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Little Freeport Maine turned out! #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Hit the streets tomorrow.
Be nonviolent.
Be joyfully defiant.
Be defiantly joyful.
Ridicule him.
Condemn fascism.
Oppose I.C.E.
Affirm diversity.
Embody America.
Love your neighbor.
Refuse to be intimidated.
Be safe.
Be loud.
Be encouraged.
#NoKingsDay
June 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
rsteci.bsky.social
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.
abcnews.go.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Bah-sten on the 250 year anniversary of Paul Revere’s historic ride.
April 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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kurtandersen.bsky.social
Big Law Checklist
(as of 4/12/25, by size)

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#122 Cadwalader
April 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
rsteci.bsky.social
“Brownie’s doing a heck of a job”
politico.com Politico @politico.com · Mar 25
President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, today amid the fallout from senior officials inadvertently including a journalist on a private message chain discussing airstrikes in Yemen.
Trump expresses confidence in Waltz amid war plans chat fallout
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man,” Trump said.
www.politico.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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stephaniemlee.bsky.social
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
rsteci.bsky.social
Anyone who did not speak up when VAWA was not reauthorized needs to STFU about protecting girls and women by sidelining trans athletes. We see you.
February 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
www.americanbar.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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design-law.bsky.social
Rule 11. Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions Primary tabs (a) Signature. Every pleading, written motion, and other paper must be signed by at least one attorney of record in the attorney's name—or by a party personally if the party is unrepresented. The paper must state the signer's address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Unless a rule or statute specifically states otherwise, a pleading need not be verified or accompanied by an affidavit. The court must strike an unsigned paper unless the omission is promptly corrected after being called to the attorney's or party's attention. (b) Representations to the Court. By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper—whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it—an attorney or unrepresented party certifies that to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances: (1) it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation; (2) the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law; (3) the factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery; and (4) the denials of factual contentions are warranted on the evidence or, if specifically so identified, are reasonably based on belief or a lack of information.
February 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
So how’s it going so far?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
you won't often see a judge come closer to calling a DOJ attorney a Nazi than Judge Coughenour does here:

"There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?"
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jan 23
BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence. “In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked. Shumate said, “it absolutely is.” “Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”
January 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Ok, this is funny as fuck.
January 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
rsteci.bsky.social
It’s why we choose the bear.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 6
Chip Roy dismisses the Pete Hegseth rape allegation: "We've all had some indiscretions in our past and things like that."
December 6, 2024 at 7:34 PM