Michelle Quist
@michellequist.bsky.social
Opinion and legal writer. Attorney. Mother of 7. Involved in law/politics for over 25 years. Failed 3rd-party candidate for Utah Attorney General with +100k votes. Chair, Forward Party of Utah.
Maybe the Legislature should stop breaking the law and the AG should start advising properly.
Gov. Cox implies he will be watching the legislature on any bills targeting the judiciary.
The governor says he does support expanding the Utah Supreme Court, and the Utah Court of Appeals. He thinks amount of litigation and ruling timelines are too much. Same for district court (needing resources)
The governor says he does support expanding the Utah Supreme Court, and the Utah Court of Appeals. He thinks amount of litigation and ruling timelines are too much. Same for district court (needing resources)
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Maybe the Legislature should stop breaking the law and the AG should start advising properly.
Reposted by Michelle Quist
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
We can do better than the GOP.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We can do better than the GOP.
I really hate this timeline we’re living in.
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I really hate this timeline we’re living in.
Every single county in Virginia shifted toward the Democrats tonight.
That’s quite remarkable.
That’s quite remarkable.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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A Republic, if you can keep it.
Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A Republic, if you can keep it.
Trump is a menace
Breaking news: The East Wing of the White House is gone.
Wrecking crews completely removed the decades-old annex by midday Thursday, just three days after they started, to make way for a pet project of President Trump: a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.
Wrecking crews completely removed the decades-old annex by midday Thursday, just three days after they started, to make way for a pet project of President Trump: a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.
The East Wing is gone, and Trump turns to damage control
Demolition crews appeared to finish taking down the bulk of the White House wing Thursday, while President Donald Trump defended the project.
wapo.st
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trump is a menace
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"This is how the insider politics are used to doing it," said Forward Party of Utah Chair @michellequist.bsky.social of the practice of party delegates picking the replacement.
She's throwing it open to ALL voters in Sen. Thatcher's district: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
She's throwing it open to ALL voters in Sen. Thatcher's district: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
With a lawmaker leaving, Utah's Forward Party plans a new way to replace him
Sen. Daniel Thatcher, the Forward Party's lone member in the Utah State Legislature, announced his plans to resign from office ahead of the next session
www.fox13now.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"This is how the insider politics are used to doing it," said Forward Party of Utah Chair @michellequist.bsky.social of the practice of party delegates picking the replacement.
She's throwing it open to ALL voters in Sen. Thatcher's district: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
She's throwing it open to ALL voters in Sen. Thatcher's district: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Reposted by Michelle Quist
Breaking news from the Forward Party of Utah's Senator Daniel Thatcher
October 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Breaking news from the Forward Party of Utah's Senator Daniel Thatcher
👇👇👇 Unaffiliated or a member of a third party in Utah? Too bad. You don't count in Utah. #utpol
Utah’s supermajority party doesn’t deserve the label of Republican. Their actions today were anti-republican.
1. They passed a bill with significant changes added to it a scant three hours after the text was made public, without any hearings or external debate.
1. They passed a bill with significant changes added to it a scant three hours after the text was made public, without any hearings or external debate.
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
👇👇👇 Unaffiliated or a member of a third party in Utah? Too bad. You don't count in Utah. #utpol
Aren't there three parties represented in the Utah Legislature? @utahforwardparty.org
The Senate votes along party lines (22-7) for a bill tweaking Utah's redistricting process. The latest on our live blog here: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Redistricting Committee selects new Utah congressional map
The Utah State Legislature is meeting in special session to choose a congressional map in the court-ordered redistricting process.
www.fox13now.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Aren't there three parties represented in the Utah Legislature? @utahforwardparty.org
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NEW: Judge Immergut's says Trump's assessment of "war-ravaged" Portland was not made in "good faith" Even under a legal standard that gives the president "great deference," she said, there's no basis for "ignoring the facts on the ground."
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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October 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
NEW: Judge Immergut's says Trump's assessment of "war-ravaged" Portland was not made in "good faith" Even under a legal standard that gives the president "great deference," she said, there's no basis for "ignoring the facts on the ground."
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Most everything from this Administration is “simply untethered to the facts.”
Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Most everything from this Administration is “simply untethered to the facts.”
I don’t understand how “Republicans” can be ok with this. #utpol
This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I don’t understand how “Republicans” can be ok with this. #utpol
This. 👇🏼 Please. If you read anything this evening on this App, PLEASE, read this short excerpt.
This legal question shouldn’t even be up for debate but for the clown show in our White House.
This legal question shouldn’t even be up for debate but for the clown show in our White House.
Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.
October 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This. 👇🏼 Please. If you read anything this evening on this App, PLEASE, read this short excerpt.
This legal question shouldn’t even be up for debate but for the clown show in our White House.
This legal question shouldn’t even be up for debate but for the clown show in our White House.
ICE is a scourge fueled by bullies and losers. Anyone who supports this is the same.
Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER
In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
blockclubchicago.org
October 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
ICE is a scourge fueled by bullies and losers. Anyone who supports this is the same.
You’re kidding.
BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
You’re kidding.
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NEW: Judge Crenshaw finds that the Trump admin's criminal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia may well be vindictive—and greenlights discovery and an evidentiary hearing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![MEMORANDUM OPINION
By way of context, a federal prosecutor is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all. The obligation to govern impartially concerns, above all, the state's exercise of coercive power-meaning its power to deprive its subjects of life, liberty, or property... As a representative of the state, a prosecutor's exercise of coercive power must be impartial ... [in] that prosecutorial power may not be exercised vindictivelymeaning that the prosecutor may not punish a defendant for exercising a protected statutory or constitutional right.
United States v. Zakhari, 85 F.4th 367, 384-85 (6th Cir. 2023) (Kethledge, J., concurring) (citations and quotations omitted). This context frames review of Defendant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's ("Abrego") motion to dismiss his indictment for vindictive and selective
prosecution. (Doc. Nos. 104-05). The Government opposes the motion (Doc. No. 121), and Abrego has replied (Doc. No. 127). Abrego's motion is not ripe for decision because he seeks discovery and an evidentiary hearing because there is some evidence of vindictiveness here. For the reasons that follow, the Court holds that the totality of events creates a sufficient evidentiary basis to conclude that there is a "realistic likelihood of vindictiveness" that entitles Abrego to discovery and requires an evidentiary hearing before the Court decides his motion. United States
v. Andrews, 633 F.2d 449, 457 (6th Cir. 1980) (en banc), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 927 (1981).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreiay66rk6mqrqr2pwlbmqyf4mkqnbj5auaxcwhbsm6fwcwiyhmbr34@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Isn’t this who is buying TikTok?
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Isn’t this who is buying TikTok?
LIKELY?!?
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
LIKELY?!?
Here we go again - who's ready for the 2025 Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee hearing? Hopefully the Committee has learned not to start by telling everyone they're meeting "under protest." *eyeroll #utpol
September 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Here we go again - who's ready for the 2025 Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee hearing? Hopefully the Committee has learned not to start by telling everyone they're meeting "under protest." *eyeroll #utpol
Maximize the economic benefits to who? Individual legislators? Top state executives who continue to cut sweetheart deals without oversight or accountability? Nah. We good. #utpol
To maximize the economic benefits of hosting the 2034 Olympics, Utah needs to address seven specific issues, according to a report released Tuesday by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
Utah needs to address these 7 issues to optimize its growth after the 2034 Olympics
To maximize the economic benefits of hosting the 2034 Olympics, Utah needs to address seven specific issues, according to a report released Tuesday by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
www.sltrib.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Maximize the economic benefits to who? Individual legislators? Top state executives who continue to cut sweetheart deals without oversight or accountability? Nah. We good. #utpol
Same.
Matthew McConaughey likes to write in a remote place for up to 17 hours a day. “The last thing I want to do is put the pen down and go to sleep.”
🔗: on.wsj.com/4mxR7ei
🔗: on.wsj.com/4mxR7ei
September 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Same.
lol the Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee just approved the minutes from 2021 then said they’re proceeding under protest. #utpol
September 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
lol the Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee just approved the minutes from 2021 then said they’re proceeding under protest. #utpol