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Appellate lawyer, president of Third Circuit Bar Association, former prosecutor, fellow of American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Views here: just mine.
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This is an important piece by @greggnunziata.bsky.social and I hope it gets the attention it deserves. As I’ve said recently, I disagree with Nunziata about a great deal, and I disagree with plenty in this piece too, unsurprisingly. But I firmly believe our common ground is what matters now.

Interesting and characteristically thoughtful. Offhand it seems that selective prosecution is a notable omission here. Whether they can prove their case may not be all there is to it.

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

NEW: Where are the people the Trump administration has deported? The Trump administration's aggressive immigration deportation efforts often have been carried out illegally. What has happened to the people at the center of the cases? Today, at Law Dork:

I am sounding the alarm as loudly as I can that Donald Trump has turned the Department of Justice into a cog in his authoritarian machine to prosecute his political opponents.

On the bright side, Trump hasn’t pardoned Menendez yet.

Habeas Lawyers:

Smells like Eastman in here

So, is that a response I should give at oral argument?

One reason I hate the “all Trump voters are irredeemable” noise is because a lot of the people who were the all-stars of the conservative legal movement when I was in law school - including Walter Olson, Judges Luttig and Wilkinson, etc. - are the ones speaking most forcibly against tyranny today.

How can you jerkoffs claim that that I didn’t comply with the requirement to exhaust my habeas claims when my petition quite clearly bore the label EXHAUSTED CLAIMS?

Granting an immigration habeas petition.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social was right: “obscene”

!!! Quinnipiac poll of 1,265 RVs, conducted from June 5-9, finds Trump at -11% approval on “immigration issues” and -16% on “deportations.” Full poll here: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

This would be embarrassing if done by an overwhelmed solo lawyer handling their first appeal, and not by the United States Department of Justice in a case of national significance.

Federal appeals people, here's an insightful piece on advocacy in the Eleventh Circuit written by 2 former CA11 law clerks. It's from 2019 and I'm sure many of you have seen it already, but I only came across it today. Every circuit needs these. repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol73/i...

“I think the world needs a lot more young angry women, to be honest. Especially with everything going on right now.” Me too.

The worst of this political fever is still ahead, but Jeff Bezos's newspaper will have to take strenuous action to restore its reputation as a defender of the free exchange of ideas.

American Bar Association responds to May 29 Pam Bondi letter (which she posted online but they never received) cutting it off from any ability to perform its traditional professional vetting of judicial nominees (long pre-nomination, but since '17 post nomination) static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

And who had the backbone to go after Musk when Garland wouldn’t

Whose DA literally just campaigned on the slogan, “F*** AROUND AND FIND OUT.”

Including Philadelphia