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Legal reporter at Politico, covering SDNY, etc. Priors: @CNN, @WSJ. I'm good at weaseling my way to the front of a gaggle. DMs are open.

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1Jan 26, '24Judge Kaplan, to jurors: "My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury."131×5.5M21k3.5k343
2Jan 16, '24Trump legal adviser Boris Epshteyn just tried to speak in court, but was denied. Judge Kaplan: "Are you a member of the bar of this court?" Epshteyn: "I’m a member of the New York 53.8×2.3M11k1.1k139
3Jan 26, '24Verdict in Carroll v. Trump Jury says Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll: COMPENSATORY: Other than reputation repair program: $7.3M Reputation repair program: $11M PUNITIVE: $6551×2.1M14k2.6k202
4Nov 6, '23Trump just yelled at the judge for a several minute stretch. The judge has his brow furrowed, but otherwise didn't react.50.7×2.1M3.6k36863
5Jul 12, '20New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free48.1×0104k19k582
6Oct 3, '23Judge Engoron has issued a gag order in the Trump civil fraud trial after Trump posted about the judge's clerk. Engoron: "Consider this statement a gag order forbidding all parties46.2×1.9M8.3k1.7k77
7Nov 6, '23"Aberdeen is the oil capital of Europe, very rich..." Trump says, at which point, the judge interjects: "Irrelevant!" Trump adds softly, "It is."41.2×1.7M7.7k706411
8Jan 17, '24VERY testy exchange between Habba and Judge Kaplan after Habba again asked for adjournment so Trump can attend funeral. Kaplan: "The application is denied. I will hear no further a29×1.2M13k1.5k152
10Mar 19, '23New: Bragg offered a private retort to Trump’s message calling for protest, telling DA employees in an email that “we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten 26.9×1.1M6.2k1.6k63
11Jan 17, '24Alina Habba asks Carroll about a gun she has said she keeps next to her bed. Habba: "Do you have a license for that gun?" Carroll: "No." Habba: "Are you aware that you have to have24×1M8.2k69395
12Jan 17, '24After an objection by Habba, Kaplan admonishes her. "First of all, when you speak in this courtroom, you'll stand up."23.2×970k7.3k68575
14Oct 25, '23Judge Engoron just tore into Trump, accusing him of having potentially violated the gag order again with comments he made outside the courtroom. Judge said he is under the impressi20.5×860k7.9k1.3k94
15Jan 16, '24One example of Kaplan already not having Habba's complaints: "Ms. Habba, I have heard you. I’ve considered what you have to say. And I have ruled. That’s it. In my courtroom, when 20.3×851k11k1.4k101
17Jan 26, '24Judge Kaplan to Alina Habba: "You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup. Now, sit down." This came after Madaio and Habba were arguing to include a slide showing twe19.3×807k5k62079
18Nov 6, '23Judge to Kise: "I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference that I can."17.8×747k3.9k63152
19Nov 2, '23Kise is continuing to complain about the clerk, saying she is passing notes to the judge. Judge Engoron pounded on the bench: "That's right!" he shouted. "Confidential communicatio17.5×731k2.4k45733
20Jan 16, '24Crowley: "He sat in this courthouse – you saw him – & while he was sitting here he posted more defamatory statements. More lies about Ms. Carroll & this case. By our last c16.8×704k7.4k1.3k63
21Jan 26, '24Crowley's last words: "This isn't a campaign rally. It's not a press event. This is a court of law. And it’s Ms. Carroll’s life. Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. He defamed her16.7×699k7.8k81868
22Jan 17, '24Kaplan threatened to kick Trump out of court after Carroll counsel complained again about Trump's commentary. Kaplan: "Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be16.4×688k4.1k60560
23Apr 16, '18Michael Cohen's previously unnamed third client is SEAN HANNITY.14.7×023k6.5k32
24Jan 17, '24After Habba says she intends to question Carroll about a topic previously deemed off-limits, Judge Kaplan scolds her again: "The last I heard, Ms. Habba, I do not need announcement13.8×576k6.2k65866
