The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Story below, proclamation here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today's news: The fourth judge in the long-running 9/11 case at Guantánamo Bay has retired and the chief judge for the military commissions has assigned himself to oversee it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the center of a lawsuit brought by Tamara Lanier, a descendant of enslaved individuals.

Looking for a contact at Wolf Entertainment on the TV production side. Any suggestions?

I'm sorry, no, we absolutely cannot do this. What the hell is wrong with the judge that allowed this? And everyone involved in this decision, honestly? You can't do AI séances in court to bring deceased victims back to give an impact statement! This is not what facing your accuser means.

Update: I hear there are 41 immigration detainees held at Guantánamo Bay this morning, and the staff has been reduced to 760, including ICE contractors. Most are soldiers and Marines. The Army general from Texas who set up the operation has left, and a colonel is in charge.

A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

The Trump administration carried out its first direct deportation from Guantanamo Bay to Nicaragua this week — and other news about the offshore outpost in ICE detention. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

🧵 The New York City Bar Association (@NYCBarAssociation.bsky.social), along with several other bar associations, including the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (@NACDL.org), have issued a joint statement defending the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession. (1/5)

La candidature de Marine Le Pen à la présidentielle en 2027 compromise après sa condamnation à une peine d’inéligibilité avec exécution provisoire

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...

Notably missing: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia. Kind of mindblowing to me given what the substance of this letter is: "government should not retaliate against law firms"

More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Written by a 9th grader during lockdown.

"The City Bar is outraged by the Memorandum’s sweeping accusations and insinuations, which are devoid of any legitimate factual basis and direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to disregard and undermine foundational principles of the legal profession and the rule of law"

To help confirm someone's identity, Signal offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts. Make sure you're inviting the right person to your group. Learn about Signal's identifiers: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Looking at you, NYS Bar Assn.

First universities and now BigLaw*. After last night's news about Paul Weiss, a junior lawyer's compelling firmwide email about the existential stakes now. (*Unlike universities, BigLaw=corporations dedicated to profits, notwithstanding stated principles about hiring, pro bono programs, etc.)

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

"Rule of law is a principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are: Publicly promulgated Equally enforced Independently adjudicated And consistent with international human rights principles." www.uscourts.gov/educational-...

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg issues a classwide, nationwide temporary restraining order, blocking removal of any noncitizens in U.S. custody who are subject to today's AEA order for the next 14 days. With planes leaving, he says, "I am required to act immediately."

The Brennan Center explainer on the Alien Enemies Act. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

We also have an update on what we know so far about the new administration's migrant operations here at Guantanamo Bay.

Judge's order barring deportation pending further proceedings here.

A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn't be deported without a court order.

"ICE turned a campus activist for Palestine into a political prisoner. Witness a coalescence of several post-9/11 currents that threaten your most basic freedoms" Absolute must-read from @attackerman.bsky.social. #FreeMahmoud #NotInOurName

The Trump administration’s detention of Mahmoud Khalil — a green card holder studying in this country legally — is targeted, retaliatory, and an extreme attack on his First Amendment rights. apnews.com/article/colu...

The Homeland Security Department was holding 20 migrants designated for deportation at Guantánamo Bay on Monday, 16 of them in the former wartime prison and four in a medium security holding site www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Sixteen men cleared and released from Guantánamo speaking truth about the expansion of extralegal detention there for deported immigrants. If only our elected officials had it in them to speak truth to power so bluntly: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Um. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Film still: “What you’re about to see is true. Sort of.”

Breaking News: The Trump administration today repatriated the 170+ Venezuelans it sent to Guantanamo Bay, emptied the migrant operation it hastily established earlier this month. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

The always astute Loring Knoblauch’s review of my book Model Citizens for Collector Daily, noting how the work keeps reading differently as events evolve. collectordaily.com/debi-cornwal...

udm14.com: An easy-to-use shortcut for an AI-free Google search. (Try it!) udm14.com

Ed Ruscha, Norms on Fire, 1964

Breaking News: A Pentagon appeals panel has upheld a judge’s decision in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case to forbid the use of the defendant’s confession as derived from torture. The ruling, sealed pending a classification review, was unanimous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

Thinking today about how this is a photo of a federal worker taken by another federal worker: in 1942 Gordon Parks, then working in Farm Security Administration's photographic unit, composed this portrait of Ella Watson, who was employed as a cleaner in government offices www.loc.gov/item/2017765...

Worth remembering that Bush put the detention center at Guantanamo specifically because it's a jurisdictional no-man's-land. Because it's controlled by the US, but Cuban territory, the Bush admin argued that neither the constitution nor the Geneva Conventions apply to American actions there.

Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo. "Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."

Carey Young, 'Declared Void,' 2005

Is there a word, in German perhaps, for "utterly shocking and also totally unsurprising"?

Here is a brief note at Law Dork from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on this breaking news: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

Timeline cleanse.

Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968

Los Angeles: the Getty Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation have partnered with the Center for Cultural Innovation to provide relief for Cali artists and creatives affected by the wildfires. The application portal opens on Jan 20 at 9 am PST—bookmark this page www.cciarts.org

Sharing this spreadsheet again of Black families in Altadena who need our help; Altadena is a historically Black community and there are real fears that this is what permanently displaces people who have lived in the area for 30 or 40 years. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...