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...

We’ve been waiting to see what the admin would argue in the LGML litigation to defend its policy of trying to disappear Guatemalan children without due process. Turns out what they have is… lying about both the facts and the law. With @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/hhs-discov...

Must-read on Trump’s attempted pocket rescission from @bbkogan.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

MAHA: Degrade and politicize the science so no one trusts anything public health officials say, then flood the market with quack therapies. Good thing RFK assigned his interest in vaccine litigation to his son, otherwise there might be a huge conflict of interest here. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

The rule of law (still) matters & one district judge is shaping the ongoing dialogue over how to rein in this lawless administration & supine Supreme Court. With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Don't miss our latest post on Judge Breyer's ruling in California that Trump's troops dispatched to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act. It's a roadmap for what future cities can do when he tries it again. with @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/court-smac...

Ouch SCOTUS

So @lizdye.bsky.social is up with yet another invaluable explainer for @legaleagle.tv - this time bringing you up to speed in all of the latest developments in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Don't miss it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybvp...

"Be loud for America" is miles better than any other bullshit slogan we've been trying to make happen

Today's show roadmaps the fast-moving developments in LGML v. Noem, where the administration has tried to remove 600+ Guatemalan children here in this country awaiting asylum hearings & other due process claims. Also: tariffs! Rudy! Elon Musk! We've got a jam-packed hour (75 mins for supporters!)

One of the few ways the courts have been able to push back against Trump's lawlessness on deportations has been to require the bare minimum of due process in immigration courts. If Trump can stack those courts with unqualified, deportation-friendly judges, it will further erode those protections.

1/ While we wait for Trump to reminisce about Arnold Palmer's anatomy or how cool Hannibal Lecter is or whatever, now is a great time to remember that he's still in the middle of receiving an ass-kicking from Ann Selzer, whom he tried to sue in Iowa for the nonexistent tort of getting a poll wrong.

Today on the show: Trump’s tariffs are illegal. A judge named Sparkle just lit Kristi Noem on fire for trying to kidnap hundreds of children in the middle of the night. And Rudy Giuliani is getting the presidential medal of freedom with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Oh boy whatever happened in New Hampshire the other night must be horrible

Let me take a big swig of Diet Coke and crack open Twitter's trollsuit against Apple and OpenAI ... OWWW MY NOSE BURNS storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit invalidated Trump's sweeping retaliatory tariffs he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The court held that Congress did NOT delegate the power to tax to the President, even in an emergency. Full 🧵below: