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Thursday, January 29, 2026

“Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting; Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

Posted at 9:56 PM by Howard Bashman



“Goldstein Trial Features Whales, Stakes, and Crypto in Ninth Day”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “Rick Salomon, a professional poker player who famously filmed a sex tape with Paris Hilton and leaked it in 2003, took the stand in Tom Goldstein’s trial Thursday morning.”

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Protections for Venezuelans; The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from troubled nations; About 600,000 are from Venezuela”: Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times has this report.

And Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law reports that “DHS Illegally Ended Venezuelan Migrant Status, 9th Cir. Says.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Posted at 4:02 PM by Howard Bashman



“An Ethicist ‘in the Scalia Mold’: The Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE; Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely foil for his criticism of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.” Zach Montague of The New York Times has this report.

Posted at 3:50 PM by Howard Bashman



“Man With Pizza Cutter Is Said to Have Tried to Break Mangione Out of Jail; Federal prosecutors said the man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent on Wednesday in a visit to the federal jail complex in Brooklyn that houses Luigi Mangione”: Hurubie Meko, Santul Nerkar, and Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times have this report.

Update: In other coverage, Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service reports that “Man charged with bringing pizza cutter, barbecue fork to Brooklyn jail to free Luigi Mangione; Prosecutors say Mark Anderson impersonated an FBI agent to try to break out a ‘very well-known’ inmate.”

Posted at 3:48 PM by Howard Bashman