Alan Rawls
@alan-rawls.bsky.social
Lawyer (TN, AL), hiking & baseball enthusiast, and a big fan of movies.
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There have been reply guys everywhere for those with eyes to see
May 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
There have been reply guys everywhere for those with eyes to see
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I don't have a view of what was the right answer in the Oklahoma charter school case that went 4-4. Not my area. But Justice Barrett no doubt has views, and it must be frustrating for her not to participate. Credit to her for recusing; it's a commendable instinct.
May 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I don't have a view of what was the right answer in the Oklahoma charter school case that went 4-4. Not my area. But Justice Barrett no doubt has views, and it must be frustrating for her not to participate. Credit to her for recusing; it's a commendable instinct.
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How is this even a hard question? Yes, the constitution applies to everyone. Sorry if that answer didn't occur to you
May 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How is this even a hard question? Yes, the constitution applies to everyone. Sorry if that answer didn't occur to you
This tale sounds familiar.
Just watched an opposing counsel, who lost the SLAPP motion I filed, appear on his client’s instagram video, with her whining about the ruling and what a victim she is, and him making stupid comments about the ruling. Freakishly unprofessional.
And perhaps . . . useful.
And perhaps . . . useful.
May 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This tale sounds familiar.
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Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
“c0mm13ba5tard” added me to the “Fake Internet Lawyers and their sycophants” list 8 hours ago. What’s funny about that list is how easy it is to find out if someone is a “fake lawyer.” You can literally find us on public databases.
Pretty cool.
Turns out I’m mostly on positive lists, and some odd negative ones. Apparently I’m a member of @kathryntewson.bsky.social’s mafia, but on disconcertingly few taco-related lists. Hashtag goals.
Turns out I’m mostly on positive lists, and some odd negative ones. Apparently I’m a member of @kathryntewson.bsky.social’s mafia, but on disconcertingly few taco-related lists. Hashtag goals.
There are probably other ways, but Clearsky is one way to see who has blocked you and which lists you’re on.
May 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“c0mm13ba5tard” added me to the “Fake Internet Lawyers and their sycophants” list 8 hours ago. What’s funny about that list is how easy it is to find out if someone is a “fake lawyer.” You can literally find us on public databases.
Beginning with the affiants makes sense but I’m surprised the scheduling order didn’t already account for 30(b)(6) depositions. That would’ve been more efficient.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say they are "still in the dark" about the govt's efforts to facilitate his release after three depositions of Trump officials. They ask Judge Xinis to authorize three more—and warn that they may ultimately need testimony from someone in the White House.
![While the Court's Order provides that Plaintiffs may "move for leave of Court to conduct
up to two additional depositions," ECF No. 107 at 2, the Government has acknowledged that "[t]his is a case that involves three different cabinet departments" -DHS, DOS, and DOJ.
But based on public
reporting, the Executive Branch has taken no steps to request Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador pursuant to instructions received from the Attorney General and DOJ. [redacted lines] Plaintiffs are thus requesting a third deposition a Rule 30(b)(6) witness- from the DOJ as the most efficient means of seeking information pursuant to the Court's order.!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreidfpwmduszzjclxafprsamiwlq2twdlivpauo3p3pv2ibrcmy7umm@jpeg)
May 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Beginning with the affiants makes sense but I’m surprised the scheduling order didn’t already account for 30(b)(6) depositions. That would’ve been more efficient.
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Staking this claim now: should we be so fortunate as to get another Democratic trifecta, it should be judged a failure if it does not 1) jail the people responsible for this, 2) abolish or in some other way dismantle and disarm ICE
According to litigators, on Tuesday, at one detention center in Texas, ICE gathered together 1 Vietnamese, 1 Lao, and 4 other people in detention and ordered them to sign paperwork agreeing to be sent to Libya.
All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.
All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.
![The reports with respect to the imminent removal to Libya show, inter alia, Philippine, Vietnamese and Laotian class members being set for removal without any reasonable fear screening, let alone a fifteen-day window to file a motion to reopen with the immigration court to contest any negative reasonable fear determination. See Exhibits B, C, D. In one reported case, "[U.S.
