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Former public defender. Current criminal defense lawyer and lawyer for kids.
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HASSAN: What is pet adoption? NOEM: Pet adoption is when you drag your dog and goat to a gravel pit and shoot them in the head

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Supreme Court rules, 7-2, that Hitler should have given people the chance for a hearing before sending them to concentration camps.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I keep saying it but Trump v Anderson is going to be a top 5 anti-canon one day. I know no one agrees, I don’t care.

submitted 10 days ago • 62 comments

There’s something especially sad about the feds trying to do a perp walk of a judge while being too cowardly to even show their faces.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

To be clear, except in rare circumstances where an immigration case goes through two levels of appeals, the administration doesn’t have to “appear[] before a judge” to deport someone. They have to appear before one of their own employees who puts on a robe and pretends to be a judge.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

More than anything, these features of the order remind me of a stay of execution. Which doesn’t say much about how this Court will ultimately go on the merits. But it does suggest, at least, that Abrego Garcia has showed them that the harm of inaction here is truly irreparable, like an execution.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I find myself getting sincerely emotional about this. That he’s, under the circumstances, okay. That his wife and kids know this after an agonizing month without him. That a Democratic politician cared enough to go and see him, even after getting told no at first. Trying matters. Fighting works.

submitted 34 days ago • 53 comments

While we’re at it, let’s stop pretending that immigration “judges” are judges. They’re DOJ employees who like to wear robes to work.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re an attorney and you let the government look through your privileged emails to get back into the country without a court order, you should be disbarred.

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

The Abrego Garcia kidnapping and ongoing defiance of the courts should be the basis of Articles of Impeachment filed tomorrow and supported by every single Democrat in the House and the Senate. Democratic Senators should be using every obstructionist tool in the book until he’s back in the US.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations to every “liberal” who shamed people for “Abolish ICE” Congratulations to every “liberal” who said packing the Court was beyond the pale.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

It’s clear now, if it wasn’t before, that any lawyer with a semblance of ethics still employed by the federal government needs to be prepared to be fired any time. If you’re not prepared for that and you stay in the job, you’re setting yourself up to be pressured to act unethically or illegally.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

If the DOJ is going to punish its attorneys for being candid with the courts, it stands to reason that courts can no longer assume DOJ attorneys will fulfill their duty of candor.

submitted 46 days ago • 173 comments

painting with a broad brush, but people hire these big firms because they think they’re hiring the best fighters around, but this is what you really get. rich people who don’t know how to stand up for themselves, much less you. let them do M&A and IPOs or whatever. work that requires no principles.

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments