[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @kyledcheney Kyle Cheney Kyle Cheney posts on X about trumps, doj, donald trump, maxwell the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::23578274/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +98% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +11% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +116% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::23578274/posts_active)  - X Week XX +1.40% - X Month XXX +46% - X Months XXX +62% - X Year XXXXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::23578274/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.12% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.48% - X Months XXXXXXX +8.60% - X Year XXXXXXX -XXXX% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::23578274/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::23578274/influence) --- **Social category influence** [celebrities](/list/celebrities) #3775 [countries](/list/countries) XXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXX% **Social topic influence** [trumps](/topic/trumps) #861, [doj](/topic/doj) #275, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #1670, [maxwell](/topic/maxwell) #283, [jeffrey epstein](/topic/jeffrey-epstein) #600, [ghislaine](/topic/ghislaine) #175, [wall street](/topic/wall-street) 2.41%, [grand jury](/topic/grand-jury) #9, [abrego garcia](/topic/abrego-garcia) #2, [pam](/topic/pam) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@cantkeepquiet3](/creator/undefined) [@joshgerstein](/creator/undefined) [@eorden](/creator/undefined) [@qu3stionevrthg](/creator/undefined) [@drainedtheswamp](/creator/undefined) [@htwardish](/creator/undefined) [@kiefo555](/creator/undefined) [@nick_jay_d](/creator/undefined) [@ericbegy](/creator/undefined) [@peterkotar12668](/creator/undefined) [@jordanrsalois](/creator/undefined) [@grief_of_spring](/creator/undefined) [@sheilashook14](/creator/undefined) [@philmaxon](/creator/undefined) [@trickydickpol](/creator/undefined) [@mail_american](/creator/undefined) [@magrampip](/creator/undefined) [@satoadshilite](/creator/undefined) [@taboohbkt](/creator/undefined) [@thestebbman1](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::23578274/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "NEW: Judge Darrin Gayles who will preside over Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal may be having deja vu: He presided over Trump's ill-fated 2023 lawsuit against Michael Cohen. Trump ultimately dropped that case to avoid being deposed"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947338891096113447) 2025-07-21 16:52:26 UTC 305.9K followers, 23.4K engagements "NEW: The agents who executed the arrests of pro-Palestinian students like mahmoud Khalil testified Tuesday that the orders they received were unusual and described by their superiors as urgent. w/ @joshgerstein"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945200199590179189) 2025-07-15 19:14:02 UTC 305.9K followers, 49.1K engagements "JUST IN: Judge Paul Engelmayer whose emergency ruling blocking DOGE's access to treasury infuriated the Trump administration has been assigned to handle one of Trump's Epstein grand jury unsealing requests"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947310597890023564) 2025-07-21 15:00:00 UTC 305.9K followers, 68.9K engagements "JUST IN: Judge Cobb has dismissed the lawsuit by FBI agents who feared retaliation by the Trump administration saying their fears while borne of chaos at the beginning of the administration are too speculative to support their claims"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945975529036804501) 2025-07-17 22:34:55 UTC 305.9K followers, 120.1K engagements "BREAKING: Judge Xinis has blocked ICE from immediately taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody after he was ordered released from criminal detention in Tennessee. She says he must be returned to Maryland on an order of supervision"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948089565698253133) 2025-07-23 18:35:20 UTC 305.9K followers, 117K engagements "The judge Biden appointee David Estudillo agreed that the state law infringed on the free exercise of religion"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946240255650091422) 2025-07-18 16:06:50 UTC 305.9K followers, 20.4K engagements "JUST IN: Maxwells lawyers say theyve spoken with Todd Blanche who has no objection to their request for access to grand jury transcripts that Maxwell apparently has never seen in their entirety"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947766846444212581) 2025-07-22 21:12:58 UTC 305.9K followers, 22.3K engagements "NEW: As many as XXX Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison could be returned to the U.S. for further legal proceedings under a diplomatic arrangement tied to todays prisoner swap the Trump admin indicated in court