David Kurtz
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Judge Boasberg wants to hear testimony from DOJ lawyers involved in the Alien Enemies Act case at the outset: Erez Reuveni, who became a whistleblower, and Drew Ensign, who’s rarely been seen in this case since his dubious representations to the court in March.
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Will Emil Bove Have to Testify in AEA Contempt of Court Inquiry?
The Most Important News of the Day While the James Comey case...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Judge Boasberg wants to hear testimony from DOJ lawyers involved in the Alien Enemies Act case at the outset: Erez Reuveni, who became a whistleblower, and Drew Ensign, who’s rarely been seen in this case since his dubious representations to the court in March.
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There was one moment in particular when the judge sounded convinced that Comey had cleared the high bar for a successful vindictive prosecution claim. Plus other highlights from the hearing BEFORE it was revealed the Comey indictment might be fatally flawed:
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How James Comey’s Vindictive Prosecution Claim Fared In Court
ALEXANDRIA, VA—This morning’s hearing on James Comey’s motion to dismiss for vindictive...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
There was one moment in particular when the judge sounded convinced that Comey had cleared the high bar for a successful vindictive prosecution claim. Plus other highlights from the hearing BEFORE it was revealed the Comey indictment might be fatally flawed:
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In a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg signaled that he wants to begin taking testimony from Trump administration officials involved in the mid-March 2025 Alien Enemies Act deportations as soon as the Monday after Thanksgiving. My report:
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Contempt Proceedings in the Original AEA Case Are Back On … For Now
WASHINGTON, DC—After months of delays, a federal judge is prepared to swiftly...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg signaled that he wants to begin taking testimony from Trump administration officials involved in the mid-March 2025 Alien Enemies Act deportations as soon as the Monday after Thanksgiving. My report:
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Breaking: In DOJ Paperwork Snafu, James Comey May Never Have Been Properly Indicted
Just out of court, where judge established that second operative two-count indictment of Comey was never presented to or voted on by the grand jury.
Judge wanted immediate additional briefing on that issue.
Just out of court, where judge established that second operative two-count indictment of Comey was never presented to or voted on by the grand jury.
Judge wanted immediate additional briefing on that issue.
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Breaking: In DOJ Paperwork Snafu, James Comey May Never Have Been Properly Indicted
Just out of court, where judge established that second operative two-count indictment of Comey was never presented to or voted on by the grand jury.
Judge wanted immediate additional briefing on that issue.
Just out of court, where judge established that second operative two-count indictment of Comey was never presented to or voted on by the grand jury.
Judge wanted immediate additional briefing on that issue.
A quick update on the big coverup in the Letitia James case:
In a new filing Monday, James lawyers asked the judge in the case to order the gov't to produce the documents reportedly turned over to prosecutors by former FHFA acting Inspector General Joe Allen.
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In a new filing Monday, James lawyers asked the judge in the case to order the gov't to produce the documents reportedly turned over to prosecutors by former FHFA acting Inspector General Joe Allen.
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What Is Lindsey Halligan Hiding From Letitia James?
The Retribution: Letitia James Edition A quick update on the big coverup...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A quick update on the big coverup in the Letitia James case:
In a new filing Monday, James lawyers asked the judge in the case to order the gov't to produce the documents reportedly turned over to prosecutors by former FHFA acting Inspector General Joe Allen.
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In a new filing Monday, James lawyers asked the judge in the case to order the gov't to produce the documents reportedly turned over to prosecutors by former FHFA acting Inspector General Joe Allen.
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Trump and the White House seem to be leaving themselves a pretty big out. In his social media post declaring he didn’t care if House Oversight got the Epstein files, Trump caveated it by saying they “can have whatever they are legally entitled to.” Well...
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Trump Gives Himself An Enormous Out on the Epstein Files
Epstein Politics Shift on the Hill President Trump’s absurd effort to avoid...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Trump and the White House seem to be leaving themselves a pretty big out. In his social media post declaring he didn’t care if House Oversight got the Epstein files, Trump caveated it by saying they “can have whatever they are legally entitled to.” Well...
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The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey case is even greater than previously known, a federal magistrate judge revealed in an extraordinary new ruling today.
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Judge Just Blew a Gaping Hole in the Comey Prosecution
The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey case is even greater than previously known, a federal magistrate judge revealed in an extraordinary new ruling today.
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Perfect @davidkurtz.bsky.social headline. “The House Should Vote to Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That I Won’t Release.”
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Trump’s New Sham: The House Should Vote to Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That I Won’t Release
LOL Wut? Poised to lose a House vote this week calling for...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Perfect @davidkurtz.bsky.social headline. “The House Should Vote to Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That I Won’t Release.”
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Poised to lose a House vote this week calling for DOJ to release its Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump snookered a good chunk of political media by declaring in a social media post last evening that the House should vote to release the files.
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Trump’s New Sham: The House Should Vote To Force Me To Release The Epstein Files That I Won’t Release
LOL Wut? Poised to lose a House vote this week calling for...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Poised to lose a House vote this week calling for DOJ to release its Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump snookered a good chunk of political media by declaring in a social media post last evening that the House should vote to release the files.
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Keep trying?
Looks like Pam Bondi is purporting to re-ratify Halligan's actions before the Comey's grand jury.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Keep trying?
A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court reinstated criminal charges against six people allegedly involved President Trump’s 2020 fake electors scheme. The case had previously been dismissed on grounds that it had been filed in the wrong county.
