Got to watch Marimar Martinez, George Retes, Ryan Ecklund, and Pastor Black testify before the House Committee on Homeland Security today. The whole room was in stunned silence while Marimar got up and showed the bullet holes a CBP agent bragged about putting in her.

Nothing gets me out of bed in the morning like Dred Scott

You can skip the pedantic reading of New York’s rules because any rule that forbids publishing a judge’s decade-old memo violates the First Amendment. And the 1A analysis in this blog post is remarkably weak. “Attorneys have to give back confidential stuff sometimes.” Okay.

There was a brief moment when two summary reversals went against officers who did awful shit, and we thought made qualified immunity was moving in the right direction. The Court ended that hope this term.

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm so glad this brave law enforcement officer is OK after being violently smirked at. Praying for him and his family

Can't believe Jeff Clark, whose law license is also on the line for trying to do the coup, thinks this outcome is a travesty.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

We filed another lawsuit over another wrong house raid in Georgia. A SWAT team showed up Cathy George’s apartment looking for a man she never met. And it turned out he was already in jail. It’s insane how often this stuff happens. youtu.be/QamIUQVD2X4?...

We filed another lawsuit arguing that Flock Cameras (automated license plate readers) violate the Fourth Amendment. This time against San Jose: youtu.be/VoHfteyaSRs?...

Incredible. Police put Anjanette through a nightmare. She used it to become an advocate for accountability. She was at our SCOTUS argument in Martin, over another botched raid. And she’s helped other victims get on the path of advocacy.

We filed another lawsuit over another wrong house raid in Georgia. A SWAT team showed up Cathy George’s apartment looking for a man she never met. And it turned out he was already in jail. It’s insane how often this stuff happens. youtu.be/QamIUQVD2X4?...

We filed another lawsuit arguing that Flock Cameras (automated license plate readers) violate the Fourth Amendment. This time against San Jose: youtu.be/VoHfteyaSRs?...

of note: the Department of Justice arguments against modifying my release conditions were "we cannot see any reason why a journalist would need to travel on short notice" and "his charges were not dismissed on any substantive basis, but on the technicality of First Amendment grounds"

Government agents entered our clients property a bunch of times without a warrant and tampered with their surveillance camera. Today, the court dismissed our case based on an undergraduate intern’s “bench brief” that the judge attached to the order. Don’t worry, he starts law school this fall.

Government agents entered our clients property a bunch of times without a warrant and tampered with their surveillance camera. Today, the court dismissed our case based on an undergraduate intern’s “bench brief” that the judge attached to the order. Don’t worry, he starts law school this fall.

7 lawyers signed their names to this farcical motion claiming that Trump’s “ballroom’s overarching design is to advance critical security objectives as an integrated whole,” it’s “a hardened national security facility,” and stopping it would cause Trump “significant harm during heightened threats.”

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Very interesting stats in this thread. On the pretext that Somali-Americans were committing fraud in MN, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of MN Latin Americans with no criminal history

I found CBP's anti-protest weaponry shopping list: Hundreds of thousands of rounds over over 100 different kinds of tear gas, grenades, flashbangs, tear gas-infused bullets that can shoot through walls, and more theintercept.com/2026/04/03/l...

The FAA quietly imposed a nationwide drone restriction that prevents filming ICE and other federal agents within half a mile. It’s an attack on the First Amendment.

This is my hometown. When friends asked about the downsides and why the city was in such a rush, they were told to stop making trouble. When someone questioned the council’s motives, they were threatened with a baseless lawsuit. All so a poor town can shoulder the costs while a few get rich.

In the month between writing this and publication, @ij.org won four more times in court against small-town tyrants. Retaliation cases on behalf of journalists, school board members, food truck owners, and someone who spoke out against the mayor in IA, AL, TX, and VA. ij.org/ll/ij-takes-...

This bit in the opinion about @ij.org “upsetting his little town” and costing them their reputation by publicizing their bad behavior is a rich text.

New QI Denial: Federal judge just ruled that a town councilman and the town of Parksley, VA, are liable for the councilman cutting a pipe to our clients’ food truck and telling them to go back to their country. ij.org/press-releas...

This bit in the opinion about @ij.org “upsetting his little town” and costing them their reputation by publicizing their bad behavior is a rich text.

New QI Denial: Federal judge just ruled that a town councilman and the town of Parksley, VA, are liable for the councilman cutting a pipe to our clients’ food truck and telling them to go back to their country. ij.org/press-releas...

Man, SCOTUS denied cert in Wilson v. Midland?? Blurgh. That's the IJ case where a criminal defendant sued a lawyer who acted as both the prosecutor and the judge's law clerk int he same case. Yes, you read that right. He was on both sides of the case. Secretly.

All they have is negging and pickup artist techniques. Diplomacy by incel forum.

They keep stealing shit from the people they detain. Remember how they took that kid’s cell phone and sold it for cash? Just straight up lawless gangsters

Alabama prosecutor loses key immunity claim in journalist’s arrest lawsuit. www.al.com/news/2026/03...

The Humboldt case was my first baby at @ij.org. It always deserves more attention. @reason.com just produced a lovely short on how county set up cannabis enforcement like an extortion racket. youtube.com/shorts/IBBlB...

We just beat absolute prosecutorial immunity on four claims in our retaliation case against Escambia County DA Stephen Billy! That includes our claims for a civil conspiracy with the sheriff. Almost all claims against the sheriff & deputies go forward, too. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69393...

We just beat absolute prosecutorial immunity on four claims in our retaliation case against Escambia County DA Stephen Billy! That includes our claims for a civil conspiracy with the sheriff. Almost all claims against the sheriff & deputies go forward, too. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69393...

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

We want to make sure our children are learning, so we've contracted a new fleet of bathroom surveillance drones from Pedophile & Childkiller Incorporated

counted 25 ICE officers (most with ERO vests) during my 26-minute wait in the LGA Terminal C Touchless line this morning. every one of them was either standing doing nothing or slowly walking the length of the line doing nothing. at least four were in masks.

We’ve already got a case about how using TSA checkpoints to search people’s belongings for crimes and treating cash as criminal is illegal: ij.org/case/dea-tsa...

Among all the other reasons it’s dumb to have ICE run airport security… I keep thinking about how we learned in our lawsuit that ICE trains its agents not to trust REAL IDs. And how the agency’s reason shows that no one involved read the law or relevant regulations.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I hate it here.

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

I’m currently working on the plan we’ll execute tomorrow to introduce our hastily hired and poorly trained fascist shock troops into a job they have no competency for, but don’t worry I found the time to do a couple hours of tv hits about it before I finished it.

If you're keeping track: Pentagon employees will work at ICE, while ICE will work at the airport. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

The Constitution protects the acts of naming federal law enforcement agents and documenting how they behave on the streets. Under no circumstances should Congress grant this administration new legal weapons to use against Americans who do either of those things.

Our Latest Newsletter: Civil unrest, true threats, and South Carolina receptions. ij.org/sc_newslette...

The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

It is absolutely insane to me that this case is still going on after all these years. This was an incredibly obviously bullshit censorial case that the First Amendment should not allow... and yet courts keep reviving it every time it seems like it's been killed.

West Virginia prisoners allege that Aramark serves inedible food, such as “ultra-processed patties made from an indiscernible meat, to drive them to the company's food-for-purchase programs. In fiscal year 2025, Aramark brought in $18.5 billion dollars in revenue. theappeal.org/aramark-west...