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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Precisely no one involved thinks Comey's post was a credible threat to assassinate POTUS. It's like if the Biden DOJ opened a federal hate crimes probe into William Barr because Barr posted a pic of him giving the ok sign.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

New enemy of the state just dropped.

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Attorney Ryan @attorneyryan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Trump plans to slap Americans with a 25% tax on imports from our neighbors. Why? Because fuck you, that’s why.

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Attorney Ryan @attorneyryan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Congressional Republicans are working to abolish OSHA. This is the entire text of the “NOSHA” or “Nullify OSHA” act. Two sentences.

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Attorney Ryan @attorneyryan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We are the generation that must face Americas greatest constitutional crisis. WHAT Trump is doing is one issue, HOW he chooses to do it is another. His total disregard for the other co-equal branches of government is quite literally a constitutional crisis.

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Attorney Ryan @attorneyryan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The man who bankrupted his own casino has hired a drug addict to cook the nations books.

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Attorney Ryan @attorneyryan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Our secretary of defense couldn’t win a custody battle, how the hell can we expect him to win a war?

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Attorney Ryan @attorneyryan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm a sexual harassment lawyer. I help survivors of workplace abuse get justice. Due to overwhelming demand, I'll be posting more detailed advice on how to turn the tables on a creepy boss. Lots more educational content coming 👍

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Retired Justice David Souter, a splendid and deeply principled jurist and a kind and gentle man, died at his home last night. He was dedicated to the Constitution and to the living tradition it embodies still — even when a Supreme Court majority betrays its spirit and ignores its enduring text.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It's not just that hand-picked district judges in single-judge divisions in Texas and Louisiana *regularly* entered nationwide injunctions against Biden policies; it's that many of those injunctions were subsequently thrown out by *this* Supreme Court. People have awfully short memories.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm trying to come up with a metaphor for how the Trump administration's gamesmanship (e.g., moving detainees around to try to defeat jurisdiction in specific districts) helps to drive home the dire consequences of a #SCOTUS ruling that would limit universal injunctions. "Cheating at Battleship"?

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sad news out of #SCOTUS: Retired Justice David Souter (who served from 1990-2009) passed away yesterday at the age of 85: www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p... For a whole bunch of very different reasons, Souter was my favorite justice when I was in law school. May his memory be a blessing.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Good. Break them.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I am going to keep saying this until I am blue in the face: if we survive all this, and that’s a non-trivial if right now, it will take a generation to fix the damage. By that point, China will have surpassed us.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Pee-Wee German pretending a 4-year-old was kidnapped and trafficked out of the country without her cancer medications as a *favor* to her mother. What a vile monster.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/04/2025

Trump's also extraordinarily lazy, utterly unconcerned with the operation of the government he ostensibly leads, devoting much of his time to various grifting schemes and suffering from advancing dementia. So there's that.

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After the Arrests and Bullets, Trump Takes on Second Term With a New Fervor

Having escaped prison and death, President Trump has returned to power seeking vindication and vengeance — and done more in his first 100 days to change the trajectory of the country than any presiden...

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/04/2025

The comparison of Trump to FDR - even when presented as a "negative" comparison - is entirely inapposite. FDR and a small group of cronies didn't act alone, and at odds with most Americans like Trump. 1/

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/04/2025

FDR, his huge cadre of public servants drawn from many walks of life and the Democratic Congress entered office with a mandate from the voters to address a great crisis, and then acted with the active support of the nation. 2/

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/04/2025

Trump and his cronies are taking actions the pubic never wanted, and they have known as much from the outset, as evinced by the fact that they are acting under a deep cover of lies and disinformation. 3/

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/04/2025

And the public has responded to Trumpers' actions not with support, it did to the New Deal, but with consternation and opposition. 4/

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Bezos caved faster than it took me to type that.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

And Thom Tillis, up for reelection in 2026, was the key vote to confirm Hegseth along with Joni Ernst. Despite the fact that they knew he was unfit, they were afraid of Trump and put their political futures ahead of the country. Now they own every bit of this debacle.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Is everyone in a signal chat with Pete hegseth but me?

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

HAPPENING NOW: Judge in Abrego Garcia deportation case says she's going to demand info from govt. Judge Xinis: "We have to give process to both sides but we’re going to move there will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding."

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

NEW: Judge launches "intense" fact-finding, including depositions, into Trump administration response to order to return illegally deported man from El Salvador. "Cancel vacations, cancel other appointments," Judge Paula Zinis says. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration’s refusal to seek return of wrongly deported man

“To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

JUST IN: Judge blocks another potential deportation under Alien Enemies Act, acting in case brought by an individual Venezuelan citizen in immigration detention in Adelanto, Calif. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

JUST IN: @aclu and @democracyfwd ask Boasberg to reimpose nationwide TRO on Alien Enemjes Act deportations. They also want to refile habeas corpus claims in DC for the roughly 130 men deported March 15 despite Boasberg's order to turn planes around. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Last night, US Judge Sweeney in Colo granted district-wide (state-wide) class habeas TRO to stop Trump from summarily removing aliens under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. @ACLU attys had warned that, despite SCOTUS ruling, Admin won't commit to providing even 24 hrs notice. 1/2

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This is what judges should be doing right now. If the Trump administration is going to insist that it can’t bring back anyone once they’re removed, then federal judges should put the brakes on any and all removals until the *full* legal process—to ensure the removals are valid—has run its course.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Sigh.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Where do things stand with the Abrego Garcia case, and where will they go from here? Via "One First," I look at the ridiculousness of the government's position and behavior; the options available to Judge Xinis; and the case's (mounting) broader ramifications: www.stevevladeck.com/p/143-the-st...

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143. The State of Play in the Abrego Garcia Case

The Trump administration isn't defying the letter of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. But it's daring the federal courts to take much more aggressive steps to block its immigration policies.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Chief Judge Boasberg's probable cause ruling is *not* an appealable order. DOJ can ask the D.C. Circuit for an extraordinary writ of mandamus, but that requires showing that the district court ruling both (1) was clearly wrong; and (2) is not otherwise capable of being remedied on a future appeal.

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

You cannot legally send Americans to an El Salvadorian prison no matter what they have done. Plain and simple.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15. He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

JUDGE BOASBERG: “.. The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders. .. To permit such officials to freely ‘annul the judgments of the courts ..’ would make ‘a solemn mockery’ of ‘the constitution itself.’” 🇺🇸 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/04/2025

Trump has taken the most powerful country in the world, with the greatest alliances, and the strongest economy, and flushed it down the toilet based on his understanding of politics in 1984 and trade deficits. The greatest self shot to the nut sack in history

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

i genuinely think the Court’s recent deportation decisions, though framed as paint-by-numbers law stuff, are some of the most disgusting we’ve seen out of the Court to this point

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/04/2025

HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A legal document titled "Order on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order" from the United States District Court, District of Maine. The case is "State of Maine v. United States Department of Agriculture, et al.," case number 1:25-cv-00131-JAW. The document grants the State of Maine's request to prevent the USDA from terminating or interfering with federal funds based on alleged Title IX violations without due legal process. The court orders the release of frozen funds and prohibits further interference without following required procedures. The document is marked as Document 12, filed on April 11, 2025, and is page 1 of 70.

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