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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Personal criminal liability for principals.

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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Awesome job alert: theprisonlawoffice.bamboohr.com/careers/36 They prefer hybrid, open to full remote. PLO is behind some of the major prisoner rights litigation, including the SCOTUS cases you know.

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Staff Attorney/Senior Staff Attorney

Staff Attorney/Senior Staff Attorney*3+ years of experience Compensation: $134,055- $265,903, commensurate with experience (see full salary scale below), plus benefits Location: Berkeley, CA preferr...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey! What about us here in Illinois? Please?

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

dialectics of toddlers: “the opposite of inside out is outside out, not outside in!”

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Could it violate state law eavesdropping acts?

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a practitioner, I’ve been using it less because I don’t want to be falsely suspected of trying to hide a hallucinated cite. That wasn’t a real worry a few years ago.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now let’s copy this model of community pressure for Chicago Public Schools. (And thanks to those already working hard to do so.)

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

State law eavesdropping act? Or Chatrie-esque govt query on the database produced by the dragnet?

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 28/08/2026

Prosecutors in Illinois acted as valuable assets of federal immigration enforcement, sharing sensitive personal data without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight. (Copublished with @wired.com) www.injusticewatch.org/project/ice-...

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The county prosecutors who became ICE informants

Illinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My Google maps is switching between “Lake Ontario” and “Lake America” based on zoom level, which feels like someone’s desperate effort to make a decision.

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The way things are going with AI, it's probably a smart move for ambitious students to work on their penmanship.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I got Jainism. How did it get to Jainism?

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Courts can easily avoid this simply by not relying on AI summaries as a substitute for a bench memo.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Am I the only one more troubled by the court's seeming reliance on an apparently uncertified translation and the results of the erratic Westlaw tools than by the silliness of a pro se litigant?

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sid Sharp’s Bog Myrtle is a great intro to the power of organized labor. (Better than crayons or cows, imo) Jon Klassen’s books introduce unreliable narrators in a way that toddlers can seize onto.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you haven't read it yet, the Hawaii Supreme Court had some THINGS to say last week about the need for state constitutional law in the time of the Roberts Court. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Well, only about 350,000 of the 750,000 were fighting for the United States.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Which doesn’t apply to civil statutes, unless they cross the line into being “punitive,” and that line is set pretty high.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I don’t see why a federal Bivens law, if passed three years from now, could not be drafted as to reach back to capture conduct happening today.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Well, rune tattoos are probably the fastest way to get through U.S. passport control these days.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I once got one in Urumqi in 2007.

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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In CLE today: Westlaw Deep Research AI costs almost $4000 per month for 4 logins at a small firm 😮

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

3Ls and Recent Law Grads: Do you like state constitutional law? Appellate advocacy? Impact litigation? Apply for a sponsorship opportunity to work with the ACLU's State Supreme Court Initiative as a Legal Fellow! www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

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Careers at ACLU

Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Young MC is definitely no longer a young mc.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Proud to file this amicus brief with the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan challenging a ruling that threatens to criminalize pregnancy here in MI: drive.google.com/file/d/1JHCP...

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CDAM Amicus Brief (1).pdf

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hearing the sound of a hundred lawyers googling whether any of those restaurant ever allows minors in.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"In some cases, records show the attorneys ... filed no-merit letters despite red flags, such as a client's co-defendant having already been exonerated or a detective who locked the client up having been arrested for assaulting witnesses or tampering with evidence."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It’s like someone read a 50-year old article trying to use false pop history to justify the deployment of Agent Orange and thought it was meant to be actual history.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I just did “prefatory”/“predatory”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/05/2026

Happening now: Cook County officials, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights and other immigrant advocacy groups are holding a presser outside the county's Domestic Violence Court in Chicago, re: federal immigration agents being spotted at 4 separate Cook County courthouses today.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Go bigger. Make AG a discrete constitutional office with defined authorities and treated as part of the judiciary, as many state constitutions outline for state AGs.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The moment to “switch in time” passed about five years ago. They chose to double down instead. Restricting the court’s jurisdiction and creating new courts to fill that role may be the best option at this point.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“Castillo called on O’Neill Burke to “step aside and let a special prosecutor come in and do what needs to be done”” Good. (Oh maybe that’s why they called it the “IAC”).

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705 (1969).

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Let’s get someone with both the will and the clear statutory authority to indict so that this feels like justice, not just theater.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

He’s gonna steal my good Pope pun, isn’t he?

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I would watch a three-hour one act show about Jimmy Carter painting with an orangutan.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If we have meaningful judicial reform there is no barrier. If we don’t, there is. Would probably have to be careful in drafting to avoid attainder issues.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Or Springfield. Illinois law tolls the statute of limitations for corruption offenses for public officials, iirc, so maybe don’t even need that bit.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yep. I’m ready for some long arm of justice.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The quotes in the pleading are much worse than the headline. Hard to make it look like Watts’ hyperbole.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We need to build a persuasive theory about the invalidity of self-dealing pardons, and judicial reform to make that doctrine into law.

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Because the bicentennial saved Ford, right?

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Jonathan Yeasting @yeasting.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Accountability requires prosecution. There are paths that can lead to credible prosecuting authorities outside of the county state's attorneys.

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