Eric Lisann
@ericlisann.bsky.social
Lawyer, former federal and state prosecutor, independent legal analyst and contributor France24, adjunct HEC Paris. Father, loud spectator of college tennis matches. Same handle on the former Twitter.
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Eric Lisann
@ericlisann.bsky.social
· Aug 11
'Attack on Democrat-run cities: Trump takes DC crackdown to new level, flexing new-found authority'
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Here's my lowdown on the latest power machinations extending federal control, lawfully or otherwise, on what has become a plant local DC government. With France24 English Sharon Gaffney.
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DOJ and Eastern District of VA prosecutors are cosplaying by insisting on filing indictments and other documents purportedly signed by Halligan who a judge there has determined is unlawfully claiming that role, such that the documents have no legal force.
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Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents | CNN Politics
Federal judges in Alexandria, Virginia, have lashed out at the Justice Department as they continue to list Lindsey Halligan on court documents — some going as far as striking her name from paperwork f...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
DOJ and Eastern District of VA prosecutors are cosplaying by insisting on filing indictments and other documents purportedly signed by Halligan who a judge there has determined is unlawfully claiming that role, such that the documents have no legal force.
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How many military careers will be ruined due to the actions of this administration?
NYT: “.. the waving by the survivors could have been an attempt to surrender, which could raise questions about whether the military had violated the rules of armed conflict ..”
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December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
How many military careers will be ruined due to the actions of this administration?
Between the corrupt clowns in this photo this could be the most problematic World Cup ever.
Holding the World Cup games in 3 countries means that ease of crossing borders is a fundamental part of the World Cup going smoothly. Hundreds of thousands of players, staff, and fans will need to move across the U.S.-Mexico border and the Canada-U.S. border in order to attend the matches.
Trump’s Draconian Border Policies Are Menacing the 2026 World Cup
World Cup athletes, fans, and personnel fear Trump’s anti-immigration policies may disrupt the tournament’s operation.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Between the corrupt clowns in this photo this could be the most problematic World Cup ever.
Trump spent months falsely claiming that Biden was behind the New York and the Fulton County prosecutions of him, dragooning congressional toadys into harassing state authorities with frivolous subpoenas, as if to make a political point. Now he is foing exactly what he falsely accused Biden of.
I was told by a reporter in October that the White House was looking to prosecute me because I stood against their inhumane agenda.
Days later, they did exactly that.
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Days later, they did exactly that.
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Broadview conspiracy defendants want to see if White House played a role in their case
A significant legal battle appears to be brewing in the case of six people facing federal charges tied to protests outside an immigration facility in Broadview.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Trump spent months falsely claiming that Biden was behind the New York and the Fulton County prosecutions of him, dragooning congressional toadys into harassing state authorities with frivolous subpoenas, as if to make a political point. Now he is foing exactly what he falsely accused Biden of.
Legislatures can evade judicial review of even their racially discriminatory maps simply by passing them as close as possible to Election Day so long as they confer upon Republicans a partisan advantage. A Democratic-skewed map would undoubtedly run afoul of some doctrine, contrived if necessary.
There are so many things wrong with this ruling, including the total disregard for the clear error standard. But what really gets me is the notion that legislatures can evade judicial review of their maps simply by passing them as close as possible to Election Day
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Legislatures can evade judicial review of even their racially discriminatory maps simply by passing them as close as possible to Election Day so long as they confer upon Republicans a partisan advantage. A Democratic-skewed map would undoubtedly run afoul of some doctrine, contrived if necessary.
The politicized prosecution against Letitia James is now officially less compelling than a ham sandwich.
NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The politicized prosecution against Letitia James is now officially less compelling than a ham sandwich.
Just listing the family conflicts of interest alone and staggering amounts of money - taxpayer money - going from government coffers to Trump family pockets requires an indictment length document. No functioning system of governance can tolerate this.
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just listing the family conflicts of interest alone and staggering amounts of money - taxpayer money - going from government coffers to Trump family pockets requires an indictment length document. No functioning system of governance can tolerate this.
Terry Rozier you're next.
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Trump pardons former top entertainment executive who was charged by his own Justice Department | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump issued a “full and unconditional pardon” for Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke, who was indicted by the president’s own Justice Department earlier this year, according to a ...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Terry Rozier you're next.
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Ingrassia is blocked by Sen Repubs, his own party, to lead Office of Special Counsel because of, among other things his published racist and anti-semitic statements. He then runs point for the WH burying evidence against Andrew Tate. Now he is in a top position at GSA.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Ingrassia is blocked by Sen Repubs, his own party, to lead Office of Special Counsel because of, among other things his published racist and anti-semitic statements. He then runs point for the WH burying evidence against Andrew Tate. Now he is in a top position at GSA.
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In the run-up to the 2016 election, even as he was campaigning and denouncing evidence of his Russia financial ties as a hoax, Trump was secretly negotiating to put up a Trump Tower in Moscow. Media has forgotten. It's always been a Trump dream. Now he can revel in it.
The real goal of the talks is to increase the Trump family fortune.
That's why Kushner is in Moscow.
