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Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back.
It’s another bleak week in the courts, which is a distressingly common thing right now. How do you feel about religious fanatics getting to lie about abortion because Jesus says it’s cool? Are you down with giving the manifestly incompetent Jeanine Pirro multiple ways to indict people, which is necessary since she sucks at it?
We do have one bright spot here: Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl—remember those conspiracy theorists?—are actually facing some consequences for their actions. Weird, right?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that New York cannot enforce a law barring the dissemination of misinformation about the abortion pill, because freeze peach.
Anti-abortion types have touted that the abortion pill can be “reversed,” which is both wrong and dangerous. In 2019, researchers from the University of California, Davis, looked into whether progesterone could stop a medication abortion after someone has taken the first pill in the two-pill process. Out of 12 women in the study, three suffered vaginal bleeding so severe that they needed to be rushed by ambulance to a hospital. And the study authors then determined it was too dangerous to proceed, so they ended it.
But these plaintiffs in the case really want to be able to tell people this is a safe and real thing women can do.
Let’s face it: If this case were about anything other than abortion and conservative Christians hating it, this would be a slam dunk for New York. For example, there’s no way a court would sign off on there being a free speech right to tell everyone that knee surgery will kill you, or that, hey, why not remove your own bladder stent because the doctor should never have put it there anyway, because kidney stones aren’t real?
But these plaintiffs are compelled to share lies about a supposed abortion-pill reversal process because their religion says so, and that means it’s free speech, and they get to keep doing it.
Remember how poor U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro kept getting no-billed by federal grand juries when she tried to bring inflated criminal charges against people scooped up in President Donald Trump’s so-called crime crackdown?
Well, she came up with a neat little trick to solve this: Go to a local grand jury instead, get an indictment, then walk that back over to federal court.
It’s unhinged, but Judge James Boasberg just signed off on it, saying that the interplay of federal and D.C. laws is complex and therefore Pirro gets to have even more bites at the apple with her wildly overcharged cases.
Funny thing is, Boasberg has been the subject of relentless attacks from Attorney General Pam Bondi. She filed an absurd ethics complaint merely because he dared to tell the administration to turn around the planes filled with detainees heading for Venezuela, and then had the gall to tell the Justice Department it can’t defy court orders. The nerve. But since Boasberg has given Pirro this little treat, perhaps the DOJ will lay off for a bit.
Okay, it won’t, but we can dream.
Yes, that’s the logic of the Federal Trade Commission, but this isn’t really about tuition. It’s about the administration’s desire to replicate the recent Texas plan to cut the American Bar Association out of the law-school approval and accreditation process and instead let the state Supreme Court decide which Texas law school graduates will get admitted to the bar.
While this might sound benign, it’s scuzzy as hell. ABA accreditation provides both standardization and standards, meaning that it addresses both what law schools need to cover and at what level of quality and service. Texas’s proposal would result in nothing but fly-by-night, unaccredited law schools lobbying Texas justices to sign off on their sketchy schools.
The other problem here is that if Texas decides that students from unaccredited schools can sit for the Texas bar, those students likely could not sit for the bar in other states, which would require graduation from an ABA-accredited school.
This is all part of the administration’s attack on accreditors generally, because god forbid you impose any rigor or quality on higher education. How is Trump going to have Trump University 2.0 if these stupid accreditors hang about?
The FTC’s logic here is that since the ABA has a “monopoly” on accreditation, it has led to a shortage of lawyers, to which: lol.
The nation has over 1.3 million practicing lawyers, and the lawyer bubble has persisted for years, with law school graduates sometimes having double the unemployment rate of non-lawyers. This push likely results in nothing but Trump University Law School, which is a thing no one needs.
Conspiracy theorists Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl were everywhere in the first Trump administration, pulling the absolute weirdest stunts.
Remember when they held a press conference to falsely announce that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren had hired a 24-year-old boy toy for sex, only for said boy toy to be unable to stop laughing behind the podium? Or when Wohl went to Minneapolis to “investigate” Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and declared the city a hellhole where he received death threats, except the threats he reported to police appeared to have been made … by him from an alt account?
Burkman and Wohl also committed crimes, such as using robocalls designed to suppress Black voters during the 2020 election. The robocalls had misinformation about voting by mail, particularly that it put people in a public database that would allow police to track them down and allow credit card companies to find them and collect debts.
In a rarity for conservative activists, however, these two fucked around and found out and were prosecuted or sued in multiple jurisdictions. And they just agreed to a no-contest plea in Michigan, which netted them a year of probation, which is a lot better than New York, where they are on the hook for over $1 million in fines.
