Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

This is full-on fascist propaganda that bears an uncanny resemblance to the "Letter Box," a feature of the notorious Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer highlighting lurid accounts of alleged "Jewish crimes."

In every age, a hero or sage came to our aid. This year, his name is Ahmed. Wishing you a zissen Chanukah.

It's been truly remarkable to see the grand jury system actually act as a real line of defense. Especially since--as I bet most non-lawyers don't know--the only legal person in the GJ room is the prosecutor: no defense, no judge. There is NO place more favorable to the state. And they keep losing.

The best thing about this isn't the merits so much as the fact that @raskin.house.gov is socializing serious structural reform. This is the register we need to be in in preparation for the aftermath.

The LA jails have just posted their 45th in-custody death for the year, a 22 year old man who died in the hospital. It's LASD's 3rd in-custody death in two days.

The Illinois Bivens Act is now law - people can sue under state law for ICE’s constitutional violations. Which state is next? When the feds fall down on their obligations to protect people’s rights, it is time for states to step up. gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

Excited to see this new complaint on behalf of West Virginia prisoners and their families, challenging Aramark’s scheme to profit off prison food: www.nclc.org/class-action... A valuable use of consumer law to protect people behind bars from @nclcv.bsky.social @mtstatejustice.bsky.social and Relman.

Follow the invaluable, shoestring @boltsmag.org newsroom—you’ll learn a lot and help concretely to support their work.

A beautiful portrait of a home in rural Georgia that welcomes the loved ones of immigrants detained nearby, where I once stayed for a week with a bunch of of law students to help draft bond motions: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...

I mean, this is an execution

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

Huge congrats to my friend Calvin!

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Cheers for AFPDs Abe and Ohm, and their client Ms. Reid, guardians of democracy all three.

No. Signed, a criminologist (for all intents and purposes)

It is funny for sure. The reason for the difference is that the closer analogy here is between Columbia's board and ABC's executives, who responded similarly. Kimmel is more like Columbia faculty who have resisted their bosses' capitulation. The recurring pattern is: management cowers, labor fights.

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

The irony is not lost on me. Chin up, Jimmy. 🙏

🚨 150 University of California law professors (and counting) have now signed this open letter to the UC Regents and other officials, explaining the flagrant illegality of the Trump Administration’s UCLA funding cut offs, and urging the UC to fight back. sites.google.com/view/uclawfa...

The thing is, it’s a more important piece of white American history.

The mayor and the governor should be threatening now to use every newton of power they have to punish Harvard if they do this. Eye-watering state and local endowment taxes, zoning and land use, litigation, you name it.

The billion dollars is the least of it. It’s universities’ autonomy, independence, and integrity that Trump is really after. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...

Chancellor Julio Frenk is the child of German refugees who fled to Mexico from Nazi Germany. He has not been shy about addressing bias where it exists. Meanwhile, using the pretext of antisemitism to take money away from my employer is the most antisemitic thing ever to have affected me personally.

The @law.ucla.edu Behind Bars Data Project is hiring a combined public records analyst and staff writer to help us collect and disseminate data on mortality and morbidity in prisons and jails. This work has become even more pressing of late. Please share and apply! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8221

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

Re-reading Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

“Your Honor, I have eaten bugs before”

Chinga la migra.

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

I'm reading this ruling belatedly and came across this line: "...the Court finds that the public benefits from living in a country where rules are followed and where promises are kept."

Pretty remarkable point from Ehud Olmert, no dove himself.

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

Ken Paxton likely used a little known database that tracks RX records of controlled substances to target gender affirming care providers. Worse, he can access the prescription records of anyone without a warrant in over 37 states with an agreement with Texas. www.thedissident.news/texas-ag-ken...

@law.ucla.edu is hiring a Criminal Law and Policy Consortium Manager! Please circulate widely and consider applying. jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/7625

And why was Baraka there in the first place? Turns out the private prison facility is violating the law, but also unwilling to be served with legal process apple.news/AV9JgWB8fQq6...