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Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had: 1. Uber driver 2. Tennis umpire 3. Sports information director 4. Newspaper evening clerk 5. Press officer

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Is there something I’m missing for why state authorities can’t issue a subpoena or go get a search warrant if federal authorities refuse to turn over incriminating evidence? It seems like for all their tough talk, the state officials in MN are looking to fold at the first sign of resistance

Meanwhile these Democrats are so “strong” that they were willing to put their names behind these complaints….oh wait

State authorities need to start charging these unlawful arrests under state law

Imagine watching this horrifying report and thinking it was missing Stephen Miller’s perspective

What really depresses me about the news industry is how many people in positions of power seem to hold the core values of journalism in contempt.

The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.

From a judge Trump nearly put on the Supreme Court

Imagine how far that money could go if it were invested in training officers not to commit misconduct and developing accountability systems to weed out those who do

Update: this opinion has now been called en banc cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Put this one in the public defense annals

Ninth Circuit oddity from today: the court granted a request to publish an opinion in a case that was decided by a “screening panel.” I cannot remember the last time this happened cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

I may be old school, but I thought it was appropriate for a judge to be an “inquisitor” when the question was whether her orders were being complied with

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

They are charging a congressional candidate for protesting. Wake up, everyone

The people I work with do great things, x a million

Appreciate that @charliesavage.bsky.social is willing to tell it how it is, without lazy both-sideism

Trying to arrest someone through a window without a warrant, over the objections of the homeowner, is an obvious Fourth Amendment violation

This is quite an opinion the Ninth Circuit issued last night accusing its own clerk’s office of engaging in a “manifestly unlawful” practice. I have never seen a judge, much less a panel of 3 of them, write so harshly toward the Court’s own staff. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

This order seems somewhat unusual in that it did not come until 4 days after the en banc call, and 2 days after the briefs were filed, during which there were almost certainly memos exchanged internally about whether to go en banc. Maybe a weak signal the en banc call has legs?

So it's now 5 days past the Saturday "No Kings" rallies. Did the NYT still not do an extensive, front-page story on one of the largest single-day protests in U.S. history?

They arrested this guy?? Ludicrous

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

do people still not know what comes after "a few bad apples" in the aphorism

Every other federal judge has a larger docket, generates greater output, doesn't take summers off, and manages to properly issue preliminary decisions without creating this confusion.

The en banc Ninth Circuit took the first big chunk out of its anti-SLAPP precedent, overruling precedent that had allowed interlocutory appeals of denials of anti-SLAPP motions cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

It's fascinating to watch originalists insist that the intention of the Founders was to create an all-powerful executive with near-plenary authority over the entire government only a few years after fighting the American Revolution

Stacking layers of unreasoned decisions on top of each other would be so obviously unjudicial if done by any other court

The unitary executive!

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

If you won’t become a cop because you’d have to identify yourself and be subject to prosecution for any crimes you commit, I don’t want you becoming a cop.

If a court ever issued an order like this in one of my cases I might quit the law

I wrote about the Kimmel situation

If this is not fascism, then what is?

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule

If you’re going to write an order that begins this way—which to be clear, appears fully justified—the next step has to be to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the lawyer who lied to the court to try to stave off a TRO so the govt could proceed with these unlawful removals

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The people I work with do awesome things

Pour one out for all of the mainstream journalists who have had their “The invocation of the Senate’s nuclear option is the end of democracy as we know it” pieces pre-written for years and who now cannot publish them because it is the Republicans who used the nuclear option.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job” pretty much sums it up

BRING BACK HUMAN LINE UMPIRES

If they can afford $200MM for this, I suppose they don’t need any donations from this alum