tonight"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946384346899734740) 2025-07-19 01:39:25 UTC 305.9K followers, 50.4K engagements "DEPT OF GOOD TIMING: One of Trump's other media lawsuits a claim that Bob Woodward's publication of the "Trump Tapes" violated copyright law was just dismissed. The 81-page opinion:"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946344759758405695) 2025-07-18 23:02:06 UTC 305.9K followers, 52.4K engagements "MORE: The judge also found that DHS was improperly denying detainees' access to counsel ordering revised procedures for hundreds being held in "B-18" the basement of a federal building housing arrestees"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1943857217595486589) 2025-07-12 02:17:30 UTC 305.9K followers, 101.5K engagements "XINIS wonders whether any third country is safe for Abrego because of Trump administration's label of him as MS-13. "Whats that going to do for any country that this man has to face a third party removal to""  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1943667668826914883) 2025-07-11 13:44:18 UTC 305.9K followers, 100.4K engagements "Young's commentary came as he is weighing the adminsitration's decision to arrest/seek to deport student activists with pro-Palestinian views. He wondered whether Trump's comments about people like Adam Schiff and Elon Musk cause underlings to carry out his vendettas"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947329271577325635) 2025-07-21 16:14:12 UTC 305.9K followers, 28.9K engagements "JUST IN: Judge Sullivan rules that that Trump administration broke the law by concealing realtime data about how the government is spending congressionally mandated funds. He notes this data is crucial amid concerns about potential illegal impoundment"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947286397284409472) 2025-07-21 13:23:50 UTC 305.9K followers, 214.9K engagements "JUST IN: The Justice Department's bid to relesae Epstein grand jury info comes with a huge caveat that it will seek to redact not just victim info but other "personal identifying information.""  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946323882475962847) 2025-07-18 21:39:09 UTC 305.9K followers, 305.6K engagements "Kilmar Abrego Garcia and DOJ have agreed to a 30-day delay in his release from pretrial incarceration so he can evaluate his legal options against an anticipated effort to deport him"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947281614435664354) 2025-07-21 13:04:50 UTC 305.9K followers, 22.7K engagements "In fact Murdoch and Bondi were both in the VIP box w Trump on Sunday"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946007277321761065) 2025-07-18 00:41:04 UTC 305.8K followers, 117.7K engagements "Periodic reminder that the Senate Intel Committee led at the time by a certain future secretary of state Marco Rubio concluded this in its comprehensive review of Russian interference in the 2016 election:"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946286294025244792) 2025-07-18 19:09:47 UTC 305.9K followers, 230.5K engagements "JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from enforcing Trump's executive order punishing people who work with the ICC calling it an unconstitutional infringement on free speech"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946378924801376378) 2025-07-19 01:17:52 UTC 305.9K followers, 147.9K engagements "BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the "big beautiful bill's" provision to defund Planned Parenthood"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1942345612906594650) 2025-07-07 22:10:55 UTC 305.9K followers, 3.9M engagements "The letter for Epstein's birthday includes a message depicting a fake exchange between Trump and Epstein: "Enigmas never age" "wonderful secret.""  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945981089090015373) 2025-07-17 22:57:00 UTC 305.9K followers, 348.5K engagements "JUST IN: Judge Engelmayer who is handling one of the DOJ request to unseal Epstein grand jury docs says he needs: -A detailed explanation from DOJ by July XX -A response from Maxwell by Aug. X -Letters from victims by Aug. 5"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947685337783771387) 2025-07-22 15:49:05 UTC 305.9K followers, 73.1K engagements "JUST IN: The Trump administration is suing to overturn CA state laws intended to prevent cruelty against egg-laying chickens. The administration says these laws have driven up egg prices and are preempted by a 1970 federal law"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1943077048227971392) 2025-07-09 22:37:23 UTC 305.8K followers, 109.7K engagements "NEW: The Epstein grand jury transcripts could just be one agent's summary testimony. And the existence of many living witnesses and victims as well as Ghislaine Maxwell's pending appeal could cause courts to deny their publci release. w/ @eorden"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946344924003139711) 2025-07-18 23:02:45 UTC 305.9K followers, 48.1K engagements "JUST IN: A federal judge rules that the Trump administration must reinstate a policy to provide lawyers to people who are deemed mentally incompetent in deportation proceedings. It was terminated without a legally persuasive reason Judge Ali finds"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947322904225419412) 2025-07-21 15:48:54 UTC 305.9K followers, 80.1K engagements "Until 1986 the district courts had exclusive power to fill US attorney vacancies until a Senate confirmed successor. Then a law added acting and interim options retaining court role as a backstop. George W Bush tried to remove courts entirely from process in the Patriot Act claiming a national security issue. Then after US attorney scandal blew up Congress restored the courts' role saying it was a necessary check. At the time they noted the interim appointments had been upheld by multiple courts particularly since the judges didn't retain supervision of the appointee. Executive still"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947801024670142932) 2025-07-22 23:28:47 UTC 305.9K followers, 85.8K engagements "A federal judge in NY meanwhile has denied Ghislaine Maxwell's request to see the grand jury transcripts saying defendants virtually never get to see that highly secret material espescially after trial. He says he'll touch base if he wants her views"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948099978288873960) 2025-07-23 19:16:43 UTC 305.9K followers, 9394 engagements "JUST IN: Judge Talwani has reaffirmed her order blocking the Planned Parenthood defunding provision in the mega bill Trump signed last week. The law would have immediately forced hundreds of people who depend on Medicaid to cover costs to cancel health appointments"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1943835281750159598) 2025-07-12 00:50:20 UTC 305.9K followers, 97K engagements "A lot of misreporting already suggesting AG Pam Bondi will "release" something or that the court will do something tomorrow. All we know is DOJ can make the *request* tomorrow but we may see nothing for quite a while if at all"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946023501002911804) 2025-07-18 01:45:32 UTC 305.9K followers, 50.2K engagements "Maxwell's defense attorney is veteran David Markus who. -Currently represents Hillary Clinton. -in a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump. -about Russiagate Markus is now praising Trump for "his commitment to uncovering the truth" re: Epstein"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947650916561117472) 2025-07-22 13:32:18 UTC 305.9K followers, 101.4K engagements "JUST IN: A federal judge in FL has denied DOJ's bid to unseal Epstein grand jury materials saying she's bound by strict secrecy rules. The courts considering the unsealing in NY are bound by different precedents however and have more flexibility"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948088209650442419) 2025-07-23 18:29:57 UTC 305.9K followers, 39.9K engagements "A California jury has convicted Kyle COLTON a pardoned Jan. X defendant of possession of child pornography. Colton had argued Trumps pardon should have reached his child porn case because it was discovered during execution of Jan. X search warrant"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945651069939233187) 2025-07-17 01:05:38 UTC 305.9K followers, 1.4M engagements "Trump's call to release "pertinent" Epstein grand jury info represents only a portion of the evidence that would make up the so-called "Epstein files" and it's the portion that has the most obstacles to release given strict grand jury secrecy rules courts are reluctant to lift"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946022621503480125) 2025-07-18 01:42:02 UTC 305.9K followers, 73.3K engagements "NEW: A federal judge in Florida turned down the Trump adminsitration's bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts but he still gets two cracks at it in New York where judges have a little more latitude to waive grand jury secrecy"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948099404654674002) 2025-07-23 19:14:26 UTC 305.9K followers, 15.6K engagements "JUST IN: For the fourth time a federal judge has barred the Trump administration from imposing a XX% limit on indirect cost rates for federal research this time at the Pentagon"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946393811342495993) 2025-07-19 02:17:01 UTC 305.9K followers, 71.6K engagements "JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession. The Trump administration had intervened on the side of the Catholic clergy"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946239650101616847) 2025-07-18 16:04:26 UTC 305.9K followers, 265.7K engagements "BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1943846777246933036) 