25Jan 2, '24SDNY has filed a second superseding indictment against Sen. Robert Menendez, this time adding charges that he accepted bribes in exchange for taking action to benefit the governmen12.8×535k2.4k62637
26Jan 17, '24Trump's Truth Social posts are becoming evidence practically in real time. Carroll's attorney just admitted into evidence a post Trump made yesterday, while they were in court.12.5×522k6.7k92057
27Jan 25, '24Judge Kaplan is speaking to the courtroom. "It is a very well-established legal principle in the country that prevents do-overs by disappointed litigants."12.4×520k5.4k52747
28Jun 20, '20NEW: Geoff Berman statement: “I learned in a press release from the Attorney General tonight that I was ‘stepping down’ as United States Attorney. I have not resigned, and have no 12.1×021k6.9k223
29Jan 17, '24Trump counsel made a motion for Judge Kaplan to recuse himself, saying Carroll lawyer Shawn Crowley was Kaplan's law clerk and that Kaplan has expressed "general hostility" toward 11.5×483k5.7k57649
30Jan 17, '24With the jury out of the room, Carroll's lawyer Shawn Crowley is complaining that Trump is muttering loud enough that the plaintiff's table can hear him. Crowley says Trump is sayi11.5×482k3.2k55550
31May 6, '25this is so good @ericlach10.9×458k6.7k393870
34Jan 26, '24After Trump left, his legal adviser Boris Epshteyn got out of his seat. Judge Kaplan: "Defense counsel ought to remain seated. And that includes you, Mr. Epshteyn, even though you 10.2×428k6k61747
35Jan 18, '24After Trump lawyer Michael Madaio asks the expert witness a series of repetitive questions, Judge Kaplan steps in. "We are now wasting time, big time. Stop it. We all agree that Li9.5×398k2.6k28024
36Jan 26, '24Carroll lawyer Shawn Crowley: "One of the questions you have to decide is whether he acted with malice. What could be more on-brand for Donald Trump than malice?"9.4×393k2.7k36316
37Oct 4, '17CNN: "We have confirmed that Tillerson did refer to the president as a moron."9.4×020k4.3k0
38Jan 18, '24Carroll's lawyer Robbie Kaplan is offering as evidence a video of Trump's presser yesterday in which he again disparaged Carroll, calling her "a person I never knew" and calling th8.9×373k3.5k41224
39Apr 23, '24After Blanche claimed Trump was going to great pains to comply with the gag order, Merchan lashed out at Blanche. “You’re losing all credibility, I have to tell you right now,” Mer8.3×348k3.3k42834
40Apr 16, '24Merchan just admonished Trump, telling Blanche: "Your client was audibly uttering something...I won’t tolerate that. I will not have any jurors intimated in this courtroom. I want 8.0×333k2.9k46434
41Jan 25, '24Carroll's lawyers are playing a portion of a videotaped deposition of Trump saying he has a lot of cash. "We have a lot of cash. We have great assets. And we have a very valuable c7.6×319k2.9k33414
42Jan 17, '24Habba attempts to speak but says she's not going to make an objection. "If it's not an objection, it's out of order," Kaplan says.7.4×310k3k24328
43Jan 25, '24Trump was just audible on the microphone. "I wasn't at the trial. I don't know who this woman is. I never met this woman." Judge Kaplan: "Mr. Trump, please keep your voice down."7.4×310k2.9k29129
44May 30, '24The jury has found Donald Trump guilty on ALL 34 felony counts.6.3×265k3k53237
45Jul 15, '19SDNY says they learned today that Epstein had in a locked safe a foreign passport issued in the 1980s, expired, with a photo that appears to be Epstein and a name that is not his. 5.4×08.9k3.5k66
46Feb 4, '17Quite the pairing in my timeline...5.4×08.5k4.7k0
47Apr 18, '24Before court broke for the day, Blanche asked that prosecutors disclose their first three witnesses in advance. Steinglass refused, saying Trump has been tweeting about witnesses. 5.2×220k3.7k61248
48May 12, '20Justice Kagan: “The president isn’t above the law.”5.2×013k2.1k18
49Jan 16, '24Jury selection in the second Carroll v. Trump trial is complete. The two prospective jurors who said they believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen were not selected for t4.4×183k2.8k38815
