Which program do you use? I have tried asking Gemini about what is in PDFs of cases but so far the accuracy rate has been low (ie it says the text says x but it actually doesn't).
Is the judge mad? Sounds like he's mad.
2/ "Last year 400 federal judges were targets of serious threats, a 78% jump in four years."
www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...
"The president has frequently railed against judges when they rule against him. What often happens next is a barrage of violent threats from his followers against those judges. We spoke with 26 federal judges– 9 Democratic appointees, 17 Republican, both sitting and retired."
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WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”
I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.
@ispsyale.bsky.social is hiring an Executive Director for its Democratic Innovations Program. Very good pay for a super interesting job at a place doing cutting edge research on this and many other topics.
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/YU...
Akhil Amar on birthright citizenship:
”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...
Katabasis has some similar themes re academia. One of the best books I have read this year! I like the multilayered references and how willing she is to go there. It's rare for an author to be able to get that uncomfortable and also be impossible to put down.
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New: Federal judges may advocate for greater security and defend colleagues against "illegitimate" attacks and criticism that risk undermining judicial independence or the rule of law, according to a new judicial ethics opinion. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
One important way judges can respond to lying as a threat to the rule of law. If other courts follow this up it could have a substantial effect.
Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge decision.
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
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When the United States passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, it led many to seek freedom outside the USA.
From 1850 and 1860, between 15,000 to 20,000 escaped enslaved persons came to the Province of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
This is the story.
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Is it good or bad when government lawyers are in federal court telling judges that their jobs suck and begging for a full night's sleep
Pre order link when? And have you thought about making this an activity at the Civil Procedure Workshop?
When the Bluebook requires anything other than the "neutral" citation for a jurisdiction in which the neutral cite is authoritative
Bloomberg Law reporting is about as staid and boring as it gets (complimentary). This is basically the equivalent of the A.P. calling for a coup.
Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
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"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
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DHS should not wait the full 30 days to drop this case. It should announce immediately that it will not appeal, so Guan Heng can walk free.
And it should give serious thought to why an immigration crackdown supposedly intended to target the worst of the worst is endangering the best of the best.
This is good from @georginaq.bsky.social on the lack of data (and curiosity) about how the different parts of the justice system operate - in this case how late delivery of defendants from custody to courts is delaying trials
www.ft.com/content/bb5a...
You look really cute!
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Come for an order well worth the read, stay for the line about … the availability of civil monetary sanctions for every person wrongfully detained under Eighth Circuit case law.
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Read this instead of John Yoo.
Absolutely not.
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"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
