Trump world celebrated the decision by Judge Aileen Cannon to interfere with the government’s investigation of stolen classified materials found hidden at Mar-a-Lago after a judge authorized search warrant. Judge Cannon was a late Trump appointee, who was not confirmed until after the 2020 election, and Trump was confident in…

After repeatedly threatening, in mostly joking tones, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finally did it. To the glee of MAGA world he put 50 asylum seeking border crossers onto planes and flew them to the rich people’s party island retreat of Martha’s Vineyard. He did so without any notice or warning…

In 2018 Trump’s Department of Justice prosecuted a man named Nghia Pho, he was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison. What did Mr. Pho do? In the words of the Department of Justice (cough, cough): “Pho removed massive troves of highly classified national defense information without authorization and kept…

On January 6, 2021 Donald Trump watched the nation’s Capitol be violently assaulted he. As this nation’s Commander in Chief, President Trump decisively . . . tweeted. While he made no effort to stop the violence by mobilizing a law enforcement or military response, he did tweet. The first of…

A New Mexico court has given a lot of members of Congress something to worry about. For the first time since shortly after the Civil War a court has declared an elected official is disqualified from office, and must be removed from office, for having participated in an insurrection against…

As the criminal investigation of former President Trump continues for stealing and concealing highly classified documents and obstructing the investigation of that espionage, questions have arisen regarding whether the former President retained his security clearance after leaving office. The argument seems to be that unless his security clearance was revoked…

Late Tuesday night the Department of Justice filed its response to a bizarre and poorly supported motion by Donald Trump to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the warrant authorized search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. The motion, filed two weeks after the search, was so nonsensical that…

The very heavily redacted search warrant affidavit explaining the probable cause basis for the Mar-a-Lago search is now available. You can read it HERE. Also worth review is an also heavily redacted memo explaining to the judge why the affidavit needs to be redacted. You can read that memo HERE. …

Earlier this year Florida passed something the legislature captioned as the “Individual Freedom Act.” However, when signing it, Florida Governor DeSantis designated it the “Stop Woke Act,” using children as props waiving anti-CRT and “Stop Woke” signs behind him. In the usual Republican approach to freedom the “Individual Freedom Act”…