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Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Signal - tylermcbrien.97 Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more: www.tylermcbrien.com

Wow, a federal judge just ruled in favor of the CFTC, Kalshi, and Polymarket, temporarily barring the state of Minnesota from enforcing its prediction market statute until final decision on the merits is reached. (h/t @seamushughes.bsky.social)

NEW: Mon 6/27 @ 3:30pm, Van Hollen & Blumenthal will hold a public forum on "Trump's Crypto Corruption" to show how his "greed and recklessness have supercharged foreign influence and bribery" and make the case agnst crypto regulation allowing "Trump to corruptly enrich himself"

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BREAKING: Justice Department agrees to withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters in leak investigation related to new Air Force One jet. Withdrawal of subpoenas follows hearing before NY federal judge, who indicated he was inclined to quash the subpoenas.

I should add that this is exactly what @nkorpett.bsky.social and James Pearce predicted in their May 2025 @lawfaremedia.org piece, "The Law Firms’ Deals with Trump Are Even Riskier Than They Seem"

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INBOX: Sens. Blumenthal, Raskin, & Schiff sent another letter to Skadden seeking records/info related to the law firm's "profoundly troubling agreement" with the Trump admin and reporting on apparent conflicts of interest related to the admin's 10% equity stake in Intel.

INBOX: Sens. Blumenthal, Raskin, & Schiff sent another letter to Skadden seeking records/info related to the law firm's "profoundly troubling agreement" with the Trump admin and reporting on apparent conflicts of interest related to the admin's 10% equity stake in Intel.

NEW: Today the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that the district court lacked the authority to release Mohsen Mahdawi in April 2025 following his arrest from his citizenship interview. The 2nd Cir vacates the order and remands to the district court to dismiss the petition.

NEW: Today, Rep. Garcia and Sen. Blumenthal requested DHS Sec Mullin provide info and records related to two recent fatal ICE shootings, incidents which raise questions about whether ICE made promised reforms "and how ICE is using the massive funding that Congress appropriated"

Read "Charting the Crackdown: The misuse of crowd-control weapons in immigration enforcement protests across the United States, June 2025-June 2026" from Physicians for Human Rights & @hrcberkeley.bsky.social in full here: phr.org/charting-the...

Charting the CrackdownAn interactive investigation by Physicians for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley documenting the misuse of crowd-control weapons in immigration enforcement protests across the Unit...phr.org

Major new report from PHR and @hrcberkeley.bsky.social documented 412 times between 06/25-26 that immigration enforcement officers used excessive force or misused crowd-control weapons on protesters. Nearly half of all victims had "explicit legal protections" or required "special caution."

Read the full complaint for Khalil v. The Heritage Foundation et al., filed in the Southern District of New York, here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Complaint – #1 in Khalil v. The Heritage Foundation (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-05929) – CourtListener.comCOMPLAINT against John Armstrong, Jonathan Bash, Betar World, Betar Zionist Movement, Inc., Betar Zionist Organization, Inc., Todd Blanche, Todd Blanche, Victoria Coates, John Doe, Robert Greenway, Me...storage.courtlistener.com

Today in federal court, Mahmoud Khalil sued the Heritage Foundation, Canary Mission, Betar, & senior Trump admin officials under the KKK Act of 1871, alleging they conspired to deprive him of his constitutional rights while carrying out a coordinated plan called "Project Esther."

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