in the spirit of self-crit: in past years I have certainly been among those who have been vocally skeptical of the role of law and lawyers in meaningfully constraining armed agents of the state. but I do think we have to hand it to lawyers at this time
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Kyle Cheney
By my count, there had been 103 lawsuits filed in the last 20 days, and judges had issued 50 restraining orders requiring the Trump administration to reverse the terminations. Those decisions came in more than 23 states. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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My secret inner hope is that *all this* brings about an era of righteousness and accountability, but it's not something I expect.
It has mocked them, it has challenged them, it has tried to weasel around them; by and large it has not ignored them. The closest I've seen to ignoring them is in the Abrego Garcia case, where it faces contempt.
Are the unterminated civil servants actually doing their jobs or are they being paid to do nothing since their work has been stopped?
I am learning that my assumptions on some things are way too generous and my assumption on others are not generous enough.
Maybe it will fly and this won't.
The judiciary is decentralized, big, geographically dispersed, appointed by both parties & empowered to act.
what is surprising to me is that even with the lawful cooperation of the enforcement arm deeply in question, the law on its own seems to carry more weight than i'd expect
Pistor's Code of Capital is basically how I,just some law grad who had heard out the left's case, had already started to see the whole shebang. Like, eerily similar parallel thinking. It just follows.
I concurrently hand it to Lawyers™️
We are currently in the midst of an attempted transition to dictatorship.