Judge O'Toole orders the release of MIRIAN XIMENA ABARCA TIXE.

Took your data and joined on funds raised per candidate (data from OCPF). Top 9 fundraisers were the 9 that won. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is my thread of #cambma Election Night live tracking results. Google Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... So far no results, but the polls only just closed (8pm, or later if people are still in line), & mail-in ballots haven't all have been yet run through the machines at polling places.

Oh, miscellaneous premature #cambma election reporting. Over at 3-3 and 3-3A, City Hall, as of 4:17pm, the tabulators had read 477+517 => 994 ballots, which ÷3 is 331 voters. That includes mail-in ballots being deposited there throughout the day. Collectively they have 2345 voters, 1513 "active."

Just a reminder, I'll be attempting to collect realtime #cambma election results tonight. If you're available to grab photos of machine tapes after 8pm from your precinct's polling place, let me know, that'd be helpful.

At tonight's #cambma Council meeting, @pattynolan.bsky.social mentioned a 2.1% budget cut: bsky.app/profile/john... Here's the Manager's email about it, kicking off the FY27 budget planning season (FY27 budget is voted on in May 2026; needs several months planning which are starting off now-ish).

On Election Eve in #cambma, there is nobody* in line for public comment at tonight's Council meeting. [* yeah, yeah, technically there are two people. You get the point. ] Historically this is always a short meeting.

Oh, Judge McConnell: "The Court greatly appreciates the President’s quick and definitive response to this Court’s Order and his desire to provide the necessary SNAP funding. "

docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #CambMA EV+mail turnout is slightly higher in 2025 vs 2023, as of Saturday before election. Increases in precincts covering Alewife, Rindge, Port, Kendall, CX Crossing, some mid-Camb. Decreases in Wellington-Harrington, lower C-port @johnhawkinson.bsky.social

Good morning from #cambma elections "advance depositing" of mail-in ballots into the high speed tabulation machine. I will not stay the whole day. They are beginning with precinct 9-1.

Some days I really want a symbol that abbreviates "sentence" like the ¶ (pilcrow) abbreviates paragraph and the § (section sign) its eponymous division. Why oh why have we not evolved such a thing?

In a major step, Judge Saris certifies the class in Guerrera Orellano, the mandatory detention immigration case. She has not issued class-wide relief, although…

I do not understand why the federal government cannot produce emails that have an unambiguous timestamp with a time-zone indicator. This is not the first time this has been a problem. (My preferred client shows the timezone, the timezone is in the rfc5822 Date: header for a reason.) re Immergut.

My writeup of the #cambma ballot question on the Charter. (Sorry, this was filed last week and finally posted today, and I missed it going up this morning!)

pre-pre election night at the #cambma City Council. Looks like, 14 speakers for public comment.

#cambma Municipal Early Voting started on Saturday. So far less than 1% of registered voters have voted early: 196 on Sat; 163 on Sun, for a total of 359 voters. (As of July there were 40,725 active voters out of 66,539 registered voters. That's probably gone up but the final numbers aren't in.)

39 people in line for public comment at tonight's #cambma city council meeting. 2 minutes per. Slightly larger than average crowd.

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Hi from the #cambma Election commission random draw. We start off with 4-3. So far…: 4-3 4-2 1-2 5-2 4-1 6-3 10-3 2-2 1-1 11-1 3-1 5-3 9-2 3-3 10-2 5-1 8-3

Hi from the Boston Federal Courthouse for the class certification hearing in Guerrero Orellana v. Hyde, the ACLU's class action case about applicability of the mandatory detention statute for aliens. For background, see: bsky.app/profile/john...

Huh. DOJ/ICE claim that in a pending habeas case in Mass. with a no-transfer-from-the-district-without-notice order, if they transfer-with-notice to NJ, they are then free to transfer from NJ-to-Texas without notice. I…dunno.

17 Story Street / Harriet Jacobs House is back at the #cambma Historic Commission. This is weird… granting a Cert. of Appropriateness in-principal *again*, asking it to come back after getting other permits (like a building permit? huh? how would that work?) Last time: bsky.app/profile/john...

2072 Massachusetts Avenue is back at the #cambma Planning Board tonight. I guess it is just in time for the election season, since this affordable housing development project (on the KFC site at Walden St.) was crazy-controversial last time and ultimately was killed by the BZA in pre-AHO times.

Only 14 people in line for tonight's #cambma City Council meeting. Although it is a bifurcated double overlapping meeting against the Tax Rate hearing, which has a separate public comment list — that's not confusing at all — and I only have the count for the main meeting.

