Attention to the Unseen

Judge Mark L. Wolf was appointed as a federal judge by Ronald Reagan in 1985. On Friday he resigned. He writes: I decided all of my cases based on the facts and the law, without regard to politics, popularity, or my personal preferences. That is how justice is supposed to be administered—equally for everyone, without fear or favor. This is the opposite of what is happening now. As I watched in dismay and disgust from my position on the bench,…

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  When Donald Trump was sworn in as president in January, both John Roberts and Trump knew that the oath he was taking was meaningless — it had been rendered meaningless by the Roberts’ edict, Trump v. United States (2024), granting presidential immunity. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent, “the President is now a king above the law.” Commenting on the Supreme Court ruling that effectively turned the president into a monarch by granting unprecedented presidential immunity from criminal…

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Adam Serwer writes: The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won. “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there,” Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes. Mamdani responded to Trump’s threat of extortion—vote for my preferred candidate…

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TNND reports: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon warned a room full of conservatives that many of them could face jail time if Republicans lose the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election. “And I will tell you right now, as God is my witness, if we lose the midterms, if we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison – myself included. They’re not gonna stop,” Bannon said in reference to Democrats. They are getting more and more and…

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The New York Times reports: With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, through a series of new notices and proposed regulations, are giving breaks to giant private equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real estate investors, insurance providers and a variety of multinational corporations. The primary target: The administration is rapidly gutting…

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NBC News reports: A federal judge in Oregon on Friday issued a permanent injunction barring the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard on the streets of Portland in response to protests against the president’s immigration policies. “This Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither ‘a rebellion or danger of a rebellion’ nor was the President ‘unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States’ in Oregon when he ordered the federalization and…

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Reuters reports: A federal agent who shot a Chicago woman multiple times after he said she struck his vehicle with her own bragged about his shooting skills in text messages with other agents, according to records presented Wednesday at a hearing in the case against the woman. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent Charles Exum shot U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez, who was warning others about immigration enforcement agents in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood, five times on October 4, after their…

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