Techdirt is an outstanding source of news and analysis

The ACLU of DC has won a great preliminary injunction against warrantless arrests for civil immigration violations without probable cause and without determination of flight risk nipnlg.org/sites/defaul... Love the fact that Bovino's public statements repeatedly show up as evidence, for example

Good explainer here from a former GC for each of the US Army and US Air Force (now at A & P) notesfortheperplexed.substack.com/p/was-it-mur...

The Third Circuit is the first to weigh in on the lawfulness of second successive presidential appointments of acting United States Attorneys, rejecting the Trump Admin's appointment of Alice Habba storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Rakoff (SDNY) on crypto www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

That's certainly how MY forebears got here

Magistrate Judge Marchi protects satirists of the elected officials of a small California county from being identified pursuant to subpoena clpblog.citizen.org/protecting-a...

Eleventh Circuit upholds award of nearly $1 million in fees against Trump and Alina Habba as a sanction for frivolous litigation brought in bad faith. Court specifically upheld finding of a pattern of abusing the courts media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub... Should be cited in other Trump suits

Maybe Trump and his warrior clique don't understand that increased militarization is likely to foment violence, not deter it Or maybe they hope for confrontations because it helps them politically, and really, they don't care about folks who live here being harmed

Autopen, anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Penn refuses Trump Admin demand -- send us a list of your Jews www.courtlistener.com/docket/71926...

Mourning Jimmy Cliff -- my freshman college dormmate was from Jamaica so beginning in the fall 1968, I was immersed in reggae and ska www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4...

/2/ Parallel ruling in favor of Letitia James storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The South Carolina federal judge appointed by designation to consider Comey's motion on the ground that Halligan was not properly appointed has dismissed the indictment without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... As a practical this is a grand slam for Comey but not James

Sometimes, ya never know

ICE too big for its britches in Providence www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

Both the stay order by a panel including Frank Easterbrook , and Judge Ellis's incredibly detailed order, merit review

Standing up for free speech!

Apparently, when kooky RFK Jr. promised Senator Cassidy that the CDC website's statement that vaccines to not cause autism would not be taken down, his fingers were crossed behind his back www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

So Judge Smith plainly prefers to sound like a wild MAGA partisan than to sound like a racist (not to speak of being a highly personal attack on District Judge Brown - the sort of thing we used to see on the 6th Circuit and Pennsylvania Supreme Court) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What a clown show! Should we give any credit for giving honest answers under cross-examination?

Apparently the "Cartel de los Soles" is comparable to antifa -- it is a tendency, not an organization? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

The Guardian reports, based on statements by Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello, that WNO is looking for alternate venues because so many fans (like me) refuse to come to Trump's KenCen. Official denial: WNO "has no plans" for such a move operawire.com/washington-n...

Courage in Chicago

After a trial on the merits, Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against federalizing the Oregon national guard and deploying the national guards of other states on Oregon storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks to Cormac (who won this case), and to Karla & Steph who came to Public Citizen Litigation Group as refugees from the Trump Admin. Plus Adam & Nandan, refugee from Trump I, and Mike, refugee from George W. All in the forefront against Trump's depredations I am honored to be their colleague.

An unsung aspect of today's Public Citizen win in the partisan out-of-office email message case: the lawyer who won this left DoJ after Bondi took over. In fact, several new colleagues joined us to avoid doing evil as govt lawyers in the Trump Admin. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thorough analysis here of the Sandwich Guy trial www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

Preliminary injunction in Chicago. Looking forward to the opinion storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sandwich Guy is NOT GUILTY www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Of course Mamdani should come up with a list of things Ackman could do to help NYC and then ask which one Ackman would be willing to take on.

Live-blogging the trial in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem @jonseidel.bsky.social

An outstanding job posting for a lawyer to litigate issues under state constitutions www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Armed thuggery

from my Public Citizen colleagues www.citizen.org/news/corpora...

Very cool

Outstanding talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBQ...

Public Citizen has an annual pumpkin carving competition. The Litigation Group won this year with this portrayal of the White House with the East Wing having been demolished. Entries from other groups to come

Is the NY Times not going to take its OWN editorial position on the Mayoral race? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Ninth Circuit goes en banc on the national guard's deployment to Portland. Order staying Judge Immergut's TRO is vacated. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

We still receive delivery of the dead-tree edition of the Post -- I have been reading the home town paper wherever I lived since my early years -- but WaPo's misconduct is sorely testing my commitment

Bezos kisses the ring

Briefing on a motion to dismiss the recent lawsuit claiming that the trademark "Canada Dry" deceives consumers, is not publicly available because the judge forbids electronic filing until all sides have filed. We object to this denial of public access clpblog.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

If I hadn't read the underlying texts (posted here) www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... I would find this story unbelievable. Trump and Bondi have almost done James a favor by assigning this lame brain to handle the prosecution.

A panel of the Ninth Circuit has stayed Judge Immergut's TRO against the deployment of the National Guard in Portland on he ground that she was insufficiently deferential to Trump's factual basis for the deployment cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Scenes from No Kings in DC. We were too close to the stage to see how far back the crowd went

My Public Citizen colleagues surveyed the 25 busiest airports in the US, of which only three appear to be running the Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for the shutdown. Houston is perhaps no surprise (but why HOU and not DFW), but what's up with DTW? www.citizen.org/article/airp...

My colleague Craig Holman filed his TWELFTH Hatch Act complaint today www.citizen.org/news/public-...

And, I was able to print my own for Saturday's demo in DC