Meaningful win for the ACLU in its mandatory innigration detention habeas case in D.Mass. This is as to the individual petitioner ONLY (all that is before her / briefed) but is a good indicator of her thinking for the classwide question in 2 weeks.

Made it back. Looks like Öztürk oral argument won't start before 2:43pm or so. Looks like the cases are going in order, and Paul v. City of NY is still ongoing.

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

Meanwhile, my browser is freaking out, but the Globe reports a weird update on the Cambridge Schools Superintendent search: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/29/m... Not that this really belongs in this thread, but…

37 people in line for tonight's #cambma City Council meeting. Solidly in the two minutes/speaker time allotment.

Some Kseniia #Petrova updates. Not sure they actually matter right now, and I have not had a chance to review the decision yet and won't for a bit.

The @aclum.bsky.social has raised a new challenge to immigration bond procedures by converting an existing case (Jose Arnulfo GUERRERO ORELLANA) to a class action. Their press release below, Courtlistener docket (restricted) is www.courtlistener.com/docket/71384....

Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi still winning at the 2nd Circuit.

The #cambma Charter rewrite will be on the November ballot!

Hmm. D.Mass judges are getting annoyed with the Gov. over habeas litigation (again). Filing a notice that says in the title you're going to transfer a detainee without more is not OK, Judge Talwani writes. I wonder what happened:

PDF of Chutkan's TRO DENIAL in D.A. v. Noem here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Back to a normal pace for the #cambma City Council, I guess. 17 people signed up to speak tonight, they get the full 3 minutes.

Side bets on whether DOJ OIL blows Judge Chutkan's 9pm deadline for a declaration? In this new thread, please. (ancillary note: DOJ counsel in D.A. also all appear in D.V.D.)

Judge Chutkan declines to order the D.A. case transferred to Massachusetts (with the D.V.D. v. DHS case before Judge Murphy), at least for now, and demands the Government explain its efforts. That's shy of ordering it "facilitate the return" that plaintiffs asked for.

Can attorneys with pro hac vice admissions in CM/ECF file appearances in additional cases on an emergency basis, or does the system technically restrict them from doing so? (Or does it depend? 94 districts, 214 ways of doing things…)

Who is paying attention to this D.A. v. Noem litigation? It seems like stuff is moving pretty fast? (This is the non-refoulement via Ghana litigation with the emergency hearing before Judge Chutkan at 2pm earlier today. I did not listen to the hearing.) www.courtlistener.com/docket/71323...?

According to the Mayor's Office, per Monday's Council agenda, there was an "an immigration-related emergency" regarding a #cambma high school student yesterday. This facts related seem more than a bit peculiar, however. cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...

New #cambma Charter update. The House passed it (see screenshot) and it's all set and waiting for Governor Healy to sign it, presumably tomorrow. Watch www.mass.gov/info-details... for details.

The ACLU's John Doe got a bond hearing on Monday and was released on $3,000 bond yesterday.

In case you'd forgotten about Rümeysa Öztürk's case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (DOJ is appealing her habeas case), it's finally briefed and oral argument is set for Sept. 30. Presumably also Mahdawi will be the same day.

The #cambma Election Commission voted 3-0 (LW absent) to deny the objection to Caroline Hunter's school committee candidacy. Basically, the allegation was based on Hunter's lack of a residential exemption, and she testified she has never claimed one anywhere.

The #cambma City Council is back from summer break tonight. Only 24 people signed up for public comment, despite the 514-page agenda packet. Hmm. I mean, I'm 5 minutes ahead of my benchmark 5pm time, but still:

Tiny update in Kseniia #Petrova's criminal case (Harvard xenopus frog embyro researcher charged w/ smuggling): looks like tomorrow's status conference will get postponed a month as discovery moves along, defense needs to ask for more stuff.

"The child’s attorney of record has not affirmatively protested the child’s reunification with their parent (or legal guardian) in Guatemala;"? w.t.a.f.? With notice to attorneys sent at 11:45pm for a 10:45am flight? So…11 holiday weekend overnight hours to lodge a protest, sua sponte?

The #cambma Historical Commission approves IN PRINCIPLE a certificate of appropriateness for 17 Story St., the Harriet Jacobs House, after several hours of hearing last month and just now tonight. And after initiating a landmark study last month.

Over in LGML v. Noem, plaintiffs just dropped this banger in their now-moot response to the Government's 1-day extension motion (moot because they filed it 36 secs after the Court ruled on it): the Government won't commit to not doing the same child deportation scheme this wknd w/ another country.