@AnnaBower

Senior Editor @lawfare. Email: [email protected] Signal username: annabower.24

 In court & on PACER
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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. lawfaremedia.org/article/ann…
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Josh Barro
@jbarro3h
Important context in here around the quote -- Holmes said other things contemporaneously expressing the same idea, strongly suggesting the NYT had the quote right.
Patrick Healy@patrickhealynyt7h
In today's @nytimes Backstory newsletter, I talk to Amy Chozick about the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary and Holmes's dispute over a quote from Chozick's NYT profile of her. The movie brings up the quote several times as it assesses Holmes's veracity. nytimes.com/2026/10/22/insid…

Elizabeth Holmes Quote Drama

In today’s Backstory, the new Holmes film takes issue with our profile, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks her viral essay and a professor shares why he thinks we apply “conservative” and “liberal” labels...

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One slight obstacle: DOJ has no legal authority over the certification of election results.
Ryan J. Reilly
@ryanjreilly6h
NEW: Attorney General Todd Blanche declines to rule out post-election action from DOJ in state certification processes, citing theoretical “doomsday” scenario. “It is never our intention to improperly interfere with elections,” Blanche says.
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NSA announces critical vulnerability in inclusive legal positivism, recommends patching rule of recognition to ensure no moral criteria of legal validity.
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Trump won’t let me fly with him today — but he can’t silence me ift.tt/b51GoSQ

Trump won’t let me fly with him today — but he can’t silence me

White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg explains why he won’t be covering Donald Trump’s Sioux City rally tonight — after the president attacked him in a very personal way and then had him disinv...

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this is my bi-annual reminder to congressional campaigns: If you don't put your press email on your website and I'm not on your distribution list, the request for comment is going to your info@ email. So either check that inbox or put your press email on the website.
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For anyone wondering about the meaning of DOJ’s “60 day rule,” this 2024 piece by Jack Goldsmith is helpful. lawfaremedia.org/article/wha…
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So a TV show did a long interview and used only short clips?....Well, knock me over with a feather
Vince Coglianese
@VinceCoglianeseOct 21
NEW: That "60 Minutes" segment about election integrity... @HarmeetKDhillon just told me that she sat with Lesley Stahl for 30 minutes, and they only aired 90 seconds of the interview. Harmeet called Lesley a "liar" multiple times, none of which aired during the segment.
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@CBSNewsOct 21
George W. Bush's brother Neil Bush says he voted for James Talarico in Texas Senate race. cbsn.ws/4z7n5W2

George W. Bush's brother Neil Bush says he voted for James Talarico in Texas Senate race

"My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton's record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico," Neil Bush posted on Facebook.

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Glenn Thrush
@GlennThrushOct 21
Blanche suggests Merrick Garland was just as responsive to WH orders as he's been to Trump. Be interested in seeing his evidence beyond everybody-knows-it's-true etc. Biden WH was VERY frustrated w/ Garland's aloofness, particularly after he charged Hunter...
Ken Klippenstein
@kenklippensteinOct 21
Attorney General Todd Blanche says there's a "misperception that there's this separation and independence between the Department of Justice and the White House." "I work for President Trump."
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Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheneyOct 21
JUST IN: Significant decision from the 10th Circuit: the 6 month "reasonable" period of detention for ICE detainees with final orders of removal does *not* reset over time. The Trump admin had argued the 6 months reset everytime ICE redetained someone. ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10…
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Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheneyOct 21
Musk, reacting to reporting from @riley_rogerson & co, apparently suggesting it could be illegal for a Democratic House to focus on the man behind some of the most consequential public policy decisions of the last two years. politico.com/news/2026/10/20…
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NEW: Trump’s mega Venezuelan oil deal, signed by Hegseth and Rubio, benefits an unknown group of investors and was intentionally crafted to keep the next U.S. president or future leaders of Venezuela from undoing it. @propublica saw the secret contract: propublica.org/article/trump…

The Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal

The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over...

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Seung Min Kim
@seungminkimOct 21
Noteworthy: @JohnCornyn says he believes Elon Musk would not slow down Starlink without "at least the acquiescence of the White House. "I think it's frankly shameful," he adds.
Michael Board@MikeBoard1200Oct 21
Texas Senator @JohnCornyn was asked on @CNBC about the throttling of @Starlink in the war between Russian and Ukraine, and he did not hold back!
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Was Dolly Parton involved in a $24 million deal-gone-wrong to send American guns to Haitian law enforcement?
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Someone has sent out the batsignal
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rach@rach_is_talkingOct 20
I believe them about the WiFi
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FOLKS. It is NOT TOO LATE to sign up for @VotebeatUS's expert desk. We have 125 experts on elections waiting to talk to journalists on the record and IT IS FREE. Take our sources. Use them in your reporting. No credit necessary.
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being a legal journalist is wild bc one day you’re covering the arraignment of a former Venezuelan dictator and the next you’re at a hearing about redesigning the East Potomac Golf Links...and somehow the golf course thing is the more dramatic of the two
Anna Bower
@AnnaBowerOct 20
What exactly happened during yesterday's dramatic hearing before Judge Reyes over the East Potomac Golf Links? My colleagues @rparloff and @mollylroberts were at the courthouse, and their play-by-play coverage is now up on our site: lawfaremedia.org/article/tru…

Trump’s Golf Course: A Hearing Diary for Oct. 19

A live-blog of an evidentiary hearing before Judge Reyes relating to the redesign of a historic municipal golf course.

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What exactly happened during yesterday's dramatic hearing before Judge Reyes over the East Potomac Golf Links? My colleagues @rparloff and @mollylroberts were at the courthouse, and their play-by-play coverage is now up on our site: lawfaremedia.org/article/tru…

Trump’s Golf Course: A Hearing Diary for Oct. 19

A live-blog of an evidentiary hearing before Judge Reyes relating to the redesign of a historic municipal golf course.

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Anna Bower
@AnnaBowerOct 20
You’ve seen "You Can See Everything." Now you can see everything Elizabeth Holmes said under oath. I rounded up the full transcripts from her 2021 criminal trial, plus video of her 2017 SEC deposition: annabower.substack.com/p/you…
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