Just remember that Kushner wanted to install a direct link to Moscow from the WH using Russian equipment so "it wouldn't be tracked."
A mob family is running the country.
That's why Kushner is in Moscow.
Just remember that Kushner wanted to install a direct link to Moscow from the WH using Russian equipment so "it wouldn't be tracked."
A mob family is running the country.
Trump's son-in-law almost certainly just broke the law: analyst
President Donald Trump's son-in-law likely broke the law this week, one analyst wrote Wednesday.Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow on Tuesday to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations wi...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In the run-up to the 2016 election, even as he was campaigning and denouncing evidence of his Russia financial ties as a hoax, Trump was secretly negotiating to put up a Trump Tower in Moscow. Media has forgotten. It's always been a Trump dream. Now he can revel in it.
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Sure. What is your position on Schumer and Senate Democrats dawdling on most of these seats for the entire last year of Biden's term, allowing instead Trump to fill them with election denying toadys? This is what Democratic voters want to be honestly discussed.
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sure. What is your position on Schumer and Senate Democrats dawdling on most of these seats for the entire last year of Biden's term, allowing instead Trump to fill them with election denying toadys? This is what Democratic voters want to be honestly discussed.
Surprising a law suit has not already been filed in US court.
The family of the Colombian fisherman who was killed in the Sept. 15 US military strike in the Caribbean Sea filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the US government illegally killed him.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Surprising a law suit has not already been filed in US court.
This is an unfolding train wreck in very slow motion. At least 5 separate US Attorneys are declaring at DOJ insistence that the existing court findings of their illegitimacy are to be ignored. This is not only a challenge to already reluctant courts, it (rightfully) endangers every criminal case.
NEW: Despite being disqualified from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Trump loyalist Alina Habba and the DOJ are still claiming she’s the top federal prosecutor in the state. And she isn’t the first Trump appointee to do so.
Despite Disqualifications, Trump Appointees Still Claim to Be Top Federal Prosecutors
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is an unfolding train wreck in very slow motion. At least 5 separate US Attorneys are declaring at DOJ insistence that the existing court findings of their illegitimacy are to be ignored. This is not only a challenge to already reluctant courts, it (rightfully) endangers every criminal case.
Kavanaugh will have to vote either to reverse himself on the constitutionality of his own Frankenstein monster creation of Kavanaugh stops, or reverse this lower court. Maybe not that close a call for him.
While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
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Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
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![Excerpt from ruling:
“Bluntly put, why the Court ruled as it did remains unclear-and without reasoning,
this order cannot even be considered as persuasive. Second, Justice Kavanaugh's conclusion that the plaintiffs lacked standing in Perdomo rested on the claims asserted in that case specifically, plaintiffs there sought to enjoin defendants from targeting individuals for immigration stops based on certain factors, such as race or ethnicity, their accent, and the type of work they did. Id. Justice Kavanaugh reasoned that plaintiffs in Perdomo likely lacked standing under Lyons, as defendants may "stop suspected illegal immigrants based on a variety of factors," and thus "plaintiffs ha[d] no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future" based "only on [prohibited] factors." Id. at *3 (emphases in original). In contrast, this case concerns an entirely different context, namely, civil immigration arrests rather than immigration stops, which were at issue in Perdomo, and a different type of challenge. Specifically, plaintiffs are not arguing which factors defendants may consider in their application of a legal standard, but rather contend that defendants have abandoned the proper legal standard entirely. See Pls.' Reply at 8. Thus, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Perdomo, to the extent it has persuasive, let alone controlling, authority, is inapposite.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/bafkreidy2tm2mkrt4kkxcnhlmc6uess22cabrg7b5juyauqoolvoqd7teu@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Kavanaugh will have to vote either to reverse himself on the constitutionality of his own Frankenstein monster creation of Kavanaugh stops, or reverse this lower court. Maybe not that close a call for him.
Would sound better if this didn't come from the "Daddy Trump" guy.
Nato boss says 'we're not going anywhere' after Putin says Russia willing to go to war with Europe. www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
Nato boss says 'we're not going anywhere' after Putin says Russia willing to go to war with Europe
Mark Rutte's comments come a day after Putin rejected US proposals for peace in Ukraine after talks with US negotiators in Moscow.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Would sound better if this didn't come from the "Daddy Trump" guy.
Biden would not have called these "Biden accounts", would have merged them into the superior 529 account scheme, would have run the donation through public funding and audit mechanisms, and would not have engaged in overt pay to play. So Dell saw his chance with Trump.
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Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to fund ‘Trump Accounts’ for millions of American kids | CNN Business
Michael and Susan Dell on Tuesday announced that they are donating $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for at least 25 million American children.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Biden would not have called these "Biden accounts", would have merged them into the superior 529 account scheme, would have run the donation through public funding and audit mechanisms, and would not have engaged in overt pay to play. So Dell saw his chance with Trump.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/b...
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The kiss of death for Vance.
Elon Musk predicts 12 years of Trump Vance Vance
Musk was bullish on the GOP's presidential prospects at a DOGE reunion in Texas, where he appeared virtually, citing fears of assassination.
