All the latest on Trump’s efforts to invade Portland & Chicago, the gov’t shutdown & our own lawsuit against the administration for lying to the courts about Judge James Boasberg! With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Ro recap: In July, DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg. It was based on alleged comments he made at a judicial conference. "Attachment A" was the only source cited as evidence of the comments. But, per @lizdye.bsky.social, DOJ never even bothered to file the attachment...

Remember that judicial complaint against Judge Boasberg with the mystery Attachment A? Turns out it was never there! with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/this-judic...

OK, a little context is important here. The Civil Division Federal Programs Branch is--or was--like the DOJ A-Team for civil litigation. The best of the best. They were the ones who stepped in and handled cases that had nationwide importance or threatened severe consequences for the federal govt.

Yeah, there have been a few GFYS orders. Judge Young and Judge Cobb, off the top of my head. @andrewtorrez.bsky.social pulled the memo — judges can order them to move forward, even in a shutdown www.justice.gov/jmd/media/13...

Hey @lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social I found Ellyn Garofalo's missing word

1/ Law & Chaos is suing the Trump Admin to force it to release the "Exhibit A" it claims shows that DC Judge James Boasberg besmirched Trump & violated the canons of judicial ethics. Today, our lawyer @nationalsecuritylaw.org moved for summary judgment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Supreme Court just eliminated congressional compromise, effectively blessing a mechanism (“pocket rescission”) fraudulently invented out of whole cloth by the head Project 2025 guy. We do have some laughs, though With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

1/ This is an excellent point re Comey. Prosecutors have a duty under Brady v. Maryland to turn over potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense. Every prosecutor I've ever known (especially the conservatives!) takes their Brady obligations very seriously both ethically and professionally.

We are begging J.K. Rowling to find a new way to spend her time.

SCOTUS blessed Kavanaugh Stops, by pretending they were pleasant exchanges with your friendly ICE agent. Will the conservatives now allow ICE to lock up people for days without probable cause? h/t @akalhan.bsky.social for coining the phrase www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-ble...

"Kavanaugh stops" are in full swing in an occupied blue city near you. Learn how DC intends to fight back: with @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-ble...

JUSTIN BALDONI TEACHES US CIV PRO (AGAIN!) 🧵 1/ Question #1: What one word do you think was "inadvertently omitted" from the indignant opposition Baldoni's lawyers filed on Friday night? BTW, this dispute is about whether a deposition begins at 8 am or 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Your obligatory reminder that Nate Silver's non-political hot takes are also terrible.

The Trump Political Revenge Tour is in full swing, and only @lizdye.bsky.social can explain exactly how insane it is (for @legaleagle.tv) You maybe didn't think you needed a deep dive on Lindsey Halligan. But believe me, YOU DO! Watch now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hukr...

COMEY INDICTED! How, why & what it all means With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

"Disney could have avoided this entire debacle by refusing to cave to transparently illegal pressure from the government last week. But in some sense, Disney set itself up for this shakedown when it settled Trump’s weak defamation suit last year." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Freedom of speech is a bedrock Constitutional principle. The ABA encourages dialogue as protected by the First Amendment, underscoring that free speech is a concept grounded in Constitutional law and defined by centuries of legal precedent.

The shadow docket is functionally a cheat code to allow conservatives to break the law faster by @andrewtorrez.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-to-...

The Supreme Court's plan to blow up its own precedents to help Trump - here, 1935's Humphrey's Executor and 2020's Seila Law - races to the finish line in the case of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, whom the law explicitly protects (until now). Read here: www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-to-...

Voters in southern Arizona have picked Adelita Grijalva to succeed her father, the late U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, and be the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress. She defeated Republican candidate Daniel Butierez on Tuesday in a special election.

Really enjoyed my discussion with @lizdye.bsky.social and @andrewtorrez.bsky.social about the legal nuances of the lethal US strikes in the Caribbean.

Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today: 1. Your countries all suck. 2. None of you know what you are doing. 3. The US is better at everything. 4. All because of me. 5. I’m right about everything. 6. You should listen to me & do what I say. 7. And give me lots of awards.

