🚨SCOTUS delivered Trump another victory earlier today while I was shopping with DS. This case concerned the removal of illegal aliens ordered removed to third countries, with SCOTUS staying injunction barring such removal. 1/ 2/ Dissent again rests on not liking what Trump did and ignoring numerous jurisdictional issues. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

🚨LIVE COVERAGE here of Preliminary Injunction hearing before Judge Breyer on Newsom's lawsuit to commander National Guard from Trump. Trump Administration had requested stay of proceedings pending 9th Cir. decision but Breyer refused. 1/ 2/ Breyer claimed facts on ground and changes would be relevant to PI hearing. Watch for him to sidestep 9th Cir. slap down by framing changes on ground as so substantial that no matter how much deference Trump gets he couldn't federalize troops.

🔥🔥🔥Grassley letter reviews FBI ordered records destroyed in September 2020. This does NOT conform to records preservation requirements...you know thing FBI raided Mar-a-Lago for! 1/ 2/ Full letter: grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump is still Commander-in-Chief. 2/ And will be for at least 5 more days.

🚨Hearing in Newsom v. Trump re National Guard starts in ~15 minutes. I'll be live-posting in this 🧵. 1/ 2/ Hearing starting:
Judge Preliminary Comments: Entered scheduling order directing file of briefs & appreciative of that. It is necessary to have briefing & I have always have done it, even though styled as ex parte, sufficient cooperation to allow complete record as possible given, important--issues significance, and urgency so I need to act expeditiously but takes into consideration the arguments of the parties. That's the fair way to do it and way I've done it over the year and parties have been extremely helpful in this regard.

🚨BREAKING: Trump files a response in opposition to Newsom's Motion for a TRO re National Guard troops. 1/ 2/ Full motion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨I began researching this deep-dive at @FDRLST soon after @SenGrassleyIA broke news of the "Prohibited Access" functionality of Sentinel. Inspector General conducted TEN audits of Sentinel & details buried in those report blow-open scandal. 1/ 2/ Link: thefederalist.com/2025/06/10/ig-…

🚨🚨🚨Garcia's attorneys are not happy and they likely have a judge willing to play along. They now want discovery to learn what Trump Administration did to facilitate Garcia's return so allow court to hold Administration in contempt. 1/ 2/ Garcia's attorney's seem to think they also have a "get out of jail free card" because SCOTUS ordered Trump to treat Garcia as if he hadn't been wrongfully removed & they only discovered evidence of his crime after that.

🚨🚨🚨HUGE SCOTUS Win for Trump! 1/
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WHOA! Dems sure picked a winner in Kilmar Garcia!!! 1/ 2/ More:

For those investigating or trying to under the "Prohibited Access" scandal, ICYMI below I highlight how SC John Durham defined "close hold" differently from "Prohibited Access," while IG Report indicated "close hold" to Crossfire Hurricane team meant "Prohibited Access." 1/

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1930461557521006793

2/ This suggests to me that SC Durham was not told Crossfire Hurricane material had been coded Prohibited Access which limited ability of agents searching for it to see the existence of the information. NOR would you understand that from how the IG described "prohibited" or "close hold."

🚨THREADETTE: Yesterday, I emailed the attorney of record, Niels Frenzen @MigrantsAtSea, a media inquiry concerning his client Susanna Dvortsin, who petitioned as Next of Friend of wife & children of terrorist who set Jews on fire & obtained an ex parte order barring their removal from Colorado. 1/
2/ I asked two basic questions but received no response. I should add a third: What good faith basis did he have that there was jurisdiction to file a habeas case in a district court in an immigration case?

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge Boasberg certifies class and enters injunction in removal of Venezuelans to El Salvador: 1/ 2/ Analysis to follow. Here's the complete opinion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨@FDRLST More thoughts on Prohibited Access scandal. 1/ 2/thefederalist.com/2025/06/04/the…

🔥🔥🔥@Comey used stealth "Prohibited Access" status for FBI's Mid-Year Exam investigation into Hillary Clinton, rendering documents invisible in Sentinel system. 1/ 2/ Yesterday @Agent_Mondello noted Inspector General's report re 4 FISA warrants against Page acknowledged they used "Prohibited Access." That was news to me, so I pulled. He was right...it did speak of access being "Prohibited" BUT explanation did not make clear functionality.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Thrilled to serve as lead counsel @NCLAlegal for our client, Idil Issak, in her 1st Amendment lawsuit against University of Tenn. Complaint filed this morning details how University & its Institutional Review Board violated nearly every free speech doctrine. 1/ 2/ Here's the press release: nclalegal.org/press_release/…

🧵So, the entire "Prohibited Access" revelation prompted me to pull up the transcript from former Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Scott Brady's closed-door testimony. Brady you'll recall was charged with screening evidence re Ukraine corruption, i.e. Biden family pay-to-play. 1/ 2/ I've been pondering how FBI can actually do a thorough investigation given Prohibited Access functionality & immediately thought of that screening b/c same FBI supervisor Tim Thibault involved in Nellie Ohr case w/ Prohibited Access documents at issue involved in investigation of Biden.

🔥🔥🔥ICYMI ⬇️🧵from late yesterday explaining "invisible" files FBI maintains on Sentinel that can't be seen by other agents. Implications are HUGE b/c if those searching for relevant files don't know they exist, they can't be provided. 1/

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1928580853245898772

2/2 Criminal defendants won't be provided potentially exculpatory evidence; civil litigants won't be provided relevant discovery--think FBI agents involved in censorship; Congress denied requested documents; Inspector General & Special Counsel don't get all documents. 👁️👁️@fdrlst

🧵🧵🧵Recent release by Sen. @ChuckGrassley suggests systemic violations of Brady by FBI. Brady rule requires government to disclose exculpatory evidence in criminal case; to comply, FBI agents search Sentinel system. Brady mandate is considered a constitutional requirement. 1/ 2/ But according to FBI Wash. Field Office EC sent to SC Office on 9/18/19, Sentinel system includes "invisible files" that can't just not read, but that you don't even know exist-files identified as "Prohibited Access" files, NOT to be confused w/ Restricted Access files.

The district court's opinion in the Khalil habeas case is so poorly written, it sounds as if a 1L tried to draft it after 1 week of class. 1/ 2/ Here's the entire opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: District court enters order staying Trump Administration's canceling of parole (that is where aliens are given permission to remain in U.S.) 1/ 2/ Trump Administration concluded Biden Administration's use of "categorical parole" (i.e., paroling aliens into U.S. by class & not on individual basis) violated statute & order undoing of orders & denying parole based on discretion.