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  Legal AF 1.08M subscribers Mar 28, 2026 Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian dig into what could be one of the biggest government data scandals in American history. A whistleblower has alleged that a former DOGE software engineer named John Solly walked out of the Social Security Administration with the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans on a thumb drive — including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and names from the NUMIDENT database, which covers nearly every living American. He then allegedly took a job as CTO at Leidos , a government contractor with up to $1.5 billion in SSA contracts, and told coworkers he planned to share the data. The SSA Inspector General is investigating, Congress has launched its own probe, and Solly and the SSA have denied the allegations. Brian and Shant walk through the civil and criminal ramifications — from the False Claims Act and whistleblower protections to federal computer fraud, theft of government proper...

    Watch now   Raw and Unfiltered: Sunday Wrap Up A recording from Michael Cohen's live video Michael Cohen Mar 24 Thank you  Nancy C Rice ,  Proudscot ,  Patricia Anne Boone ,  DEO ,  Meidas_hj , and many others for tuning into my live SUNDAY WRAP UP video! Join me for my next live video in the app. and kindly consider supporting this platform and all independent journalists here on Substack. Plus, the first 240 Founding Members to this platform receive a rare, signed, numbered edition of my NYT Bestseller “Revenge, How Donald Trump weaponized The US Department Of Justice Against His Critics.” Join now!

  The Democracy Index March 14, 2025 Joshua Kolb Mar 14 Tracking The Democracy Index in this time of peril is sometimes heartbreaking.   We’ve   seen   attacks  on the rule of law, rampant corruption, and other sundry harms to our country. But this week, there are strong, if slim, rays of light peeking through, as democracy notched some important wins in federal courts throughout the country — tipping the Index in a positive direction. Under tremendous strain, the courts held the line. Federal judges powerfully rejected Trump’s boldly unlawful maneuvers and called out the Administration’s “lies.” They fast-tracked procedures to enable accountability and enforce due process. The district courts utilized their power to repel Trump’s most brazen tactics: misrepresentations, if not outright lies, made in court; attempts to evade proper jurisdiction; and assertions that the president’s authority overrides other considerations, including the Constitution. It’s importa...

  Turns out DOGE can't beat FOIA by shouting NOT AN AGENCY Judge tells Musk to cough it up! Liz Dye Mar 12 Musk and Trump in a Tesla yesterday during Trump’s promotional event for Musk’s company. (Andrew Harnik/Getty) 🚘 💨 🛣️  With corporate outlets  obeying in advance , supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers. If you aren’t one already, please click the button below and become one to support our work.  🚘  💨 🛣️ Back in November, Elon Musk professed his abiding belief in open government. “There should be no need for FOIA requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency,” he  tweeted . “We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website,” he boasted in the Oval Office last month as his young child wandered randomly around the room full of reporters. “I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transpare...