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Nevada Supreme Court Revives Fake Electors Case
Not Dead Yet A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court reinstated criminal charges against...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court reinstated criminal charges against six people allegedly involved President Trump’s 2020 fake electors scheme. The case had previously been dismissed on grounds that it had been filed in the wrong county.
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In a joint hearing in the Jim Comey and Letitia James cases, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no indication that she thinks Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney. But it wasn’t at all clear what Currie will do about it now. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pam-b...
Pam Bondi Takes a Beating in Court Over Lindsey Halligan’s Dubious Appointment
I was in federal court this morning in Alexandria, Virginia, for a...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In a joint hearing in the Jim Comey and Letitia James cases, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no indication that she thinks Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney. But it wasn’t at all clear what Currie will do about it now. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pam-b...
The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence.
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The Corrupt Roots of America’s Elite Run Deep
It’s the Impunity, Stupid In reviewing a portion of the 20,000-plus Jeffrey...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence.
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Very proud to contribute to @talkingpointsmemo.com’s 25th anniversary retrospective. My entry is about my slow realization that COVID-era doomscrolling hastened the triumph of algorithm-optimized nonsense and propaganda over professional fact gathering and true story telling.
The Fitness Influencers Who Tried to Make Me Like Trump
It was March 2020 and suddenly I had much more free time...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Very proud to contribute to @talkingpointsmemo.com’s 25th anniversary retrospective. My entry is about my slow realization that COVID-era doomscrolling hastened the triumph of algorithm-optimized nonsense and propaganda over professional fact gathering and true story telling.
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Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:
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How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
The Trump DOJ’s bogus prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James just got a lot more difficult to pull off, with what appears to be a major administration coverup of the origins of the case against her.
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Big Coverup Exposed in Bogus Mortgage Fraud Cases
A Scandal Within a Scandal The Trump DOJ’s bogus prosecution of New...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Trump DOJ’s bogus prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James just got a lot more difficult to pull off, with what appears to be a major administration coverup of the origins of the case against her.
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Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records.
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Shutdown Deal Lets GOP Senators Personally Sue Over Jack Smith Probe
$500K For Election Subversion Tucked into a spending bill that is part...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records.
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Let the record show that President Donald Trump issued mass preemptive pardons to those involved in his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election five years to the day since the Four Seasons Landscaping debacle in Philadelphia. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Trump Completes Jan. 6 Autocoup With Mass Preemptive Pardons
For My Friends, Everything … Let the record show that President Donald...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Let the record show that President Donald Trump issued mass preemptive pardons to those involved in his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election five years to the day since the Four Seasons Landscaping debacle in Philadelphia. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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At #FedSoc, just-departed Bondi chief of staff and acting DOJ No. 3 Chad Mizelle urges Congress to step up campaign to impeach federal judges who've blocked Trump policies. Mizelle also rejects Roberts' stance that rulings can't be grounds for impeachment. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
At #FedSoc, just-departed Bondi chief of staff and acting DOJ No. 3 Chad Mizelle urges Congress to step up campaign to impeach federal judges who've blocked Trump policies. Mizelle also rejects Roberts' stance that rulings can't be grounds for impeachment. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
From losing the DC sandwich guy case to violating a court order on SNAP to winning on its anti-trans passport initiative, just another day in Trump II paradise.
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The Absurdity and the Abuse: Another Day In Trump II
DC Sandwich Guy Acquitted Setting aside all the bad puns and the...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
From losing the DC sandwich guy case to violating a court order on SNAP to winning on its anti-trans passport initiative, just another day in Trump II paradise.
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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ initial defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with the raging antisemite Nick Fuentes has now ignited an open revolt at the venerable right wing think tank, WaPo reports.
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Heritage Foundation Implodes Over Carlson-Fuentes Lovefest
The Groyper Takeover of the GOP Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ initial...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ initial defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with the raging antisemite Nick Fuentes has now ignited an open revolt at the venerable right wing think tank, WaPo reports.
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The MAGA feedback loop: FBI provides Hill GOP with internal documents from the Trump probes->Hill GOP culls the docs for agent names->agents get put on blast by the MAGA propaganda machine->White House orders the agents to be fired->Kash Patel races to comply.
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What a Glorious Time for Criming in America
The Purges: FBI Edition The MAGA feedback loop continues to decimate the...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The MAGA feedback loop: FBI provides Hill GOP with internal documents from the Trump probes->Hill GOP culls the docs for agent names->agents get put on blast by the MAGA propaganda machine->White House orders the agents to be fired->Kash Patel races to comply.
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Judge's response is: Read the discovery order.
The discovery order *agreed to by the parties* already contemplates this issue and provides a mechanism for it, in the first footnote:
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Discovery order: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
The discovery order *agreed to by the parties* already contemplates this issue and provides a mechanism for it, in the first footnote:
Judge's response www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
Discovery order: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Judge's response is: Read the discovery order.
The discovery order *agreed to by the parties* already contemplates this issue and provides a mechanism for it, in the first footnote:
Judge's response www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
Discovery order: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
The discovery order *agreed to by the parties* already contemplates this issue and provides a mechanism for it, in the first footnote:
Judge's response www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
Discovery order: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71601...
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Where America stands, one year after the election.
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece:
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece:
Escalation, Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here
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November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Where America stands, one year after the election.
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece:
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece: