Joan Resnick Ehrlich

Reminder why Trump wanted to be President again: 1. Escape criminal charges for committed crimes incl. insurrection & stealing national security secrets 2. Line his pockets w/riches only made possible by being President 3. Retribution against *all *perceived enemies That's it.

voter turnout in israel at highest by midday since 1977 normally a good thing. for netanyahu, high arab turnout is an ‘emergency’ (…and an excuse to claim election was stolen, of course)

COMING UP: Preliminary hearing before magistrate judge Faruqui in the criminal case of former FBI agents charged with false statements to Congress and obstruction. Things could get very interesting... I'm here in the media room for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along!

🚨BREAKING: Democrats asked a federal judge Monday night for a restraining order and temporary injunction to halt President Donald Trump and his administration from interfering in the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

No more surprise chainsaws at East Potomac Park The court says not one more tree comes down & the administration owes 10 business days’ notice before any other move it can’t undo Our @democracydefendersfund.org statement w/ @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates👇 -TN

These accusations are wild. If true, yeah, major felony. If false, hoo boy, potentially major defamation claim.

Don't miss this. Very smart and accurate from @dassakaye.bsky.social.

⚖️ HAPPENING NOW: The 7th Circuit is hearing a pro-voting lawsuit challenging Indiana's new law banning student IDs for voting. Students have used student IDs for voting in the state since 2005. Over 30k students at one state university used them to vote in 2024. 📺: https://demdock.com/3UlaGOR

"The fight over the fate of East Potomac Golf Links has revealed the almost impossible position the courts find themselves in when they can’t trust the government after all." @mollyroberts.bsky.social explains why a case over President Trump’s plans to renovate a golf course matters.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury tells me Congress is ready for Trump’s “funny business” including from his 1,000 “observers” at midterm polling locations. More on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...

It's amazing how quickly and effectively one man destroyed the reputation of the ADL.

All Trump & Blanche moves against states 👇

Move is latest attempt to challenge states with competitive midterm races that could determine control of Congress

I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this coordinated campaign to delegitimize Muslim Americans - not just as citizens but as humans. These increasingly hysterical attacks are a prelude to Republicans bringing us to a very, very dark place after the election.

Alaska. The Comeys. California. East Potomac Golf Course. All of today's key court developments in one place. Catch up here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-day-ev...

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Wow, this is great.

No. The charges are already time barred. Under the relevant statute of limitations, an indictment must be filed within 10 years of the offense, which allegedly occurred on October 5, 2016. This DOJ is out of control.

JUST IN: Judge Gleason in Alaska sounds deeply skeptical of DOJ's 11th hour lawsuit there to halt certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. She grants Dems' motion for expedited consideration and notes DOJ waited four months to sue over the ballot. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

BREAKING: Preliminary injunction granted in the golf course case by Judge Reyes! The threat to close & destroy this historic property is the latest act of Trump corruption that the courts have responded to Kudos to our wonderful clients & cocounsel @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates

I have zero sympathy for anyone involved in this grotesque farce. When you travel all the way to DC to go to the home of the most infamous fascist in US history and get ushered into his office alongside a videographer and photographer, you know *exactly* what vile game you're playing. Disgraceful.

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In 19th-century Charleston, SC, urban slavery gave rise to a unique and chilling tool of control: Charleston Slave Badges. Who knew? 🤔 Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory relicrecord.com/blog/charles...

Here's the schedule for briefing in Trump's attempt to steal Mary Petola's win. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

"The DOJ knows that it can’t win this case. It’s all part of an effort to stoke the fires of grievance and try to undermine confidence in the election."

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reuters: US APPEALS COURT DENIES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S REQUEST TO STOP CALIFORNIA FROM COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS FROM ALLEGED NONCITIZENS

ATTENTION WISCONSIN VOTERS

NEW: I'm in the Comey docket now. Comey petitioned the court to unseal this case, which Judge McFadden granted today. That's why we're getting this news now 1/

Trump's lawyers had 13 pages to tell a federal judge there's no plan to put agents at polling places. Read what they wrote instead:
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-foug...

At a time when corruption is a top concern among voters, going after your political enemies for the fifty-eleventh time is some choice. Especially in these war/tariff/inflation times

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

Fuck Putin. Fuck Trump. Fuck Musk.

As FBI Director, he absolutely had the authority to direct those staffers to do that. He was an OCA, he could do that. This case is garbage on procedure and on substance.

I'm going to say this for probably the 20th time now .... Comey was an Original Classification Authority at the time he allegedly disseminated the national defense information at issue here. Assuming it was FBI information, he had the authority to declassify it at his discretion.

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

Oh. My. God. We seriously need to get money out of politics. As Abdul El-Sayed is campaigning on.

For those who missed it, Valero just made more in past three months than 2024 and 2025 COMBINED! $6.8 Billion profit in 3 months!

REALITY CHECK Send this to all the clowns saying, “The prices were higher under Obama.”

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War. Meanwhile, Trump himself owns up to $81 million in oil and gas stocks — which have increased in value by 43% since the end of 2025. When Trump says "we're making a freaking fortune," understand who he is really talking about.

Shorter 174 judges to 8th Circuit chief judge: Say, have you noticed that DOJ keeps making frivolous complaints about judges? www.democracydefendersfund.org/news/174-bip...

Not too early to start thinking about how grassroots pressure on a Dem House could help produce better results -->

ICYMI

Hold the phone, folks in my replies just alerted me to something I had not even realized. Nicki Manaj appears to only be a green card holder. Not a U.S. citizen. It would incredibly problematic to put a foreign national in that position. Not impossible, per se, because of Article II... but yikes.

A group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers is coming together to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that it says is being ignored by the Trump DOJ. "The rule of law is on life support, but it's all of our responsibility to make sure it doesn't die."

OK, this deserves a 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