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Jackie Gardina
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Higher ed supporter, podcast host, and a law and politics junkie with a social justice focus. *All opinions are my own
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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · Mar 23
I'm starting a thread with the legal profession's response to President Trump's attacks on it. Please feel free to add any that I miss.

I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
Perkins Coie’s response to the unlawful Executive Order targeting the firm
The order violates core constitutional protections, including the rights to free speech and due process, and undermines all clients’ right to select counsel of their choice.
www.perkinscoiefacts.com
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carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social
"It is illegal for a coin to be issued with 'the image of a living former or current President, or of any deceased former President during the 2-year period following the date of the death...," per a law on currency designs." buff.ly/OueHVHp

It is ILLEGAL

Dictator Trump cares not at all
Donald Trump Is Putting His Face on Both Sides of a New Coin. U.S. Treasury Reveals 'First Drafts'
The U.S. Treasury revealed the draft of a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump on both sides.
people.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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jenee.bsky.social
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The Supreme Court did grant review of one case today, Watson v. Republican National Committee, and it's a big one over state laws allowing the counting of ballots cast by Election Day but received after Election Day.

Here's the docket: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

And question presented:
QUESTION PRESENTED The federal election-day statutes-2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1-set the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in certain years as the "election" day for federal offices. Like all other States, Mississippi requires that ballots for federal offices be cast-marked and submitted to election officials—by that day. And like most other States, Mississippi allows some of those timely cast ballots (mail-in absentee ballots, in Mississippi's case) to be counted if they are received by election officials a short time after election day (in Mississippi, within 5 business days after election day). Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-637(1)(a). In the decision below, the Fifth Circuit held that the federal election-day statutes require that ballots be both cast by voters and received by election officials by election day and thus preempt Mississippi's law. The question presented is whether the federal election-day statutes preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
jackiegardina.bsky.social
It is disturbing that this professor doesn't see a problem with the phrase "teaching something illegal"

“If you are afraid you are teaching something illegal or that lacks academic integrity and you want to keep it secret, that should be a problem.”

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Fla. Board Says Syllabi, Reading Lists Must Be Posted Publicly
Faculty at some Florida public universities argue the new policy is less about transparency for students and more about chilling academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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laurelpowell.net
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
jackiegardina.bsky.social
A "win" now includes a provision in a CR that requires the President to follow a law passed in 2019 to pay furloughed workers.

Oh how the Overton window has shifted.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Their biggest win was language that would restore the jobs of thousands of federal workers who were laid off during the shutdown and bar further reductions-in-force through Jan. 30, while guaranteeing back pay for hundreds of thousands of others who were furloughed, as required by law.
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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yappelbaum.bsky.social
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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trevondlogan.bsky.social
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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leecarpenter.bsky.social
These threads never disappoint.
paulisci.bsky.social Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
jackiegardina.bsky.social
Did you know we didn't have government shutdowns before 1981. These political dances are based on one AG's intepretation of the Anti-Deficiency Act. Even if accurate, Congress could amend the act to allow government operations to continue.

history.house.gov/Institution/...
Funding Gaps and Shutdowns in the Federal Government | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
As required by the Constitution, all three branches of the federal government are funded through the appropriations process in the United States Congress. All federal spending bills originate in the H...
history.house.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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fishkin.bsky.social
Well over 150 UC law faculty have just made public this open letter to the UC Regents arguing, point by specific point, for why the Regents should not accept any of the major demands the Trump administration has made of UCLA.

