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danielahorwitz.bsky.social
Constitutional litigator. Public interest/First Amendment/civil rights/innocence/election litigation. Nashville politics. Anti-SLAPP evangelist. Email daniel at horwitz.law. My views are my employer’s.
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

[comment censored] www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

Who among us www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

Spit out my drink

“We only had the normal stuff, like Syphilis and the Clap.”

Anyone who thinks it's important that lawyers get to tell the public about their cases--especially public-interest litigation against the government, its judges, and its private-prison contractors--can file a public comment with the Middle District of Tennessee. Here's the order: bit.ly/3EJLNoa

Don’t forget the completely unacceptable discrimination against U.S. Supreme Court Justices who accept hugely valuable gifts from interested litigants

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It finally happened—was on a flight and the pilot asked over the intercom if there was a lawyer on the plane. Was escorted to a hyperventilating man in the front of the aircraft. Asked him to whisper to protect privilege. I told him it depends. Billed him .1. Drank for free the rest of the flight.

All this because they didn’t have a hotel pre-booked when they arrived. Insane.

Intermediate Scrutiny for March 22-April 18, 2025: horwitzlawpllc.cmail19.com/t/y-e-ckihlu...

Tremendous work by @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Who has come up with the plan for getting the right/DOGE to confuse DEI with the DEA? That is not a heavy lift, and it would do some real good.

Good work, @emilyfor7.bsky.social! (Prepare for weird opposition; tons of firms have their hands in Metro’s pocket and are very happy for people not to know it.) www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Trump threatens to block all 10,000 international students from attending Harvard unless the school turns over student info they’ll use for new visa revocations and deportations. Every day feels like a fresh round of this country stabbing itself in the face. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

It is genuinely difficult to believe this is real. No one is this stupid.

Many of the people who fall into the first category referenced here no longer even refer to themselves as libertarians, for what it’s worth, because the second category—and the Libertarian Party—have ruined the label.

Don't let this sort of thing become normalized. No criminal record. Married with a child. Complying with immigration bureaucracy. Agents wait outside his home. Smash his window while he calls his lawyer. Take him to an undisclosed location. This is Soviet secret police stuff. youtu.be/Bnlj-wSI4Bg

I was just reminded that this administration had no problem facilitating Andrew Tate's release from custody in Romania.

Some of us always meant it, but yeah, I was just commiserating with an old Reason colleague about what a disappointing eye-opener the Trump era has been. If we’re not all-hands for this, if we can’t see an authoritarian emergency this obvious, who are we even kidding?

Relatedly—if they are asserting impotence—shouldn’t all rendition to El Salvador be enjoined at least until all potential appeals conclude?

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

Appalling.

This is insane. Before ICE arrested Rumeysa Ozturk for writing an op-ed, the State Dept said it found no evidence she was anti-Semitic or supported Hamas. The govt arrested, jailed & is deporting someone for writing an opinion some officials dislike. Vile. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Authoritarian ass country

Unless you regularly litigate against the government, you simply cannot fathom how much of the law is straight Calvinball, heads-the-government-wins, tails-the-challengers-lose bullshit like this.

“That is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It” is now the working title of my book about governmental immunity jurisprudence.

They didn’t have to deal with—and couldn’t have contemplated—the existential threat posed by a possible {checks notes} mean tweet, though.

wokeness is coming back so fast they are renaming tomorrow "Black Monday"

Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Our economy would explode” is right on the nose, though.

Even before Donald Trump single-handedly destroyed U.S. and world markets, the American people were already not please with his performance in office.

Have you said thank you once?

The only duties the man recognizes concern tariffs and toilets.

This man—wrong about many things, incapacitated, and thirty-six jellybeans deep—was still 1000x the man Trump is.

In case destroying free trade wasn’t enough, now he’s turned back to his other obsession, destroying the stability of American monetary policy!

So he abruptly decided to tank the world economy to make people stop talking about the fact that his Administration uses group text to discuss war plans, yeah?