UnJustified

UnJustified

The creator of Mueller, She Wrote, Allison Gill, and former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, are documenting the erosion of civil liberties and the rule of law under Trump's DoJ.

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June 15, 2025 60 mins

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has pled not guilty to the two charges of smuggling migrants, and has asked the court to release him on bail pending his trial.

The Department of Justice is trying to dismiss the discovery proceedings as moot, but Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have filed a sanctions motion requesting Judge Xinis proceed with determining whether the government defied her order.

The Western District of Texas became the fourth court to fi...

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Abrego Garcia is being brought back to the United States and will face federal charges.

Judge Boasberg grants certification of the CECOT class and order the government to facilitate due process for all those who remain in the Salvadoran prison

The man mistakenly deported to Guatemala by the Department of Homeland Security has been returned to the United states while the government struggles with giving other people due process on the...

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June 1, 2025 69 mins

The Trump Administration files a motion to dismiss the Abrego Garcia case based on jurisdiction. 

Judge Xinis denies two government motions requesting delays.

The government asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of their own request to do credible fear hearings on the ground in Djibouti for the men unlawfully flown to South Sudan.

Law enforcement continues to struggle under pressure from the White House to increase immigration...

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May 25, 2025 72 mins

The Supreme Court remanded the Alien Enemies Act case back down to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and at least one of the judges isn’t happy about it.

Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Chief of Staff ordered intelligence analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating Trump and Gabbard ...

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"The President has invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), Rev. Stat. §4067, 50 U. S. C. §21, to remove Venezuelan nationals who are members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a designated foreign terrorist organization. See Presidential Proclamation No. 10903, 90 Fed. Reg. 13033 (2025). Applicants are two detainees identified as members of TdA and a putative class of similarly situated detainees in the Northern District of Texas. All of the al...

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May 18, 2025 71 mins

Judge Xinis holds a hearing over whether certain discovery in the Abrego Garcia case is subject to state secrets and deliberative process privilege.

Trump administration lawyers submitted documents under seal to Judge Boasberg they say show the US "does not have constructive custody over" El Salvador CECOT detainees.

Ed Martin reveals that he’s under investigation by the ethics office that handles attorney discipline in Washington, a...

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There are now multiple cases challenging the administration’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation; including a hearing by Judge Boasberg for an amended complaint filed on behalf of all the detainees in El Salvador.

Judge Xinis has had to pause the discovery in the Abrego Garcia case to contemplate the Trump Administration’s invocation of the state secrets and deliberative process privilege.

Justice Department lawyers continue to lose cred...

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May 4, 2025 66 mins

Discovery in the Abrego Garcia case resumes after Judge Xinis denies the trump administration an additional extension

Ed Martin’s nomination as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia is teetering on the brink after Senator Dick Durbin says that the Senate is not going to move forward with it.

Department of Justice civil rights attorneys leave in droves as the administration guts programs for crime victims

Pam Bondi rescin...

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April 27, 2025 67 mins

Judge Xinis postpones discovery in the Abrego Garcia after the government files a request to delay under seal.

A conservative three judge panel for the DC Circuit Court of appeals temporarily blocks Judge Boasberg’s opinion that probable cause exists to hold the government in criminal contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case.

The Supreme Court issues a late night order blocking the rendition of hundreds of additional detainees to El Sa...

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April 20, 2025 62 mins

Judge Boasberg issues a memorandum opinion that concludes that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt for defying court orders in the Alien Enemies Act case.

The Fourth Circuit denies Trump’s bid to block Judge Xinis’ order to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, as she orders two weeks of discovery prior to considering holding the government in contempt.

The ACLU has filed a new habeas petition pursuant...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals being deported under the alien enemies act proclamation are afforded due process, and that the courts can ask the government to facilitate the return of wrongfully deported detainees

The Department of Justice is seeking to drop the charges against the alleged MS-13 leader they held a press conference about arresting.

FBI Director Kash Patel has been quietly removed as the Acting Director o...

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April 6, 2025 57 mins

Donald Trump once again taps his bench of veteran private attorneys to staff the department of justice by nominating Stanley Woodward as associate attorney general.

Trump’s White House directly fired two line prosecutors in a stunning escalation of the war on the independence of the Department of Justice.

A federal judge in Virginia has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to fire ODNI and CIA employees who recently worked on d...

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March 30, 2025 60 mins

At least 18 Trump administration officials used an unsecured Signal chat to discuss real-time attacks on Houthi militants in Yemen earlier this month as investigative journalist for the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the group.

The Department of Justice is drastically changing their policy of prosecuting crimes in the United States prior to deportation.

The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic t...

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March 23, 2025 66 mins

Kash Patel is pushing ahead with a plan to decentralize the FBI by dividing it into three regions except for the three largest field offices which would report directly to Dan Bongino.

Interim DC US Attorney Ed Martin– an election denier– has announced he has opened a criminal investigation into 2020 election fraud.

American intelligence agencies circulated findings last month that the Tren de Aragua gang is not controlled by the Ven...

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March 16, 2025 62 mins

The Trump Administration is gutting the Justice Department's unit that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption.
Emil Bove has fired the Chief of the Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Task Force, and Todd Blanche has fired the Justice Department Pardon Attorney.

Judge Beryl Howell has blocked sections of Donald Trump's executive order punishing the Perkins Coie law firm.

The top ranking Democrat on the House ...

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March 9, 2025 59 mins

US Intelligence shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees.

The head of the FBI New York Field Office James Dennehy has been forced out as the GSA shutters FBI, DOJ and CIA facilities.

The American Bar Association has received a request to open a disciplinary investigation into Emil Bove from Judiciary Committee Democrats.

The Trump Administration goes after the law firm Perkins Coie and Georgetown ...

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March 2, 2025 62 mins

U.S. attorney Ed Martin personally submitted a seizure warrant that was rejected by a U.S. magistrate judge in D.C.

Kash Patel ordered FBI officials to relocate 1,500 employees from Washington DC to cities with high crime rates including Minneapolis, Detroit and Cleveland, at a cost of over $100M.

Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a federal judge Wednesday for an outright dismissal of his criminal corruption case, ci...

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February 23, 2025 70 mins

Emil Bove has filed his rule 48(a) motion to dismiss the bribery and fraud charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
The judge in the Adams case held a hearing with Eric Adams, his attorneys, and Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.
As in the case of Mike Flynn, the judge has adjourned Adams’ trial and appointed an amicus curiae to oppose the dismissal of the charges.
The weaponization of the Justice Department is in full swing ...

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February 16, 2025 58 mins

Acting US Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the Southern District of New York to dismiss the bribery and fraud charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The office’s refusal to do that precipitated a standoff and ultimately several resignations and firings. 

The Thursday Afternoon Massacre - by Jay Kuo

Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Bondi

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February 9, 2025 82 mins

Multiple FBI agents filed a lawsuit against the department of justice to stop them from compiling and releasing lists of agents who worked on January 6th cases.

Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, took a $25,000 payment from a Kremlin- connected filmmaker for his work on an anti-western documentary that aired on Tucker Carlson's online network.

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a flurry of memos this week including one that ...

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