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Military law requires military members to disobey unlawful orders. Indeed, If a soldier obeys an unlawful order he/she could be court-martialed.

Yet Trump has set the Pentagon and the FBI on the six members of Congress who made a video stating, accurately and truthfully, that military members have a duty to disobey unlawful orders.

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In a huge blow to Donald Trump's attempt to seek revenge on people he perceives as his enemies, a federal judge has dismissed the criminal prosecutions Trump's Department of Justice brought against former FBI Director James Comey and current New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Judge Currie ruled that Trump flunky Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed as interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. ...

Donald Trump's pardons endanger all Americans. He pardons crypto currency crooks who endanger our national security, he pardons convicted felons who possess firearms, he pardons business executives who defraud nursing homes.

After pardoning more that 1500 of the "boots" of the insurrection - the angry mob he set on the US Capitol on January 6 - Trump has now pardoned 77 of the "suits" of the insurrection - the attorneys an...

By using the United States military in patently unlawful ways, Donald Trump is creating a military that is at war with itself, figuratively speaking.

Military members have a duty to obey lawful orders but an equally important duty to disobey patently unlawful orders.

Glenn spoke with law professor and military law expert Dan Maurer to discuss his important new piece titled:

"Fighting on Three Fronts: the U.S. Military's War w...

During the vindictive prosecution court hearing in the James Comey case, the judge told Lindsey Halligan (who had yet to speak in any court proceeding) to approach the podium. He then insisted she explain what she did with the grand jury indictment.

What became clear is that Halligan violated grand jury procedures, mistakes that are likely to invalidate the Comey indictment.

Glenn provides a first-hand account from inside t...

For months, Donald Trump has been whining and complaining about people paying attention to the Epstein files, and urging Congress not to release them.

He then directed his Department of Justice to investigate the Epstein case, but only with respect to Democrats who may be implicated (an obviously vindictive and selective approach to an investigation).

And now, Donald Trump is telling members of Congress to vote IN FAVOR OF ...

In a blockbuster revelation in court at the hearing in the James Comey and Letitia James vindictive prosecution cases, the presiding judge indicated that she didn't believe the prosecutors had given her all of the tapes from the grand jury proceedings in which Lindsey Halligan indicted Comey.

As part of Glenn's recurring series, "The Prosecutors' Verdict", he discusses this dramatic development with his fellow former caree...

It's no secret that Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have been doing everything they can to damage and degrade the Department of Justice, and to destroy the DOJ's legitimacy in the eyes of the American people.

Even beyond that, the Trump administration has been determined to put federal employees "in trauma." Indeed, those are the words of the person Trump picked to be his OMB Director, Russell Vought. ...

There are always plenty of bad news stories given the lawlessness of the Trump administration. But there are times when the media seems to focus on the bad and give short shrift to the good news stories, the positive legal developments, the points of light.

Here is one point of light regarding a federal judge in Chicago pushing back against the lawless aspects of the Trump Administration's abuses of immigrants AND US citiz...

Glenn attended the court hearing in the vindictive prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James. Comey and James are asking the judge to throw out their cases based on the allegedly illegal appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim US Attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. Glenn explains what happened in court at this hearing, including a stunning revelation by the presiding judge about missing grand jury recordi...

In a surprise move, the Supreme Court decided to leave the constitutional right to gay marriage in tact by refusing to accept for a review a case that could have been used to revoke that right.

Glenn spoke about this and other legal developments with law professor and constitutional scholar Kim Wehle.

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After pardoning the 1500 people who committed crimes at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump has now pardoned 77 others - including lawyers like Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro and others who tried to help Trump retain the presidency despite losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

What message is Trump sending to those he pardoned? Might he be using it as a recruiting tool for what he'd like...

Donald Trump just issued 77 pardons, including for six individuals who were unindicted co-conspirators in Trump's federal criminal indictment for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election.

Trump has now pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, Boris Epstein, Jenna Ellis, Mark Meadows and many others.

This feels like a recruiting effort by Trump. He seems to be calling ...

In recent days we've seen several points of lights piercing through the Trump-induced darkness.

First, a Trump-appointed judge, Karin Immergut, has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Trump from deploying National Guard troops to the streets of Portland.

Second, in a clear repudiation of prosecutorial overreach and abuse by Attorney General Pam Bondi and DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a DC jury has now acquitted - fou...

Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, his administration stopped having American Sign Language interpreters translate at White House press briefings for the deaf and hard of hearing communities.

A federal judge has ruled that this violated federal law, and ordered the White House to reinstate sign language interpreters so the deaf and hard of hearing communities would have access to the information b...

A federal judge seems exasperated with Trump flunky Lindsey Halligan, who vindictively indicted former FBI Director James Comey at the insistence of Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie who is litigating the legality of the Comey indictment - specifically Halligan's involvement in obtaining the indictment - previously ordered DOJ/Halligan to turn over all evidence from the grand jury proceedings. But Ha...

As Politico reported: "More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy."

The reporting also notes that those 100 judges "have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration's effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was flatly illegal". Glenn discusses why this massive legal rebuke matters.

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We are always asking ourselves, asking others, or others are asking us: what can I do to fight FOR democracy and fight AGAINST Trump's autocracy, dictatorship, and authoritarianism?

Glenn sat down with Miles Taylor to discuss a new approach: DEFIANCE.org. Miles has set the standard for standing up to Trump's lawlessness, his threats, and his despicable and insatiable appetite for revenge.

Miles decided to create DEFIANCE.o...

From Trump ordering unlawful military strikes on boats in international waters - murdering dozens of human beings, to Trump saying he can order soldiers into the street of US cities and even the courts can't stop him, Trump behavior vis-a-vis the military is getting more dangerous and lawless by the day.

Two members of the Illinois National Guard have spoke out publicly, announcing that they would not obey unlawful order f...