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Seems as if this works — if employers start firing people for standing up for their neighbors and fellow humans — than a remedy is publicizing the identity of those employers.
Publishing the names of protesters and contacting their employers to have them fired for exercising their rights is a tactic straight out of the White Citizens Councils.
They're going to start using the Kirk witch hunt strategy.
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Seems as if this works — if employers start firing people for standing up for their neighbors and fellow humans — than a remedy is publicizing the identity of those employers.
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The guy making these concessions is a Bondi-appointed political appointee. Once he made this concession, it frees Howell to debunk the core DEI myth.
![More generally, the Mansfield Rule expressly does not establish any hiring quotas or other
illegally discriminatory practices, requiring only that participating law firms consider attorneys
from diverse backgrounds for certain positions. See Pl.’s 2019 Mansfield Press Release. At the
motions hearing, government counsel acknowledged that “[t]he way Mansfield works as far as
doing the interviews maybe isn’t so problematic.” Mots. Hr’g Tr. at 68:17-18. While a scenario
might exist where a law firm impermissibly strays from those commitments, the government has
provided no evidence of any such deviation here, or any other evidence that plaintiff has engaged
in any activity violative of any anti-discrimination law.28
28 Though conceding the use of the Mansfield Rule for interviews “isn’t so problematic,” Mots. Hr’g Tr. at
68:17-18, government counsel suggested the problem lies in the way the program “measur[es] their success,” by
“showing percentage increases” of qualified underrepresented talent in certain positions, which the government
assumes means the imposition of “targets” and “evaluating people on race, sex, and ethnic-based issues unrelated to
them as individuals,” id. at 68:19-23. This assumption about the metrics reported, however, presupposes that the
qualified underrepresented talent considered are given a positive preference when other explanations are just as
plausible for percentage increases of such talent. The principle underlying such programs is that negative biases
against qualified underrepresented lawyers, due to their race, sex, gender identity, disability or ethnicity, reduce their
likelihood of being selected as frequently to interview for positions for which they are qualified, but when firms
consider more underrepresented talent on their own individual merit and not disadvantaged for the traits “unrelated
to them as individuals,” id. at 68:23, firms tend to hire more of these individuals on their own merit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreif464kb4ulwihhlqz56ujz2ribq7thoszycg4lw6of6xo645rwoni@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The guy making these concessions is a Bondi-appointed political appointee. Once he made this concession, it frees Howell to debunk the core DEI myth.
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Beryl Howell has thrown out the entirety of the Trump EO targeting Perkins Coie, including any security clearance restrictions tied to the EO.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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May 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Beryl Howell has thrown out the entirety of the Trump EO targeting Perkins Coie, including any security clearance restrictions tied to the EO.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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jfc it's 102 pages long.
This is a Howell Special. I once got a 150-odd page opinion from her. She is so gd meticulous it's insane sometimes.
This is a Howell Special. I once got a 150-odd page opinion from her. She is so gd meticulous it's insane sometimes.
Judge Howell goes Shakespearean in her order BLOCKING and excoriating Trump's order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie.
From Dick the Butcher to Donald J. Trump: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
READ HERE storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
From Dick the Butcher to Donald J. Trump: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
READ HERE storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this lawsuit targeting a prominent law firm with adverse actions to be executed by all Executive branch agencies but, in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” W ILLIAM S HAKESPEARE, HENRY VI, P ART 2, act 4, sc. 2, l. 75. When Shakespeare’s character, a rebel leader intent on becoming king, see id. l. 74, hears this suggestion, he promptly incorporates this tactic as part of his plan to assume power, leading in the same scene to the rebel leader demanding “[a]way with him,” referring to an educated clerk, who “can make obligations and write court hand,” id. l. 90, 106. Eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the path to more power. See Walters v. Nat’l Ass’n of Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305, 371 n.24 (1985) (Stevens, J., dissenting) (explaining the import of the same Shakespearean statement to be
“that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government”)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:353gzbhcjbznfxegvayffqek/bafkreid4agzbispg5pl4d6wyn67u263xeorpxbsi6vof7tziofo5y65fva@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
jfc it's 102 pages long.
This is a Howell Special. I once got a 150-odd page opinion from her. She is so gd meticulous it's insane sometimes.
This is a Howell Special. I once got a 150-odd page opinion from her. She is so gd meticulous it's insane sometimes.
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It was a long week, but today ended with two voting rights victories in Pennsylvania and Trump's executive order targeting my old law firm being permanently blocked by a federal judge in DC.
My advice: stay hopeful, stay strong, stay informed.
hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
My advice: stay hopeful, stay strong, stay informed.
hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
May 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It was a long week, but today ended with two voting rights victories in Pennsylvania and Trump's executive order targeting my old law firm being permanently blocked by a federal judge in DC.
My advice: stay hopeful, stay strong, stay informed.
hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
My advice: stay hopeful, stay strong, stay informed.
hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Also not Catholic, and I agree
May 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Also not Catholic, and I agree
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President Trump posting an image of himself as Pope. We aren't a serious country, and he's not a mentally well man.
May 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
President Trump posting an image of himself as Pope. We aren't a serious country, and he's not a mentally well man.
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Over on Xitter I called on Bondi to investigate Rubio for defending Neo-Nazis. This is a violation of Trump's EOs prohibiting the use of govt $$ to fund antisemitism.
