NEW: Mueller's office wants the government to seize ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manfort's real estate and bank accounts *immediately*, except he will have two weeks to give up his Trump Tower condo and house in the Hamptons. Here's the list of property Manafort agreed to forfeit as part of his plea agreement.

Scathing new report from DHS Inspector General says ICE contractors improperly put 14 immigration detainees into solitary, including one in a wheelchair, then ignored required medical assessments, a problem the gov't noted last year after a detainee killed himself. Detainees at ICE's Adelanto processing center told the IG they waited "weeks and months to see a doctor." One detainee " reported having multiple teeth fall out while waiting more than 2 years for cavities to be filled."

Lawyer: It's true that I was found, repeatedly, to have committed misconduct and that the decisions were upheld on appeal. But those were non-precedential decisions, so I can ignore them.

3rd Cir.: 🤯💩!!! Also, belt and suspenders this time:

Jeff Sessions today: "Under [President Trump's] strong leadership, we are respecting police again and enforcing our laws." Sessions blamed a "consent decree with the ACLU" for an increase in violent crime in Baltimore. But the decree was actually with DOJ, and was entered about two months after he became attorney general.

En banc 5th Cir. rules that prosecutors are not required to reveal exculpatory evidence to defendants before they plead guilty. The case involved an altercation between a jail guard and a 17-year-old who was charged with assault. Four years after he started serving his sentence, a video of the fight "surfaced." A state court declared him actually innocent and freed him. Prosecutors didn't object.

This is an interestingly selective disclosure of the Carter Page FISA application. (For context, we're still suing to try to get the whole thing.)

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1041812014245576704

It goes only to the most recent surveillance application. And only parts of it. So, for example, the president has ordered that the government fill in these blanks ->

Mueller's office says it's ready for Trump's former national security adviser, Mike Flynn, to be sentenced. Prosecutors had previously said they would delay his sentencing until his cooperation was complete. Prosecutors and Flynn's lawyers both requested that sentencing memos be filed "no more than two weeks" to sentencing, which they suggested happen on Nov. 28 or soon thereafter.

NEW: Manafort's agreement with DOJ requires him to "cooperate fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly," including participating in debriefings, providing all relevant documents, and testifying if the government asks him to. Manafort signed the plea agreement Thursday.

This morning, Mueller's office filed a superseding criminal information against ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutors typically use this type of filing when they expect the defendant to plead guilty. It's totally normal for prosecutors to file a criminal information when someone is going to plead. But this filing is very unusual. It's a "speaking" information - 37 pages long with multiple exhibits. That's not something you see often.

9th Cir.: No, the police can't arrest a whole bunch of 7th grade girls without evidence of a crime to "prove a point." 9th Cir.: "The arrest of a middle schooler ... cannot be justified as a scare tactic, a lesson in maturity, or a chastisement for perceived disrespect."

NEW: Lawyers for President Trump say he won't seek to enforce the $130,000 hush-money agreement Michael Cohen reached with Stormy Daniels. The president's lawyers expressly don't concede that he was aware of the agreement to silence @StormyDaniels, and note that he didn't sign it. (DOJ has taken the position that the payment was a criminal violation of campaign finance law; Cohen pleaded guilty already.)

Ex Trump aide George Papadopoulos has been sentenced to two weeks in prison for lying to the FBI about Russian election "dirt." Papadopoulos' lawyer, Thomas Breen, told a court that that "the message is for all of us to check our loyalty, to tell the truth, and to help the good guys."

Always fascinating to see Congress expressing shock that the legal and national security systems it created are operating as Congress required them to. For example, FISA doesn't require (or even really contemplate) hearings before a court grants a wiretap application. If lawmakers are shocked by that, as some profess to be, they could of course change the law.

https://twitter.com/RepLeeZeldin/status/1036071581699788802

The Manafort jury notes. Another:

NEW: The Justice Department alleges in a court filing that Michael Cohen "coordinated with one or more members" of the Trump campaign to pay off two women who claimed to have had affairs with the president. More: DOJ says Cohen and the National Enquirer coordinated with "one or more members" of Trump's campaign to "deal with negative stories about Individual-1's relationships with women" by buying their stories to silence them.

The FBI has so far been unable to access an encrypted Blackberry agents seized from President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen. Aside from the Blackberry, the court-appointed special master has finished her review of materials the FBI seized from Cohen. The vast majority of those records have been turned over to prosecutors; 7,146 items were withheld as privileged and 285 as "highly personal."

New: Mueller's office says a prison sentence of 0 to 6 months is "appropriate and warranted" for ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. The interview at which Papadopoulos lied was videotaped.

DOJ: Packages sent by delivery services such as FedEx are suspicious because drug traffickers know the police can't open them without a search warrant. Therefore, federal taskforces hang out at shipping facilities such as the @FedEx hub in Indianapolis, where they pull suspicious packages off the line and have a drug dog sniff them (without warrants).

Newspapers are in "collusion with other papers on free press."

This is true.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1030091812495654912

Just this week, 30+ news organizations conspired to argue that a judge in Florida could not punish the press for writing about publicly available documents.

sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/…

The president's statement describing his reasons for revoking @JohnBrennan's security clearance is fascinating on so many levels, but I'm struck by the assertion that he lied to Congress, which obviously be a crime. It seems to have originated with the GOP report from the House intelligence committee. (The report doesn't accuse Brennan of lying - it's in a footnote to a paragraph that's sort of trying to make the point that Clapper might have lied.

DOJ just released a scattering of records over @PreetBharara's firing, including his email to Jeff Sessions' chief of staff: "I'm fired too?" The next morning, DOJ seemed not to know the answer.