2025-07-12 01:36:01 UTC 305.9K followers, 746.1K engagements "JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1889077660300591274) 2025-02-10 22:23:06 UTC 305.9K followers, 16.6M engagements "Here's a Markus-signed brief describing Trump's claims about Russiagate as "hopelessly stale" and meritless. The lawsuit led the judge to sanction Trump and his then-attorney Alina Habba for $X million. That judgment is on appeal"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947662116938219563) 2025-07-22 14:16:49 UTC 305.9K followers, 19.8K engagements "NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been ordered released from criminal custody and returned to Maryland but his legal victories could be short-lived if ICE quickly re-arrests him for deportation proceedings in Baltimore. w/ @joshgerstein"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948113702831489438) 2025-07-23 20:11:15 UTC 305.9K followers, 166.7K engagements "NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell once argued the Epstein saga is so old witnesses memories have faded and corroborating documents destroyed that it would be hard to unearth anything new and reliable. Now she wants a DOJ that charged her with perjury to believe she has revelatory info. w/ @eorden @joshgerstein"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947783269111500982) 2025-07-22 22:18:14 UTC 305.9K followers, 98.4K engagements "Blanche is right though: Prosecutors do not appear to have sought her testimony in any form since she declined to seek a plea agreement and DOJ declined to offer one. She has however testified in two civil depositions the basis for DOJ's perjury charges"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947787692177010713) 2025-07-22 22:35:48 UTC 305.9K followers, 21.9K engagements "Judge YOUNG compared Donald Trump to Henry II today noting the latter's "can someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" line led errant knights to carry out his wishes. Trump Young said "doesnt have errant knights but hes got Stephen Miller.""  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947329032497803741) 2025-07-21 16:13:15 UTC 305.9K followers, 96K engagements "NEW: Donald Trump opened a new front in his war with the courts by challenging their 160-year-old power to fill vacancies in federal prosecutors offices. That power was meant to be a check on presidents circumventing Senate confirmation. w/ @ryrivard"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948108618085146920) 2025-07-23 19:51:03 UTC 305.9K followers, 17.5K engagements "The Trump administration dropped criminal corruption charges against Adams bc they said it wasnt right during an election season and needed his help on immigration. But apparently they can call him an accessory to attempted murder (without charges) even closer to the election"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947973532752789743) 2025-07-23 10:54:16 UTC 305.9K followers, 53.3K engagements "CASA giveth and CASA taketh away. A Trump-appointed federal judge has denied the administrations bid for permission to terminate agencies collective bargaining agreements noting it would be the kind of novel relief the Supreme Court warned against"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948170009127116996) 2025-07-23 23:55:00 UTC 305.9K followers, 21.7K engagements "NEW: Maurene Comey fired yesterday by DOJ amid fallout from the departmen'ts handling of the Epstein files sent a message for colleagues that appeared aimed at DOJ leaders and Trump: 'Fear is the tool of the tyrant.' w/ @eorden"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945870013551821091) 2025-07-17 15:35:38 UTC 305.9K followers, 45.1K engagements "Former Jan. X defendant Kyle Colton says Donald Trump's pardon also covers his child pornography charge because it stemmed from the J6 search warrant"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1933215085666676784) 2025-06-12 17:29:28 UTC 305.9K followers, 5.6M engagements "DOJ acknowledged in its FL application that it was unlikely to succeed given bidning precedents and was rather preserving the issue for appeal"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948088553822675136) 2025-07-23 18:31:19 UTC 305.9K followers, 9200 engagements "JUST IN: Trumps lawsuit against Murdoch and the WSJ goes to Judge Darrin Gayles an appointee of Barack Obama"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947270645554839581) 2025-07-21 12:21:15 UTC 305.9K followers, 499.8K engagements "PSA: Don't write about new lawsuits before there is actual paper on the docket"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946338318150496540) 2025-07-18 22:36:30 UTC 305.9K followers, 46.5K engagements "Maxwell argued before her criminal that large sets of corroborating documents had been lost or destroyed that witnesses had died or forgotten key moments. She also has an obvious motive: to seek a sentence