
Jordan S. Rubin
Reporter at MSNBC
Author of BIZARRO: The Surreal Saga of America’s Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured. Now @MSNBC. Former prosecutor @ManhattanDA.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
A “criminal referral” sounds serious, but it doesn’t force prosecutors to file charges against anyone. Still, New York State Attorney General Letitia James could have reason to worry about a Trump administration official’s push for her to face federal charges — even if she didn’t break the law. The cause for concern stems from the general nature of the criminal system as well as the specific nature of how President Donald Trump’s Justice Department wields the law on his behalf.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said probable cause exists to find the Trump administration in contempt for violating his order, explaining that he didn’t reach that conclusion lightly but that officials failed to provide satisfactory answers to explain their actions. “The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it,” Boasberg wrote in a lengthy opinion Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
The Trump administration argued that its court-ordered duty to “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s U.S. return is limited to removing any “domestic obstacles” to that return.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
Monday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele made it clear that the two men are political partners in Trump’s deportation efforts. But ahead of a Tuesday hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, a court filing from the Trump administration also shows how U.S. officials are enlisting Bukele in their defiant litigation stance in that case.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
The Supreme Court last week largely upheld a trial judge’s order that said the Trump administration must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after illegally deporting him to El Salvador.
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RT @lawofruby: Another potential issue, as flagged by my colleague @Jordan_S_Rubin? The Federal Tort Claims Act expressly disallows punitiv…

RT @HamiltonMorris: The Federal Analogue Act is one of the most confusing laws in the history of American drug policy and @Jordan_S_Rubin w…

Hamilton Morris & Jordan Rubin discuss The Analogue Act https://t.co/PCGhFd5yLY via @YouTube