All things considered, we’ll be lucky to end Trump’s term without Mizelle in a federal appellate judgeship

If the nickname I had acquired was “taco”, I would simply not set deadlines for tuesdays

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me:
1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

A former Trump campaign lawyer, Joe diGenova, is said to be planning to split time between Miami and Fort Pierce, where a grand jury overseen by a Trump-favored judge sits.

w/ Alan Feuer

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

ACTUAL MALICE STANDARD IS NOW WHAT SOME WOULD CALL A LEGAL LAYUP

For the past few months now, every day or two my health insurance provider has sent me an email saying I have “unused benefits for weight loss.”

It’s starting to feel like an insult.

Fascinating. This is, at least, the second gathering of state election officials this year that Heather Honey was scheduled to address but bailed. She was supposed to address secretaries of state back in January: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

Honey, who was appointed in August as deputy assistant secretary for elections integrity in DHS’s Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, met with prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election earlier this year, according to ProPublica.

At a U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) meeting on Thursday, EAC Commissioner Donald Palmer said that Heather Honey, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official and a leading election conspiracy theorist, was supposed to address state election officials but had a scheduling conflict.

Very sorry, Katelyn. Hope he pulls through.

The one in which @ericcolumbus.bsky.social takes up the “Hey, Ed!” mantle

bsky.app/profile/anna...

Lawsuit seeks federal voting commission records on ties to election deniers The lawsuit follows recent reporting by Democracy Docket that raised urgent concerns about growing partisan activity inside the commission.

📄NEW: A new lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to turn over records on its contacts with election deniers.

This follows reporting by Democracy Docket that uncovered growing partisan activity inside the agency.

Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

TAX DAY PRO TIP if you're filing by mail: Do not rely on a mailbox or a letter carrier today for filing your return on time.

Go inside a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter.

Otherwise, your tax return may not get an April 15 postmark date and the IRS may apply penalties

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

Exclusive | Jeanine Pirro’s Prosecutors Make Surprise Visit to Fed Headquarters A pair of Pirro’s deputies were turned away after showing up at the construction site for a central-bank renovation project.

"Paging Sen. Thom Tillis. Paging Sen. Thom Tillis..."

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Remember the countless articles about how Kamala Harris was an ineffective VP. Can anyone recall a room this empty for her when she was in office and not campaigning?

NEW: In 2020, as President Trump tried to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — barely.

A @propublica.org investigation found that, ahead of the midterms, Trump has systematically demolished those guardrails. 🧵

"In one conversation with advisers in the dining room next to the Oval Office last year, Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he left office, some of the people said."

If you read one thing today, please make it this deeply reported piece from @jimsaksa.com about how the SAVE America Act will disenfranchise voters in "the most difficult place in the United States to conduct elections."

this is 100% the thing a bad sci-fi movie superimposes onto DC to let you know that the government is now evil

Xinis says that she wants to set a hearing for the week of the 27th. Says there are legal issues that need argument, including whether Todd Lyons had authority to do what he did...notes that she's not sure what title he's even going by now. He was acting director of ICE, now something else...

The White House's opening salvo in the war against the midterms is through USPS, where he hasn't managed to get a single governor nominee confirmed to the board.

Seems as if this war was about as about as well-planned as the one against Iran was...

Albert Podrasky, Chief Justice Roberts’ grandfather, born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens, was an American citizen. Why not the U.S.-born child today of a migrant from Africa? Or El Salvador? Or Honduras?

Trump signs sweeping order attacking mail-in voting Trump himself has voted by mail in recent elections.

This order will be swiftly challenged and blocked by courts. But it still must be stressed that the president is attempting to personally control who gets a ballot this November.

This is the correct lede for this news.

This executive order is a press release cosplaying as an instruction, and I expect it to last maybe a week.

Dozens of people showing up at members’ town halls in 2009 was enough for The Media to declare the Tea Party Movement™️ as a key force in American politics — for years — as the Obama administration was getting going.

Consider that when you see how those same papers cover today’s protests.

#NoKings protests are happening all across the world today! Here's some pics from a rally in Hastings on Hudson, NY, from Democracy Docket Managing Editor @zackroth
#NoKings

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.