reduction or clemency"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947787690432197014) 2025-07-22 22:35:48 UTC 305.9K followers, 17K engagements "NEW: Tom Homan tells our @DashaBurns the Trump administration is seeking more international deals like the one that sent eight deported men to South Sudan. He also says the U.S. isnt tracking the status/welfare of those eight men. w/ @MyahWard"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1943616800404430865) 2025-07-11 10:22:10 UTC 305.9K followers, 60.7K engagements "Donald Trump appears to have written a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 depitcting a naked woman per the Wall Street Journal. Trump denies writing the letter"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945979914634629372) 2025-07-17 22:52:20 UTC 305.9K followers, 336.1K engagements "Vance here mocking @jonfavs for not reading the court filing says the deported man was a convicted gang member The court filing does not say that. It says he was denied bond in 2019 over an informants claim he was in MS-13. Thats not a conviction"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1906946410794156129) 2025-04-01 05:47:08 UTC 305.9K followers, 4.6M engagements "JUST IN: Judge Breyer sets trial for Aug. 11-13 on whether Trump's deployment of military to Los Angeles violated Posse Comitatus"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1943122399366443429) 2025-07-10 01:37:36 UTC 305.9K followers, 303.5K engagements "(Congress can't compel presidents -- current or former -- to testify)"  [@kyledcheney](/creator/x/kyledcheney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947664702735024305) 2025-07-22 14:27:05 UTC 305.9K followers, 205K engagements
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Kyle Cheney posts on X about trumps, doj, donald trump, maxwell the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @cantkeepquiet3 @joshgerstein @eorden @qu3stionevrthg @drainedtheswamp @htwardish @kiefo555 @nick_jay_d @ericbegy @peterkotar12668 @jordanrsalois @grief_of_spring @sheilashook14 @philmaxon @trickydickpol @mail_american @magrampip @satoadshilite @taboohbkt @thestebbman1
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"NEW: Judge Darrin Gayles who will preside over Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal may be having deja vu: He presided over Trump's ill-fated 2023 lawsuit against Michael Cohen. Trump ultimately dropped that case to avoid being deposed"
@kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 16:52:26 UTC 305.9K followers, 23.4K engagements
"NEW: The agents who executed the arrests of pro-Palestinian students like mahmoud Khalil testified Tuesday that the orders they received were unusual and described by their superiors as urgent. w/ @joshgerstein" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-15 19:14:02 UTC 305.9K followers, 49.1K engagements
"JUST IN: Judge Paul Engelmayer whose emergency ruling blocking DOGE's access to treasury infuriated the Trump administration has been assigned to handle one of Trump's Epstein grand jury unsealing requests" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 15:00:00 UTC 305.9K followers, 68.9K engagements
"JUST IN: Judge Cobb has dismissed the lawsuit by FBI agents who feared retaliation by the Trump administration saying their fears while borne of chaos at the beginning of the administration are too speculative to support their claims" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-17 22:34:55 UTC 305.9K followers, 120.1K engagements
"BREAKING: Judge Xinis has blocked ICE from immediately taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody after he was ordered released from criminal detention in Tennessee. She says he must be returned to Maryland on an order of supervision" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 18:35:20 UTC 305.9K followers, 117K engagements
"The judge Biden appointee David Estudillo agreed that the state law infringed on the free exercise of religion" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 16:06:50 UTC 305.9K followers, 20.4K engagements
"JUST IN: Maxwells lawyers say theyve spoken with Todd Blanche who has no objection to their request for access to grand jury transcripts that Maxwell apparently has never seen in their entirety" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 21:12:58 UTC 305.9K followers, 22.3K engagements
"NEW: As many as XXX Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison could be returned to the U.S. for further legal proceedings under a diplomatic arrangement tied to todays prisoner swap the Trump admin indicated in court tonight" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-19 01:39:25 UTC 305.9K followers, 50.4K engagements
"DEPT OF GOOD TIMING: One of Trump's other media lawsuits a claim that Bob Woodward's publication of the "Trump Tapes" violated copyright law was just dismissed. The 81-page opinion:" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 23:02:06 UTC 305.9K followers, 52.4K engagements
