From Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern:
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice keeps lying brazenly to judges, and more often than not, it refuses to correct the record while facing no real consequences in court. This past week, however, DOJ lawyers took the rare step of fessing up to a serious error, dramatically overstating the presence of federal agents in Portland in an effort to justify Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. This falsehood lay at the heart of a recent ruling greenlighting this deployment by a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Thankfully, the full 9th Circuit wiped away that decision on Tuesday, giving its members another opportunity to reconsider the case on the basis of truthful information.
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the DOJ’s rather mortifying confession and its implications for the broader battle over Trump’s federalization of the Guard. Read a preview of their conversation here: [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/doj-trump-lie-portland-national-guard.html](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/doj-trump-lie-portland-national-guard.html)
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Ah, yes… court. Funny thing about that, actually…
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And there are no penalties for the lies, and the taxpayers are footing the bills of the lawyers on both sides of the court. And the shutdown doesn’t stop the taxpayers money flowing to them.
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The obvious takeaway from this reporting is that the Trump administration needs to immediately and without delay lock up Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern.
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So we’re going to do something about this, right? Right?
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Kinda odd the biggest liars in court are DOJ lawyers
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“The DOJ lied”..? 💀💀 we’re so done
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Scamela Abscondi lied?! What lies will we uncover next?! Injecting bleach doesn’t cure covid?!
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From Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern:
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice keeps lying brazenly to judges, and more often than not, it refuses to correct the record while facing no real consequences in court. This past week, however, DOJ lawyers took the rare step of fessing up to a serious error, dramatically overstating the presence of federal agents in Portland in an effort to justify Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. This falsehood lay at the heart of a recent ruling greenlighting this deployment by a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Thankfully, the full 9th Circuit wiped away that decision on Tuesday, giving its members another opportunity to reconsider the case on the basis of truthful information.
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the DOJ’s rather mortifying confession and its implications for the broader battle over Trump’s federalization of the Guard. Read a preview of their conversation here: [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/doj-trump-lie-portland-national-guard.html](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/doj-trump-lie-portland-national-guard.html)
Ah, yes… court. Funny thing about that, actually…
And there are no penalties for the lies, and the taxpayers are footing the bills of the lawyers on both sides of the court. And the shutdown doesn’t stop the taxpayers money flowing to them.
The obvious takeaway from this reporting is that the Trump administration needs to immediately and without delay lock up Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern.
So we’re going to do something about this, right? Right?
Kinda odd the biggest liars in court are DOJ lawyers
“The DOJ lied”..? 💀💀 we’re so done
Scamela Abscondi lied?! What lies will we uncover next?! Injecting bleach doesn’t cure covid?!
Uh huh. Heard this one before.
Start disbarring the lawyers that lie