Oh, Ed Martin. We just can’t quit you because you just can’t quit being an unethical jackass. It seems that the pardon attorney/director of the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group/special attorney for mortgage fraud may have a problem with concealing and destroying records.
However, since the DOJ won’t voluntarily provide records or information via Freedom of Information Act requests, watchdog organization American Oversight sued the DOJ to try to unlock these records or to confirm that Ed’s a little heavy with the delete button.
Martin has been here before. When he worked for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, his alleged deletion habits ultimately forced the state to pay $500,000 to a lawyer who was allegedly fired after raising an issue about the office.
Martin is one of the key people helping Trump exact retribution from people he perceived as having wronged him. Of course, he’s not going to keep a paper trail—come on.

The Nobel Committee wouldn't give Donald Trump the time of day, but FIFA? FIFA understands greatness when it sees it.
As BBC Sport reports, President Trump is now the proud recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, an award that definitely existed before this week and wasn't just invented by his close ally Gianni Infantino. — Read the rest
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The Make America Healthy Again movement has found its most enthusiastic supporters with chiropractors, who are sore from decades of grievances against mainstream medicine. According to Politico, the International Chiropractors Association has thrown its full weight behind RFK Jr.'s wellness revolution, with its president declaring that their "Mission, Vision, and Values align with the stated goals of the MAHA Initiative." — Read the rest
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If there's one thing festive folks know deep in their jinglin' little hearts, it's that nothing brings pre-holiday chaos quite like living with a cat. You might be lighting candles, sipping cocoa, and trying to embrace the cozy winter spirit - but your feline friend has other plans. And by "other plans", we mean the cattest plans imaginable.
Maybe you're attempting to wrap gifts, only to discover your cat believes wrapping paper exists solely as a personal runway. Maybe you're trying to unwind under a blanket, and suddenly you're a human-shaped heating pad claimed by a purring loaf. Or maybe your cat has entered their "mysterious winter gremlin" era - zooming through the corridor at 3 AM like they're training for the Snowball Sprint Olympics.
Winter hits, and suddenly every cat becomes a fluffy agent of festive chaos: knocking over your decorative pinecones for sport, demanding treats with the persistence of a tiny floofy boss, or staring ominously out the window as if plotting to duel a snowflake. And yet… we absolutely love it. Because this is the magic: the soft paws kneading your sweater, the warm nose boops, the tail flicks of cattitude, the cozy company only a cat can give. They're the true stars of the season - not peaceful, not predictable, but delightfully, unapologetically chaotic. And honestly? Winter wouldn't feel the same without their purrfectly dramatic feline flair.
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Welcome back to Caturday Medley, where your humble Cheezburger expawrts collect the weekly meme medley of feline funnies, the holiday-season edition - where the jingles are jinglier, the naps are nappier, and the cats? Oh, they're in full clawsmas meowing mode.
Yes, friends, Christmas is creeping closer, and you know what that means: Operation Protect the Tree is officially underway. Whether you've barricaded it with baby gates, wrapped it in tinfoil like a festive baked potato, or simply accepted your fate as your fluffy feline stares up at it like a mountaineer eyeing Everest, the annual standoff between cats and Christmas decor is upon us. And honestly? The cat is winning. The cat is always winning.
Meanwhile, winter cooking season has begun, filling the house with cozy aromas of cinnamon, roasting veggies, and suspiciously crinkly packaging. Your cat, naturally, assumes all of these smells are personally curated for them. Expect intense sniff-inspections, strategic leg weaving during meal prep, and at least one bold attempt to "supervise" the kitchen from atop the counter. 'Tis the season for little paws causing big chaos.
But amid the chilly weather, the holiday bustle, and the endless cat-proofing, we're here with our weekly whisker-warming tradition. This Caturday Medley is packed with meowgical moments designed to warm your heart, brighten your week, and remind you why winter is simply better with cats. Enjoy the cozy chaos, and let the meowing merriment begin!
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Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio agreed to aid the Trump administration as part of a legal settlement.
By Jonathan Shorman for Stateline
Four Republican states have agreed to help the Trump administration gain access to state driver’s license data through a nationwide law enforcement computer network as part of the administration’s hunt for alleged noncitizen voters.
The Trump administration said as recently as October that federal officials wanted to obtain driver’s license records through the network.
The commitment from officials in Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio comes as part of a settlement agreement filed on Friday in a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was originally brought by the states last year alleging the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough to help states verify voter eligibility.
The settlement, between the states and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, requires the federal department to continue its development of a powerful citizenship verification program known as SAVE. Earlier this year, federal officials repurposed SAVE into a program capable of scanning millions of state voter records for instances of noncitizen registered voters.
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In return, the states have agreed to support Homeland Security’s efforts to access the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, an obscure computer network that typically allows law enforcement agencies to search driver’s license records across state lines. Nlets — as the system is known — lets police officers easily look up the driving records of out-of-state motorists.
The Trump administration and some Republican election officials have promoted the changes to SAVE as a useful tool to identify potential noncitizen voters, and Indiana had already agreed to provide voter records. Critics, including some Democrats, say the Trump administration is building a massive database of U.S. residents that President Donald Trump or a future president could use for spying or targeting political enemies.
Stateline reported last week, before the settlement agreement was filed in court, that Homeland Security publicly confirmed it wants to connect Nlets to SAVE.
A notice published Oct. 31 in the Federal Register said driver’s licenses are the most widely used form of identification, and that by working with states and national agencies, including Nlets, “SAVE will use driver’s license and state identification card numbers to check and confirm identity information.”
A federal official also previously told a virtual meeting of state election officials in May that Homeland Security was seeking “to avoid having to connect to 50 state databases” and wanted a “simpler solution,” such as Nlets, according to government records published by the transparency group American Oversight.
The new settlement lays out the timeline for how the Trump administration could acquire the four states’ records.
Within 90 days of the execution of the agreement, the four states may provide Homeland Security with 1,000 randomly selected driver’s license records from their state for verification as part of a quality improvement process for SAVE.
According to the agreement, the states that provide the records will “make best efforts to support and encourage DHS’s efforts to receive and have full use of state driver’s license records from the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System” and state driver’s license agencies.
The language in the agreement is open-ended and doesn’t make clear whether the pledge to help Homeland Security obtain access to Nlets is limited to drivers from those four states or is intended to require the states to help the agency acquire the records of drivers nationwide.
The agreement could pave the way for Republican officials in other states to provide access to license data.
Nlets is a nonprofit organization that facilitates data sharing among law enforcement agencies across state lines. States decide what information to make available through Nlets, and which agencies can access it. That means the four states could try to influence peers to share Nlets data with the Trump administration.
“They’re not just talking about driver’s license numbers, they’re talking about the driver’s records. What possible reason would DHS have in an election or voting context — or any context whatsoever — for obtaining the ‘full use of state driver’s license records,’” said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, a Republican, said in a statement to Stateline that the settlement agreement provides another layer of election integrity and protection as officials seek to ensure only eligible voters are registered. He didn’t directly address questions about Nlets access.
“The SAVE program provides us with critical information, but we must also continue to utilize information from other state and federal partners to maintain clean and accurate lists,” Pate said in the statement.
Two weeks before the Nov. 5, 2024, election, Pate issued guidance to Iowa county auditors to challenge the ballots of 2,176 registered voters who were identified by the secretary of state’s office as potential noncitizens. The voters had reported to the state Department of Transportation or another government entity that they were not U.S. citizens in the past 12 years and went on to register to vote, according to the guidance.
In March, Pate said his office gained access to the SAVE database and found 277 of those people were confirmed to not have U.S. citizenship — just under 12% of the individuals identified as potential noncitizens.
Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
Matthew Tragesser, a spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — the agency under Homeland Security that oversees SAVE — told Stateline last week that USCIS was committed to “eliminating barriers to securing the nation’s electoral process.”
“By allowing states to efficiently verify voter eligibility, we are reinforcing the principle that America’s elections are reserved exclusively for American citizens,” Tragesser said in a statement.
The SAVE program — Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements — was originally intended to help state and local officials verify the immigration status of individual noncitizens seeking government benefits. In the past, SAVE could search only one name at a time. Now it can conduct bulk searches; federal officials in May also connected the program to Social Security data.
“It’s a potentially dangerous mix to put driver’s license and Social Security number and date of birth information out there … where we really don’t know yet how and when and where it’s going to be used,” Minnesota Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon said in an interview on Monday.
As the Trump administration has encouraged states to use SAVE, the Justice Department has also demanded states provide the department with unredacted copies of their voter rolls. The Trump administration has previously confirmed the Justice Department is sharing voter information with Homeland Security.
The Justice Department has sued six, mostly Democratic, states for refusing to turn over the data. Those lawsuits remain pending.
On Monday, 12 state secretaries of state submitted a 29-page public comment, in response to SAVE’s Federal Register notice, criticizing the overhaul. The secretaries wrote that while Homeland Security claims the changes make the program an effective tool for verifying voters, the modifications are “likely to degrade, not enhance” states’ efforts to ensure free, fair and secure elections.
