Katherine Pompilio
@katherinepomps.bsky.social
associate editor @ lawfare
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
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If a Hatch Act violation takes place in a forest, but the Office of Special Counsel is vacant, did the violation actually occur?
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If a Hatch Act violation takes place in a forest, but the Office of Special Counsel is vacant, did the violation actually occur?
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Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
September 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
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In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."
September 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."
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on judge bove
The Quickest Route to a Plum Judicial Appointment
Emil Bove has demonstrated that total sycophancy to the president can be a fantastic career move.
www.theatlantic.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
on judge bove
has anybody checked in on rudy giuliani lately?
July 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
has anybody checked in on rudy giuliani lately?
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Tick tick tick tick tick…
July 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tick tick tick tick tick…
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Good morning @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Good morning @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
THE GIRLIES ARE FIGHTING
June 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
THE GIRLIES ARE FIGHTING
When the attorney general makes a factual claim about law enforcement, it's important to take it seriously. So I contacted the DOJ and ran the numbers. New from yours truly for @lawfaremedia.org
@katherinepomps.bsky.social investigates AG Pam Bondi’s claim that in President Trump’s first 100 days, the Department of Justice has saved more than 258 million lives, about 75% of the American population, through its seizure of 22 million fentanyl pills. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pam-...
Pam Bondi Thinks Trump Saved Your Life
Evaluating the dizzying math behind the attorney general’s fentanyl claims.
www.lawfaremedia.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When the attorney general makes a factual claim about law enforcement, it's important to take it seriously. So I contacted the DOJ and ran the numbers. New from yours truly for @lawfaremedia.org
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A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
April 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
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You cannot placate a bully by complying. It will never work. They’ll keep pushing until someone says no
!!!!!!! They want to TAKE OVER universities: "The Trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University into a consent decree" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University
In an unusual move, the government is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal funding
www.wsj.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
You cannot placate a bully by complying. It will never work. They’ll keep pushing until someone says no
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Law firms if you make a deal with this man keep in mind that you’re also signing up for him to publicly humiliate you like this every few days
Trump brags about his shakedown of major law firms: "We have a lot of law firms that have paid me a lot of money... they paid $100m on average... hopefully I won't need that many legal fees. I may. Who knows? After it ends. After I leave maybe I'll need it, but if I do it won't be very pleasant."
April 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Law firms if you make a deal with this man keep in mind that you’re also signing up for him to publicly humiliate you like this every few days
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March 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning
March 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning
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Did anyone vote for Elon
February 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Did anyone vote for Elon
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Debates about what we owe the dead have persisted for millennia, yet the law offers incomplete and unsatisfying answers.
For @thedialmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the rights of the dead and the legal scholars and forensic anthropologists who work to protect them.
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
For @thedialmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the rights of the dead and the legal scholars and forensic anthropologists who work to protect them.
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
What Do We Owe the Dead? — The Dial
How international human rights law fails to recognize the rights of the dead.
www.thedial.world
January 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Debates about what we owe the dead have persisted for millennia, yet the law offers incomplete and unsatisfying answers.
For @thedialmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the rights of the dead and the legal scholars and forensic anthropologists who work to protect them.
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
For @thedialmag.bsky.social, I wrote about the rights of the dead and the legal scholars and forensic anthropologists who work to protect them.
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
so the vibe here +j6 pardons is violence is cool as long as it advances trump’s agenda ??? totally totally
President Donald Trump has pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances. Among the people pardoned were those involved in the October 2020 invasion and blockade of a Washington clinic.
Trump pardons anti-abortion activists who blockaded clinic entrances
President Donald Trump is pardoning anti-abortion activists who were convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.
apnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
so the vibe here +j6 pardons is violence is cool as long as it advances trump’s agenda ??? totally totally
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as far as i know, this is the first mention of the achen/bartels shark attacks paper ever to grace the pages of lawfare
another addition from me to the discourse on garland and doj
How American Institutions Failed to Meet the Moment
The Constitution provides tools with which to defend against a demagogue. But political elites have refused to use them.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
as far as i know, this is the first mention of the achen/bartels shark attacks paper ever to grace the pages of lawfare
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Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, six days ago:
“I abhor violence to police officers.”
“I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country.”
“I abhor violence to police officers.”
“I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country.”
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, six days ago:
“I abhor violence to police officers.”
“I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country.”
“I abhor violence to police officers.”
“I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country.”