These guys should be shamed out of polite society. defending the president sending troops from one state to use “full force” on another state. My god. What oath did they take? Must not be the same one I took when I worked there
Stanford Law graduate Eric Hamilton is DOJ here. www.justice.gov/civil/staff-...
DOJ: CA NG is already federalized
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?
DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker
Judge: You're a lawyer
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?
DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker
Judge: You're a lawyer
October 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
These guys should be shamed out of polite society. defending the president sending troops from one state to use “full force” on another state. My god. What oath did they take? Must not be the same one I took when I worked there
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Stanford Law graduate Eric Hamilton is DOJ here. www.justice.gov/civil/staff-...
DOJ: CA NG is already federalized
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?
DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker
Judge: You're a lawyer
Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?
DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker
Judge: You're a lawyer
October 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Stanford Law graduate Eric Hamilton is DOJ here. www.justice.gov/civil/staff-...
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I didn’t make the connection to the Mangi vacancy. If you told me only 5 senators from this 100 (or the last) could stay, I would ask whether I have to use all five picks.
Responsibility for this lies with Jacky Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto, Joe Manchin, and all the other cowards who bought into Republicans’ bogus attacks on Adeel Mangi (and with Chuck Schumer for not even trying a vote last December).
CONFIRMED, by a vote of 50 to 49: Emil Bove to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit.
July 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I didn’t make the connection to the Mangi vacancy. If you told me only 5 senators from this 100 (or the last) could stay, I would ask whether I have to use all five picks.
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Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible
Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
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DOJ escalates its attacks on judges who rule against Trump
July 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
DOJ escalates its attacks on judges who rule against Trump
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I think we’ve become too accommodating of people who claim to be on our side but remain in high-paid jobs with evil organizations that are actively aiding MAGA’s push to ruin the world.
I do not in fact believe your average Meta employee simply has to work there or they’ll starve on the street.
I do not in fact believe your average Meta employee simply has to work there or they’ll starve on the street.
“That said, we must also admit that “I am going to change the bad organization from the inside” is often something that people wave around as a magic shield to protect themselves from accountability for their own evil jobs.”
And once again... www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/when-do-yo...
July 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I think we’ve become too accommodating of people who claim to be on our side but remain in high-paid jobs with evil organizations that are actively aiding MAGA’s push to ruin the world.
I do not in fact believe your average Meta employee simply has to work there or they’ll starve on the street.
I do not in fact believe your average Meta employee simply has to work there or they’ll starve on the street.
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thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
July 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
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He is openly saying that people who criticize him should be removed from the country.
This isn't a joke by some funny stand up. (A lot of Trumpy people excuse him this way.) Aaron is absolutely right, other Rs in government should have to answer about this.
This isn't a joke by some funny stand up. (A lot of Trumpy people excuse him this way.) Aaron is absolutely right, other Rs in government should have to answer about this.
Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.
July 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
He is openly saying that people who criticize him should be removed from the country.
This isn't a joke by some funny stand up. (A lot of Trumpy people excuse him this way.) Aaron is absolutely right, other Rs in government should have to answer about this.
This isn't a joke by some funny stand up. (A lot of Trumpy people excuse him this way.) Aaron is absolutely right, other Rs in government should have to answer about this.
The senate bill deletes grad plus loans, without which I could not have gone to law school nor could most of my colleagues. And without income based repayment programs that have also been deleted (and replaced with some crappy version) we wouldn’t have the careers we have
July 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The senate bill deletes grad plus loans, without which I could not have gone to law school nor could most of my colleagues. And without income based repayment programs that have also been deleted (and replaced with some crappy version) we wouldn’t have the careers we have
Yes this seems like a five alarm fire for rule 23 and a speed run to the death of my practice but what do I know I’m just a class action lawyer
as a class action lawyer, the irony wasn't lost on me when people were saying last week that the decision isn't so bad because maybe class certification is a pathway to get broad injunctions. fat f-ing chance with this court
on top of that nonsense, Barrett plays in people's faces talmbout 'oh you can file class action lawsuits 😇'
she neglected to mention that the Court has been limiting class action lawsuits for years
it's not _nothing_ but it's certainly not an adequate substitute
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/amy-c...
she neglected to mention that the Court has been limiting class action lawsuits for years
it's not _nothing_ but it's certainly not an adequate substitute
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/amy-c...
June 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Yes this seems like a five alarm fire for rule 23 and a speed run to the death of my practice but what do I know I’m just a class action lawyer
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Clinton is a goddamn nightmare but the fact that former presidents (and other prominent former Dem politicians) ROUTINELY stay quiet on absolute horrors being done by the administration because of decorum but will pop up to shut down progressives really gives up the whole game.
Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.
June 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Clinton is a goddamn nightmare but the fact that former presidents (and other prominent former Dem politicians) ROUTINELY stay quiet on absolute horrors being done by the administration because of decorum but will pop up to shut down progressives really gives up the whole game.
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Superb backgrounder from an expert on Trump’s demand for “unconditional surrender” by Iran.
This is possibly the most disastrous thing Trump has tweeted. The demand for “unconditional surrender” from a country we are not yet at war with locks US policy in an unachievable dead end. I have FOUR chapters of my book devoted to that phase and how it prolonged WWII in Germany and Japan.
June 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Superb backgrounder from an expert on Trump’s demand for “unconditional surrender” by Iran.
