Questionable Representations and Reflection

For this Rapid Response Friday, we answer patron questions on everything from how to examine a  warrant to why Donald Trump will never be sending anyone to Alcatraz. We also consider just how bad the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administration’s ban on trans military service members actually is, how the single biggest financial corruption scandal in Presidential history is happening right now right in front of us, and why the forced departure of the acting DC U.S. Attorney is some of the best news this country has had since January 20, 2025. Also: a surreal Black Mirror-style  footnote about the first time a U.S. courtroom has ever heard a victim’s statement in a video made years after his death.

• Sample judicial warrant

• Sample ICE administrative warrant

• Trump’s Crypto Conflict of Interest, Democracy Defenders Fund (4/23/25)

• Supreme Court’s order in U.S. v. Shilling (5/8/25)

• Project 65’s bar complaint against Acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin

• “The Ed Martin Show,” Jeanette Cooperman, St. Louis Magazine (4/26/2011)

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