With executive orders targeting major law firms, Trump is endangering a democratic principle dating back to before America's founding. As law firms continue caving to the pressure, it appears to be working.

RT @ABC: BREAKING: A New York appeals court has thrown out the half billion-dollar civil fraud judgment handed down last year against Presi….

What do you want to know?.

RT @MarkSZaidEsq: Rumors abound that one or more of those individuals whose #securityclearances were revoked and named in @ODNIgov/@DNIGabb….

RT @eorden: Judge Berman writes that the Justice Department itself, not the court, is the "logical party" to make the Epstein files public,….

RT @kyledcheney: JUST IN: Blistering ruling by Judge Ho on ICE arrests in immigration court. He says the Trump administration has turned at….

The Epstein controversy has become almost entirely political. But at its heart are 20 years of criminal investigations, broken trust, and unanswered questions. "The Trump administration’s ability to release the full Epstein file is not unfettered.".

In a concurrence, Kavanaugh urged the court to not beat around the bush. Overturning a precedent in practice but not on paper may create "extended uncertainty and confusion about the status of the precedent in question.". #SCOTUS.

A longstanding precedent limits the president's ability to fire members of independent agency boards. The court effectively overturned that precedent in an emergency order earlier this year, and its order yesterday is "squarely controlled" by the first order, #SCOTUS said.

Justice Kavanaugh continues to sketch out his own guidance for how #SCOTUS should change how it manages its emergency docket. Latest example: say it's overruling a precedent when it's effectively overruling a precedent.

In the end, the judge did not take up the DOJ recommendation of a 1-day sentence for a former officer convicted for his role in the botched raid that killed #BreonnaTaylor. But the recommendation still sent a powerful message.

An ex-police officer involved in the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor received a 33-month prison sentence yesterday -- after the DOJ had recommended a one-day sentence. A story, with @CSMSoutheast, on the Trump admin's hard pivot on police reform:.

We may have entered a new Supreme Court era this year. Call it the emergency era.

As recovery efforts continue in Texas, questions are emerging about how the area could have been better prepared. Political will is growing -- for improvements and, perhaps, for accountability. #TexasFlood.

RT @kyledcheney: HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis comes in hot this morning after DOJ fails to produce the ICE detainer to keep Kilmar Abrego Gar….

Erik Muncy met some guys at a church group in Ingram, Texas last week. A few days later, they were delivering supplies to #TexasFloods victims. “These are people’s entire lives. People are literally throwing their whole homes away.”.

“We need a new system to handle the generosity of the world.". As Kerr County heals from the #TexasFloods, it also responds.

RT @kyledcheney: JUST IN: Edward Kelley, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant, gets life in prison for plotting to assassinate the FBI agents and po….

The govt had attempted to deport them to South Sudan, seemingly in defiance of a lower court order. #SCOTUS now says that they can be sent to S. Sudan. Sotomayor, dissenting: "Todays order clarifies only one thing. The administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial.".

You may remember the Supreme Court two weeks ago said the Trump admin can begin deportations to third countries. (Yes, that was only two weeks ago.). Today the court said that ruling also applies to eight individuals being held in Djibouti. #SCOTUS.

Hug someone you love today #ynwa.

RT @chrisgeidner: BREAKING: After four judges have ruled that Trump's EOs attacking law firms are unconstitutional, DOJ announced Monday th….