What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Trump fired the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress. Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

"Disney could have avoided this entire debacle by refusing to cave to transparently illegal pressure from the government last week. But in some sense, Disney set itself up for this shakedown when it settled Trump’s weak defamation suit last year." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The shadow docket is functionally a cheat code to allow conservatives to break the law faster by @andrewtorrez.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-to-...

Cogent explanation. Not exaggerated, unfortunately.

"Beat Sweetener" n. A flattering, non-critical profile of a public figure written by a reporter whose regular beat includes coverage of that person. Via Puck's media writer, of course puck.news/bari-weiss-n...

Setting aside the question of legality, this would be an action of enormous self-harm inflicted on the nation, needlessly ridding the country of talent and expertise. It’s also extortive. “Give us what we want in a funding fight, or we’ll hurt the country.”

Can Lindsey Halligan make a case against James Comey? Outlook not good. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Counterpoint: they're totally nazis, come tf on

I’m begging America’s leaders to read this important treatise on negotiations and when to say “no.”

Really enjoyed my discussion with @lizdye.bsky.social and @andrewtorrez.bsky.social about the legal nuances of the lethal US strikes in the Caribbean.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Fox News moves to transfer Newsmax's antitrust suit back to Florida from Wisconsin, and OH LOOKIE HERE who's arguing for Fox storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🧵Why is the US military conducting lethal strikes in the Caribbean? There are a number of moving parts here as there are different actors within the Trump administration with different interests/agendas. 1/n

Is Trump appointing Lindsey Halligan interim USA at EDVA? Or nominating her for Senate confirmation? Or both?

Today’s show talks Jimmy Kimmel & yet another Trump appointee on the federal bench who has had it with being lied to in court over the administration’s deportation policies. With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

The fascism is just so petty and pathetic

This is a Rule 8 dismissal, which is not common when you’re represented by a lawyer, but is very common when you’re a sovereign citizen suing without a lawyer. This judge is treating the president of the United States as a pro se litigant.

BREAKING: Judge Stephen Merryday strikes Trump's complaint against the NYT for being hot garbage — that is, for making a mockery of the rules for concise and precise pleading in federal court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

News: Trump asks SCOTUS to allow the State Department to stop issuing "X" sex designations on passports This is the admin's 26th emergency appeal @courthousenews.bsky.social

I made a video about grand juries refusing to indict in DC. At least a fifth of the comments are mad at how I pronounced petit jury. 🤷‍♀️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43R...

9th Cir., en banc, holds that aliens in removal proceeding have a constitutional due process right to notice of their hearing that goes beyond the safeguards in the INA. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way." Just another day at the FCC, where the chair is threatening a major network over some comments by a late-show host. And the network is ABC, which doesn't bode well. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...

👋🏾Corp law profs: In class I went over Ben & Jerry's complaint against Unilever. It contains their whole merger agreement between Ben & Jerry's & Unilever, including all of the carve-outs to protect Ben & Jerry's social mission. We had a great discussion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 👩🏾‍🏫⚖️

I won. There is now a new law protecting all journalist's published works in the U.S. from state entities.

Announcing something exciting! We can flip the Kansas First, and eliminate the GOP majority in Congress. Can you imagine a better or more important time to do it? colinforkansas.com

"The Times is unlikely to sacrifice its journalistic credibility because of a laughably tenuous lawsuit and a few mean social media posts. But if Trump wants to let the paper’s team of top-notch First Amendment lawyers depose Mark Burnett, who are we to complain?" — @lizdye.bsky.social

jensen huang was so desperate to get the chinese market back, but trump and lutnick couldn’t keep their mouths shut

"Yesterday, the world’s most famous mugger leapt out from the digital bushes and demanded $15 billion from The Gray Lady."

I wrote a little bit about the very obvious death of the Washington Post at the hands of authoritarian zealots and brunchlords:

Even amazing lawyers can't change the fact that deceased individuals (or their estates) cannot bring defamation lawsuits.

One reason they’re doing this btw, beside general frothing evil, is in DC the U.S. Attorney’s Office (Pirro) has jurisdiction to try adults in DC courts for most offenses, whereas the DC Attorney General (democratically elected Brian Schwalb) has jurisdiction over juvenile court proceedings

If you want to understand the heartbreaking result in the D.A. v. Noem case (Ghanaian deportations) late last night & hear some good news, this is the show for you! With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

How very dare you impugn the honor of a man who had cameos on Wrestlemania V and Home Alone 2! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you're writing about how Stephen Miller's going to use this as a pretext for going after the left I think it's incumbent on you to say how he plans on doing that. Otherwise it's just scaring people into submission before he's done anything.

In today's post, we break down the developments in D.A. v. Noem, the case in which the Trump administration used Ghana as a waypoint for chain refoulment - WHICH IS TORTURE. What can be done about it? Read on with @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ice-is-bac...

2d Cir. holds a Christian school that was expelled from all state sporting activities after it forfeited a playoff basketball game bc of a trans student on the other team should have been granted a PI bc the state showed hostility to its religious views. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

If you suffered online news whiplash from the “Taylor Swift will be deposed!”/“No she won’t!” stories, it’s part of a calculated all-PR, no-law strategy. Join @lizdye.bsky.social & me for “Justin Baldoni Teaches Civ Pro” (by what not to do): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

JUST IN: A federal judge in New York has blocked a Trump administration policy advising immigration judges to dismiss deportation cases from the bench — which advocates say has been a precursor to courthouse arrests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown of Discord until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on