This is a massive milestone we've been pushing for years and years.
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This is a massive milestone we've been pushing for years and years.
Can Pam Bondi save herself from being fired out of a cannon to Kristi Noem's Fake Starfleet Academy?
Learn all about Bondi's plan to shield her corrupt henchmen from state bar disciplinary proceedings with the latest @lizdye.bsky.social for @legaleagle.tv
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2tM...
I'm a freak ... for jigsaw puzzles
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-col...
Guess this is what Bondi was trying to get out in front of with that rule change allowing her to muscle in on state bar complaints
www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-ed-...
Anthropic is trying to carve out a space for itself as the non-MAGA AI. We talk about the commercial and legal implications & so much more!
With @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
But also if you are the Iranian regime and you survive this, you obviously sprint to a nuclear weapon, right?
Like, flat out dead sprint, as fast as you can, trying to get there before Netanyahu gets Uncle Sam to ambush you in a dark alley again. That seems the obvious move.
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
Trump couldn't be bothered to actually nominate Kari Lake to lead the US Agency for Global Media, so she just started showing up and claiming to be the boss.
Turns out, not so much.
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rule...
Thanks!
Liz Dye headline, and it's a banger: "Judge Rules that Kari Lake is Still A Loser" (she loses. a lot.)
@lizdye.bsky.social needs to arrange a "Headline Writing Summer Camp" for insufferable class of Beltway journos www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rule...
Oh, shoot wrong link, sorry sorry
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![accompanied “[t]he King[’s] [ability to] wield significant power [to] both creat[e]
and fill[] offices as he saw fit.”13 This division of power means that the President
may not always be able to appoint his first choice to a specific office, and he may
sometimes have to wait for the Senate to act, which can take time. But that is the
point of this divided authority, not a defect.14 “Friction between the branches is an
inevitable consequence of our Constitutional structure,”15 and “‘[c]onvenience and
efficiency’ . . . ‘are not the primary objectives’ of our constitutional framework.”16
One year into this administration, it is plain that President Trump and his top
aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution.
To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have
discovered enormous grants of executive power hidden in the vagaries and silences
of the code.17 Here, the Government proffers that, notwithstanding Congress’s clear
and unambiguous requirement of Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation
before a person may exercise the powers of a United States Attorney—a limit
established by the First Congress and unchanged for over 236 years—Congress also,
through a tangled web of broad enactments using general language, simultaneously](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfdiyietterineb3cvu3ddco/bafkreibqlwxdtwynbvl2tsnwktyebg2upam3bgpplpbfcmwqheavouv5bm)
accompanied “[t]he King[’s] [ability to] wield significant power [to] both creat[e] and fill[] offices as he saw fit.”13 This division of power means that the President may not always be able to appoint his first choice to a specific office, and he may sometimes have to wait for the Senate to act, which can take time. But that is the point of this divided authority, not a defect.14 “Friction between the branches is an inevitable consequence of our Constitutional structure,”15 and “‘[c]onvenience and efficiency’ . . . ‘are not the primary objectives’ of our constitutional framework.”16 One year into this administration, it is plain that President Trump and his top aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution. To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have discovered enormous grants of executive power hidden in the vagaries and silences of the code.17 Here, the Government proffers that, notwithstanding Congress’s clear and unambiguous requirement of Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation before a person may exercise the powers of a United States Attorney—a limit established by the First Congress and unchanged for over 236 years—Congress also, through a tangled web of broad enactments using general language, simultaneously
Judge Matthew Brann rules that "triumvirate" leadership structure of US Atty's Office in NJ is an illegal attempt to evade senate confirmation.
This is the judge who DQ'd Alina Habba, and the opinion comes out swinging.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump wants regime change in Iran.
You know what would be a useful tool? A US-run Farsi-language news outlet broadcasting into Iran. We had one of those, but last year Trump sent Kari Lake to burn it to the ground. @lizdye.bsky.social explains what's next:
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rule...
Here's the Anthropic complaint against basically every federal agency
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEWS: This morning, Maryland lawmakers, including Sens. Chris @vanhollen.senate.gov and Angela @alsobrooks.senate.gov made an unannounced visit to an ICE holding facility in Baltimore. They are scheduled to talk about what they saw soon here: www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
NEWS
Trump DOJ offers a deferred prosecution agreement to Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank charged with laundering billions in Iranian oil money.
Trump repeatedly tried to end this case in his first term—per John Bolton, as a favor to one of the "dictators he liked" (i.e. Erdogan).
Another fine piece of work from @lizdye.bsky.social, who I can always count on to keep up on Kari Lake news. But I must take exception to Liz’s suggestion at the end that Kari return to AZ and run for office again. She bought a place in IA, they can take back their daughter. AZ doesn’t want her.
Well that escalated quickly
Swin, I'm so sorry for you and your wife. Thanks for sharing your story. I also found out about clotting factors the hard way. Sending love and healing for your whole family.
“Trump Org Files Trademarks to Put the President’s Name Front and Center at America’s 250th”
Amelia Benavides-Colón, @davelevinthal.com for @notus.com
remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
On the assumption that a prepaid envelope somehow constitutes a bribe, the Utah Legislature passed, in its session's closing hours, a measure designed to help overturn the redistricting rules that will likely net Democrats a congressional seat. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
Day 1: My adult kid comes home with a cold
Day 3: Kid is better
Day 4: I have a cold
…
Day 8: I still have a cold
Being middle aged suckssssss
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
Square plaque/award naming Joshua Erlich MWELA Lawyer of the Year Feb. 2026
CONGRATS to my husband and law partner, @joshuaerlich.bsky.social for being named Lawyer of the Year by the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association.
Guys, this man works so hard and cares so much. Well deserved and could not be more proud.
DEFENDANT PINCHING & PRESSING Sarah Fackrell* “Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed in large numbers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. But some Northern District judges are growing skeptical of various parts of this litigation model. Some judges are requiring plaintiffs to post higher bonds when they obtain ex parte asset-freezing TROs. Or refusing to issue such freezes entirely. Other judges are pushing back on the propriety of joining non-transactionally-related sellers, questioning—and sometimes explicitly rejecting—the mass joinder theory that underlies this litigation model. In response to these developments, many Schedule A plaintiffs are responding by engaging in what appears to be new forms of judge shopping. This Article analogizes the actions these plaintiffs are taking to certain forms of cheating at roulette—namely, “pinching” and “pressing” bets. This Article investigates and analyzes these developments, situating defendant pinching and pressing in the larger literature about judge-shopping. It suggests new local rules that would increase transparency, promote fairness, and discourage judge-shopping.
Mine is about (what appears to me) to be some new forms of judge shopping. I analogize them to certain forms of cheating at roulette and look at what this can teach us about judge shopping more generally.
If you want a nice (though now month old) cheat sheet for TPS litigation, Judge Saris attached a handy appendix of cases and rulings at the end of her recent decision on South Sudan: fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
