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Imagine being an Article III judge and you get this email on a Saturday night lol

submitted 11 hours ago • 254 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1857 comments

"Still, the firings have bewildered federal employees like Powell. If their mission is to reduce government waste, she said, it doesn’t make sense to get rid of auditors like her tasked with detecting fraud." www.nola.com/news/louisia...

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

Story as old as time: The courts won’t let us enjoy the weekend.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2827 comments

My friends react violently when they see me in a turtleneck, but deep down I know it’s jealousy.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

! Judge Ho rebuffs dismissal for now, & has appointed Paul Clement to present arguments on whether to dismiss Adams' charges, and if it'd be appropriate not to. Paul Clement is a conservative star lawyer who was George Bush's Solicitor General whose entire career has advanced conservative causes:

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho won’t dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams just yet. Instead, he appoints PAUL CLEMENT as amicus to argue whether it’s proper to dismiss the indictment under Rule 48a, among other points. This is gonna be good! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Prosecuting a sheriff for … doing exactly what his job requires, which is to let people go once a duly fulfilled court order. Very law-and-order-y.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Imagine being Clarence Thomas, assigning yourself a dissenting opinion in a wonky, split Section 1983 decision, only to … have no one agree with you on the law that applies in the case. (No one liked his “first principles,” only the applicable precedents.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Notably, as with other lawless or legally sketchy acts thus far, Donald Trump never did this during his first term. (The decision DOJ cites as authority for this dates back to 2010, so there have been no changes in law—only in Supreme Court personnel.)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The other day a jacked, power swimmer—an Asian man in a red speedo—jumped in my lane as I was doing laps, and I was intimidated but … uncowed? I think that’s the moment I, a middle-aged noob, conquered my general anxiety around lane-sharing in a community pool.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Today in DOJ: A lowly, unelected bureaucrat with no policymaking authority makes a major policy announcement about a type of officer contemplated in the Constitution. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

"The Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday...the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

We didn't deserve Adeel Mangi.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

For now this is performative buffoonery.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

My takeaway from this is that swolecialism is real. Pass it on.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan declines to block DOGE from accessing data systems at multiple federal agencies or from taking adverse employment actions against any employees at those agencies. She says the harms to the plaintiff states are not imminent to warrant relief.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

People tend to forget that news organizations are robustly protected by the First Amendment not because of their journalism but because of … an ad The New York Times decided to run. This repudiates that. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/i...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It’s gonna be great when DOJ argues that Elon Musk’s posts on X aren’t statements of official policy, while the Trump administration turns to X exclusively for statements of official policy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This declaration is quite something. DOJ seems … scared? The reason it matters: This lawsuit seeks to blow up DOGE entirely as a violation of the Appointments Clause and usurpation of Congress’s lawmaking authority under, among other things, the so-called major questions doctrine. One to watch.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

People tend to forget that news organizations are robustly protected by the First Amendment not because of their journalism but because of … an ad The New York Times decided to run. This repudiates that. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/i...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

On this Presidents’ Day, we took the kids to see a few of them.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Just going to say again that one of the best things folks can be doing is to walk around their neighborhoods handing out two pagers to their neighbors explaining what's happening. If 1 million people committed to doing this over the month of March, we'd be getting somewhere re: info.

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

The air disasters will continue until morale improves.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I have not read the law professors’ op-ed. I do not want to read the law professors’ op-ed. I imagine the law professors’ op-ed will make me unwell. But I’m gonna end up reading it anyway because I’ll one day die as I lived: Reading op-eds that were remotely, painfully, related to my work.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Happy tenth birthday to a real one

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

Goodness gracious, The Associated Press has an excellent First Amendment retaliation claim against the Trump administration. Couldn’t grow that in a lab if you tried.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 8 days ago • 244 comments