice employees who worked on the Trump documents case, and her personal ethics chief, as two-thirds of the unit defending Trump policies have quit Key prosecutor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Maurene Comey has been fired, and Senator Wyden tells NBC that FBI agents were instructed to flag mentions of donald trump in the epstein files The State Department has quietly posted some of the agreement between the US Government and Salvado...
Jul 20, 2025•1 hr 9 min
President Bukele of El Salvador told the United Nations that the United States has constructive custody of the prisoners sent to CECOT. Former F.B.I. Director, James Comey, and the former C.I.A. Director, John Brennan, are under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for their roles in the Russia investigation. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have demanded Attorney General Pam Bondi release Special Counsel Jack Smith’s full report as well as any mention of Donald Trump in...
Jul 13, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Trump and the Department of Justice issue letters about the Tik-Tok ban that dangerously expand executive powers. Attorney General Pam Bondi fires three January 6th prosecutors sending another chill through the Justice Department, as the weaponization task force hires a January 6th rioter that threatened police. The Department of Justice coordinated with the Texas Attorney General to kill the Texas Dream Act in under six hours. The Supreme Court clarifies that the stay on blocking deportation to...
Jul 06, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Now-fired career Department of Justice lawyer Erez Reuveni has sent a letter to the Inspector General, the Office of Special Counsel, and the chairs of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees outlining Emil Bove’s alleged defiance of court orders in three due process cases. The Supreme Court rules from the shadow docket and without explanation that a lower court’s order barring deportation to third countries without due process is on indefinite hold. Two separate hearings involving Mr. Abrego ...
Jun 29, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Erez Reuveni Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, and Substantial and Specific Danger to Health and Safety at the Department of Justice https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25982172-doj-whistleblower-letter/ Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow AG Mueller, She Wrote Substack Mueller She Wrote on Bluesky https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod More from Andr...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 23 min
President Trump may be shielding El Salvadoran President Bukele from an investigation into allegations that Bukele used US aid to support MS13, and traded away MS13 leaders as part of the agreement to house migrants at CECOT. Kilmar Abrego Garcia had his detention hearing in the middle district of tennessee on the human smuggling charges brought by the department of justice, and the testimony generated more questions than answers about the veracity of the charges against him. A Trump appointed j...
Jun 22, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has pled not guilty to the two charges of smuggling migrants, and has asked the court to release him on bail pending his trial. The Department of Justice is trying to dismiss the discovery proceedings as moot, but Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have filed a sanctions motion requesting Judge Xinis proceed with determining whether the government defied her order. The Western District of Texas became the fourth court to find that Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful...
Jun 15, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Abrego Garcia is being brought back to the United States and will face federal charges. Judge Boasberg grants certification of the CECOT class and order the government to facilitate due process for all those who remain in the Salvadoran prison The man mistakenly deported to Guatemala by the Department of Homeland Security has been returned to the United states while the government struggles with giving other people due process on the ground in Djibouti. Kash Patel is forcing FBI agents to take p...
Jun 08, 2025•1 hr 5 min
The Trump Administration files a motion to dismiss the Abrego Garcia case based on jurisdiction. Judge Xinis denies two government motions requesting delays. The government asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of their own request to do credible fear hearings on the ground in Djibouti for the men unlawfully flown to South Sudan. Law enforcement continues to struggle under pressure from the White House to increase immigration arrests. Trump nominates his private attorney turned Deputy At...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr 9 min
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