Immigration and Customs Officers (ICE)] officers at the South Texas Detention Facility gathered 1 Vietnamese detainee, along with 5 others (including 1 from Laos) into a room and told them that they needed to sign a document agreeing to be deported to Libya. When they all refused, they were each put in a separate room and cuffed in (basically, solitary) in order to get
them to sign it." Exhibit B.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiceond5y4ih4ljlfnhev2dd3qat2fgdu3h4ickuhd25otfhzhibcq@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Staking this claim now: should we be so fortunate as to get another Democratic trifecta, it should be judged a failure if it does not 1) jail the people responsible for this, 2) abolish or in some other way dismantle and disarm ICE
By your standards, the professor who taught my Media Law class in undergrad should be referred to the state bar for UPL. Get real.
May 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
By your standards, the professor who taught my Media Law class in undergrad should be referred to the state bar for UPL. Get real.
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Right so the thing is that what makes it a dilemma is that the prisoners ARE PRISONERS AND CAN’T TALK TO EACH OTHER
May 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Right so the thing is that what makes it a dilemma is that the prisoners ARE PRISONERS AND CAN’T TALK TO EACH OTHER
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I'm sorry but if you don't have enough fully functional neurons firing in your brain to have seen this coming from the beginning, I refuse to believe you can be trusted with any task or objective that requires more than a third-grade intellect.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...
May 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'm sorry but if you don't have enough fully functional neurons firing in your brain to have seen this coming from the beginning, I refuse to believe you can be trusted with any task or objective that requires more than a third-grade intellect.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...
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What its like to be a faculty member in Florida, elsewhere, and maybe your local university soon. Racists try to entrap you into saying something that the Governor has deemed is grounds for dismissal, or make false claims.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.
May 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What its like to be a faculty member in Florida, elsewhere, and maybe your local university soon. Racists try to entrap you into saying something that the Governor has deemed is grounds for dismissal, or make false claims.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.
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darth you know what happened
April 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
darth you know what happened
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WTF is going on? Where’s Hegseth?
May 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
WTF is going on? Where’s Hegseth?
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Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
May 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
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We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...
Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources
DOJ has been investigating a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ABC News has learned.
abcnews.go.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...
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CPB said: “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”
Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
![WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media:
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.
“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/bafkreie7ky7hw4h6fcaqa6fkkqdyhg6czlebc2udp6fbbsjah4eoj7qg2y@jpeg)
May 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
CPB said: “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”
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Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
May 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
This is obnoxious. Either issue an order to show cause as to why the court shouldn’t issue sanctions, or leave it alone. But don’t give Elon 2+ weeks to file a brief in support of sanctions without also giving a deadline for the defendants to respond.
Elon Musk sued @mmfa.bsky.social in a SLAPP suit for writing an accurate article about X. He sued them in North Texas for no reason other than there was a (Tesla-stock owning) MAGA friendly judge. MMFA asked to transfer. Judge O'Connor not only says no, but says he may sanction them...
![CONCLUSION
Because Defendants have litigated this case for over a year without requesting transfer,
Defendants’ Motion to Transfer Venue based on the forum selection clause, 28 U.S.C. § 1404, or
28 U.S.C. § 1406 is DENIED. The Court also DENIES Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss based on
28 U.S.C. § 1406(a).
Defendants’ Motion reflects a pattern of “[g]amesmanship,” which the Court previously
warned Defendants about.21 As Plaintiff explains, Defendants’ present Motion may indicate that
they waited to “learn[] ‘which way the wind was blowing’” before requesting transfer.22
Accordingly, Plaintiff is ORDERED to file a brief explaining whether Defendants’ conduct
should be sanctioned and, if so, detailing the Court’s authority to sanction Defendants’ conduct.
Plaintiff shall file this brief no later than May 21, 2025.
SO ORDERED on this 2nd day of May, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/bafkreid2uj4ljq72enewirj3qlsm543o2nui2drppu3glrhdgr3sbhfvcy@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This is obnoxious. Either issue an order to show cause as to why the court shouldn’t issue sanctions, or leave it alone. But don’t give Elon 2+ weeks to file a brief in support of sanctions without also giving a deadline for the defendants to respond.
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April 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."
May 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM