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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice keeps lying brazenly to judges, and more often than not , it refuses to correct the record while facing no real consequences in court. This past week, however, DOJ lawyers took the rare step of fessing up to a serious error, dramatically overstating the presence of federal agents in Portland in an effort to justify Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. This falsehood lay at the heart of a recent ruling greenlighting this deployment by a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9 th Circuit. Thankfully, the full 9 th Circuit wiped away that decision on Tuesday, giving its members anoth

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