Here’s the nondisclosure order signed by Jeb Boasberg in May 2023 prohibiting Verizon from notifying several US senators and one House member that Jack Smith had subpoenaed their phone records. Verizon complied with the subpoenas and NDOs with the exception of Ted Cruz.

Important to note what Boasberg claims here. In order to authorize an NDO in a tech related subpoena, a judge must determine one of five factors according to Stored Communications Act.

What Boasberg alleged is that sitting Republican lawmakers might break the law if notified of the subpoenas.

He is a lunatic and must be removed from the bench. This is the CHIEF JUDGE of the DC district court. Subpoena:

Jim Comey just added Michael Dreeben to his criminal defense team.

Dreeben most recently represented Jack Smith in the SCOTUS immunity case. (Safe to say Dreeben lost.)

But Dreeben's dirty hands are all over Robert Mueller's investigation, too. He is clearly conflicted 🧵

https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1131986605399576577

Dreeben played a key role not just on Team Mueller but he also is directly tied to Comey's involvement in developing the obstruction case against the president--recall Comey admitted the reason he leaked the content of his secret Flynn memo was to prompt the appointment of a special counsel, which happened the day after the NYT leak...
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So in 48 hours, Judge Karin Immergut (Trump) determined the president acted unconstitutionally in federalizing and deploying Natl Guard troops to protest Portland ICE facility; claimed the move violated Oregon's 10th Amend rights; and concluded there was no "rebellion" taking place to justify the president's order.

If you read carefully how Immergut described illegal immigrants, you might pick up a slight bias...as well as her claims of "mostly peaceful" protests: The way federal judges so casually downplay examples of criminal behavior represents another part of the escalating crisis in the judicial branch. Even if you take the word of local law enforcement--Immergut's pooh-poohing of sustained violence to any degree is stunning:

It's hard to know where to start--or end-- in covering the batsh*t meltdown last week by DC Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui. (I made the full transcript available to my paid subscribers on Substack)

Faruqui was presiding over a hearing in the case of Edward Dana, a career criminal with 9 prior convictions and 23 arrests who was on probation and arrested by DC police for vandalizing property in a drunken rage on August 17.

During his arrest, Dana said he wanted to kill the president (among other crazy statements.) DC US attorney Jeanine Pirro sought to indict Dana on a federal felony of making threats to the president.

But once again--in a rarity now commonplace in DC--a grand jury made up of DC voters (93% for Kamala in 2024) refused to indict him. So prosecutors had to drop the charge.

This enraged Faruqui, who not only misrepresented Dana's case (making him a victim rather than the longtime perp he is) and he berated the prosecutor for about 20 minutes or so.

But Faruqui's tirade had less to do with Dana and more to do with President Trump. Time and again, Faruqui--who was appointed in 2020 but not confirmed by the Senate--blasted the president's policies related to using federal law enforcement agencies and the National Guard in DC and warnings to do the same in other cities to combat crime.

Faruqui:

"How do we reestablish faith in people in DC that they're not going to be wrongly arrested, when the hobby, or whatever, the interest of the moment, if we move to Chicago or whatever city, Baltimore, or whatever next thing it is that catches the administration's interest, what are we, the people left here in Washington, DC, who have actually lived here, had to suffer through whatever is happening, how am I supposed to reestablish confidence in every defense lawyer and defendant that they are being treated fairly and rightly?"

Have to "suffer," the judge says. As I have noted repeatedly, Faruqui signed hundreds of arrest warrants for J6ers including the unlawful 1512c2 felony. In one case, Faruqui found a woman in criminal contempt after she refused to answer his questions and willingly submit to conditions of release on her nonviolent misdemeanors charges.

He raised no such objections (to my knowledge) about the treatment of J6ers or berated Biden's DOJ for bringing near-daily cases to the DC courthouse.

Faruqui:

"I'm absolutely just beyond words as to what is happening and that we are just acting like this is normal. This is not only abnormal, it is now we are at past the question of constitutional crisis and academic thinking.

This is not hypothetical. What is being done? It is implausible, illegal, immoral for one person in our country to be treated like this, and now we are getting into double digits. What is being done?"

Faruqui misrepresents why these cases are being dismissed--he refuses to aknowledge the partisan bias at work by DC grand juries who are protesting the Trump administration by refusing to bring criminal indictments sought by Trump's DOJ. (I believe there are six such known cases as of now.)

Faruqui: "There seems to be just a complete disregard for the impact this is having on the people who are getting arrested and then released or dismissed. They are our fellow citizens.

This is not how we treat criminals, we don't treat them that way. We certainly do not treat presumed innocent people this way, let alone people who are our fellow Americans."

Keep in mind--Dana has a rap sheet a mile long:

Faruqui: "There seems to be a complete disregard for the traumatic effect that's having not just on the city, its citizens, the court, the AUSAs who are working all night and day to satisfy some sort of, you know, whatever this fantasy is or idea that there's going to be some great showing.

