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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h

The Justice Department has brought in two AUSAs from out of state to work the Comey prosecution: Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz. Both are detailed from the U.S. Attorney's office in North Carolina.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

Some examples:

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump vented this weekend after a judge he appointed ruled his troop deployment to Portland was illegal. It’s the latest in a growing list of his own judicial appointees who have dealt him defeats on some the highest profile issues of the year. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: Citing need for security amid other high-profile matters, Comey arraignment is moved up to Wednesday at 10AM.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: The Illinis lawsuit goes to Judge April Perry, an appointee of Joe Biden.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Illinois has filed suit to block Trump's deployment of the military to Chicago.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has denied consideration of Laura Loomer's lawsuit over social media censorship:

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Judge Immergut said the Trump administration's renewed effort to put National Guard troops on the ground in Portland appeared to flout her original order — which found Trump had no legal basis to send federalized troops there.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Judge Immergut could quickly halt Trump's deployment of CA guard troops to Portland, a workaround that tested her warning that Trump's initial callup was illegal and based on false claims about the unrest facing ICE.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social + Blake Jones

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

A rare acknowledgment by Trump of his eventual exit from the political arena:

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

The judge notes that noncitizens detained after 9/11 weren't held nearly as long without notice for the legal basis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Judge Immergut's says Trump's assessment of "war-ravaged" Portland was not made in "good faith" Even under a legal standard that gives the president "great deference," she said, there's no basis for "ignoring the facts on the ground."

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The Supreme Court, for the second time in five months, stripped away legal status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans granted protection by the Biden administration.

w/ @joshgerstein

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

JUST IN: Magistrate Faruqui continues sounding alarms about defective criminal cases brought by federal prosecutors in D.C

This time he says prosecutors sought to "gin up" a charge against an immigrant for misreading a confusing form — to jump start deportation. www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/fi...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al.

He has ordered discovery on the question.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

JUST IN: A federal judge in Puerto Rico has *blocked* President Trump's attempt to fire members of P.R.'s Financial Oversight and Management Board.

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