May 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Over on Xitter I called on Bondi to investigate Rubio for defending Neo-Nazis. This is a violation of Trump's EOs prohibiting the use of govt $$ to fund antisemitism.
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In case you want to know the terms of Skadden's disgraceful capitulation, here they are.
March 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
In case you want to know the terms of Skadden's disgraceful capitulation, here they are.
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“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”
Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”
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There is absolutely no way Greenland should let in a representative of an overtly hostile nation, in fact the wife of someone explicitly threatening to “take” it. Turn her plane back.
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
There is absolutely no way Greenland should let in a representative of an overtly hostile nation, in fact the wife of someone explicitly threatening to “take” it. Turn her plane back.
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I know Brad, and I hate to say it. But yeah. Absolutely.
“But no one in the wider world can appreciate how stressful it is to confront an executive order like this until one is directed at you.” --Brad Karp.
Fuck you, you coward.
Fuck you, you coward.
This letter from Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp makes things worse. Basically offers rationale and justification for everyone else following in Paul Weiss’s footsteps and capitulating to Trump. BLUF: We capitulated and everyone else should as well.
open.substack.com/pub/davidlat...
open.substack.com/pub/davidlat...
March 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I know Brad, and I hate to say it. But yeah. Absolutely.
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"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."
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This should INFURIATE you
March 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This should INFURIATE you
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The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
By shipping men to a Salvadoran prison without due process, the Trump administration has begun defying court orders in earnest.
www.thebulwark.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.
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I have questions, Chuck.
Kristen Welker asks Chuck Schumer if he thinks we're in a constitutional crisis:
"Yes, I do, Kristen, and democracy is at risk...we have to fight that back in every single way."
Welp. Perhaps you shouldn't have voted for the CR and capitulated to Donald Trump then.
Step aside for new leadership.
"Yes, I do, Kristen, and democracy is at risk...we have to fight that back in every single way."
Welp. Perhaps you shouldn't have voted for the CR and capitulated to Donald Trump then.
Step aside for new leadership.
March 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I have questions, Chuck.
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“But no one in the wider world can appreciate how stressful it is to confront an executive order like this until one is directed at you.” --Brad Karp.
Fuck you, you coward.
Fuck you, you coward.
This letter from Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp makes things worse. Basically offers rationale and justification for everyone else following in Paul Weiss’s footsteps and capitulating to Trump. BLUF: We capitulated and everyone else should as well.
open.substack.com/pub/davidlat...
open.substack.com/pub/davidlat...
Brad Karp’s Message To Paul Weiss About Its Deal With The Trump Administration
Here’s what Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp sent to his colleagues on Sunday afternoon.
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“But no one in the wider world can appreciate how stressful it is to confront an executive order like this until one is directed at you.” --Brad Karp.
Fuck you, you coward.
Fuck you, you coward.
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@Television news organizations may believe that avoiding a term like Gulf of Mexico is a fairly harmless concession. But … cute linguistic gymnastics amount to a surrender. Words are the front lines of truth, and once they’re ceded, it becomes far easier for strongmen like Trump to shape reality.”
GULF OF FEAR: This past week, when NASA astronauts returned to Earth, TV news networks avoided calling the body of water they splashed down in as the Gulf of Mexico.
Instead, they performed linguistic gymnastics to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs.
More in Status: www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...
Instead, they performed linguistic gymnastics to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs.
More in Status: www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...
Gulf of Fear
When news anchors tiptoe around the name Gulf of Mexico, it’s not just semantics—it’s a glimpse at how the press starts to flinch under political pressure.
www.status.news
March 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
@Television news organizations may believe that avoiding a term like Gulf of Mexico is a fairly harmless concession. But … cute linguistic gymnastics amount to a surrender. Words are the front lines of truth, and once they’re ceded, it becomes far easier for strongmen like Trump to shape reality.”
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If Putin said this NATO would be on alert
JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
March 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If Putin said this NATO would be on alert
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So the Trump administration’s argument is that this dude, not a court, should have the final say on who ends up in an El Salvadoran prison.
Does that make you feel safer in America?
Does that make you feel safer in America?
Presented with evidence that innocent people who are not members of any gang were wrongly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador, Homan flatly insists that all of them were in fact gang members (but he's unwilling to detail any evidence showing it)
March 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So the Trump administration’s argument is that this dude, not a court, should have the final say on who ends up in an El Salvadoran prison.
Does that make you feel safer in America?
Does that make you feel safer in America?
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Hey, Politico --
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias
March 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hey, Politico --
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias
I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.
Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.
Defiantly,
Marc Elias
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The richest man in the world is Very into free speech
March 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The richest man in the world is Very into free speech
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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“Each of the outlets made a willful decision to forgo referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico. While it may have been performed in a subtle manner, make no mistake: It was still an act of submission.”
TV news networks brand themselves as fearless truth-tellers, but this week they flinched over three simple words: Gulf of Mexico.
www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...
www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...
Gulf of Fear
When news anchors tiptoe around the name Gulf of Mexico, it’s not just semantics—it’s a glimpse at how the press starts to flinch under political pressure.
www.status.news
March 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“Each of the outlets made a willful decision to forgo referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico. While it may have been performed in a subtle manner, make no mistake: It was still an act of submission.”