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Trump DOJ humiliated by exasperated judge while defending NYT subpoenas: analyst
When the Justice Department Tries to Bully the Press, Procedure Becomes the AlibiThe Real Power Is in the SubpoenaThis story is not about a paperwork dispute. It is about the Justice Department trying to seize reporters’ information after the New York Times exposed that the Trump administration had paused use of a 747 gifted by Qatar because of security failures. That is the core fact: the executive branch reached for press records after being embarrassed by reporting.The institutional power sat with DOJ, not the reporters, and not the judge who had to clean up the mess. When the state points…
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