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Napolitano: Blanche nomination should be rejected One of two main reasons: "He permitted and accepted ... the presidential order to enforce U.S. laws against drug trafficking by murdering 221 persons in 67 speedboats on the high seas. Needless to say, none of these folks received due process."

NAPOLITANO: Why the Blanche nomination should be rejectedDeputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has demonstrated a hopeless conflict between the rule of law — which he has taken an oa...www.standard.net

DOJ now dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn is part of a broad pattern of abuse of power. I kept receipts.⤵️

Holy wow. We've been tracking the DOJ withdrawals of indictments, dismissals by judges, rejections of subpoenas, no bills by grand juries and more. All those are collected here: www.justsecurity.org/146665/court... Add this one to the list:

The postponement of Todd Blanche's nomination hearing brings this to the fore: Some Senate Republicans say no real harm/difference in confirming Blanche since he'd be "acting" A.G. anyway. But, as I discussed last night, that's not the proper comparison.

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US murder campaign also counterproductive. The "military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats" has been "undermining traditional investigative methods, according to a previously unreported assessment by the Drug Enforcement Administration, a closed-door congressional briefing and interviews" 🧵

WALTZ: "The people leaking this nonsense" - about depleted military stockpiles - "deserve to be in jail." Pro tip: If they deserve to be in jail then ... it's not nonsense. Jail time is for leaking genuine intelligence information.

Overwhelming vote by states to dismiss the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. A great moment for the #metoo movement. Workplaces -- and all places -- must be free of people who engage in sexual abuse. Now let the International Criminal Court continue its important work.

ICC members dismiss prosecutor Karim Khan, diplomatic sources sayMember states ​of the International ‌Criminal Court on Friday voted ​to dismiss ​Karim Khan as prosecutor ⁠following allegations ​of sexual misconduct, ​two diplomatic sources told Reuters.www.reuters.com

There are two people among the most responsible for this abject violation of the First Amendment -- And the Republican-led Senate is contemplating confirming them for Attorney General of the United States and Director of National Intelligence.

"Under heavy pressure from a federal judge, prosecutors agreed on Thursday to unilaterally withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters. The move followed sharp grilling about prosecutors’ actions ... The government called the subpoenas to reporters’ family members a 'mistake.'" 1/

BREAKING: Feds withdraw NYT subpoenas into reporting on Qatar-gifted jetThe government called the subpoenas to reporters' family members an “error.”www.allrisenews.com

The International Criminal Court has vital work to do. That is why the Assembly of State Parties should now remove the Prosecutor. If not, it will be further downhill for the Court, its staff morale, and global justice. This expert analysis properly frames the question before the vote.⤵️ 1/🧵

Before the Assembly: The Removal Vote and the Question of Fitness for OfficeAnalysis of the issues before the Assembly of State Parties in Friday's vote on removal of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.www.justsecurity.org

I joined forces with @dschulkin.bsky.social and Huzaifa Khan. “Zero Evidence”: How Judges and Grand Juries Have Rejected Trump Administration’s Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute We document EXTRAORDINARY number of subpoenas, indictments and more rebuffed. New searchable resource.

Judges and Grand Juries Reject Trump's Efforts to InvestigateA detailed record of federal courts and grand juries rejecting the Trump administration’s use of subpoenas, search warrants, and indictments.www.justsecurity.org

Before "the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes ... [that] injured dozens of U.S. service members ... But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and damage."

Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran WarCentral Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.www.nytimes.com

"Under the change, responsibility for investigating cases involving federal immigration officers would likely fall to Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE, effectively leaving the agency to investigate itself, according to guidance circulated among F.B.I. and ICE agents."

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE ConfrontationsSenior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.www.nytimes.com

"The review, the most comprehensive to date, suggests that the administration’s use of the law has often been less about protecting federal agents than about providing legal cover to cow protesters and immigrants into submission." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...

They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents. The Cases Are Crumbling.The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.www.nytimes.com

"The principal risk with the declassification of documents is not the action itself but its selective use." An Initial Readout of Trump’s Election-Interference Speech By Brian O'Neill, professor at Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School and retired CIA senior executive.

An Initial Readout of Trump’s Election-Interference SpeechAn intelligence expert assesses some of the factual claims and underlying assumptions in President Trump's speech on election security.www.justsecurity.org

Dave Matthews: "This father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. Then they say he’s not even the guy they were looking for. Well then don’t pull the trigger you assholes. ... I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo." (h/t @marcofoster.bsky.social)

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“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects.” David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer, in a statement on Friday evening.

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on MediaThe Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”www.nytimes.com

Properly invoking his legal authorities and obligations Houston Mayor Whitmire vows "an independent and transparent” investigation by his office and District Attorney into ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Says FBI is "tightly controlling" evidence Houston Police Dept would normally have.

"The three men who were arrested during an immigration operation that resulted in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction."

Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officersThree men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.www.washingtonpost.com

WaPo: Secretary Rubio, in step with Sebastian Gorka, is tripling down on a bad idea. Trying to enlist foreign states in bogus 'antifa' fight at July 16 ministerial meeting. WaPo: Rubio-Gorka alienating U.S. allies in true counterterrorism efforts. I wrote on threats to American civil liberties⬇️

Bogus “Antifa” Designations and FBI Warrantless Access to Americans’ CommunicationsHow Trump administration's efforts to designate "antifa" as a foreign intelligence threat can abuse national security surveillance powers.www.justsecurity.org