50Feb 3, '18Uma Thurman says Quentin Tarantino forced her to drive a car she couldn't properly operate during the filming of Kill Bill, resulting in a crash that left her permanent injuries. S4.1×06.3k3.4k8
51Oct 3, '18View post on X3.8×08k2.1k17
52Nov 7, '19NEW: A NY state judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to a collection of non-profit orgs as part of a settlement with the New York state attorney general’s off3.8×06.6k2.2k31
55Jan 25, '24This Trump testimony was wildly different than what he gave in the civil fraud trial. No rambling speeches, no attacks on the judge, no political commentary. He was cut off the mom3.6×150k2.7k24021
57Jul 9, '20New: Former SDNY U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman has told the House Judiciary in his opening statement that in urging him to resign, AG Bill Barr warned him that being fired would “n3.5×06.6k2.1k37
59Jul 19, '18Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyb3.3×04.9k2.6k35
60Apr 30, '20"I don't believe the polls," Trump said. "I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don't think that they will put a man in who's incompetent."3.2×02.6k80432
61Mar 25, '19NEW: SDNY is charging Michael Avenatti for "attempting to extract more than $20M in payments from a publicly traded company by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to3.2×04.3k1.6k28
63Apr 24, '19Deutsche Bank has begun turning over docs to the NYAG, including those related to Trump International Hotel in DC, the Trump National Doral Miami, the Trump International Hotel &am3.1×05.7k1.9k25
64Jan 16, '24Carroll lawyer Shawn Crowley: “Donald Trump was president when he made those statements and he used the world’s biggest microphone to attack Ms. Carroll, to humiliate her and to de3.1×129k2.3k34916
65Sep 24, '20New: Mary Trump has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, Maryanne Trump Barry and the estate of Robert Trump alleging fraud, which she calls the family “way of life.”3.0×05.7k2k51
66Jan 26, '24Borrowing language that Trump used about Carroll, Robbie Kaplan ends her closing argument with this: "Now is the time to make him pay for it. And now is the time to make him pay fo2.9×120k2.3k30816
67Nov 14, '20Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school after administrators raised concerns about the couple’s lack of adherence to Covid precautions2.7×05.6k1.1k65
68Dec 12, '18The lawyer for the president is going to prison for crimes that were committed to help him win office.2.6×05.7k1.4k12
69Jul 31, '18NEW: Another MUELLER referral to SDNY. Mueller has referred an inquiry involving lobbyists Tony Podesta and Vin Weber, as well as former Skadden partner Greg Craig, to NY federal p2.6×03.8k1.9k47
70Sep 16, '25Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaking on a panel at New York Law School this morning: “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech i2.6×109k3.7k74593
71Oct 19, '18The Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office has charged a New York man with threatening to murder and assault two U.S. senators in retaliation for their support for the confirmation of Bre2.4×03.4k1.8k9
72Apr 16, '18This is per Cohen's lawyer, who just announced it in court.2.2×03.9k1.4k4
73Jun 20, '20Barr asked Berman to resign during a meeting in NY on Friday. Berman refused. DOJ offered him alternative posts. Berman still said no. Hours later, Barr put out a press release say2.0×03.9k1.3k35
74Mar 9, '18Stormy Daniels's friend says Trump used to call "all the time" while they were on set. "She would put him on speakerphone and walk away and he'd still be talking."2.0×03.4k1.3k25
75Oct 8, '20They didn’t try to impeach the president. They did impeach him. He was impeached.1.9×05.2k6039
76Jun 27, '20“holds back”1.9×03.9k42618
77Aug 21, '18Barricades were just put up outside the Manhattan federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Street1.9×03.2k1.1k5
