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Adam Steinbaugh
@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social
Philly. First Amendment lawyer at FIRE. Licensed in CA, PA. Opinions my own.
I am not the brains behind this operation. This one is @ctfitzpatrick.bsky.social and Bob Corn-Revere and Greg Greubel.
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
feels like a line accidentally left out of The Boys Are Back In Town
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We represent her.
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This lawsuit was a copycat of the two still-pending lawsuits filed by Trump against Selzer. (Yes, two.) Those suits remain pending for now.
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wrong still in Velcro
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
BREAKING: Charges against Larry Bushart over a meme quoting President Trump have been dropped: www.wkrn.com/news/charges...
October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Sheriff sits down in his office for an interview to argue that he *had* to arrest Larry Bushart for posting a meme quoting President Trump. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The Sheriff's story about the arrest of Larry Bushart over a Trump/Kirk meme continues to fall apart.

Sheriff claims the arrest was necessary because Bushart refused to "clarify" to local police that his meme wasn't a threat. The police department says that's not true.

www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I mean... decent chance it is.
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Now the City of Fairhope's City Council President defends the arrest and encourages prosecution. Says Jack Burrell: "We want to make sure we don’t violate someone’s constitutional rights, and I hope the police have enough evidence that they stand behind the charges."

www.al.com/news/2025/10...
Penis costume arrest raises constitutional concerns amid library dispute in Fairhope
The city finds itself on opposite sides of free expression debates as it defends books against censorship while arresting a protester for wearing a provocative costume.
www.al.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
DHS posts photos of someone in a similar costume. It's not obscenity.
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you have a police officer going around telling people to remove costumes he thinks are offensive, you have speech police. And the department and city officials are defending it! www.al.com/news/2025/10...
October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
They have little incentive to learn why they are wrong. Immunity upon immunity makes it difficult to hold officials/officers accountable, and they will be indemnified by public funds or insurance as a backstop. And elected officials rarely face consequences: it is popular to censor unpopular speech.
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A common theme of the First Amendment is local officials and police arresting people for speech, then trying to stretch narrowly-defined exceptions (it’s “obscene” or a “threat”) to the First Amendment to justify their actions.
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM