Paul Alan Levy
@paulalanlevy.bsky.social
Litigator, soccer nut. Although I litigate free speech and IP issues at Public Citizen, the views expressed here are my own.
Not to speak of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice v. MIT www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
"Constitution bars the government from prohibit[ing] vehement support for or opposition to the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies."
"Constitution bars the government from prohibit[ing] vehement support for or opposition to the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies."
January 5, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Not to speak of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice v. MIT www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
"Constitution bars the government from prohibit[ing] vehement support for or opposition to the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies."
"Constitution bars the government from prohibit[ing] vehement support for or opposition to the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies."
1/ It is not at all surprising that Israel's government loves a definition of antisemitism that protects against the expression of policy positions that criticize Israel. But calling such policy positions antisemitic does not make them so.
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Israeli Government Accuses Mamdani of Antisemitism Over Canceled Orders
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January 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
1/ It is not at all surprising that Israel's government loves a definition of antisemitism that protects against the expression of policy positions that criticize Israel. But calling such policy positions antisemitic does not make them so.
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When a new person takes over the official account of a public official, the past tweets remain online, but emblazoned with the name and image of the new officeholder
For example, this tweet from Eric Adams...
For example, this tweet from Eric Adams...
January 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
When a new person takes over the official account of a public official, the past tweets remain online, but emblazoned with the name and image of the new officeholder
For example, this tweet from Eric Adams...
For example, this tweet from Eric Adams...
Good to see the Times giving a column space to Nora Benavidez, with a link to her excellent Chokehold report for Free Press (I posted it on BlueSky two weeks ago)
The Trump admin’s censorship agenda is chilling & relentless. I counted 200+ attempts in 2025 to muzzle press, protesters, public servants, judges, law firms, universities, corporations. But resistance has blunted this campaign & we must fiercely defend free speech: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | I Counted Trump’s Censorship Attempts. Here’s What I Found.
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December 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Good to see the Times giving a column space to Nora Benavidez, with a link to her excellent Chokehold report for Free Press (I posted it on BlueSky two weeks ago)
/1 Query whether the Trump Administration's suspension of payments to all Minnesota child care providers expands the number of providers who have standing to sue Nick Shirley (whose video appears to have prompted that move) for
defamation?
defamation?
December 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
/1 Query whether the Trump Administration's suspension of payments to all Minnesota child care providers expands the number of providers who have standing to sue Nick Shirley (whose video appears to have prompted that move) for
defamation?
defamation?
Damning.
Be sure to follow to the end of the thread where the order is linked to CourtListener
Be sure to follow to the end of the thread where the order is linked to CourtListener
NEW: A judge in the Kilmar Abrego case just UNSEALED a Dec 3rd order showing DOJ lied to the court when it said that Blanche's office didn't have anything to do with the decision to prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
December 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Damning.
Be sure to follow to the end of the thread where the order is linked to CourtListener
Be sure to follow to the end of the thread where the order is linked to CourtListener
Another order finding Trump Admin statements to be thoroughly disingenuous--this time, in the course of refusing to allow the Admin to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by not asking for funds from the Federal Reserve.
Opinion is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order on Motion to Clarify – #167 in NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION v. VOUGHT (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00381) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER granting 148 Motion to Clarify. Signed by Judge Amy Berman Jackson on 12/30/2025. (lcem) (Entered: 12/30/2025)
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December 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Another order finding Trump Admin statements to be thoroughly disingenuous--this time, in the course of refusing to allow the Admin to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by not asking for funds from the Federal Reserve.
Opinion is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
More Kennedy Center Performances Are Canceled After Trump’s Renaming
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December 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Sad story about Tommy Goldstein -- who is talking to a reporter on the eve of his criminal trial. Plainly he is more a gambler than a lawyer
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He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him.
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December 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sad story about Tommy Goldstein -- who is talking to a reporter on the eve of his criminal trial. Plainly he is more a gambler than a lawyer
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
Gallows humor for the weekend
BREAKING: ICE announces it has detained Santa Clause because he entered the country illegally and without documentation.
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
December 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Gallows humor for the weekend
Noting in the final section that Kavanaugh went out of his way to disclaim "Kavanaugh stops." In other words, the repeated, pointed and personalized criticism has gotten to him
ICYMI: The full Law Dork report on Tuesday’s big SCOTUS decision against the Trump administration in its effort to send troops into American cities.
Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, rejects Trump's effort to deploy National Guard in Illinois for now
More than two months after DOJ asked for "immediate" relief, the Supreme Court said no on Tuesday. Also: A Kavanaugh note on Kavanaugh stops.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Noting in the final section that Kavanaugh went out of his way to disclaim "Kavanaugh stops." In other words, the repeated, pointed and personalized criticism has gotten to him
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Censorship defeated by the Internet -- and the Streisand Effect comes into play
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“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment
Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness."
