“A lawyer who represents a client in an adjudicative proceeding and who knows that a person intends to engage, is engaging or has engaged in criminal or fraudulent conduct related to the proceeding shall take reasonable remedial measures, including, if necessary, disclosure to the tribunal.”

Democrats learned nothing from the 2020 uprisings. And no Bivens fix/legal mechanism for violations of constitutional rights!

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

People reporting on Kristi Noem’s legally adjudicated racism are not giving credit where due: This is not the doing of a D.C. judge, but of many years of strategic litigation, advocacy, and organizing in the Northern District of California, where the National TPS Alliance has been doing God’s work.

Today is a GREAT day to support @51st.news, a worker-led nonprofit local news source for D.C. with top-notch staff including the amazing @maustermuhle.bsky.social

Whoa. Tucked into here is reporting that AUSA Ana Voss has also given her notice of resignation. Voss is a well-respected AUSA who has basically been carrying a lot of these cases by herself.

Perfect gift for the Laziali in your life bsky.app/profile/cris...

I nearly spit out my chocolate-peanut butter protein shake. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/justi...

If my math is right 20% of the office has now resigned, including the previous group of resignations. That’s debilitating. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The Senate knew how compromised she was but confirmed her anyway.

People, lawmakers, advocates, and courts shouldn’t have given up on emoluments during Trump 1.0.

Of all times, last night was a natural experiment for why you need Spanish-dominant journalists covering stuff. Especially now. (Google Translate probably won’t get you the 100-by-35 cultural reference in Bad Bunny’s victory speech.)

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Few things are as emblematic of the legal profession as lawyers bemoaning the over-the-top language, style, and citations of the judge who granted habeas relief to a 5-year-old asylum seeker and his father, while saying nothing about why habeas was needed in the first place.

“Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I gasped: "Melania shows off her custom-made inauguration gown, stark white with black ribbons overlaying it, a dress that now looks unavoidably like the redacted Epstein files." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez denies Minnesota’s request to put an end to the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...

“My husband created CNN” is a flex not many people can pull off.

Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, retweets someone calling Don Lemon one of "today's klansmen."

Only political appointees signed this. No career lawyers.

Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Looks like we have our first broad-based lawsuit challenging the ICE memo authorizing home invasions that violate the Fourth Amendment. Filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston on behalf of two nonprofits serving Latino and immigrant communities. lawyersforcivilrights.org/wp-content/u...

It's no joke: Supreme Court is hearing birthright citizenship case on April 1.

Counts 3 and 4 are firearm charges that bootstrap on Counts 1 (interstate travel stalking) and 2 (cyberstalking), but they can only apply if Counts 1 and 2 are necessarily "crimes of violence." Fed. judge finds that travel stalking and cyberstalking are not do not necessarily involve violence.

Wow: Federal judge strikes down Counts 3 and 4 of the federal indictment against Luigi Mangione, which means Attorney General Pam Bondi's political ploy to turn the murder of Brian Thompson into a federal capital case has failed big time. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

Never a dull moment in unitary executive land.

The “top-side,” pro-Trump amicus briefs in the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court are so wild. Here’s a “national security” brief arguing for changing the Constitution because “malign foreign actors” will one day procreate double-agent babies. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Today’s chart, offered without comment, via @opinion.bloomberg.com.

The “top-side,” pro-Trump amicus briefs in the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court are so wild. Here’s a “national security” brief arguing for changing the Constitution because “malign foreign actors” will one day procreate double-agent babies. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

TL;dl (internet acronym): When your podcast is too long and I didn't listen to it.

One problem of having people like Tom Homan and other non-lawyers in charge is that … they say things that are material to ongoing litigation. All the time. (Pam Bondi, a lawyer, is the exception: She too says things bearing on active litigation all the time.)

You don’t need to have a take about everything, every day. Be free.

Oh, yeah, I know that lawsuit: bonkers indeed. That lawsuit asserts a right _in December 2024_ to records from 2020 under a law that expressly says there’s no right after 2022. That suit is a walking piece of malpractice.

We need to see the application. The warrant alone is … a warrant.

Banana republic.

Come for an order well worth the read, stay for the line about … the availability of civil monetary sanctions for every person wrongfully detained under Eighth Circuit case law. (!)

wooooow

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

4th Cir., 2-1, holds that school guidelines requiring employees to keep private students' trans or gender-nonconforming presentation and to use pronouns corresponding to gender identity do not violate a wannabe substitute teacher's 1A rights. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

Not only that, DOJ didn't even bother to file a response to his habeas petition. The judge also had to amend his order two days later to specifically say they couldn't just re-detain him without due process, as was apparently their intention. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72130...

Spanish-language reporters on deadline, God bless them, think I know everything there is to know about the lawlessness of ICE. I don’t, and I don’t have the time for all their queries. But I think I’ve come up with a good shorthand:

Hard to keep up, but here’s the latest in MAGA law: Stripping courts of jurisdiction automatically changes the rules of ethics and professional responsibility that govern federal judges.

The kicker is tragicomical: “A federal judge ordered Mr. Gibson’s release four days later, ruling that the agents violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.”

Heartbreaking: Area Man Is Slowly Becoming a Low-Key Ed Whelan Stan