There are consequences. And right now, Mr. Dana is suffering those consequences."

Here are some of the declarations filed by the National Immigration Law Center who is suing the Trump adm to prevent sending back home hundreds of unaccompanied minors here illegally from Guatemala:

A 16 year old who was either pregnant or became pregnant on her trek here: A 10-year-old here under unknown circumstances.

I want to know who brought her to the US and why.

(And to answer someone's question on 1st post, all were written by Spanish interpreters--as is the case in all of these deportation/removal lawsuits.)

Hearing underway now before Judge Jia Cobb in DC related to Lisa Cook's lawsuit against the president and Fed chief Jerome Powell over her firing as a member of the Federal Reserve Board.

Cook, appointed by Biden in 2022 and confirmed by the Senate with a tie-breaking vote cast by Kamala Harris, is being credibly accused of mortgage fraud related to three separate mortgages (!) she took out in 2021.

She is fighting her firing claiming the loan applications were filed prior to her appointment to the Fed board and that the president didn't follow the law in removing her. She wants Judge Cobb to enter a temp restraining order to keep her on the board. Cobb starts hearing by asking Cook atty whether they intend to file a motion for a preliminary injunction (usually the next step after request for a temp restraining order). Attorney--I believe Abbe Lowell is speaking but hard to tell--says yes. Cobb says she is prepared to set an "expedited" briefing schedule to determine the merits of the case.

He keeps referring to Cook as "governor" 🙄

DOJ says they don't object to converting TRO motion to motion for prelim injunction.

Here is Cook's proposed TRO order for Judge Cobb to consider:

So J6 celeb cop Danny Hodges is back doing media hits blasting Trump adm for trying to keep DC safe. Hodges is still a DC police officer but appears to have done little else over a four year period besides do interviews and show up at J6 court proceedings as a witness and “victim.”

Here is how Hodges once again misrepresents his experience on January 6. But he was not a victim… Here is Hodges body worn camera footage. He and his fellow DC cops arrived around 2pm dressed like storm troopers ready to crack heads. This was about 50 minutes after cops had been attacking Trump supporters outside.

Listen to the reaction…

Really maddening this has been under wraps Benardo was Soros Fund Eurasian Regional Director

While all eyes focus on Comey/Brennan/Clapper related to new disclosures on Russiagate and potential criminal liability, let's not forget lesser known figures who are just as culpable in the decade-long abuse of power against President Trump.

One individual is Lisa Monaco... Here is part one of my two part series covering Monaco's dirty fingerprints stretching from Russiagate to Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation.

It is not a coincidence Pres Trump's called out Monaco twice by name last month...

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So the latest spin against Tulsi Gabbard's release is AKSHULLY NO ONE SAID THE RUSSIANS HACKED ELECTION SYSTEMS AND CHANGED VOTES

But that is EXACTLY what everyone from Pres Obama down--including the media--intimated. So did Brennan's ICA regardless of how he wants to worm out of it.

Further, another reason why this Dec 8 PBD was pulled is because Trump, as president-elect-would have received it. Following the Dec 9 in the WH after the president's daily briefing was pulled and the conspirators plotted their next move, James Clapper's office produced this outline "per the President's request" on Russian election interference.

Top item: HACKING

Another item: CYBER ACTIVITY AGAINST VOTING SYSTEMS

NEW: Tulsi Gabbard just released previously classified Russigate docs including emails and other records giving new info on how the operation materialized More subterfuge related to alleged Russia hacking of DNC email system. Recall Shawn Henry, CEO of Crowdstrike, the cyber firm hired to allegedly investigate the hack, finally admitted to Congress in 2017 that the firm never had evidence of Russian infiltration.

Sen Grassley today released emails demonstrating how disgraced FBI agent Tim Thibault grasped for a reason to open an investigation into the president for Jan 6.

But the smoking gun here is not so much Thibault but the involvement of Thomas Windom, who appears to have acted as the conduit between Main Justice and the FBI to concoct the case.

Windom was moved to DC US Atty office from Maryland in late 2021.

According to a June 2022 NYT piece, Windom worked "under the close supervision of Attorney General Merrick Garland's top aides," referring to DAG Lisa Monaco.

She was obsessed with investigating anyone who stayed at the Willard Hotel, the money trail, and their ties to the president. This included people like Roger Stone and individuals with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

So it wasn't really the FBI trying to create a case out of air. It was Monaco and Windom--who later was tasked to Special Counsel Jack Smith's team in the J6 DC case.

Email from March 2022 from FBI DC field office: Email from Windom, who actually appears to have prepared an outline for the FBI to pursue (which I’ll share in next post)

House Judiciary asked Windom earlier this year to sit for an interview. Unclear of status at this point.