"MORE: The judge also found that DHS was improperly denying detainees' access to counsel ordering revised procedures for hundreds being held in "B-18" the basement of a federal building housing arrestees" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-12 02:17:30 UTC 305.9K followers, 101.5K engagements
"XINIS wonders whether any third country is safe for Abrego because of Trump administration's label of him as MS-13. "Whats that going to do for any country that this man has to face a third party removal to"" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-11 13:44:18 UTC 305.9K followers, 100.4K engagements
"Young's commentary came as he is weighing the adminsitration's decision to arrest/seek to deport student activists with pro-Palestinian views. He wondered whether Trump's comments about people like Adam Schiff and Elon Musk cause underlings to carry out his vendettas" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 16:14:12 UTC 305.9K followers, 28.9K engagements
"JUST IN: Judge Sullivan rules that that Trump administration broke the law by concealing realtime data about how the government is spending congressionally mandated funds. He notes this data is crucial amid concerns about potential illegal impoundment" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 13:23:50 UTC 305.9K followers, 214.9K engagements
"JUST IN: The Justice Department's bid to relesae Epstein grand jury info comes with a huge caveat that it will seek to redact not just victim info but other "personal identifying information."" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 21:39:09 UTC 305.9K followers, 305.6K engagements
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia and DOJ have agreed to a 30-day delay in his release from pretrial incarceration so he can evaluate his legal options against an anticipated effort to deport him" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 13:04:50 UTC 305.9K followers, 22.7K engagements
"In fact Murdoch and Bondi were both in the VIP box w Trump on Sunday" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 00:41:04 UTC 305.8K followers, 117.7K engagements
"Periodic reminder that the Senate Intel Committee led at the time by a certain future secretary of state Marco Rubio concluded this in its comprehensive review of Russian interference in the 2016 election:" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 19:09:47 UTC 305.9K followers, 230.5K engagements
"JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from enforcing Trump's executive order punishing people who work with the ICC calling it an unconstitutional infringement on free speech" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-19 01:17:52 UTC 305.9K followers, 147.9K engagements
"BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the "big beautiful bill's" provision to defund Planned Parenthood" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-07 22:10:55 UTC 305.9K followers, 3.9M engagements
"The letter for Epstein's birthday includes a message depicting a fake exchange between Trump and Epstein: "Enigmas never age" "wonderful secret."" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-17 22:57:00 UTC 305.9K followers, 348.5K engagements
"JUST IN: Judge Engelmayer who is handling one of the DOJ request to unseal Epstein grand jury docs says he needs: -A detailed explanation from DOJ by July XX -A response from Maxwell by Aug. X -Letters from victims by Aug. 5" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 15:49:05 UTC 305.9K followers, 73.1K engagements
"JUST IN: The Trump administration is suing to overturn CA state laws intended to prevent cruelty against egg-laying chickens. The administration says these laws have driven up egg prices and are preempted by a 1970 federal law" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-09 22:37:23 UTC 305.8K followers, 109.7K engagements
"NEW: The Epstein grand jury transcripts could just be one agent's summary testimony. And the existence of many living witnesses and victims as well as Ghislaine Maxwell's pending appeal could cause courts to deny their publci release. w/ @eorden" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 23:02:45 UTC 305.9K followers, 48.1K engagements
"JUST IN: A federal judge rules that the Trump administration must reinstate a policy to provide lawyers to people who are deemed mentally incompetent in deportation proceedings. It was terminated without a legally persuasive reason Judge Ali finds" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 15:48:54 UTC 305.9K followers, 80.1K engagements
