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Our original reporting has been the basis of hundreds of national and local news stories.
New this morning: While the former Venezuelan President faces federal charges after being captured by the U.S. military, we looked back at the stories of would-be coups by civilians that went awry and their intersection with the federal courts.
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The Rabbit Hole: When Overthrowing A Government Goes Wrong.
While the former Venezuelan President faces federal charges after being captured by the U.S. military, we looked back at the stories of would-be coups by civilians that went awry and their intersectio...
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January 25, 2026 at 5:14 PM
New this morning: While the former Venezuelan President faces federal charges after being captured by the U.S. military, we looked back at the stories of would-be coups by civilians that went awry and their intersection with the federal courts.
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In a court filing over a payment dispute, My Pillow includes a screenshot of an Jan 21 email where Mike Lindell offers a portion of a potential USGovt settlement over the Artic Frost investigation to the company My Pillow owes money to.
January 23, 2026 at 3:08 PM
In a court filing over a payment dispute, My Pillow includes a screenshot of an Jan 21 email where Mike Lindell offers a portion of a potential USGovt settlement over the Artic Frost investigation to the company My Pillow owes money to.
In this week’s roundup of the most interesting federal court documents, we found a loophole to get free PACER.
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#160: Hacking For Press Release?
We found the only person in the world who wanted to receive a press release. Plus: Shotgun Weddings, Frosting Cakes, Seizing Reporter Records, and we may very well become a U.S. Attorney soon enough.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:59 PM
In this week’s roundup of the most interesting federal court documents, we found a loophole to get free PACER.
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A federal judge bars Lindsey Halligan from using the title US Attorney in filings
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January 20, 2026 at 6:32 PM
A federal judge bars Lindsey Halligan from using the title US Attorney in filings
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A nihilistic online group is targeting minors. In this week's Rabbit Hole, we examined the prosecutions aimed at stopping what the Justice Department calls "one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises we have ever encountered"
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The Rabbit Hole: ‘Metastasizing Evil’
A nihilistic online group is targeting minors. We examined the prosecutions aimed at stopping what the Justice Department calls "one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises we have e...
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January 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM
A nihilistic online group is targeting minors. In this week's Rabbit Hole, we examined the prosecutions aimed at stopping what the Justice Department calls "one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises we have ever encountered"
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In this week’s roundup of court records: Laura Loomer’s lawyer is in hot water, Jeffrey Epstein gets 80 new lawyers, and New Mexico’s US Attorney is ruled unlawful
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#159: Jeffrey Epstein gets 80 New Lawyers
The Justice Department attempts the kitchen sink approach to fulfilling their legal obligation. Plus: Loomer’s lawyer in hot water, Vance Threat, Instagramming Crimes, and roadtripping with a terroris...
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January 16, 2026 at 12:39 PM
In this week’s roundup of court records: Laura Loomer’s lawyer is in hot water, Jeffrey Epstein gets 80 new lawyers, and New Mexico’s US Attorney is ruled unlawful
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Here’s the charging document of the man accused of leaking the docs
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January 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Here’s the charging document of the man accused of leaking the docs
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January 12, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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“This reporting is based on hundreds of pages of U.S. legal filings, interviews with national security officials who worked on the investigation, foreign court proceedings, and sentencing hearings attended by Court Watch reporters.”
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“This reporting is based on hundreds of pages of U.S. legal filings, interviews with national security officials who worked on the investigation, foreign court proceedings, and sentencing hearings attended by Court Watch reporters.”
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The Rabbit Hole: A Terrorism Prosecution Finally Ends.
Convicted of terrorism in two countries for the same crime, the last member of five young Virginians who disappeared in 2009 to join a terrorist group had his day in court.
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January 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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“This reporting is based on hundreds of pages of U.S. legal filings, interviews with national security officials who worked on the investigation, foreign court proceedings, and sentencing hearings attended by Court Watch reporters.”
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“This reporting is based on hundreds of pages of U.S. legal filings, interviews with national security officials who worked on the investigation, foreign court proceedings, and sentencing hearings attended by Court Watch reporters.”
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“In the years that followed, these five American citizens were prosecuted and imprisoned for terrorism overseas, purportedly tortured in foreign custody, only to be extradited a decade later and prosecuted again by the United States for the same acts.”