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Musk was bullish on the GOP's presidential prospects at a DOGE reunion in Texas, where he appeared virtually, citing fears of assassination.
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Elon Musk predicts 12 years of Trump Vance Vance
Musk was bullish on the GOP's presidential prospects at a DOGE reunion in Texas, where he appeared virtually, citing fears of assassination.
www.politico.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The kiss of death for Vance.
Was Trump similarly sleeping through discussion of the order to lethally double-tap civilian boaters in the Caribbean?
if i worked in a White House with an elderly and ailing president who had a hard time staying awake, i would simply recommend against having 3 hour cabinet meetings that are boring af and pointless and best remembered for the fact said president is sleeping on camera
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Was Trump similarly sleeping through discussion of the order to lethally double-tap civilian boaters in the Caribbean?
Similarly 6th Circuit judge Jane Branstetter Stranch announced in January of 2024 - 2024! - that she would leave her seat upon confirmation of her Biden-nominated successor. Dems never nominated one and Trump filled that spot with Whitney Hermandorfer, who denies the right to birthright citizenship
What Dem Senators are too embarrassed to tell you is that their own complicity, through indolence, prevented Biden from filling this seat. The seat was vacated when Judge Biggs assumed senior status in Dec 2024, as all knew in advance. Yet they twiddled their thumbs and handed the seat to Trump.
Senate Republicans just handed David Bragdon a LIFETIME judicial appointment— a man who compared abortion to murder and said women "must face the consequences" for their "poor judgment."
Republicans are stacking the courts with anti-choice extremists and hoping you don't notice.
Republicans are stacking the courts with anti-choice extremists and hoping you don't notice.
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Similarly 6th Circuit judge Jane Branstetter Stranch announced in January of 2024 - 2024! - that she would leave her seat upon confirmation of her Biden-nominated successor. Dems never nominated one and Trump filled that spot with Whitney Hermandorfer, who denies the right to birthright citizenship
Garland could have easily made this report public. Legal experts beseech him to do so. He was implacable in his refusal and failure to provide a credible explanation.
NEW via @politico.com's @kyledcheney.bsky.social:
"#Trump argued Tuesday that former special counsel #JackSmith's final report — chronicling the criminal case against him for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — should never be made public."
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"#Trump argued Tuesday that former special counsel #JackSmith's final report — chronicling the criminal case against him for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — should never be made public."
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump: Jack Smith classified documents report should remain secret
Trump’s request is a break from the Justice Department’s handling of all special counsel reports in recent decades.
www.politico.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Garland could have easily made this report public. Legal experts beseech him to do so. He was implacable in his refusal and failure to provide a credible explanation.
What Dem Senators are too embarrassed to tell you is that their own complicity, through indolence, prevented Biden from filling this seat. The seat was vacated when Judge Biggs assumed senior status in Dec 2024, as all knew in advance. Yet they twiddled their thumbs and handed the seat to Trump.
Senate Republicans just handed David Bragdon a LIFETIME judicial appointment— a man who compared abortion to murder and said women "must face the consequences" for their "poor judgment."
Republicans are stacking the courts with anti-choice extremists and hoping you don't notice.
Republicans are stacking the courts with anti-choice extremists and hoping you don't notice.
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What Dem Senators are too embarrassed to tell you is that their own complicity, through indolence, prevented Biden from filling this seat. The seat was vacated when Judge Biggs assumed senior status in Dec 2024, as all knew in advance. Yet they twiddled their thumbs and handed the seat to Trump.
We had 4 years to try to fix it already and no one was held accountable, leading to the restoration of the autocracy. And that was with Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate.
Think about why the previous opportunity to restore democracy was a failure.
Think about why the previous opportunity to restore democracy was a failure.
I think about this every day.
The fascists won temporarily, but fascism is for losers. They'll fail. They are con men and swindlers. And when they do lose, we make a real democracy. The kind they hate. Their "creative destruction" will be democracy rising.
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We had 4 years to try to fix it already and no one was held accountable, leading to the restoration of the autocracy. And that was with Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate.
Think about why the previous opportunity to restore democracy was a failure.
Think about why the previous opportunity to restore democracy was a failure.
Just like during his criminal trial. Even Stormy Daniels can't keep him up.
But none of that stopped people from voting for him.
But none of that stopped people from voting for him.
Trump's face is becoming contorted as he desperately tries to cling to consciousness
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just like during his criminal trial. Even Stormy Daniels can't keep him up.
But none of that stopped people from voting for him.
But none of that stopped people from voting for him.
The US District Court for New Jersey and now the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit have ruled Alina Habba is not the lawful US Attorney. Yet still she occupies the seat. Leader Jeffries proposes Congress pass a law changing her official title to "So-called U.S. Attorney for New Jersey".
The so-called U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba is serving in that position unlawfully.
She is an unqualified political hack and a complete disgrace.
It’s time for her to go.
She is an unqualified political hack and a complete disgrace.
It’s time for her to go.
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The US District Court for New Jersey and now the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit have ruled Alina Habba is not the lawful US Attorney. Yet still she occupies the seat. Leader Jeffries proposes Congress pass a law changing her official title to "So-called U.S. Attorney for New Jersey".