morningtrojan.com/p/willow-bay... Go Professor Al Mittelstaedt!

Watchdogs say new L.A. County rule is an attempt to muzzle criticism So I heard today this rule, which violated the First Amendment, was never adopted by the LA Board of Supervisors, but you would never know it from the LA Times article. And now I hear the rule is dead. No censorship in LA!

Fixed it for you @nytimes.com

Should we tell Disney about these cases?

Protester found not guilty of assault despite top Border Patrol official’s testimony Jurors said feds had zero hard evidence of assault!

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times That was fast! Trump can still file an amended lawsuit, and he surely will. But this is still a great sign that the @nytimes.com is fighting Trump’s BS lawsuit hard and fast!

Inspiring story of a lawyer’s persistence in fighting ICE’s attempted illegal nighttime deportations of Guatemalan children.

Gaza movie ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ devastates Venice audiences. Maybe art (a kind of documentary film), can move the needle on the genocide in Gaza.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... I’m quoted in The New Yorker as saying Trump is still a “libel loser” because he’s now cheating to win by unethically using the power of the presidency to bully corporate media owners into settling cases that would’ve been tossed by the courts if not settled.

Excellent court decision ordering Trump’s FTC to stop harassing Media Matters; FTC’s demand for MM’s internal documents is illegal retaliation against MM’s First Amendment rights to speech/news gathering about Nazi speech on X; FTC & state AGs illegally using gov’t power to punish Elon Musk’s enemy.

Our legal team repping LA Press Club and Status Coup is asking the court to find the City of LA in contempt for violating the TRO banning LAPD from using force against reporters covering anti-ICE protests, including fracturing rib of @acatwithnews.bsky.social

Prediction: The Supreme Court will throw out birthright citizenship. I hope I’m wrong.

Publishers are far too cowardly and make authors get permission to quote a few lines of copyrighted works. You were right and your argument about fair use was spot on.

We sued LAPD today for illegal violence against journalists. Los Angeles Press Club v City of LA. Lead counsel is the irrepressible Carol Sobel!

I’m thrilled to be back litigating and working on this with Carol Sobel, Paul Hoffman, @facoalition.bsky.social and @davidloy.bsky.social, @susanseager.bsky.social and Weston Rowland

drive.google.com/file/d/19wAG... So excited to be part of this legal team suing the LAPD for shooting violent weapons at the press.

We sued the LAPD in federal court today for shooting dangerous weapons at the press!

To LA #Press: if you think you shouldn’t testify in court about cops violating your rights because of the reporters privilege - you should know YOU own the privilege. Not your news org or its lawyers. It’s your choice to testify or not. And it’s your duty to testify.

I really wish journalists would stop using the sanitized police terms, “less than lethals” and “rubber bullets.” Be specific about each dangerous police weapon. “Rubber bullets” are metal bullets encased in rubber. You sanitize the danger by using the lame police term.

Awful!

The First Amendment is not a toy for Trump to play with. But 2 Trump judges let him play. Trump can bar Associated Press from some events, appeals court rules

Great creative lawyering by free press lawyers! Prominent lawyers join press freedom fight to thwart Paramount settlement with Trump

Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?

@maddow.msnbc.com Could you please call the tariffs “the Trump Tax”? Has a nice ring to it.

Could this be the Trump curse on the Dodgers like the goat curse on the Cubs? They can’t rub off the stink. @gustavoarellano.bsky.social

Call it what it is: The Trump Tax.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Alito & Co setting the groundwork to say Trump can ignore court orders if he thinks they are “wrong.” This answers my question: Yes, the Supreme Court’s lawless conservatives are happily giving away the power of the courts to a tyrant. A king.

Yes, chef! @nytimes.com @latimes.com @sfchronicle.com

It will be the end of our country if the lawless Supreme Court majority surrenders the power of the judiciary - their own power - to appease their King in the name of their beloved unitary executive claptrap. The court is Lawless, after all, to quote @leahlitman.bsky.social

No kings. No Nazis.

So much for government transparency.

My daughter just advised me, “Don’t date yourself by saying you read it in a newspaper.”

Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts - The Atlantic The Lawless conservative majority of the Supreme Court created a Lawless president and they’re so happy to crown a king who could ignore everything the courts say.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

How Trump decided to kick off his second term with blanket Jan. 6 pardon I pitched an opinion piece to the New York Times and Washington Post before the election saying Trump would pardon Jan 6 convicts who violently assaulted police and begged them to do their own piece. Crickets (cowardice).

Nice work by First Amendment law profs!

L.A. city officials use disappearing Google Chats to conduct official city business. That flatly violates California public records act. Will the city attorney stop this illegal practice?

"The arc of the moral universe called in sick today."

I’m looking for an IP lawyer to file pro bono declaratory relief action against City of Los Angeles for (common law) trademark bullying against photog for displaying city insignia in First Amendment-protected book. I’m so sick of cities demanding licensing fees for city logos in expressive works!

Time to rewatch the great satirical film about deporting Brown US citizens, “Born In East LA,” by Cheech Marin. m.imdb.com/title/tt0092...

youtu.be/sQDP4WqRnv0 I’m obsessed with the Fontaines DC! They are a perfect Irish punk band for these insane times. Playing in LA in January. Saw them in DC. Amazing!

Announcing the 2025 conference of UCI’s Forum for the Academy and the Public, details TK, coorganized by Amy Wilentz & me, working w/@davidakaye.bsky.social with speakers to include Jodie Ginsberg (of the Committee to Protect Journalists), @rickhasen.bsky.social, Francisco Goldman & many others

Hello. I’m a #lawprof at University of California Irvine, where I teach #FirstAmendment law and direct a law clinic that provides free legal help to independent journalists.

The substantial truth, doctrine, as described in Moby Dick.

Good to see @davidkaye.bsky.social quoted in this important piece.

This will be rejected by Biden’s DOJ, but it is just a taste of what Trump will certainly do it if he is elected president: get his DOJ to prosecute journalists.