That’s my pops! Shana tova, folks.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

I genuinely don’t understand how Speaker Johnson has time for this. Congressmen shouldn’t have side-hustles.

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We have far too many ex-prosecutors on the bench & far too few former criminal defense lawyers, especially former public defenders, but this judge is an example of the reality that some ex-criminal defense lawyers make awful judges. (And some ex-prosecutors hold former colleagues accountable.)

This is bananas. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Trump Administration officials were taking pre-election bribes in exchange for contracts with the (potentially) incoming regime, and no one thought that that was worth disclosing before Election Day? What the fuck?

"We DO NOT CARE"

Ohhh . . . my god

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

If you were trying to construct the single worst policy that a country could implement, “make it way more expensive for highly skilled people to work here” would rank pretty high.

Dutch late night TV has its take

SUPREME COURT OF HAWAIʻI: The Hawaiʻi Constitution requires law enforcement to record *all* in-station custodial interrogations, and to record outside-the-station custodial interrogations when feasible. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

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Once a week, when I am sitting in an ergonomically criminal pew waiting for a Friday motion to be called, I peruse LinkedIn, which is hands down the most unhinged and ridiculous toxic social media app for lawyers, and it almost never disappoints. This is *atrocious* advice for many obvious reasons.

“Give kids measles and still catch a primary challenge from the regime” has got to rank among the worst “¿Por qué no los dos?”-es around right now.

“Harris and her presidential campaign have at times gone too far in describing what the project calls for and how closely the plans overlap with Trump’s campaign.” www.politifact.com/article/2024...

Vague, open-ended claims of authority to use deadly force are common among authoritarian regimes

Especially when there is a very meaningful and achievable solution to a ton of problems—taking back the House—right on the horizon! As far as his second term goes, Trump is arguably the weakest he’s ever been right now, and he will only get weaker each day between now and the midterms.

Finally, the last witness to testify is Robert Lynch, a professor of economics, who has carefully studied previous large-scale deportation efforts and determined that they do not lead to job improvements for Americans — in fact, it's the opposite; they lead to FEWER jobs.

I share this view. And in any case, ABC is the obvious plaintiff when the claim is viable, and ABC isn’t going to be a plaintiff. Law isn’t going to fix the problem here.

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Trump Administration: We are coming to murder you, your entire family will be disappeared, and no one who can spell will survive my wrath Congressional Democrats: Check out my ‘Miracle on Ice’ bill!

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

Openly threatening an entire country over a reporter's question.

Honestly it’s starting to feel like they aren’t sending their best

{Bangs head with drawer like Dobby}

Incredible. Someone get the man a GoFundMe.

I have wondered for years why David Brooks’s friends don’t beg him to *please* just shut the fuck up, but it didn’t occur to me until now that his friends are somehow simply even worse.

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

And this is why pursuing raw textualism that is willfully blind to known purpose and context will get you into trouble.

It is astonishing that this claim has not yet been retracted after the actual evidence that the Wall Street Journal uncritically distorted turned out to be the polar opposite. They should retract the claim and name the “sources” that pushed a flagrantly bogus “transgender . . . ideology” narrative.

Glad we left all those judicial positions open for decorum.

evergreen

Honestly, this is the most encouraging bit of news I've seen in weeks. apple.news/AvefvIRmNRJO...

Political violence is evil. I don't care how angry you are at your opponents. We have a ballot box. We have courts. We have free speech. I'm sick with grief for Charlie and his family. I'm sick with concern for this country.

/9 By the way - we should also fight the inclination to abandon the rule of law because bad people are cynically abusing it. First, while bad things happen on a national scale, every day on a micro scale advocates use the rule of law to fight injustice and improve lives.

😕 🇺🇸 if this worked we’d be the safest place on earth. Maybe it’s time to try other stuff? Like addressing the root causes, poverty, inequality etc? Or is that too crazy?

Almost makes you wonder how people feel when they are seized and interrogated by armed agents of the State for no fucking reason

Big news, presumably, for the ninety bazillion people who have been charged with low-level drug crimes

The President can’t cancel student loan debt owed to the United States (obviously) but can conduct race-based immigration stops (duh). Have you guys even read the Constitution

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.

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The Department of Homeland Security cowardly pushed people around at the Portland protest.