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whatever i think of fetterman — which is, frankly, not much — i think primarying him would probably be a mercy at this point, because he is very clearly unwell, for reasons that aren't his fault, and he's unlikely to get better while serving as a senator.
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
whatever i think of fetterman — which is, frankly, not much — i think primarying him would probably be a mercy at this point, because he is very clearly unwell, for reasons that aren't his fault, and he's unlikely to get better while serving as a senator.
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- He hasn’t accepted that he’s a lame duck
- The process, whatever its outcome, is an extended news event that will inform and influence American voters
- It would give the Senate Democrats another chance to try making it a real trial of the facts
-It’s the only remedy the Constitution affords us
- The process, whatever its outcome, is an extended news event that will inform and influence American voters
- It would give the Senate Democrats another chance to try making it a real trial of the facts
-It’s the only remedy the Constitution affords us
What would the point be of another Trump impeachment when he’s a lame duck and Rs won’t convict him?
Dems need an answer for the remnant of resistance people who are demanding impeachment but far more important for them to use normal Oversight powers effectively.
Dems need an answer for the remnant of resistance people who are demanding impeachment but far more important for them to use normal Oversight powers effectively.
Schumer on CNN stops short of saying impeaching Trump would be a priority for Dems if they retake Congress
April 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
- He hasn’t accepted that he’s a lame duck
- The process, whatever its outcome, is an extended news event that will inform and influence American voters
- It would give the Senate Democrats another chance to try making it a real trial of the facts
-It’s the only remedy the Constitution affords us
- The process, whatever its outcome, is an extended news event that will inform and influence American voters
- It would give the Senate Democrats another chance to try making it a real trial of the facts
-It’s the only remedy the Constitution affords us
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Remarkable that there’s not even a whisper of a legislative agenda from Trump, despite having control of both houses and a stranglehold on GOP. It’s a clear attempt to alter the constitutional order by making executive lawmaking a constitutional reality through institutional acquiescence.
April 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Remarkable that there’s not even a whisper of a legislative agenda from Trump, despite having control of both houses and a stranglehold on GOP. It’s a clear attempt to alter the constitutional order by making executive lawmaking a constitutional reality through institutional acquiescence.
Looking around wildly for all the Second Amendment don’t tread on me people. Guys??? Guys????
all right, let’s go through this nonsense.
first of all, this is just a police state. that’s what he’s describing.
I don’t have anything clever to say. he wants cops to control your life, and aggressively and with “high impact”.
first of all, this is just a police state. that’s what he’s describing.
I don’t have anything clever to say. he wants cops to control your life, and aggressively and with “high impact”.
April 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Looking around wildly for all the Second Amendment don’t tread on me people. Guys??? Guys????
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GOP on the fake epidemic of scammers stealing Social Security benefits from the SSA: DOGE must fire and terrorize workers, steal PII, and spend millions on AI tools to root it out
GOP on the actual epidemic of scammers stealing Social Security benefits from SSA recipients: not our problem
GOP on the actual epidemic of scammers stealing Social Security benefits from SSA recipients: not our problem
ICYMI, the Justice Department told attorneys in its Consumer Protection Branch—which prosecutes elder fraud, servicemember fraud, opioid cases, and much more—that the branch would be disbanding in September.
prospect.org/justice/2025...
prospect.org/justice/2025...
Justice Department Shutting Branch that Prosecutes Consumer Fraud Cases
Several attorneys will be moved to defending the federal government from lawsuits.
prospect.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
GOP on the fake epidemic of scammers stealing Social Security benefits from the SSA: DOGE must fire and terrorize workers, steal PII, and spend millions on AI tools to root it out
GOP on the actual epidemic of scammers stealing Social Security benefits from SSA recipients: not our problem
GOP on the actual epidemic of scammers stealing Social Security benefits from SSA recipients: not our problem
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Judge James Boasberg has got that kind of "You're no different than anyone else, MF's!" mojo that every judge before him should have demonstrated over the years...but didn't.
Those judges all dropped the ball...HARD. Boasberg, he's like, "Yeah...fuck it. Let's play ball."
Those judges all dropped the ball...HARD. Boasberg, he's like, "Yeah...fuck it. Let's play ball."
April 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Judge James Boasberg has got that kind of "You're no different than anyone else, MF's!" mojo that every judge before him should have demonstrated over the years...but didn't.
Those judges all dropped the ball...HARD. Boasberg, he's like, "Yeah...fuck it. Let's play ball."
Those judges all dropped the ball...HARD. Boasberg, he's like, "Yeah...fuck it. Let's play ball."
My child’s daycare costs more than my mortgage… has nothing to do with fancy peanut butter
March 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My child’s daycare costs more than my mortgage… has nothing to do with fancy peanut butter
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This specific scam is the one the Federal Trade Commission has led enforcement against more often than any other single FTC action. You can't even say "you may have won" in this, let alone "you just won."
February 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This specific scam is the one the Federal Trade Commission has led enforcement against more often than any other single FTC action. You can't even say "you may have won" in this, let alone "you just won."
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So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
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One Republican senator singlehandedly held up 450 of Biden's senior military promotions for 10 months. If they wanted to, they would.
January 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
One Republican senator singlehandedly held up 450 of Biden's senior military promotions for 10 months. If they wanted to, they would.