Proposed NDA language goes well beyond draft regs. NDA unconstitutionally tries to bind federal employees from disclosing any info post-employment. This goes against existing & well-settled case law. No one should sign. And we will sue to protect 1st Amendment rights.

An effort we will absolutely challenge.

I intend to file claims for many of my clients targeted for retaliatory retribution by the Trump Administration, as well as my own claim for this Administration's unlawful weaponization of security clearance powers. No doubt we'll all be rich! 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

We are honored to be among the lawyers representing former DOJ Ethics official Joseph Tirrell, who was fired last year for doing his job. Now you have a sense why. We are suing to challenge his unlawful termination & hold this Administration accountable. www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/p...

It was a lively court appearance today at the DC Circuit. Now we wait! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...

Congrats to our co-founder @markzaidesq.bsky.social! Tonight @aclu-dc.bsky.social is honoring Mark for his work representing whistleblowers and defending the Constitution. www.acludc.org/news/65-year...

Looking forward to appearing on @cnn.com with @lauracoates.com abt 11:30 pm EDT to discuss FBI Director Kash Patel's congressional testimony today & our lawsuits on behalf of FBI officials who were terminated. Added bonus is to appear alongside my friend & client @milestaylor.bsky.social.

US Govt's appeal of my security clearance lawsuit will be argued Thurs at DC Circuit. My counsel Abbe Lowell will be handling the oral arguments. Law firm appeal goes first at 0930 and then mine follows. I believe you can listen live if interested here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNcw...

END/For those interested, I delivered a speech about my grandfather and his experiences at the DC National Museum of American Jewish Military History in 2015 and it can be watched here: youtu.be/4kfGAYqdATs?...

165/I donated my grandfather's WWII correspondence & files to @holocaustmuseum.bsky.social for everyone to see. @pbs.org & #KenBurns included my grandfather in Ep. 3 of #USandTheHolocaustPBS. His sermon to survivors at #Dachau always brings tears to my eyes. #NeverForget

164/...In fact, my guess is that he would view his entire wartime service as the time of his greatest contribution as an American, rather than as a Jew." Thank you for allowing me to share his experiences during this important time with you.

163/...days he spent at Dachau understandably changed him forever (especially after learning that his own uncle had died in the camp), there are not the experiences my grandfather would choose to reflect his contributions to the U.S. military or the Jewish community worldwide....

162/...Nor can I detail what he felt after the years had passed. Like many concentration camp survivors and liberating soldiers, my grandfather rarely discussed with his family the horrors he had seen at Dachau and else in Europe...I have little doubt that although the several...

161/...In that sense, no doubt he was like many of his fellow soldiers. War has an effect on people, and those who have not had the experience simply cannot understand it. I cannot imagine what my grandfather felt at the time....

160/...and even when I reread them, I could not quite equate their contents with the individual I had known. I think that, in many ways, the person who wrote those documents never returned to the United States; the man who came home was different somehow....

159/In closing, let me share some of my afterword to the book: "The message and tone of my grandfather's World War II correspondence reveal a person who was a husband to one, a father to four, and a colleague to many. When I first read his letters and reports,...

158/The content from this thread & more can be found in "GI's Rabbi: WWII Letters of David Max Eichhorn" (2004, @Kansas_Press) which I co-edited w/late Greg Palmer, who was producer of @PBS "The Perilous Fight". a.co/d/d7HI5Dh

157/He was a prolific author & authority on interfaith marriage. His last book "Joys of Jewish Folklore: A Journey from New Amsterdam to Beverly Hills and Beyond" (1981) is still available from the publisher: www.jdbooks.com/jddetails.cf... He died in 1986 at the age of 80.

156/After numerous delays, my grandfather was reunited w/family in NYC on Christmas Day, 1945. He was promoted to MAJ, joined Army Reserves in 1948 & served until 1966 when he retired as a LTCOL. He continued to work w/Jewish Welfare Board until 1968 & spent his time btwn NY & FL

155/On July, 1945, XV HQ moved back to Germany in prep for deployment to Pacific Theatre in Sept. My grandfather was to stay in Europe w/HQ XXIII Corps & continue DP work. Pacific war ended & XV Corps was deactivated & sent to US. He was relieved of duty & started towards home.

154/I proudly possess my grandfather's Bronze Star & accompanying citation

153/...There is too much work of reconstruction to be done here in which we must play a part." In same letter, he notified family that he had been awarded the Bronze Star Medal. It was pinned on by Lt. Gen. Wade Haislip, his Corps commander. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_H....

