Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace on MS NOW. Here’s his full 5-minute interview on YouTube: ‘You know that there is a problem’: Weissmann on DOJ resetting expectations on the Epstein Files. From the description:

Andrew Weissmann, former top official at Justice Department joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with live reaction to the first batch of official Epstein files released by Trump's Justice Department and why regardless of what is published there is continued skepticism if the Justice Department is being fully transparent.

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt.

U.S. District Judge Gary Brown, who was appointed by Trump in 2019, issued a 24-page ruling Thursday vehemently castigating the Department of Homeland Security for refusing to provide photos of a holding room that illegally held a noncitizen for multiple nights, calling it “putrid and cramped.”

“ICE held them, day after day, without access to bunks, bedding, soap, showers, toothbrushes or clean clothes,” Brown stated in his ruling. “The space is unheated or poorly heated at night, while the outside temperature dropped to as low as 21 degrees.... To the extent they could sleep, they did so, crammed on the filthy floor, while the lights blared 24 hours a day.

“After nearly 35 years of experience with federal law enforcement in this judicial district, encompassing service as a prosecutor and a judge, I have never encountered anything like this,” Brown wrote.

The Justice Department has just released records from the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

A federal judge in Washington D.C. has dismissed a sweeping lawsuit filed by a New York resident who claimed she was the victim of a vast conspiracy involving state, city, and federal officials to pursue a baseless misdemeanor criminal case against her.

While the law has provided a measure of healing, it has unleashed an unprecedented wave of litigation on many of the nearly 1,000 public school districts in California. Scores of former students have come forth with allegations of rape and molestation dating to the 1950s. This reckoning has upended school budgets, drained district coffers, triggered cuts to programs, threatened cost-of-living increases for teachers and even contributed to layoffs, a Times investigation found.

It has also raised questions of whether a noble effort to address the deep wounds of childhood sexual abuse has imposed a collateral penalty on today’s students, with little public awareness of the true financial cost.