yoshjosh.bsky.social
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Maybe she's telling the truth. Kristi Noem doesn't have a great track record distinguishing between Latinos who have committed crimes, Latinos who *haven't* committed crimes and are just looking for work, and Latinos who are U.S. Senators.
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What's up with his new tic where he starts moving his head to the right and licking his lips? I didn't want to say anything in case it was a medical thing. But it doesn't appear to be? Just a guy winding himself up for another mouthful of shouty lies.
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It’s because the Supreme Court has put the lower courts in a bind. They are required to give deference to the Executive Branch and therefore must avoid giving specific directives; but when they do that, the administration is willfully obtuse and fails to comply with the order.
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Also Brock Hrehor on how Jared Polis absolutely sucks. For all the insistence from the Abundance set that they are really truly pro-labor liberals, I don't think it's a coincidence that the politicians who support their ideas the most do stuff like this:
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
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Not only is it dumb, it is the most obviously, transparently pretextual reason in a sea of pretext attempting to justify their illegal acts - in this case firing Black federal employees because they are Black. The kind of evidence an plaintiff’s employment discrimination lawyer would love.
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Title VII applies to the federal government, no? “She was stocking the shelves with inappropriate children’s’ books” seems like the worst legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason I could possible imagine to fire the Librarian of Congress. And the other “reason” explicitly involves race.
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These individuals were deposed because they submitted declarations pursuant to the court’s order (Dkt. #61) that an individual with personal knowledge do so. Now they are complaining that they are the wrong individuals to depose because they don’t have any personal knowledge.
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They call him the Italian Beef.
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Ok, I’m on board, but it needs the “away” preposition. As in “Paulweissing away your credibility” or “Paulweissing away your client base.”
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This is barely literate. Like a Trump tweet that wanted to be a letter but failed remedial English.
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My own theory is that it was this photo in the New York Times that did him in.
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Has he tried not *paying* them to do the very thing he's "asking" them not to do? That might work.
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In all seriousness, we’re in that weird liminal Wile E. Coyote–over-the-chasm moment where a lot of serious, completely self-inflicted pain is effectively inevitable but isn’t fully being felt yet. There’s going to be protest and unrest. And he is setting the stage to crack down hard.
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The other EO today explicitly asserts that there is an insurrection by “State and local officials.”
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This is OK. But Pritzker's is much better!
❤️, a Wisconsinite
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I don't understand how anyone can do anything else. I mean - I'm a union lawyer. I'm focused on labor issues. But I'm outraged by the extraordinary renditions and lack of due process. I don't understand how it's possible to ignore things outside your area. And I'm distrustful of those who want to.
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I suppose characterizing it as a “back door” in a variety of ways makes it sound more nefarious that Dugan would let him use it than calling it the “jury door.”
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This is an administration pushing a gobsmacking array of unconstitutional or unlawful policies, rightly getting its ass handed to it by the judiciary, looking for a pretext to send an intimidation signal, and Bondi is being explicit about it.
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Given the fact that Kash Patel and Pam Bondi have publicly praised it, I think it's best viewed as an attempt to cast the entire judiciary - federal and state - as full of left-leaning judges who are hostile to immigration enforcement. They're going to try to make an example of her.
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They are going to try to turn this good-hearted - and very clearly left-leaning (Legal Aid, Catholic Charities, Susan Crawford supporter) - county judge into a symbol of a radical judiciary. I don't know whether she violated any law. But it's a very dangerous moment for the judiciary as a whole.
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I have zero evidence that this had anything to do with it, but Judge Dugan was a prominent Susan Crawford supporter. I don't think that should go unnoticed.
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I’m sure this has nothing to do with it.
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Hannah Dugan is actually an elected circuit court (county) judge, not an immigration judge.
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This memo also makes clear that the priority is to "swiftly" remove people who *haven't* committed crimes. In fact, "immediate removal is not mandated" for people who "may have engaged in criminal misconduct." The only people who get a trial are the suspected criminals!
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This position undermines the basis for the initial TRO denial itself. Gov't represents that it won't deport under the AEA while habeas petition is pending -> judge denies TRO because there is no danger of imminent removal -> Gov't: "Well, if the TRO is denied, we may reconsider."
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I’m thinking about this in the context where multiple judges - Hendrix in W.G.G. and of course Alito - have complained about the speed with which plaintiffs have acted to secure orders preventing immediate deportation. If these judges don’t want their weekends and holidays ruined…
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I am particularly fascinated with how this connects to greedy developers fleeing rent-controlled cities for libertarian friendly Colorado to become slumlords. All while Colorado Democrats were proposing allowing rent control laws that Polis said would scare them away.
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He's confusing his Executive Order and Perkins Coie's subsequent suit against him with an imaginary lawsuit that he filed. No way there's another lawsuit that has been filed and already been assigned to Judge Howell.