NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible.
Pro se defendant flagged the errors.
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In 30 minutes, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @rparloff.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @alanrozenshtein.com, and Troy Edwards will discuss a contempt hearing in Minnesota, a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s TikTok deal, and more.
You ask “Why?” So does Judge Tunheim. Here’s his full ruling.
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This refugee girl, a junior in high school, was pulled over on way to school, shackled, threatened that she & family would be taken to Chicago or TX. After court order stops that, she spends night in a hotel room with 3 ICE agents. Finally released. ...
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(ICE started doing this shortly after a deranged Afghan refugee shot 2 national guardsmen in DC.)
ICE nabbed this family, with 4-yo, shipped them to TX, made them spend night in a cell & then in a hotel room with 3 ICE agents. Released in TX. No return ticket.
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Depraved stories from last Friday’s ruling striking down DHS’s detentions of lawfully admitted & vetted refugees in MN. In Jan 2026, ICE scrapped 45-yrs of practice & started detaining every refugee in MN (5,600) on 1st anniversary of entry, ostensibly to make sure they weren’t terrorists ...
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Govt asks 1st Circuit for emergency stay to maintain DHS's policy of removing noncitizens to 3d countries with minimal process. Judge Murphy declared it illegal. If stay is denied, govt will go straight to SCOTUS, which twice stayed Murphy's preliminary injunctions.
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes
One of the petitioners -- a roofer named Riky who's in the U.S. legally on a U1 visa -- is still missing his work permit & $400 nail gun. Can't do much roofing without either. His lawyer says ICE agents told Riky they were going to destroy the nail gun. He's also missing $100 in cash.
I was there today, and at Judge Bryan's on Tuesday. This one was far less spicy (and shorter). U.S. Atty Dan Rosen was contrite and promised full compensation for missing items. Tunheim is promising a ruling tonight, likely w/ 30-day deadline to return items with threat of civil contempt fines.
i think it's happening now, but without remote access.
Judge Tunheim's full order, issued Tuesday, convoking today's hearing is below:
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The civil contempt hearing Judge Tunheim ordered US Atty Dan Rosen to attend today, concerning late or no return of detainees' property in ~5 cases, should not be confused with the one Judge Bryan ordered Rosen to attend Tuesday concerning the same issue in ~25 other cases. ...
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POLITICS Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023) By Anna Bower - For the AJC
SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end.
Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis.
Me for @ajc.com (link in 🧵👇)
The 2 advocacy groups trying to permit the public to see Jack Smith’s Vol 2 each tried to intervene before Judge Cannon twice—once in 2/25 and once in 2/26. She refused each time. They’re now asking to have all their appeals heard the week of June 22.
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Mediator in the Fulton Co. voting records search case will be Harold Melton, former Chief Justice of the GA supreme court.
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Here's the rule, which casts the effort as "Ending the Weaponization of the Bar Complaint and Investigation Process" aboutblaw.com/bk49
JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
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Govt's appeal brief is due Friday. So it'll be interesting to see if they ask for a continuance—on the grounds that they'd planned to drop the appeal due to its frivolousness but their boss said they couldn't.
and it's official:
It's official. Govt asks to withdraw its unopposed motion to dismiss its appeal in the law firm executive order cases.
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Sorry, it's *3 violations every 2 weeks.*
Henceforth he’ll require declarations of both the head of civil division in the US Attys Office & one from the local Newark ICE director or dep director.
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“Mistakes can be made. But when the same mistakes happen over and over again --- the picture can start to look different.”
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After DOJ admitted 17 violations of no-transfer orders (2 every 3 weeks) in DNJ, Judge Farbiarz orders local ICE director to sign affidavit acknowledging each future order. Implies that new violations will constitute criminal contempt on a “willful blindness” theory.
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it means they know they don't have a leg to stand on.
