JoDennehy
@jodemnehy.bsky.social
Lawyer; interested in rule-of-law issues, preserving democracy, and insurance. MI/RI/DC. All thoughts are my own and don’t reflect those of my employer.
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“Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order.” This story is just a blockbuster in every way - exposing Bove & others to both contempt and a suite of bar ethics charges. Hope to add more as time permits, but the whistleblower a hero.
Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order.” This story is just a blockbuster in every way - exposing Bove & others to both contempt and a suite of bar ethics charges. Hope to add more as time permits, but the whistleblower a hero.
Great thread by Prof. Lee Kovarsky regarding the implications of a court in the Northern District of Texas declining to certify a class of Venezuelan migrants who have the right to raise habeas challenges to their potential removal to CECOT in El Salvador under Trump’s spurious AEA proclamation.
May 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Great thread by Prof. Lee Kovarsky regarding the implications of a court in the Northern District of Texas declining to certify a class of Venezuelan migrants who have the right to raise habeas challenges to their potential removal to CECOT in El Salvador under Trump’s spurious AEA proclamation.
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Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes.
Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.
Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.
April 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes.
Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.
Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.
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It turns out that if you gut public goods, you create far greater private costs.
Trump has already slashed the U.S. Forest Service's workforce by 10%, with more firings expected.
This is a recipe for disaster, as we explained in January: prospect.org/environment/...
This is a recipe for disaster, as we explained in January: prospect.org/environment/...
April 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It turns out that if you gut public goods, you create far greater private costs.
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One of my most memorable grad school experiences was hearing Pat Schroeder describe fighting for this after discovering that even all the lab rats in pharmaceutical tests were male .
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
One of my most memorable grad school experiences was hearing Pat Schroeder describe fighting for this after discovering that even all the lab rats in pharmaceutical tests were male .
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NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
April 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
April 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
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NEW: RÜMEYSA ÖZTÜRK prevails on the hard jurisdictional questions and Judge Sessions orders her brought to Vermont for further proceedings.
74-page opinion filed at 5:06:51 pm.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
74-page opinion filed at 5:06:51 pm.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
NEW: RÜMEYSA ÖZTÜRK prevails on the hard jurisdictional questions and Judge Sessions orders her brought to Vermont for further proceedings.
74-page opinion filed at 5:06:51 pm.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
74-page opinion filed at 5:06:51 pm.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.
April 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.
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Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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TFW you can predict the gender of a federal judge via headline
April 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
TFW you can predict the gender of a federal judge via headline
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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
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Another troubling sign that the Trump admin is defying the Supreme Court, which said that they MUST give anyone potentially subject to the Alien Enemies Act "reasonable time" to "actually seek habeas relief" before any AEA removal.
Now DOJ and ICE say they won't even commit to giving 24 hours!
Now DOJ and ICE say they won't even commit to giving 24 hours!
Last night, US Judge Sweeney in Colo granted district-wide (state-wide) class habeas TRO to stop Trump from summarily removing aliens under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. @ACLU attys had warned that, despite SCOTUS ruling, Admin won't commit to providing even 24 hrs notice.
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April 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Another troubling sign that the Trump admin is defying the Supreme Court, which said that they MUST give anyone potentially subject to the Alien Enemies Act "reasonable time" to "actually seek habeas relief" before any AEA removal.
Now DOJ and ICE say they won't even commit to giving 24 hours!
Now DOJ and ICE say they won't even commit to giving 24 hours!
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Last night, US Judge Sweeney in Colo granted district-wide (state-wide) class habeas TRO to stop Trump from summarily removing aliens under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. @ACLU attys had warned that, despite SCOTUS ruling, Admin won't commit to providing even 24 hrs notice.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Last night, US Judge Sweeney in Colo granted district-wide (state-wide) class habeas TRO to stop Trump from summarily removing aliens under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. @ACLU attys had warned that, despite SCOTUS ruling, Admin won't commit to providing even 24 hrs notice.
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Bone chilling.
A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.
1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.
1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
April 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Bone chilling.
A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.
1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.
1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
“This revocation will be silent.” Absolutely horrifying.
Öztürk's attorneys filed an extra exhibit (#12, ECF 91-1 on Friday, and posted it to their website today (Sunday).
It's an exhibit from her immigration case, a State Dept. memo documenting her visa revocation and that "this revocation will be silent" for "ICE ongoing operational security."
It's an exhibit from her immigration case, a State Dept. memo documenting her visa revocation and that "this revocation will be silent" for "ICE ongoing operational security."
April 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“This revocation will be silent.” Absolutely horrifying.
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The fact that #SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled in Abrego Garcia isn't proof of *how* the justices are going to rule.
But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.
But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.
April 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The fact that #SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled in Abrego Garcia isn't proof of *how* the justices are going to rule.
But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.
But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.
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Interesting choice of words in the government’s SCOTUS application, which refers to Abrego Garcia as an “enemy alien.”
The government has claimed that Garcia was removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act, **not** the Alien Enemies Act.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
The government has claimed that Garcia was removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act, **not** the Alien Enemies Act.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Interesting choice of words in the government’s SCOTUS application, which refers to Abrego Garcia as an “enemy alien.”
The government has claimed that Garcia was removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act, **not** the Alien Enemies Act.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
The government has claimed that Garcia was removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act, **not** the Alien Enemies Act.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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THIS is why due process matters. Because when ICE has to actually prove to an independent adjudicator whether someone is actually a member of a gang or not, they often fall flat on their face and judges are SHOCKED at how ramshackle and shoddy ICE's work on this stuff is.
They get it wrong a LOT!
They get it wrong a LOT!
March 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
THIS is why due process matters. Because when ICE has to actually prove to an independent adjudicator whether someone is actually a member of a gang or not, they often fall flat on their face and judges are SHOCKED at how ramshackle and shoddy ICE's work on this stuff is.
They get it wrong a LOT!
They get it wrong a LOT!
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NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.