On today’s show we welcome @bcfinucane.bsky.social to discuss international law and the Article I crisis we find ourselves in (and maybe, just maybe, how we can fix it). With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Are the headline writers at the New York Times practicing dramatic understatement? Like, okay, plus one for commitment to the bit but minus several million for watching an insane idiot burn down all of western civilization. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

It is hard to explain just how radical this Supreme Court is when it comes to stare decisis. SCOTUS’s new view that law has one divinely-ordained objectively ascertainable meaning & therefore all decisions inconsistent with that reading are worthless fell out of favor 400 years ago… until now.

Fox News moves to transfer Newsmax's antitrust suit back to Florida from Wisconsin, and OH LOOKIE HERE who's arguing for Fox storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🧵Why is the US military conducting lethal strikes in the Caribbean? There are a number of moving parts here as there are different actors within the Trump administration with different interests/agendas. 1/n

Apparently the reason that the FBI didn’t go after Homan once he’d taken the alleged bribe is that bribery requires an official act, and at the time he had no official role. So they were planning to wait and see what he did once he got into office. They could have charged him for conspiracy though.

“Or the opposite of that. What’s that word for the opposite,” he did not add, while saluting his wife’s many flags. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

Is Trump appointing Lindsey Halligan interim USA at EDVA? Or nominating her for Senate confirmation? Or both?

Today’s show talks Jimmy Kimmel & yet another Trump appointee on the federal bench who has had it with being lied to in court over the administration’s deportation policies. With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Don’t miss the latest from @lizdye.bsky.social on @legaleagle.tv - this time discussing Trump’s nonsense suit against the New York Times that got dismissed (for now!) on the legal grounds that it makes no goddamn sense. (Rough paraphrase.) youtu.be/gTX-e6qOwj4?...

BREAKING: Judge Stephen Merryday strikes Trump's complaint against the NYT for being hot garbage — that is, for making a mockery of the rules for concise and precise pleading in federal court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Liz has only just dipped her toe into the waters that are… amicus briefs

I made a video about grand juries refusing to indict in DC. At least a fifth of the comments are mad at how I pronounced petit jury. 🤷‍♀️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43R...

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Seth Stern points out that the issue I wrote about today at @abovethelaw.com -- Trump trying to RICO a handful of Code Pink ladies who chanted at him before dinner -- is not an isolated incident, but part of the right's strategy to "turn dissent into a felony."

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

"The Times is unlikely to sacrifice its journalistic credibility because of a laughably tenuous lawsuit and a few mean social media posts. But if Trump wants to let the paper’s team of top-notch First Amendment lawyers depose Mark Burnett, who are we to complain?" — @lizdye.bsky.social

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING & watch the latest @lizdye.bsky.social video for @legaleagle.tv on the near comic ineptitude of Trump's Department of Justice. Yes, it matters: this is an administration that's tanking prosecutions of potential criminals. youtube.com/watch?v=Z43Rf_JFGIA&pp=0gcJCcoJAYcqIYzv

If you want to understand the heartbreaking result in the D.A. v. Noem case (Ghanaian deportations) late last night & hear some good news, this is the show for you! With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

In today's post, we break down the developments in D.A. v. Noem, the case in which the Trump administration used Ghana as a waypoint for chain refoulment - WHICH IS TORTURE. What can be done about it? Read on with @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ice-is-bac...

If you suffered online news whiplash from the “Taylor Swift will be deposed!”/“No she won’t!” stories, it’s part of a calculated all-PR, no-law strategy. Join @lizdye.bsky.social & me for “Justin Baldoni Teaches Civ Pro” (by what not to do): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown of Discord until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on

You cannot go wrong taking the time to listen and learn about this administration's war on democracy and law!

I listened to this hearing, and Sarah Welch, the attorney for DOJ was amazing. Why someone with such manifest gifts would use them to defend kidnapping vulnerable children in the middle of the night is another question. And frankly I don’t care about the answer. Evil is evil.

"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Today's episode breaks down everything you need to know about Trump's (nonexistent) "pocket rescission" & what we can do about it. If you love OMB Circular A-11, this is for you! Also yesterday was... not great at the Supreme Court. with @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...