Big hearing about to begin in 5th Circuit related to a preliminary injunction in an Alien Enemies Act case.

Oral arguments will address SCOTUS' ruling in May instructing the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to address:

(1) all the normal preliminary injunction factors, including likelihood of success on the merits, as to the named plaintiffs’ underlying habeas claims that the AEA does not authorize their removal pursuant to the President’s March 14, 2025

(2) the issue of what notice is due, as to the putative class’s due process claims against summary removal. T ACLUS's Lee Gelernt representing illegal Venezuelans covered by AEA gets started.

Judge immediately interrupts asking if AEA is reviewable by the court. Demands to know on what basis the ACLU can claim the AEA is judicially reviewable. (I have covered this for months.)

Judges continues to push for Gelernt to cite in case law that authorizes the courts to "second guess" the president in determining the main elements of AEA.

In one of the most twisted opinions I've read, Judge Royce Lamberth (Reagan)--who eagerly threw J6ers including Jake Chansley and Rachel Powell in prison for years--has halted the president's exec order denying treatment for federal inmates suffering from "gender dysphoria."

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are "transgenders" who use new names to represent their chosen gender--but also to conceal the convictions that led to their lengthy incarceration in federal prison.

Meet the criminals Judge Lamberth claims are being denied constitutional rights and harmed by the Trump administration.

"Alishea Kingdom" according to court docs "is a transgender woman who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2016, prescribed hormone therapy injections, and approved to receive social accommodations including women’s undergarments and cosmetics." After the president's order, "she" was denied those treatments and accommodations.

"Ms. Kingdom states that the discontinuation of her hormone therapy caused her to experience anxiety, hopelessness, panic attacks, and suicidal ideation," Lamberth wrote.

Except Kingdom's real name is Joshua Mueller.

In 2014, at the age of 23, Mueller was sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison for armed robbery in Milwaukee where he shot a store employee. He is currently incarcerated at Fairton FCI.

ttps://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/two-men-sentenced-15-12-years-and-8-years-prison-armed-robbery-milwaukee-grocery-store A second plaintiff is "Jas Kapule."

Lamberth lamented how "Jas" was denied hormone treatments earlier this year after deciding in 2023 she was really a man. "Mr. Kapule was told that he would no longer have access to chest binders, and the next day was made to turn in his boxers in exchange for feminine undergarments. Mr. Kapule fears that the discontinuation of his therapy would result in the return of his menstrual cycle and will lead to depression," Lamberth wrote.

Her real name is Jasmine Kapule and she is a career criminal from California.

In 2021, she pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon and distributing fentanyl. (BTW none of this is mentioned in Lamberth's orders in the case, I looked up all doc on PACER.)

She was sentenced to 110 months in prison.

At my daughter's law school baccalaureate mass last night, the priest urged the students to practice law with "honor, honesty, integrity, and virtue." His words made me think about the current crisis in our judiciary as judges now make snap political decisions devoid of those important traits.

Then late last night, I learned about SCOTUS decision in Alien Enemies Act case.

Aside from interfering in what has always been sole executive authority turf--determining the use of the AEA--what 7 justices did is reward the ACLU's bad behavior and borderline misconduct.

SCOTUS endorsed the ACLU's strategy of filing emergency lawsuits over weekends and holidays (in this case, Easter weekend); using anonymous plaintiffs who are illegal Venezuelans then referencing those unnamed plaintiffs to demand classwide status for other potential AEA subjects based on little or no evidence as to who would be covered; relying on declarations by ACLU attorneys or other outside interests without any verification the statements are accurate; and demanding judges act on ACLU unreasonable timeline.

And rather than--as Kavanaugh suggested in a separate concurrence--immediately address the merits of these cases, i.e., the lawfulness of the president's AEA proclamation--the court shamefully gave the ACLU the green light to run roughshod over lower courts in terms of halting deportation of suspected TdA gang members who are here ILLEGALLY.

The criticism of Judge Hendrix, as Alito points out, also is completely out of line and inaccurate. SCOTUS misrepresented his handling of the case as a cop out to excuse themselves for the court's unprecedented and unnecessary interference in this crucial matter.

Truly shameful stuff. Alito eviscerated the majority on a number of issues including unwarranted and inaccurate criticism of Judge Hendrix while noting the rush job of other judges

Hearing now for Judicial Watch lawsuit in killing of Ashli Babbitt.

There IS a settlement in the case. Also her husband, Aaron, is a plaintiff.

They are suing the US government under federal torts claim act for assault, negligence, negligent supervision (of shooter Lt. Michael Byrd), negligent training, and wrongful death.

Plaintiffs on behalf of Ashli are seeking $30 million .

The settlement is not yet finalized so cannot be announced.

