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The Justice Department waged a legal battle against the chief U.S. District Court judge for the District of Columbia, but appeared to have messed up the paperwork.

Legal analyst Liz Dye, who writes at "Law and Chaos" and also co-hosts the site's podcast, pointed out that the DOJ's effort to claim Judge James Boasberg committed some form of "misconduct" failed to attach any proof of that misconduct.

Stories are piling up of American citizens and those otherwise legally in the United States being arrested or detained by federal agents carrying out warrantless raids.

Americans being stopped, brutalized, and detained by federal agents have become known as the "Kavanaugh Stop," wrote legal analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern for Slate. The name comes from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote in a ruling that American citizens were not being swept up in the federal raids.

On The New Republic podcast "The Daily Blast," Salon's Amanda Marcotte said Monday that President Donald Trump's base is starting to crack as "price of egg voters" who bought into his lies are realizing that they've been duped.

Podcast host Greg Sargent asked Marcotte what she thought about the White House seemingly reveling in "pain for lots of people."

Republicans approved $45 billion in funding to dramatically increase detention capacity for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but so far the agency hasn't added much to that system, according to a report.

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave enough money to ICE to nearly triple its detention capacity to more than 100,000 beds, but The Atlantic reported that the agency's arrests peaked in June — the month before the law was signed — and has gone down in the months since then.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins called out White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt after she blamed Democrats for any government employee layoffs that might take place during the ongoing government shutdown.

During Monday's White House briefing, Collins questioned Leavitt about President Donald Trump's repeated claim that Democrats would be to blame if the his administration were to order mass layoffs.

The U.S. Supreme Court nixed Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal against conviction on Monday, leaving her with only one other legal option outside of a pardon from President Donald Trump, an expert said.

Maxwell was convicted of crimes relating to her role in aiding Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with underage girls.

The government shutdown, with Republicans controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, is poised to claim more victims — Social Security recipients who depend on their annual cost-of-living increases which allows them to keep pace with inflation.

According to a report from NOTUS, October has normally been the month when the Social Security Administration analyzes the data and comes up with a percentage increase, something seniors look forward to.

Donald Trump may not be the only one in his administration held to account if the International Criminal Court in The Hague decides to take up accusations against the American president.

In a column for the Wall Street Journal, conservative George Mason University Scalia Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich suggested Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might want to be careful when they travel abroad after they leave their jobs.

President Donald Trump insisted that young people owed him "big" for his role in a deal that allowed TikTok to continue operating in the U.S.

Although the Chinese government has not approved the deal, Trump recently signed an executive order allowing a joint venture led by billionaire Larry Ellison to run TikTok.

Democratic lawmakers have a strong opportunity to come out on top in the ongoing government shutdown, argued political commentator and columnist Michael Tomasky in an analysis published Monday in The New Republic — but only “if they’re willing to use it.”

“If the Democrats stick together, they can win this and make [President Donald] Trump cave,” Tomasky wrote. “The Democrats have three cards to play here that give them a strong hand, if they’re willing to use it.”

President Donald Trump has purged dozens of judges as part of his sweeping changes to immigration policy.

Since Trump returned to office in January, 139 immigration judges have been fired, taken an early-out offer or been involuntarily transferred, according to the National Association of Immigration Judges — with 24 dismissed last month alone, reported CNN.

In the midst of an MSNBC panel discussion on Donald Trump sending military troops into U.S. cities to help ICE round up undocumented immigrants, the normally even-keeled Jonathn Lemire lashed out at the Department of Homeland Security for deploying videographers to film arrests and then turn them into propaganda videos.

Over the weekend, DHS head Kristi Noem was filmed at various locations in besieged Chicago as protests broke out as people were snatched off of streets.