We argue it's not a genuine settlement offer, but a form of extortion.
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UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands
sites.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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blakeprof.bsky.social
🚨 Over 160 faculty of University of California Law schools have signed this open letter to the Regents urging them not to agree to any terms of the Trump demand letter that the Regents were compelled to release under court order. sites.google.com/view/uclawfa...
UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands Dear UC Regents, As faculty members of University of California law schools, we urge you to reject the draft agreement with the Trump administration that you made public on October 24. This draft agreement would strike a grave blow to the autonomy of the University of California and the freedom of its faculty and students to pursue knowledge and exercise their First Amendment rights. It would require UCLA to discriminate against some of its own students in violation of California law; to cease its legal and genuinely important efforts to build a university community open to all Californians including those from disadvantaged backgrounds; and to curtail the rights of students, faculty, and staff to speak freely, teach, and learn. It would require UCLA— or more accurately, the state of California to pay the federal government an enormous sum in disregard of the procedures required by law. Such funds could be better spent on funding research directly and building a foundation for greater financial security for the UC System that includes more protection from illegal federal conduct. In contrast, by acceding to illegal threats, the university would become complicit in the Trump Administration's efforts to undermine the rule of law and the values of liberty, equality, and democracy enshrined in the Constitution. And all this for what? The federal government promises nothing in return. To restore canceled grants that have already been restored by federal court order. To release all spurious claims against UCLA, but with no promise whatsoever that the federal government will not try again to penalize UCLA— for instance by once again unlawfully cancelling federal grants that UCLA researchers have earned on the academic merits-the next time the Trump administration decides to do so. Instead, the draft agreement contains novel and highly intrusive monitoring and surveillance provisions that appear designed to give the federal government new pretexts for continuing oversight a…
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification"

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Screenshot of p.3 of the linked Supreme Court opinion, with relevant passage reading as follows: The Government seeks to enforce a questionably legal new policy immediately, but it offers no evidence that it will suffer any harm if it is temporarily enjoined from doing so, while the plaintiffs will be subject to imminent, concrete injury if the policy goes into effect. The Court nonetheless fails to spill any ink considering the plaintiffs, opting instead to intervene in the Government’s favor without equitable justification, and in a manner that permits harm to be inflicted on the most vulnerable party. Such senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome has become an unfortunate pattern. So, too, has my own refusal to look the other way when basic principles are selectively discarded. This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification. Because I cannot acquiesce to this pointless but painful perversion of our equitable discretion, I respectfully dissent.
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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(real ones know this is a hobbyhorse of mine, as the Supreme Court has on multiple occasions effectively accepted the administration's argument that being forced to follow the law constitutes irreparable harm warranting a stay of an injunction)
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d
Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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seamushughes.bsky.social
Noticing that @courtwatch.bsky.social hasn’t crossed the 1,000 follower mark yet even though we broke a couple stories this week.
a man says it became personal with me in a close up
ALT: a man says it became personal with me in a close up
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
just want to reiterate that the first amendment isn't something you "hide behind," it's something that constrains the government's ability to limit your inalienable rights. that distinction is very important
sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 5d
The Department of Homeland Security: “hide behind the First Amendment”
DHS tweet: The U.S. has no obligation to host foreigners, like Sami Hamdi, who support terrorism and actively undermine the safety of Americans. And we won't. There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers, and we are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here. @Sec_Noem has made it clear that anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for anti-American and anti-Semitic violence and terrorism – think again.
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jackiegardina.bsky.social
But you will need to show your ID to receive it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump: "We're gonna soon see $2 gasoline."
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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digby56.bsky.social
Katyal quotes Justice Robert Jackson, head Nuremberg lawyer as his final bow:
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Good morning.

Last night was a referendum on Trump's corruption, cruelty, and chaos.

But it's also not a coincidence these big wins came at the exact moment when Democrats are using our power to stand for something and be strong.

A huge risk to not learn that lesson.
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
Folks, my team at @boltsmag.org is bringing you all the results all night... but they're not at 100K followers yet.

Let's get it there! If you've been enjoying our election coverage, press that follow button!
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
jackiegardina.bsky.social
Handmaids Army kicked off there day of action at the Heritage Foundation today.

In a pique of pettiness, Heritage put huge loudspeakers outside blasting Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA.

Nonetheless, they persisted.
Handmaids Army - women dressed in red cloaks holding signs with SHAME on them outside Heritage Foundation.
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM