The former president is asking the Supreme Court to put the presidency above criminal law as he pursues a broader agenda of expanding the office’s power should he win the election.

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At a federal courthouse, a civilian jury for the first time heard allegations of America’s post-9/11 torture program from detainees, three of whom are suing a defense contractor, saying its interrogators told U.S. soldiers to “soften up” prisoners. nyti.ms/49PIgy7

The man in the photo is Salah Al-Ejaili, one of three plaintiffs in a suit against CACI, a military contractor that employed interrogators at Abu Ghraib, where the plaintiffs were held and allege that they were tortured in late 2003.

The case went to the jury on Monday.

You might recall Charles Graner from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

“Everyone knew it was wrong and no one was willing to step up and stop it,” he told me, 20 years later.

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Amazing to see these people, abused and/or tortured in the name of the “war on terror,” get their day in court, two decades later. Great reporting from Mattathias Schwartz. nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/…

I wrote about the Abu Ghraib trial

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Perhaps the real reason I’ve said yes to Manhattan court assignments my whole career:

what a peg

I can remember being young and there are certain things about it that I do miss

New: A federal judicial panel on today proposed greater transparency requirements for outside groups that file amicus briefs in cases by mandating they disclose when much of their revenue comes from a party involved in the lawsuit or its attorneys. reuters.com/legal/governme…

Senate Democrats proposed legislation Wednesday to curb judge-shopping after the chief judge of a Texas federal court under fire for the practice declined to change the court’s case policies. blawgo.com/SUBLprE

Not to be outdone Senate Rs are out with own judge-shopping bill, which would limit injunctions to parties & similarly situated folks w/i the district where injunction was issued.

Plus the bill includes sections reforming patent & bankruptcy venue issues fixthecourt.com/wp-content/upl….

JUST IN: Senate Dems seek to codify Judicial Conference's month-old judge-shopping policy, file a bill to take cases seeking nationwide injunctions out of a specific *division* & reassign them randomly within the *district* democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/….

Congratulations to Hannah Dreier on winning the 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for her investigation into the wide resurgence of child labor in the United States. goldsmithawards.org/honoree/alone-…

NEW: Senators Schumer and McConnell have dueling bills to curtail ‘judge shopping.’

We’re first with details from both…

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“He could recall no precedent for a government official leaving office and starting an investment firm that would immediately receive billions of dollars from foreign governments with which the official had been working while serving in government.” nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/…

Solar Eclipse as seen from the International International Space Station.

Here’s hoping we can do these eclipses more often