78Dec 12, '18Cohen attorney Lanny Davis says that "after Mr. Mueller completes his investigation and issues his final report, I look forward to assisting Michael to state publicly all he knows 1.9×03.8k1.1k14
79Oct 19, '18I am on a plane sitting on the tarmac. The couple behind me is reading each other the Khashoggi news out loud. Earlier I overheard an airport bartender talking about it. People are1.9×04.8k6405
80Sep 14, '18Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Manafort's cooperation agreement includes: -interviews and briefings he'll give to the special counsel's office - turning over documents - testifying 1.9×03.9k1k7
81Aug 21, '20In a filing in the Ghislaine Maxwell case today, SDNY prosecutors note that "the investigation into the conduct of the defendant in this case and other possible co-conspirators of 1.8×04.5k80012
82Aug 2, '17NEW: Kushner Companies has been subpoenaed over its use of the controversial EB-5 visa program to court investors.1.8×02.9k1.5k0
83Jul 8, '19SDNY’s detention memo for Jeffrey Epstein, which argues against bail, says he owns homes in NYC (worth $77M), Palm Beach, New Mexico & Paris, and he owns a private island in th1.8×02.9k1.1k27
84Jul 13, '21A former Chicago bank executive was found guilty Tuesday of charges alleging he conspired with Paul Manafort to exchange risky bank loans for a high-ranking position in the Trump a1.7×02.9k1.1k43
85Apr 10, '19I’ve watched this 14 times1.6×03.7k487112
86Jul 1, '21The indictment charges the Trump Organization, Trump Payroll Corporation and Allen Weisselberg. Prosecutors allege a 15-year tax scheme, with 15 felony counts, including a scheme t1.6×03.3k83328
87Feb 26, '19There has been a sealed document filed in the docket of Michael Cohen's SDNY case.1.6×03.3k88114
88Aug 21, '18Michael Cohen just exited federal court to screams of “Lock Him Up!”1.6×03.9k6945
89May 25, '21SDNY prosecutors investigating Giuliani have seized wider array of materials than previously disclosed, including email/iCloud accounts of Yuriy Lutsenko & ex Ukrainian Fiscal 1.4×02.9k73636
90Jul 12, '18Strzok says text was in response to "Trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero. And my presumption based on that horrible, disgusting behavior [was] that the Americ1.4×02.8k81926
91Mar 5, '18"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli must forfeit his Wu Tang album to the United States government, per federal judge's orders today:1.4×02.8k7150
92Jun 20, '20The standoff opens up a fresh crisis at DOJ, places the leadership of the most prominent federal prosecutors office outside Washington in a precarious position & raises questio1.3×02.4k79229
93Dec 11, '19SDNY has asked a federal judge to revoke Lev Parnas’s bail and have him detained, alleging in a court filing Wednesday that he has made false statements to the government regarding1.3×02.8k71715
94Sep 4, '18Geoffrey Owens, a Yale grad, left his Trader Joe's job after he heard there was a story being prepared on it. "I didn't feel that for my peace of mind & my dignity that I was g1.2×02.4k61017
95Oct 31, '25Spotted in Carroll gardens @ZohranKMamdani1.1×48k4k21663
96Dec 3, '20Biden, to @jaketapper, on the Justice Department: “I'm not going to be telling them what they have to do and don't have to do. I'm not going to be saying go prosecute A, B or C – I1.1×03.1k27811
97Jul 2, '20In other SDNY news: Geoffrey Berman, recently fired as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, will be appearing behind closed doors for a transcribed interview be1.1×02.1k68110
98Jul 17, '18Trump gave an extensive sit-down interview to @seanhannity immediately following the press conference with Putin. No clarification was made.1.1×02.3k5564
99Oct 7, '19The Second Circuit has ordered expedited consideration of Trump's appeal of the tax return ruling, with Trump's brief due this Friday by 5p. Oral arguments will be scheduled as soo1.0×02.3k5439
100Jul 18, '19NEW: Jeffrey Epstein is denied bail.1.0×02.4k3635

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