This outrageous piece demonstrates what the Trump DOJ is up against not just in the media but within the ranks of the DOJ and federal judges.

First--shame on Barrett for whitewashing the evil Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) mob which is not a "student group" but a campus terror organization that has called for the destruction of both Israel and western civilization INCLUDING THE U.S.

CUAD has terrorized students and administrators at Columbia and Barnard College for over a year; at least one CUAD event featured a member of the PLO. (The event was banned on campus so the wannabe Hamasters conducted the panel virtually.)

But of course only at the NYT is the real villain the Trump DOJ--specifically Emil Bove, a top DOJ official who ordered an investigation into CUAD after masked student terrorists stormed a Barnard building in February and attacked a security guard.

Bove instructed prosecutors to compile a list of CUAD members--but he was once again met with defiance by DOJ lawyers. (This also happened when Bove sought to drop the indictment against NY Mayor Eric Adams.)

"The prosecutors were told by superiors that Mr. Bove was seeking a list so the information could be shared with immigration agents, these people said. Inside the civil rights division, prosecutors came to fear that their criminal investigation was a pretext to facilitate an intimidation and deportation campaign by the Trump administration against student protesters, these people said.

Prosecutors refused to compile such a list that could be given to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, these people said."

Now once upon a time, career government lawyers refusing to follow orders from a superior to investigate a known campus terror group seeking the destruction of the U.S. and involved in an anti-Semitic movement across the U.S. perhaps funded by our enemies would receive widespread condemnation in the press.

But not so with Barrett and the NYT.

🧵... Here is just a little context on CUAD.

https://x.com/KhymaniJames/status/1843702358095868269

NEW: Records obtained by Sens Grassley and Johnson provide further proof DOJ/FBI was in cahoots with Biden WH on "Arctic Frost" investigation, the Jan 6 case against the president.

As I reported in the docs case, Biden WH general counsel Jonathan Su also was working with DOJ and NARA separably to concoct the documents case.

Biden WH turned over govt cell phones used by Pres Trump and VP Pence.

This is from dirty Wash FBI field office official Tim Thibault to others--including WFO chief Steven D'Antuono--about obtaining the devices. Su arranged the pick up of the devices from Biden WH in May 2022. Again underscoring this is the same time Su was working with NARA to devise the classified documents case, meeting with NARA officials at WH.

Last night, the DOJ filed its response to Jeb Boasberg's demand to prove the Trump adm did not defy his court orders related to the removal of Venezuelan illegals covered by the Alien Enemies Act (I also will get to a lot more of this in a separate thread and note his own discrepancies in the first temp restraining order next) on March 15.

As I have discussed here and in numerous interviews, the central dispute pertains to what Boasberg calls his "oral ruling" to turn around two planes already in the air carrying AEA illegals. The DOJ cites case law, jurisdiction, and Boasberg's own confusing orders as to why his verbal statement around 6:45pm on March 15--roughly 40 minutes before Boasberg's written minute order--is not controlling.

Note in particular the times the planes departed (this is from new DOJ filing) While Boasberg now insists his two temporary restraining orders related to the president's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act--signed evening of March 14 and posted (and apparently enacted at the time) around 3pm on March 15--he CLEARLY stated TWICE n the rushed March 15 hearing that the first TRO covering the five unnamed illegal Venezuelans represented by the ACLU related to the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Not the Alien Enemies Act--the basis of the ACLU lawsuit and request for restraining order.

From March 15 transcript (Gelernt is ACLU atty):

Oral arguments about to begin before 3-judge panel of D.C. circuit court on Pres Trump's appeal of Jeb Boasberg's temporary restraining order halting deportation of illegal Venezuelans subject to the president's Alien Enemies Proclamation.

DOJ in the motion to appeal: "If this TRO were allowed to stand, district courts would have license to enjoin virtually any urgent national-security action upon bare receipt of a complaint. District courts might next see fit to issue TROs restraining drone strikes, sensitive intelligence operations, or terrorist captures or extraditions. This Court should stay the district court’s unprecedented order." DOJ calls Boasberg's orders "an unprecedented and enormous intrusion on the executive branch."

Boasberg's orders consisted of "second guessing" about the president's authority.

DOJ interrupted by Justice Millett (Obama) who pushes back against DOJ claims that this opens the door for a judge to frustrate other presidential powers including war powers.

Millett complains the Venezuelans were "rushed" on to planes and didn't have the chance to dispute their membership to TdA.

Hearing underway in Jeb Boasberg courtroom on Venezuelan terrorist lawsuit and deportation flights.

Coverage coming up:

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1903076924957589614

Boasberg out of the gate accuses DOJ of using "intemperate" and "disrespectful" language in responses to the judge.

He is lecturing the DOJ about its opposition to his alleged "verbal" order to turn around the planes.

"Did you think that was hypothetical or did you understand when I said do that immediately, you meant that."