Shawn Musgrave
@shawnmusgrave.bsky.social
Media attorney | Journalist
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I think it's fucking crazy that trump was in office for *four years* and now he owns a third of the ninth circuit. the NINTH circuit!!!!
The changing face of the ninth circuit really on display in all the senior judges who joined the dissent
NEW: The Ninth Circuit votes AGAINST an en banc rehearing of the case on the deployment of the California National Guard to LA, leaving the panel decision permitting the deployment intact. Eleven judges file a dissent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I think it's fucking crazy that trump was in office for *four years* and now he owns a third of the ninth circuit. the NINTH circuit!!!!
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Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately.
DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
Homeland Security won't stop lying about who immigration enforcers are arresting
In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.
reason.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately.
DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
Paging @laurenleharper.bsky.social on a US Attorney using an 8-hour auto-delete on Signal as she conducts PR for her office.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Paging @laurenleharper.bsky.social on a US Attorney using an 8-hour auto-delete on Signal as she conducts PR for her office.
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NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
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A truly extraordinary dissent from a judge who basically never writes like this. bsky.app/profile/stev...
Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A truly extraordinary dissent from a judge who basically never writes like this. bsky.app/profile/stev...
Speaker Lucille Bluth.
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Speaker Lucille Bluth.
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📣 Reporters covering #NoKings protests in Chicago over the weekend may want to print this latest temporary restraining order that prohibits federal agents from using excessive force against journalists and peaceful protesters.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
📣 Reporters covering #NoKings protests in Chicago over the weekend may want to print this latest temporary restraining order that prohibits federal agents from using excessive force against journalists and peaceful protesters.
🖨️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
🖨️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
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EXCLUSIVE: Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy
They are being held on a warship and are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.
theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...
They are being held on a warship and are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.
theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...
Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy
The survivors are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.
theintercept.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy
They are being held on a warship and are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.
theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...
They are being held on a warship and are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.
theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...
Some utterly non-historic news amid the constitutional dumpster fires: Today is my last day at The Intercept — and my last day doing my own reporting, at least for awhile. I can't thank my @theintercept.com colleagues enough for the chance to road test this hybrid lawyer/reporter newsroom role.
October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Some utterly non-historic news amid the constitutional dumpster fires: Today is my last day at The Intercept — and my last day doing my own reporting, at least for awhile. I can't thank my @theintercept.com colleagues enough for the chance to road test this hybrid lawyer/reporter newsroom role.
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This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.
Trump appears to be merging the war on terror with the war on drugs.
Trump’s War on Drugs
Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.
interc.pt
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.
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Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
October 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Last night ACLU NorCal and ACLU PA filed a motion to quash another Homeland Security Investigations administrative subpoena aimed at unmasking online accounts: this time it's a "customs summons" for the "MontCo Community Watch” Facebook and Instagram accounts www.courtlistener.com/docket/71672...
v. United States Department of Homeland Security, 3:25-mc-80325 - CourtListener.com
Docket for v. United States Department of Homeland Security, 3:25-mc-80325 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Last night ACLU NorCal and ACLU PA filed a motion to quash another Homeland Security Investigations administrative subpoena aimed at unmasking online accounts: this time it's a "customs summons" for the "MontCo Community Watch” Facebook and Instagram accounts www.courtlistener.com/docket/71672...
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Kavanaugh stops, quantified.
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Kavanaugh stops, quantified.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.
🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
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SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...
Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
theintercept.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...
The perfect coda to this story: after publication, the State Department's press office responded to my questions about the legal basis for revoking visas based on speech. Their response, in full (we were NOT off-record).
October 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The perfect coda to this story: after publication, the State Department's press office responded to my questions about the legal basis for revoking visas based on speech. Their response, in full (we were NOT off-record).
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Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
October 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
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A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
trib.al
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.