Tal Kopan

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Six years later...and we are still fighting for the unsealing of court records in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Federal judges decline to extend Alina Habba’s appointment as interim US attorney on Tuesday. cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

Chicago Pope is exceeding our wildest expectations

An incredibly episode by the team at The Daly: "An explosive whistle-blower report claims that the Justice Department is asking government lawyers to lie to the courts" nytimes.com/2025/07/23/pod…

“As someone who was an early critic of the Russiagate narrative, I can report that Gabbard did not get the goods.” - @EliLake

New: Sen. Lindsey Graham tells me he's concerned about the backlash to Israel's most recent operations in Syria and the strike that killed three at a Catholic church in Gaza. Graham warned that Christians in the West Bank must not face the same fate as other Middle Eastern…

JUST IN: President Obama's office responds to Trump's comments.

House Dems want to keep the Space Shuttle Discovery in the National Air & Space Museum in VA, not transfer it to Texas as mandated under OBBB.

would love to know the pipeline through which this stuff gets distributed behind the scenes because ain't know way that these outlets all just happened to stumble upon this letter simultaneously

who could blame the Utah senator? These fakers really nailed the seal of the "Elerebal Reserve Oedo of Goveryaeb"

A judge in Boston has dismissed more than 100 cases, including of several defendants charged with violent crimes, amid a lawyer work stoppage. trib.al/X4ZAHrG

Attorneys for wrongly deported Venezuelan asylum seeker will seek criminal contempt proceedings after prisoner swap: cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

Today in reporter-politician relationships: Brian Glenn, a reporter for Real America’s Voice, asked Trump in the Oval Office just now about ending capital gains taxes on home sales. His girlfriend, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, introduced a bill earlier this month to do that.

Buried in amendments to the Interior Dept. Gov funding bill, is a stipulation that the Kennedy Center Opera House must be renamed the 'First Lady Melania Trump Opera House' in order to receive federal funds. The Appropriations Committee adopted that amendment by a vote of 33-25.

House Republicans got to this level of specificity in trying to take away DC's autonomy: Would prohibit D.C. from using its local funds to enact or carry out any law which prohibits motorists from making right turns on red.

Dennis Etzkorn, the owner of the Fall River assisted living facility where a fire left 10 residents dead, has come under scrutiny for a history of legal issues. Here's what to know. trib.al/ZmfHRxe

CBO estimates that over the next 10 years the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” will increase deficits by $3.4 trillion. “That increase in the deficit is estimated to result from a decrease in direct spending of $1.1 trillion and a decrease in revenues of $4.5 trillion,” they…

NEW: Before his alleged Bay Area post office crash, the brother of Pat Tillman documented his own unraveling online By @abauman2 sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

DC fed judge orders Trump admin to restore, for now, a program it ended dating back to 2013 that allows US immigration courts to appoint legal representatives to help people with serious mental illnesses buff.ly/x3ofNYF

They also allege that overcrowding was so bad that women were forced to use the toilet in front of men and some people were held on buses for 24 hours straight.