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NEW: Watchdog @weareoversight.bsky.social submitted a complaint to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel alleging Kristi Noem may have violated the Hatch Act by taking a taxpayer funded trip to a Republican event in June 2025 and DHS's use of its official Flickr to publicize Noem's attendance.
Read @lukebroadwater.bsky.social's @nytimes.com coverage of @lawfaremedia.org's Jan. 6 clemency study here: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
Link to the full GAO report, "Immigration Detention: Waste and Performance Issues at Camp East Montana Provide Valuable Lessons for Future Facilities," here: www.gao.gov/products/gao...
Read it on @lawfaremedia.org here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
Full text of the Senate version of Blumenthal/Frost's bicameral Right to Record Act which would add new legal consequences for federal/immigration enforcement officers who prevent recording, observing, or peacefully protesting law enforcement activities (which is already constitutionally protected)
Wild: to meet senior leader demands to sharply increase detention capacity, ICE & Army turned to a pool of contractors w/ no "prior experience providing detention services" to run Camp East Montana—then awarded a contract but "did not review the contractor's approach" beforehand
Read the full text of the Senate version of the Right to Record Act here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
At the end of May, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matter.
This is the record DOJ is trying to delete, from @tylermcbrien.com, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org.
Read the complaint in full here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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The real count is much higher than the public knew.
NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
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ICE has increased its enforcement efforts and expanded detention capacity since January 2025. The Army and ICE opened ICE's largest facility—Camp East...
