-Declassified a doc GOP lawmakers sought about the Steele Dossier
-Provided internal FBI messages to Flynn legal team
-Released an interview with one of the Flynn case agents
-Released questionable evidence of ballot irregularities in Pa.
The case agent, William Barnett, is a case-study in contradiction. He says he worried that there was groupthink among Mueller team — yet they often included him (and his converse opinions) in Flynn-related matters and processes.
Barnett also said he raised internal questions about the Flynn case but viewed the other three prongs of Crossfire Hurricane as legit and did believe that Flynn lied in his FBI interview — to protect his job rather than cover up something Russia-related. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Barnett also undercut an earlier filing from the Flynn team that suggests FBI officials bought liability insurance because they feared fallout from the Flynn matter.
Barnett says discussions of insurance were likely unrelated to Flynn bc they predate the case becoming public.
And that earlier Flynn team filing also included an obvious error:
Overall though, there's a concerted effort to get more material into the public record — some of which would have reasonably been expected to be part of the Durham investigation yet now appears to packaged for public release by DOJ without any accompanying indictments.
BARNETT also pushed for an interview with Flynn in late 2016, calling it an "easy lay-up" that Flynn wouldn't view as suspicious because he was part of an incoming administration. Barnett said he viewed this as a formality toward closing the case.
NEW: An FBI agent who formerly worked with Mueller’s team told DOJ last week he believed Flynn lied to the FBI to save his job, not cover up a Russia operation. But the interview is a series of contradictions.
It’s part of a slew of new docs dumped by DOJ to Flynn’s team as they prepare to argue next week for the dismissal of the case against him. And it comes as DOJ has dumped info in a series of other sensitive matters into the public domain. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
BARNETT's testimony also cut against what has been billed as a bombshell revelation in docs released by Flynn's team just hours earlier: That FBI agents bought liability insurance because they were worried about fallout from Crossfire Hurricane.
DOJ asked Barnett about internal FBI messages referencing a rush to buy insurance. Barnett said he didn't believe that was related to Flynn because it didn't work with the timeline of events.
Judge Kea Riggs, a Trump-appointed judge from Arizona, has ordered ICE provide a bond hearing a man in the United States for 25 years with no criminal record, who is the father of two US citizen kids, one of whom needs a heart transplant. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
We also have what appears to be the first and only ruling so far on the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy in the Northern District of West Virginia. John Bailey, a George W. Bush appointed judge, ordered the release of a man from Georgia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, absolutely thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US. at age 9 and deemed an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials if they continue detaining people in ways the court has ruled illegal and unconstitutional.
For weeks, Judges Joseph Goodwin (Clinton), Robert Chambers (Clinton), Thomas Johnston (GWB) and Irene Berger (Obama) have been ordering the release of dozens of detainees ICE and its WV partners have picked up since Jan 1. But they’re not stopping there
They are calling out violations of court orders, sloppy paperwork in detention cases, the destruction of families, the erosion of civil liberties and a climate of fear wrought by masked agents operating on WV’s roadways. Contempt is next, they say. politico.com/news/2026/03/0…
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has struck down President Trump's tariff authority, saying his claim of emergency authority to issue sweeping tariffs to America's trading partners was unlawful. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
Roberts, writing for the majority, says Trump's claim of an emergency to issue unbounded tariffs on whoever he feels like flies in the face of decades of law and practice. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
Gorsuch, in his concurrence, worries that granting a president sweeping new powers based on vague delegations from Congress would risk "permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man." supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
NEW: Judges are asking increasingly pointed questions about why ICE is detaining pregnant/nursing mothers — and whether a 2021 policy sharply restricting the practice remains in force.
They’ve ordered many released, warning of threats to safety/health.
The admin has told different judges different things re the policy. But outgoing spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin did defend the treatment of pregnant women in their custody and added “being in detention is a choice.” Self-deportation, she said, is another.
ICE's policy to sharply limit detention of pregnant/nursing mothers was adopted in 2021. It says ICE shouldn't detain pregnant/nursing mothers unless there are "exceptional circumstances." What are exceptional circumstances? Threats to life or national security. politico.com/news/2026/02/1…
Some people do Friday Zillow. We do Friday habeas. Here are some cases of people who have been detained by ICE and ordered released by judges who said the detention was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Mexican man with no criminal history and six US citizen kids.
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
NEW: A federal judge excoriated the Trump administration for claiming it lacked the resources to give ICE detainees constitutionally required access to lawyers — despite surging law enforcement to detain them in the first place.
The rebuke came as the administration also dropped criminal charges against two men it claimed had attacked an ICE officer, who fired a gun in the fracas. “Newly discovered evidence” conflicted with the original headline-grabbing account, DOJ said. politico.com/news/2026/02/1…