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Federal agents fired teargas canisters and flash-bangs at protesters, who responded by throwing fireworks, filming and jeering. It happened in a north-side Minneapolis neighborhood on the night of Jan. 14, following the second shooting by ICE officer in a week, after the killing of Renee Nicole Good.

The Department of Homeland Security claimed an ICE officer fired in self-defense, striking Julio Cesar Sola-Celis, a Venezuelan immigrant, in the leg.

But Sola-Celis’s mother told the Washington Post her son was shot while opening the door for a housemate fleeing ICE. Bystander video reviewed by the Minnesota Reformer revealed at least one child inside the house as agents repeatedly shot into it, breaking a second-floor window....

In a landmark immunity case last year, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts argued that sweeping presidential immunity was necessary to prevent an executive branch that "cannibalizes" itself. Roberts claimed that without such protection, a president would be "free to prosecute his predecessors, yet unable to boldly and fearlessly carry out his duties for fear that he may be next."

But that sweeping protection might have just been thrown away by President Donald Trump, two experienced federal law experts warned Saturday.

The Supreme Court's decision has had unintended consequences, wrote ex-acting assistant attorney general for national security, Mary McCord, and Andrew Weissmann, a former general counsel for the F.B.I., in the New York Times. Both have worked under presidents from both parties, including Trump....

Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host tapped as President Donald Trump's acting federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is thoroughly disqualified by her involvement in promoting conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary McCord told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday.

This comes as voting equipment company Smartmatic released private communications of Fox News officials in their defamation suit against the network, revealing among other things that Pirro bragged to the then-Republican National Committee chair that she "worked so hard for" Trump while platforming false claims about the election, even as she privately admitted there was no evidence of any vote tampering.

"Your thoughts on what we're seeing," said Wallace. "And it's incredible to read what they said to each other privately. It's almost worse/as bad as the stuff they say on the air."...

Former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles warned that President Donald Trump is going to invoke the Insurrection Act because he's wanted to do it for a long time, and that the U.S. Supreme Court will likely let him do it.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann and ex-Justice Department official Mary McCord debated the legal challenges to whether or not Trump could invoke the Act and how it would be argued in court. But Taylor was the one who made it clear that his time in the Trump administration had shown him a deep desire to declare something a legal "insurrection" and invoke martial law.

Last week, NBC News reported that five people confirmed that the administration is beginning to consider "whether it makes sense to invoke the act," meaning the Insurrection Act. Trump already told Newsmax host Greg Kelly that he believed what was unfolding in Portland was "insurrection." ...

The growing war between Attorney General Pam Bondi and top FBI officials Kash Patel and Dan Bongino over the transparency of the Jeffrey Epstein files led one former top DOJ official to rip into the entire crew.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," ex-acting United States Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord expressed outrage at the internal battle at the DOJ that has led the FBI's Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to reportedly call for Bondi's firing.

Speaking with the hosts, McCord expressed genuine alarm that the war between the officials is putting the country at risk.

"How serious a rift is this and what do you make of the deputy FBI director, according to sources ,demanding that the attorney general be fired and he didn't show up to work yesterday?" host Jonathan Capehart asked.

"He's not a serious person," McCord shot back." He came into this job with a serious mission, he has no relevant experience to be the FBI deputy director and I think that's now showing. "

"You know, there are certainly times in my long tenure at the Department of Justice when there are differences between leadership of the Department of Justice and leadership of the FBI," she added. "We have disagreed on various things, but you don't do this; you don't go out in public and demand resignations. You don't have public spats like this. You you deal with those things like adults who are doing serious work, which is law enforcement and protecting national security in this country."

"The conspiracies about it and the reason that this is so annoying to the MAGA base is all just such a sideshow. and then to have that boil over into this very public spat, I mean, I think it just shows us all how dangerous this crew that is leading the Department of Justice and the FBI," she charged.

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In their "Main Justice" podcast on Tuesday, former Justice Department officials Mary McCord and Andrew Weissmann noted that the judges overseeing Jan. 6 cases aren't going quietly since Donald Trump issued pardons to many of those convicted.

McCord said that the interim Washington, D.C. district attorney who has taken over under Donald Trump's presidency is demanding that cases not yet to be heard now be dismissed.

Judges are doing so, but "in granting the government's motion to dismiss have made statements in court, if there was a court appearance, but I think this [has] almost been entirely in writing," said McCord. ...