“What the modified system will do … is allow the federal government to capture sensitive data on hundreds of millions of voters nationwide and distribute that information as it sees fit,” the secretaries wrote.
The secretaries of state of California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington signed on to the comment.
The settlement agreement purports to make this year’s changes to SAVE legally binding.
The agreement asks that a federal court retain jurisdiction over the case for 20 years for the purposes of enforcing it — a move that in theory could make it harder for a future Democratic president to reverse the changes to SAVE.
But Becker, of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, said he doesn’t expect the settlement agreement would make it more difficult for a future administration to undo the overhaul.
“Should a different administration come in that disagrees with this approach,” Becker said, “I would expect that they would almost certainly completely change how the system operates and how the states can access it and what data the federal government procures.”

Thanks to Sean Duffy, the airport is turning into something of a slumber party.
After the transportation secretary told people to “dress up” at the airport as a way to make air travel better for everyone, the internet had their thoughts. And it can be summed up with a simple: What?
In response to the dress code, many ticketed passengers posted about their decision to wear cozy clothes over a suit or heels.
“Sorry but I’ll be wearing pajamas and slippers to the airport because I don’t remember my flight being free or comfortable,” one TikTok user wrote over a clip of her in cozy clothes next to her suitcase.

Donald Trump went on a racist tirade against Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, and then claimed she married her brother, which is a long-debunked conspiracy.
Someone needs his nap time and his binky.
JD Vance's racism about migrants eating dogs has caught Somalians in its crosshairs, and it's frightening. Trump is also attacking the country of Somalia because Rep. Omar immigrated from there. She's got the wrong skin color and is a woman, which is Trump's preferred target.
Q: The Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is saying that he's actually proud to have the largest Somali community in the country, and his police chief is also saying that he might.
TRUMP: Well, he's a fool.
Q: Well, his police chief is also saying he might.
I wouldn't be proud to have the largest Somalian.
Look at their nation.
Look how bad their nation is.
It's not even a nation.
It's just people walking around killing each other.
Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
They've taken billions and billions of dollars.
What does the economic state of Somalia have to do with Rep. Omar or these immigrants?
Nothing. He's the worst racist in this country because he lives in the White House.
Nothing is off the table with Trump when it comes to smearing those he dislikes.
TRUMP: hey have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother.
President Donald Trump’s billionaire-focused economy is not improving, the Epstein files are not disappearing, and every distraction the administration throws out is meeting far more scrutiny and pushback than ever.
And it’s all on video!
Watch Mark Kelly drop a few bombs of his own on pathetic Pete Hegseth
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona held a press conference, taking Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to task for their threats and bogus investigation targeting congressional Democrats who have questioned the legality of the administration’s boat bombings in South America.
House speaker has jaw-dropping defense of Trump's use of slur
House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to defend Trump’s slur against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz during a Thanksgiving Truth Social rant.
Trump literally phones in rally appearance
During a rally for Republican Matt Van Epps ahead of Tennessee’s special election on Tuesday, Johnson held his cell phone to the microphone so Trump could rant against Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn.
Trump is cutting drug prices by infinity dollars, apparently
Trump unveiled a new brand of MAGA mathematics during his Cabinet meeting. And while he didn’t repeat absurd claims like cutting drug prices by 1,500%, his assessment of his accomplishments was no less delusional.
Watch Trump’s treasury secretary get schooled on inflation numbers
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was interviewed by Andrew Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit, where Bessent attempted to spin Trump’s poor inflation numbers.
You’ll want to hear Mark Kelly’s latest take on Pete Hegseth
During a Center for American Progress event in Washington, Kelly was asked how he felt about Hegseth questioning his integrity—and he didn’t hold back.
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Winter is an especially hard time for stray cats. The unpredictable weather, the cold temperatures, and the lack of suitable shelters makes surviving purrfectly difficult, depending on where they live. So, if you hear meowing outside as this kid did, definitely go check it out - you might just save the kitty's life.
In the middle of a snowstorm, a child stumbled upon a fluffy kitten crying for help outside their home. He brought the frozen fur baby inside, and the mom immediately jumped into action. She wrapped the baby in blankets to warm it up, gave it a safe place to recover, and was thinking, "What should we do next?" Luckily, the online cat community came to her rescue, giving her purrfect advice and encouraging her to keep the kitten (which we're pretty sure she was already planning on doing).
We don't have any updates on how the kitten is doing, as this story was uploaded quite recently, but we know what that kitten is going to be getting for Christmas - a whole lot of love, a new family, and hopefully, all the scritches it could ever want.
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