Trump Puts the “Pervert” in Perversion of Justice

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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OA1253 - It’s spring cleaning time in this week’s news, in which we answer patron questions on everything from DOJ lying to a federal judge about ICE’s policy on arresting immigrants in courthouses to DOJ lying about violating court orders. Also: the Trump administration’s unbelievable gift to some of the worst of the worst J6rs, the D.C. Circuit’s inexplicable termination of Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the administration for violating his orders, and a major ruling in one of the most important deportation cases in US history. We chase these shots of 200-proof reality out with a chaser: Did the 5th Circuit really just legalize bathtub gin? Find out in today’s boozy footnote!

“DOJ admits ICE courthouse arrests relied on erroneous information,” Sergio Martinez-Beltran (NPR, 3/26/2026)
Email in which ICE revised its policy to exclude arrests at immigration court, filed March 24, 2026 in the Southern District of New York
Appeals court again blocks Boasberg contempt probe into Alien Enemies Act deportations (Politico, 4/14/2026)
On Petition for Writ of Mandamus, In Re: Trump et al, D.C. Cir (April 14, 2026)
Unopposed Motion to Vacate Convictions and To Remand For Dismissal With Prejudice filed April 14, 2026
Order in National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States v. National Park Service, et al. filed April 11, 2026 in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Law Banning Home Alcohol Distilleries (Reason, 4/11/2026)
Decision in McNutt et al. v. United State Department of Justice, Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau filed April 11, 2026 in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

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0:00.0	Jamie Raskin is correct in saying the Department of Justice is now acting like in-house
0:07.3	counsel for the oathkeepers in the Browboys.
0:17.8	It is great that cannabis is legal in most of the country, at least during these times, but now you can also make yourself some burden.
0:23.8	So one more option.
0:30.9	Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:32.4	This is episode 1253.
0:33.7	I'm Thomas.
0:34.2	That over there is real life immigration attorney Matt Cameron.
0:36.8	How are you doing, Matt?
0:37.6	I am fired up. It is spring quitting time. It's not time of year when I'm just going to go through and try to redo my life a little bit. Oh, wow. Thinking of taking up a different line of work. This is how Matt tells us he's going to go work at Starbucks, as we've talked about. Not there yet. I still love both my jobs, but we've got some odds and ends to sort
0:56.2	out in today's show, just some fun spring cleaning activities. Some of them not so fun, but some
1:00.4	great patron questions to go through. So looking forward to that. Yeah, it's been too long since we
1:05.4	just let the patrons be the deciders on the questions. And so I'm glad we did that. Well,
1:10.3	what are the patrons have in store for us today? As usual, we've got a great set the questions. And so I'm glad we did that. Well, what are the patrons
1:10.8	have in store for us today? As usual, we've got a great set of questions. I just want to say, this show really is brought to you by patrons in the literal sense and make sure that we can actually do this. This show, today's show, is brought to you by patrons, because with one exception, these are going to be patron questions today. We've got everything from did ICE lie to a court about being able to go into courthouses
1:29.3	to does it matter that ICE lied to a court about deporting a bunch of people?
1:34.7	A lot of variety on this one.
1:36.1	Yeah.
1:37.4	To a really fun footnote for all you bootleggers out there.
1:41.8	Got a great bootlegging footnote.
1:43.1	Attention bootleggers. I'm excited about great bootlegging. Attention bootleggers.
2:02.0	I'm excited about this one. This is, I love a good patron suggestion for a footnote. We'll get there and we'll get there. A patron suggested footnote. That's the only thing that could be better than Matt suggested footnote. Sure. Already, good. The last patron suggestion footnote I meant to shout out was actually the Crave series. when we talked about the werewolves and gargoyles.
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