👀⚖️🧊🚨 (Also see Wong Wing v. US, an old Supreme Court case, which said you cannot punish an immigrant, even if undocumented one, with hard labor).

The court appointed amici in the Trump v. IRS case filed their brief yesterday. The brief generally outlines authorities and considerations for the court rather than taking a hard stance, but can't help but point out that Trump has tremendous control over the Defendants and DOJ

the best fucking docket alert (dun dun DUNN) I could have possibly asked for

The DOJ’s lawsuit against the DC Bar has been assigned to Judge Richard Leon!!!!! www.courtlistener.com/docket/73338...

5/ This isn't civil war between the judiciary on the one hand and the Trump administration and its lackeys on the other. But it isn't *not* that, either.

👀PRESUMPTION OF IRREGULARITY 1/ In the administration's ongoing effort to force Rhode Island Hospital to turn over the private health data of trans kids, Judge Mary McElroy rips it a new one: "DOJ has proven unworthy of trust at every point in this case." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

"Carr's latest campaign to menace hosts of The View & destroy the independence of broadcast media may make him a household name. Because this time ABC & Disney are fighting back, exposing his blatant misconduct as he schemes to censor outlets for refusing to toe the MAGA line." — @lizdye.bsky.social

New from me @notus.com: Internally, FBI agents are now referring to a "payback squad" based in NY or DC. Its remit? Targeting former government officials. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Today on the show: Trump rants at "his" justices Hegseth wants Mark Kelly to beat his ass again RI Judge refers DOJ lawyer for sanctions VA's electoral maps struck down FCC's Brendan Carr menaces The View with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

He wears the (Sar)cone of shame: A state Attorney Grievance Committee determined there's “sufficient basis for a finding of professional misconduct” against First Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III after a nonprofit watchdog filed a complaint citing a few alleged causes of action. Thread!

If you invite thieves to dinner, they’ll steal the silver.

My prediction for whatever it's worth. the Trump administration does NOT want abortion restrictions before the midterms and the Fifth Circuit court of Appeals hasn't even heard arguments in this case yet. Opportunity for court to cynically paint itself as "reasonable" while keeping the threat alive

Bar discipline chronicles:

Today's post from @lizdye.bsky.social explains how the administration ran to one of its pet bigot judges in *Texas* to try and force a hospital in Rhode Island (on the Brown University campus) to turn over the confidential health records of its trans patients. www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doj-forum-...

Just wanna point out that The Daily Wire and The Federalist filed an insane lawsuit claiming that a State Dept grant for NewsGuard & others to do *foreign* work somehow got them *domestically* censored & defunded. Trump DOJ settled. And yet here are their numbers, worse than ever. Damn Joe Biden!

interesting: on page 3-4 of ABC's filing to the FCC they accuse the Carr agency of working with right wing non-ABC owned affiliates to concoct a scandal surrounding The View's decision to host James Talarico last February (I'll explain) www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

"when every other court says no, try Texas!" @lizdye.bsky.social a main reason why Elmo moved to Lone Star State: friendly judges and polluters welcome www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doj-forum-...

Habeas Class Actions, which I co-wrote with Teddy Rave (Texas), is out in the Harvard Law Rev (link below). We tackle the question newly conjured by the political right - whether habeas cases can get class treatment. Yes, they can, & it's not that close. 1/ harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Love how regular it has become for him to post instead of DM

I had a long interview at Mother Jones yesterday about general strikes, the state of labor, and lots of other stuff, so check it out if you like my labor history threads!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm so intrigued by his dermatologist's choices

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

John Roberts and Donald Trump share the same flaw. Roberts assumed that SCOTUS credibility was a hard fact of life, and Trump has done the same with American power. Both have spent down those resources not realizing they need to be cultivated and replenished. You see the results.