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December 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Censorship defeated by the Internet -- and the Streisand Effect comes into play
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1/HUGE: Supreme Court denies the Trump Admin a stay of the order barring deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, with five Justices accepting, on a preliminary basis, the district court's refusal to accept Trump's purported basis for deploying the Guard. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
1/HUGE: Supreme Court denies the Trump Admin a stay of the order barring deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, with five Justices accepting, on a preliminary basis, the district court's refusal to accept Trump's purported basis for deploying the Guard. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Good for this guy for posting.
And I note that although it keeps going down on YouTube, it is not -- at least so far -- down on BlueSky
And I note that although it keeps going down on YouTube, it is not -- at least so far -- down on BlueSky
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Good for this guy for posting.
And I note that although it keeps going down on YouTube, it is not -- at least so far -- down on BlueSky
And I note that although it keeps going down on YouTube, it is not -- at least so far -- down on BlueSky
Isn't "Trump Class" an oxymoron?
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Isn't "Trump Class" an oxymoron?
Attempting judge-shopping to steer grand jury matters against Trump enemies to Judge Cannon
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December 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Attempting judge-shopping to steer grand jury matters against Trump enemies to Judge Cannon
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A principled stand
December 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A principled stand
Now off-limits to all decent residents in the DC area.
I had started to see a campaign urging folks not to "punish the musicians" by boycotting the Kennedy Center. But now that his is the Trump Center, whom do they think will be coming?
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I had started to see a campaign urging folks not to "punish the musicians" by boycotting the Kennedy Center. But now that his is the Trump Center, whom do they think will be coming?
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December 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Now off-limits to all decent residents in the DC area.
I had started to see a campaign urging folks not to "punish the musicians" by boycotting the Kennedy Center. But now that his is the Trump Center, whom do they think will be coming?
static01.nyt.com/images/2025/...
I had started to see a campaign urging folks not to "punish the musicians" by boycotting the Kennedy Center. But now that his is the Trump Center, whom do they think will be coming?
static01.nyt.com/images/2025/...
I haven't been to the Kennedy Center since the Trumpists took over. I do feel for the fine artists who careers depend on the place. But putting Trump's name on the place makes it even harder to go back.
The Kennedy Center will be renamed the “Trump-Kennedy Center” after its Trump-appointed board voted to impose the name change.
The Narcissist-in-Chief is degrading one of our nation’s cultural institutions in order to show off his profoundly authoritarian agenda.
The Narcissist-in-Chief is degrading one of our nation’s cultural institutions in order to show off his profoundly authoritarian agenda.
December 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I haven't been to the Kennedy Center since the Trumpists took over. I do feel for the fine artists who careers depend on the place. But putting Trump's name on the place makes it even harder to go back.
DC Circuit grants rehearing en banc in TWO cases challenging the Trump Administration's attack on regulatory agencies-- the EPA and the CFPB -- where Trump-appointees had the majority and hence controlled the panel
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December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
DC Circuit grants rehearing en banc in TWO cases challenging the Trump Administration's attack on regulatory agencies-- the EPA and the CFPB -- where Trump-appointees had the majority and hence controlled the panel
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...
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Free Press has published a report summarizing the many acts of the Trump Administration attacking free speech, describing acts of resistance, and recommending ways to respond. 29 pages, heavily endnoted for another 28 pages.
Please read and pass around.
www.freepress.net/download/cho...
Please read and pass around.
www.freepress.net/download/cho...
www.freepress.net
December 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Free Press has published a report summarizing the many acts of the Trump Administration attacking free speech, describing acts of resistance, and recommending ways to respond. 29 pages, heavily endnoted for another 28 pages.
Please read and pass around.
www.freepress.net/download/cho...
Please read and pass around.
www.freepress.net/download/cho...
The DC Circuit has, in a unanimous opinion authored by one of the best of the Obama-nominated circuit judges, granted a stay pending appeal of the order barring the national guard's continued deployment in DC. The other two judges were Trump nominees
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Per Curiam Order Filed (Special Panel) – #01208806141 in DC v. Donald Trump (D.C. Cir., 25-5418) – CourtListener.com
PER CURIAM ORDER [2150793] filed ORDERED that the motions to participate as amici curiae [2148180-2], [2148236-2], [2148221-2], [2148470-2], [2148234-2], [2148230-2], [2148225-2], [2148011-2], & [2147...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The DC Circuit has, in a unanimous opinion authored by one of the best of the Obama-nominated circuit judges, granted a stay pending appeal of the order barring the national guard's continued deployment in DC. The other two judges were Trump nominees
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I missed this explosive report on Susie Wiles dishing dirt
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Ht Ken White's promo for his always compelling podcast, Serious Trouble www.serioustrouble.show/p/what-part-...
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Ht Ken White's promo for his always compelling podcast, Serious Trouble www.serioustrouble.show/p/what-part-...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
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December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I missed this explosive report on Susie Wiles dishing dirt
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Ht Ken White's promo for his always compelling podcast, Serious Trouble www.serioustrouble.show/p/what-part-...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Ht Ken White's promo for his always compelling podcast, Serious Trouble www.serioustrouble.show/p/what-part-...