"Until 1986 the district courts had exclusive power to fill US attorney vacancies until a Senate confirmed successor. Then a law added acting and interim options retaining court role as a backstop. George W Bush tried to remove courts entirely from process in the Patriot Act claiming a national security issue. Then after US attorney scandal blew up Congress restored the courts' role saying it was a necessary check. At the time they noted the interim appointments had been upheld by multiple courts particularly since the judges didn't retain supervision of the appointee. Executive still" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 23:28:47 UTC 305.9K followers, 85.8K engagements
"A federal judge in NY meanwhile has denied Ghislaine Maxwell's request to see the grand jury transcripts saying defendants virtually never get to see that highly secret material espescially after trial. He says he'll touch base if he wants her views" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 19:16:43 UTC 305.9K followers, 9394 engagements
"JUST IN: Judge Talwani has reaffirmed her order blocking the Planned Parenthood defunding provision in the mega bill Trump signed last week. The law would have immediately forced hundreds of people who depend on Medicaid to cover costs to cancel health appointments" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-12 00:50:20 UTC 305.9K followers, 97K engagements
"A lot of misreporting already suggesting AG Pam Bondi will "release" something or that the court will do something tomorrow. All we know is DOJ can make the request tomorrow but we may see nothing for quite a while if at all" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 01:45:32 UTC 305.9K followers, 50.2K engagements
"Maxwell's defense attorney is veteran David Markus who. -Currently represents Hillary Clinton. -in a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump. -about Russiagate Markus is now praising Trump for "his commitment to uncovering the truth" re: Epstein" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 13:32:18 UTC 305.9K followers, 101.4K engagements
"JUST IN: A federal judge in FL has denied DOJ's bid to unseal Epstein grand jury materials saying she's bound by strict secrecy rules. The courts considering the unsealing in NY are bound by different precedents however and have more flexibility" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 18:29:57 UTC 305.9K followers, 39.9K engagements
"A California jury has convicted Kyle COLTON a pardoned Jan. X defendant of possession of child pornography. Colton had argued Trumps pardon should have reached his child porn case because it was discovered during execution of Jan. X search warrant" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-17 01:05:38 UTC 305.9K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Trump's call to release "pertinent" Epstein grand jury info represents only a portion of the evidence that would make up the so-called "Epstein files" and it's the portion that has the most obstacles to release given strict grand jury secrecy rules courts are reluctant to lift" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 01:42:02 UTC 305.9K followers, 73.3K engagements
"NEW: A federal judge in Florida turned down the Trump adminsitration's bid to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts but he still gets two cracks at it in New York where judges have a little more latitude to waive grand jury secrecy" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 19:14:26 UTC 305.9K followers, 15.6K engagements
"JUST IN: For the fourth time a federal judge has barred the Trump administration from imposing a XX% limit on indirect cost rates for federal research this time at the Pentagon" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-19 02:17:01 UTC 305.9K followers, 71.6K engagements
"JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession. The Trump administration had intervened on the side of the Catholic clergy" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 16:04:26 UTC 305.9K followers, 265.7K engagements
"BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-12 01:36:01 UTC 305.9K followers, 746.1K engagements
"JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants" @kyledcheney on X 2025-02-10 22:23:06 UTC 305.9K followers, 16.6M engagements
"Here's a Markus-signed brief describing Trump's claims about Russiagate as "hopelessly stale" and meritless. The lawsuit led the judge to sanction Trump and his then-attorney Alina Habba for $X million. That judgment is on appeal" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 14:16:49 UTC 305.9K followers, 19.8K engagements
"NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been ordered released from criminal custody and returned to Maryland but his legal victories could be short-lived if ICE quickly re-arrests him for deportation proceedings in Baltimore. w/ @joshgerstein" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 20:11:15 UTC 305.9K followers, 166.7K engagements
"NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell once argued the Epstein saga is so old witnesses memories have faded and corroborating documents destroyed that it would be hard to unearth anything new and reliable. Now she wants a DOJ that charged her with perjury to believe she has revelatory info. w/ @eorden @joshgerstein" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 22:18:14 UTC 305.9K followers, 98.4K engagements
"Blanche is right though: Prosecutors do not appear to have sought her testimony in any form since she declined to seek a plea agreement and DOJ declined to offer one. She has however testified in two civil depositions the basis for DOJ's perjury charges" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 22:35:48 UTC 305.9K followers, 21.9K engagements
"Judge YOUNG compared Donald Trump to Henry II today noting the latter's "can someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" line led errant knights to carry out his wishes. Trump Young said "doesnt have errant knights but hes got Stephen Miller."" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 16:13:15 UTC 305.9K followers, 96K engagements
"NEW: Donald Trump opened a new front in his war with the courts by challenging their 160-year-old power to fill vacancies in federal prosecutors offices. That power was meant to be a check on presidents circumventing Senate confirmation. w/ @ryrivard" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 19:51:03 UTC 305.9K followers, 17.5K engagements
"The Trump administration dropped criminal corruption charges against Adams bc they said it wasnt right during an election season and needed his help on immigration. But apparently they can call him an accessory to attempted murder (without charges) even closer to the election" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 10:54:16 UTC 305.9K followers, 53.3K engagements
"CASA giveth and CASA taketh away. A Trump-appointed federal judge has denied the administrations bid for permission to terminate agencies collective bargaining agreements noting it would be the kind of novel relief the Supreme Court warned against" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 23:55:00 UTC 305.9K followers, 21.7K engagements
"NEW: Maurene Comey fired yesterday by DOJ amid fallout from the departmen'ts handling of the Epstein files sent a message for colleagues that appeared aimed at DOJ leaders and Trump: 'Fear is the tool of the tyrant.' w/ @eorden" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-17 15:35:38 UTC 305.9K followers, 45.1K engagements
"Former Jan. X defendant Kyle Colton says Donald Trump's pardon also covers his child pornography charge because it stemmed from the J6 search warrant" @kyledcheney on X 2025-06-12 17:29:28 UTC 305.9K followers, 5.6M engagements
"DOJ acknowledged in its FL application that it was unlikely to succeed given bidning precedents and was rather preserving the issue for appeal" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-23 18:31:19 UTC 305.9K followers, 9200 engagements
"JUST IN: Trumps lawsuit against Murdoch and the WSJ goes to Judge Darrin Gayles an appointee of Barack Obama" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-21 12:21:15 UTC 305.9K followers, 499.8K engagements
"PSA: Don't write about new lawsuits before there is actual paper on the docket" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-18 22:36:30 UTC 305.9K followers, 46.5K engagements
"Maxwell argued before her criminal that large sets of corroborating documents had been lost or destroyed that witnesses had died or forgotten key moments. She also has an obvious motive: to seek a sentence reduction or clemency" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 22:35:48 UTC 305.9K followers, 17K engagements
"NEW: Tom Homan tells our @DashaBurns the Trump administration is seeking more international deals like the one that sent eight deported men to South Sudan. He also says the U.S. isnt tracking the status/welfare of those eight men. w/ @MyahWard" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-11 10:22:10 UTC 305.9K followers, 60.7K engagements
"Donald Trump appears to have written a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 depitcting a naked woman per the Wall Street Journal. Trump denies writing the letter" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-17 22:52:20 UTC 305.9K followers, 336.1K engagements
"Vance here mocking @jonfavs for not reading the court filing says the deported man was a convicted gang member The court filing does not say that. It says he was denied bond in 2019 over an informants claim he was in MS-13. Thats not a conviction" @kyledcheney on X 2025-04-01 05:47:08 UTC 305.9K followers, 4.6M engagements
"JUST IN: Judge Breyer sets trial for Aug. 11-13 on whether Trump's deployment of military to Los Angeles violated Posse Comitatus" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-10 01:37:36 UTC 305.9K followers, 303.5K engagements
"(Congress can't compel presidents -- current or former -- to testify)" @kyledcheney on X 2025-07-22 14:27:05 UTC 305.9K followers, 205K engagements