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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Sheri Mecklenburg says she followed the instructions of U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros' front office "at every turn" as she sought an indictment against the "Broadview Six."
UPDATED @Suntimes story on the lead prosecutor breaking her silence: chicago.suntimes.com/immigra…
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Sheri Mecklenburg's full retirement letter to Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros:
Ending a nearly 20-year career as a federal prosecutor, Sheri Mecklenburg made clear to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros "this is not a voluntary departure."
She said she'd been "scapegoated" — and Boutros had done "incredible damage."
From @Suntimes: chicago.suntimes.com/immigra…
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JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him.
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Ending a nearly 20-year career as a federal prosecutor, Sheri Mecklenburg made clear to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros "this is not a voluntary departure."
She said she'd been "scapegoated" — and Boutros had done "incredible damage."
From @Suntimes: chicago.suntimes.com/immigra…
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Wild stuff.
Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ.
NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection.
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There are lots of extravagant claims of large numbers of noncitizens on voter rolls, but those claims sure seem to fizzle out.
Incredible. First @SecMullinDHS claimed that @DHSgov identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials said, no no no, that’s just people we flagged, here’s the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens.
All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
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President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Alina Habba is reportedly set to marry Turkish businessman Turhan Mildon this weekend.
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In light of govt's assertion that they have complied with his order to restore White House hard passes, Judge Kelly denies an emergency hearing in @CNN v Trump.
If needed, plaintiffs can file a supplemental notice "no earlier than 6pm."
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Judge Kelly is "skeptical" that "safeguarding national security is the actual motivation for, or even advanced by, the revocation of [@cnn.com's, @msnownews.bsky.social's, & @politico.com's] hard passes."
Judge Kelly orders hard passes returned to White House reporters for @CNN @MSNOWNews & @politico immediately. They were pulled in violation of Fifth Am Due Process. No stay pending appeal. documentcloud.org/documents/…
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Obviously, if this is anything other than a glitch, it's big.
BREAKING:
A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned. politico.com/news/2026/09/24…
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Judge Kelly orders hard passes returned to White House reporters for @CNN @MSNOWNews & @politico immediately. They were pulled in violation of Fifth Am Due Process. No stay pending appeal. documentcloud.org/documents/…
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MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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BREAKING NEWS: #ElizabethHolmes is leaving prison and transitioning to a halfway house in Del Valle, TX (near Austin) next August according to a notice sent to victims of her crime.
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Exactly the same re @CNN . Govt retroactively cited 4 articles to justify pulling CNN's 40 press passes, but only one by someone with a press pass. That was @betsy_klein, who's pass was renewed 5 months *after* the supposedly offending article was published. Pretext?
Trying to justify Trump's pulling of @MSNOWNews's 22 White House passes, govt retroactively cites 3 articles. MSNOW's bureau chief notes that only one was written by a reporter with a WH pass, and that person's pass was renewed *after* the article was published last June. Pretext?
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do not try cutting off @katie_honan and definitely do not try getting on her good side using cash inside a bag of potato chips
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Reporter @katie_honan at @THECITYNY was incredible yesterday at the Trump-Mamdani press conference. The mayor's team went to wrap up after 4 questions, but Katie made sure the president heard her question on TPS. @KellyMena came w the great folo: "The President is still here"
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Trying to justify Trump's pulling of @MSNOWNews's 22 White House passes, govt retroactively cites 3 articles. MSNOW's bureau chief notes that only one was written by a reporter with a WH pass, and that person's pass was renewed *after* the article was published last June. Pretext?
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Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything
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Really an outrage. Campaigns and the White House have been holding muted conference calls for 2 decades. Courts that want to figure it out have as well. Pandemic 6 years ago now.
Limiting public access to the courts because no one can figure out the mute button on a call. This is the definition of a solvable public access problem, @uscourts
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Limiting public access to the courts because no one can figure out the mute button on a call. This is the definition of a solvable public access problem, @uscourts
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