152/In a May 26, 1945, letter to our family, he wrote: "V-E day has finally come and the war in Europe is over. Now we must stay here and try to win the peace as well and it is not very likely that I shall return to the States very soon....

151/Following #Dachau, my grandfather attended to his regular duties from Austria. He made frequent visits to liberated concentration camps, particularly #Mauthausen, #Ebensee, #Leonding, #Hoersching, #Kammer, #Landeck, #Neustift & Displaced Persons hdqs.

150/...Do you see, Sweetheart, why I have to fight to keep hate out of my heart? I don't want to hate anyone but God help me to keep from hating these Germans!"

149/...and believe me I am sure my stay over here is not too long to help make sure that such treatment will never be given to any people by any nation...[There follows a description of the things he saw at Dachau, concluding with:]...

148/"Dearest Sweetheart, I wonder if you want to hear about my visit to (Dachau)? If you don't, then put this aside. I want to tell you about it because I have figured out the real reason why I am over here. I never knew the real reason why, but I see it now ...

147/Before we leave #Dachau, let me tell you abt Chaplain Gustave Schellhase, a Lutheran & my grandfather's superior office. 80 years ago he wrote a letter to his wife telling her of Dachau. It is worth sharing:

146/A video interview of Rabbi Klausner discussing #Dachau can be found here: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/o...

145/Before he left #Dachau, my grandfather asked 7th Army Hdqs to assign a Jewish chaplain to camp immediately. Chaplain Abraham Klausner, in Paris awaiting assignment, was ordered to Dachau, where my grandfather said he "functioned "magnificently."

81 years ago today. Never Forget Never Again

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

143/... Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; And instead of brambles myrtles shall spring forth; And God's name will be glorified; This will be remembered forever, This will never be forgotten. [Isaiah 55:12,13]" Amen.

142/... You shall go out with joy, and be led forth in peace; The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands;

141/...Every man who has been oppressed must and will be restored to his family and to his rightful place in society. This is a promise and a pledge which I bring to you from your American comrades-in-arms and your Jewish brethren across the seas...

140/...We know that abstractions embodied in proclamations and celebrations must be followed by more concrete, more helpful fulfillment. We do not intend to brush aside the second part of the Divine promise: 'V'shavtem ish el achuzawso v'ish el mishpachto tawshuvu.'...

139/... and decency and kindness burn, Jews and non-Jews alike will expend as much time and energy and money as is needful to make good the pledge which is written in our holy Torah and inscribed on that marker in Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love....

138/...to assist you to regain health, comfort and some measure of happiness as speedily as is humanly possible. This must be done. This can be done. This will be done. You are not and you will not be forgotten men, my brothers. In every country where the lamps of religion...

137/...Those who labored here for their evil master must be hunted down and destroyed as systematically and as ruthlessly as they sought your destruction...And there will be deeds of love. It is the recognized duty of all truly religious people to bestir themselves immediately ..

136/...This is a time for deeds, deeds of justice, deeds of love ... Justice will be done. We have seen with our own eyes and we have heard with our own ears and we shall not forget. As long as there are Jews in the world, 'Dachau' will be a term of horror and shame....

135/...Full well do I know and humbly do I confess the emptiness of mere words in this hour of mingled sadness and joy. Words will not bring the dead back to life nor right the wrongs of the past ten years. This is not time for words, you will say, and rightly so....

134/...What message of comfort and strength can I bring to you from your fellow-Jews? What can I say that will compare in depth or in intensity to that which you have suffered and overcome?...

133/...so that all men everywhere may have freedom and happiness and peace. I speak to you also as a Jew, as a rabbi in Israel, as a teacher of that religious philosophy which is dearer to all of us than life itself....

132/...that you fought with your bodies, your minds and your spirit. Your faith and our faith in God and in humanity have been sustained. Our enemies lie prostrate before us. The way of life which together we have defended still lives and it will live ...

131/"We know that upon you was centered the venomous hatred of power-crazed madmen, that your annihilation was decreed and planned systematically and ruthlessly. We know, too, that you refused to be destroyed, that you fought back with every weapon at your command ...

130/The short video clips I posted only displayed a little less than half of his actual speech to survivors. Let me share with you the rest of his speech:

129/Color clip of my grandfather Chaplain #DavidMaxEichhorn at #Dachau. #128 was factually irrelevant. x.com/i/status/125...

127/I can share what little color film footage I have (fair use courtesy of The Perilous Fight). This was taken with Col Stevens' personal equipment. The segment features the group of Hungarian girls singing "God Bless America," which my grandfather taught them the night before.

126/Unfortunately, we have never been able to locate all of the film footage, but I will continue to look. If anyone has any knowledge of it, please do contact me at [email protected].