Five years ago, the Archive's Lauren Harper (now at Freedom of the Press) looked at how the Trump administration politicized the pre-publication review process for John Bolton's book "The Room Where It Happened." Lauren Harper nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

For those keeping score at home, that is J. Harvie Wilkinson III, one of the most famous conservative FedSoc freak-a-zoid jurists in history. Opining that the Trump "government screwed up here".

"All licensed attorneys — but especially top prosecutors entrusted to protect the public, not just their clients — should know better than to retaliate against newspapers for basic public-interest journalism," Seth Stern said. freedom.press/issues/rights-…

I’d bet the #Bolton probe is under #EspionageAct—the law used on fmr officials who’ve embarrassed the govt, or worse, exposed crimes. My latest: salon.com/2025/08/25/joh…

And here's Scalia in 2014 arguing that all people physically present in the US -- not just non-citizens but also people who entered illegally -- have due process rights under the 14th Am. A much different American Right even as embodied by Scalia:

My take in The Nation “The raids on my home and on John Bolton’s mark inflection points—the weaponization of secrecy as a political strategy and the radical extension of state power to silence critics.” … “While Bolton and I occupy vastly different positions in the political

Powerful piece on #Bolton & how “silence, enforced by fear & secrecy, is the deadliest nat’l security threat of all.” By our eloquent & victorious client Thomas Drake⁩ thenation.com/article/politi…

Thomas Drake/The raids on my home and on John Bolton’s mark inflection points—the weaponization of secrecy as a political strategy and the radical extension of state power to silence critics. thenation.com/article/politi…

While Bolton and I occupy vastly different positions in the political universe, our parallel ordeals reveal a disturbing evolution in how successive administrations have weaponized national security law and rules to silence inconvenient voices. thenation.com/article/politi…

This is a giant f*ck you to President Trump & his pretextual attempt to federalize Washington DC by military force. #SandwichSolidarity🎉 nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/…

Ron Smith Understanding Is The Key To Survival I have been saying for the last year and a half that if Trump were elected, we would become a Limited Open-Access society, and here we are. For anyone who doesn’t understand the difference, here it is: An open-access society allows broad

To recap: * They took $1b out of DC's budget * They promised to restore it * They never did *They gutted the National Park Service * They called in the National Guard from a number of states to combat crime * The guard is doing custodial work that DC and NPS usually do

A Watergate Everyday “Georgetown Law School professor Adam Levitin wrote plainly what no one in the media seems to be willing to say: This isn’t normal—it’s corrupt and an out-and-out abuse of power.” doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergate-…

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.

‼️Please help the “DC Sandwich Thrower.” I know he’s a hero to many, but he lost his job & had to lawyer up. #donate #share #resist gofund.me/d7e5db44

News broke today on 4 Sep with the public release of the affidavit cover sheet and search and seizure exhibit in the FBI raid at John Bolton's residence and office showing the gov't using U.S.C. 18 § 793 (part of the Espionage Act) and also U.S.C. 18 § 1924. And yet it seems