1/ If you were a lawyer who attended this event, I think you had a duty to stand up and politely say “Mr. Chief Justice, sir, respectfully: we’ve read your memos. Stop lying to us.” (This may be why I do not get invited to these events.) www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

So a pro-Cornyn SuperPAC did a poll and released these results. Question is why would you poll against "generic Dem" and not @jamestalarico.bsky.social? I think they did and those results were so bad they're burying them

New -- An attorney who had been working at Willkie Farr & Gallagher entered a Boston courthouse in February 2025 to make an admission: For years, he tipped two fellow lawyers off to mergers the law firm and his earlier employers advised on, enabling insider trading. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

One non-trivial thing that law schools, law firms, famous people, etc. could do: Stop treating the Supreme Court conservatives with respect. Don't invite them to speak. If your organization invites them, don't go. If you run into them at a party, pretend not to know who they are, or turn your back.

I wish I'd written this thread! From Alan Dershowitz's whining about being shunned in the Hamptons, to Todd Blanche pouting because the Metropolitan Club doesn't want him, to John Roberts lamenting "uninformed" criticism of the Supreme Court - these people crave acceptance. Don't give it to them.

I love everything about this!

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

“Once again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives put their thumbs on the scale for Republicans. And once again, they’re very mad that people noticed.” @lizdye.bsky.social x @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

“Are you not entertained?!”

Another thing Trump's DOJ is breaking: Rule 6(e) on grand jury secrecy. How many motions to unseal grand jury transcripts have we seen this past week based on the Justice Department's abuse/incompetence? Make FRCrP 6(e) great again!

"Right-wing justices excoriated trial courts for sowing 'confusion' by enforcing the law months before an election. Now they’ve gleefully ushered in electoral Ragnarok, as multiple states race to get rid of Black districts, even as voting is already underway." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Make America Leathery Again

Kash Patel is investigating who leaked all that TOTALLY UNTRUE stuff about him to Sarah Patrick at The Atlantic www.ms.now/news/fbi-inv...

NEW: @americandoom.bsky.social wins in fed court: DOJ ordered by judge to reveal names of witnesses in historic FBI elections raid in Atlanta. www.american-doom.com/p/doom-wins-...

1/ Settlements are not verdicts. But they can be useful for setting a narrative! That’s what’s happening w/the consent decrees in Murthy v. Missouri and The Daily Wire v. State Department. The right used them for sweeping storytelling. The MSM…ignored it all. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

How dare you point out that Sam Alito is a partisan hack! "Once again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives put their thumbs on the scale for Republicans. And once again, they’re very mad that people noticed."

CASE DISMISSED

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to be preparing to drop a nearly two-year criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, agreeing to return or destroy evidence seized from the diehard MAGA Republican before the FBI got a chance to review it. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Jackson dog walked Alito here doing the very thing that her critics think makes her “stupid.” She likes to pick at these not-necessarily-relevant topics to slow play people into mistakes. Out of context it doesn’t always make sense but it’s laser focused on frustrating arrogant fools

Remember when Jeanine Pirro tried to lock up Jerome Powell because cost overruns in the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings were prima facie evidence of fraud? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

7th Cir.—2-1, functionally, but really 1-1-1—holds that noncitizens unlawfully present in the United States are not subject to mandatory detention while their removal proceedings are pending like arriving noncitizens. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

As only she can, @lizdye.bsky.social nails it!

Also, I spend 10 minutes explaining to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch that in the American legal tradition, our rights do not come "from God," but instead from the fundamental equality we all have in the state of nature with no gods, no kings, and no masters.

When I came out of law school in 2006, DOJ's prestige was such that liberal and conservative graduates alike would have gladly stepped over their friends' dead bodies to get a position there. Trump has ruined it now to the point they're having to bribe new graduates to apply.

Terrific opportunity for those who want to • subpoena pediatric records of minors prescribed gender dysphoria drugs • send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to • help detain noncitizens without bond even if they’ve worked here productively for yrs & have no arrest records

Today on the pod: Mifepristone Blanche and Habba compete to bone the Comey case Louisiana cancels voting And we bid goodbye to recurring segment Justin Baldoni Teaches CivPro with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...