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The Rabbit Hole: A Terrorism Prosecution Finally Ends.
Convicted of terrorism in two countries for the same crime, the last member of five young Virginians who disappeared in 2009 to join a terrorist group had his day in court.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
“In the years that followed, these five American citizens were prosecuted and imprisoned for terrorism overseas, purportedly tortured in foreign custody, only to be extradited a decade later and prosecuted again by the United States for the same acts.”
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Publishing in two hours — 3000 word piece on a terrorism prosecution sixteen years in the making.
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January 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Publishing in two hours — 3000 word piece on a terrorism prosecution sixteen years in the making.
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Elon Musk and his America PAC won’t have to pay a canvasser who sued them.
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#158: The Existential Crisis of Being A Lawyer.
This week, federal judges approved lawyers who were not lawyers and disapproved of lawyers saying they are lawyers. Meanwhile, we’re just happy to exist. Plus: Government bribery, Apology letters, and...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Elon Musk and his America PAC won’t have to pay a canvasser who sued them.
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This week, federal judges approved lawyers who were not lawyers and disapproved of lawyers saying they are lawyers.
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#158: The Existential Crisis of Being A Lawyer.
This week, federal judges approved lawyers who were not lawyers and disapproved of lawyers saying they are lawyers. Meanwhile, we’re just happy to exist. Plus: Government bribery, Apology letters, and...
www.courtwatch.news
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This week, federal judges approved lawyers who were not lawyers and disapproved of lawyers saying they are lawyers.
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“I’ve been on the bench [for] seven years. I’ve spent more time thinking about this case than I’ve ever spent thinking about anything else I’ve done on the bench.”
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The Rabbit Hole: A Texas Criminal Case Tests a Decades-Old Statute
Prosecutors feverishly worked over the holidays to try to keep a Texas teenager in jail after a judge dismissed the case.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:18 AM
“I’ve been on the bench [for] seven years. I’ve spent more time thinking about this case than I’ve ever spent thinking about anything else I’ve done on the bench.”
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NEW Rabbit Hole story — “The case, which stood out previously for its cartoonish online context, now carries broader implications for how federal threat cases are prosecuted in the Fifth Circuit—and possibly beyond.”
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The Rabbit Hole: A Texas Criminal Case Tests a Decades-Old Statute
Prosecutors feverishly worked over the holidays to try to keep a Texas teenager in jail after a judge dismissed the case.
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January 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
NEW Rabbit Hole story — “The case, which stood out previously for its cartoonish online context, now carries broader implications for how federal threat cases are prosecuted in the Fifth Circuit—and possibly beyond.”
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If you want to read the newly unsealed SDNY indictment against Maduro.
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#260 in United States v. Carvajal-Barrios (S.D.N.Y., 1:11-cr-00205) – CourtListener.com
(S4) SUPERSEDING REDACTED INDICTMENT FILED as to Nicolas Maduro Moros (2) count(s) 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, Diosado Cabello Rondon (3) count(s) 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, Ramon Rodriguez Chacin (7) count(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, C...
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January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
If you want to read the newly unsealed SDNY indictment against Maduro.
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The FBI has arrested a Charlotte teenager for alleged support of ISIS. Criminal complaint is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Affidavit – #3, Att. #1 in United States v. Sturdivant (W.D.N.C., 3:25-mj-00354) – CourtListener.com
SEALED CRIMINAL COMPLAINT as to Christian Sturdivant (1). (Attachments: # 1 Affidavit, # 2 Penalty Sheet) (maf) (Additional attachment(s) added on 12/31/2025: # 2 Penalty Sheet) (maf). (Main Document ...
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January 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The FBI has arrested a Charlotte teenager for alleged support of ISIS. Criminal complaint is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In this week’s court dockets: A Navy Seal can kill Bin Laden but can he stop a mean podcast? AI encourages a death and brings back The Voice. A crew steals DoD laptops. And one federal court house will either rule in your favor or give you legionnaire’s disease.
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#157: Who owns Insta?
Meta files a cease and desist. Plus: Live turtles, a nativity scene, Whitney Houston AI, threats galore, and Flock lawsuit.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
In this week’s court dockets: A Navy Seal can kill Bin Laden but can he stop a mean podcast? AI encourages a death and brings back The Voice. A crew steals DoD laptops. And one federal court house will either rule in your favor or give you legionnaire’s disease.
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New DOJ court filing on alleged J6 pipe bomber with additional details
"When asked why he placed the devices at the RNC and DNC, the defendant responded, “I really don’t like either party at this point.”
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"When asked why he placed the devices at the RNC and DNC, the defendant responded, “I really don’t like either party at this point.”
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Memorandum in Support of Pretrial Detention – #17 in United States v. COLE (D.D.C., 1:25-mj-00276) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM in Support of Pretrial Detention by USA as to BRIAN J. COLE, JR (Jones, Charles) (Entered: 12/28/2025)
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December 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
New DOJ court filing on alleged J6 pipe bomber with additional details
"When asked why he placed the devices at the RNC and DNC, the defendant responded, “I really don’t like either party at this point.”
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"When asked why he placed the devices at the RNC and DNC, the defendant responded, “I really don’t like either party at this point.”
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We continue to update our running list of the more than four hundred lawsuits filed against the Trump Adminstration, including the one just filed a few moments ago by Congresswoman Beatty against the inclusion of the President Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center
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Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
We put them all in one place.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
We continue to update our running list of the more than four hundred lawsuits filed against the Trump Adminstration, including the one just filed a few moments ago by Congresswoman Beatty against the inclusion of the President Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center
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Lots of interviews with local businesses in Florida and court documents pulls to make this fascinating story happen.
“Since May, Wagner has typically filed at least seven federal ADA lawsuits a month, with the last batch of eight civil complaints coming in late November. She has not filed a new lawsuit since Court Watch began making inquiries in the course of reporting”
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The Rabbit Hole: A Persistent Plaintiff
Tavia Wagner has filed 350 lawsuits in Florida over Americans with Disabilities Act violations. Our reporter Gabrielle Russon attempts to figure out why.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Lots of interviews with local businesses in Florida and court documents pulls to make this fascinating story happen.
“Since May, Wagner has typically filed at least seven federal ADA lawsuits a month, with the last batch of eight civil complaints coming in late November. She has not filed a new lawsuit since Court Watch began making inquiries in the course of reporting”
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The Rabbit Hole: A Persistent Plaintiff
Tavia Wagner has filed 350 lawsuits in Florida over Americans with Disabilities Act violations. Our reporter Gabrielle Russon attempts to figure out why.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Since May, Wagner has typically filed at least seven federal ADA lawsuits a month, with the last batch of eight civil complaints coming in late November. She has not filed a new lawsuit since Court Watch began making inquiries in the course of reporting”
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New — for our Sunday morning series, our reporter Gabrielle Russon examined hundreds of lawsuits filed by one very persistent plaintiff in Florida.
“He was demoralized because he was kind to her and knew her and couldn't believe that she would do this.”
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“He was demoralized because he was kind to her and knew her and couldn't believe that she would do this.”
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The Rabbit Hole: A Persistent Plaintiff
Tavia Wagner has filed 350 lawsuits in Florida over Americans with Disabilities Act violations. Our reporter Gabrielle Russon attempts to figure out why.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New — for our Sunday morning series, our reporter Gabrielle Russon examined hundreds of lawsuits filed by one very persistent plaintiff in Florida.
“He was demoralized because he was kind to her and knew her and couldn't believe that she would do this.”
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“He was demoralized because he was kind to her and knew her and couldn't believe that she would do this.”
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We try to bury the most interesting court record of the week as an easter egg to our most dedicated readers. But this is an absolutely fascinating investigation involving wifi jammers, license plate readers, drones, crypto, & a kidnapping attempt
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#156: Wifi Jammers, Drones, & Crypto Kidnapping
One Miami case brings it all together. Plus: a bad trip, James O'Keefe sued, Bill Maher deposition, Detroit elites are the worst, ATM hacks, and can you recuse every prosecutor in America?
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December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We try to bury the most interesting court record of the week as an easter egg to our most dedicated readers. But this is an absolutely fascinating investigation involving wifi jammers, license plate readers, drones, crypto, & a kidnapping attempt
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