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Comms: Institute for Justice. Former Neoliberal Shill Bracket loser. Niagara University alum. Philly sports, civil liberties, YIMBYism & Slavic history. Views mine. #COYS 🏳️‍🌈 🌐🇵🇱⛰️🇺🇦
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Starting soon: oral arguments in @ij.org's case seeking compensation for an innocent family whose South Bend, Indiana home was wrecked by a SWAT team that raided the wrong home. Our SWAT work deals with two distinct issues. This case has them both. 🧵 ij.org/press-releas...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Today, #SCOTUS declined to hear @ij.org's case, Jimerson v. Lewis, seeking to hold a SWAT commander accountable for ordering his team to raid the wrong home, ignoring obvious evidence. Justices Sotomayor & Jackson wanted to grant cert, but 4 justices are needed. ij.org/press-releas...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

submitted 7 days ago • 257 comments

It's time to overturn the disastrous #SCOTUS decision in Kelo v. New London which gutted Americans' property rights. Check out George Will's column in @postopinions.bsky.social about @ij.org's new petition seeking to overturn Kelo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is indeed massive.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

BIG NEWS Yesterday, a judge ruled @ij.org's 4th Amendment case challenging the city of Norfolk's use of automatic license plate reader cameras can proceed. 👏 The ruling is a massive first step toward reining in this unconstitutional surveillance.🧵 ij.org/press-releas...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Today, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall said he was "very sympathetic" to @ij.org's clients after hearing oral arguments in our case seeking to save their land from a private railroad's attempt to use eminent domain. Now, we await the ruling. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/01/28/g...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

@ij.org is headed back to the Supreme Court! Yesterday, #SCOTUS granted cert in our case seeking to hold FBI accountable for raiding the wrong home in suburban Atlanta. We're also awaiting the court's decision on our other wrong-house raid cert petition, Jimerson v. Lewis. ij.org/press-releas...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

WATCH: Here's the new @ij.org case video (starring @kinger-dc.bsky.social) explaining our lawsuit against the City of Norfolk's use of Flock Cameras to create an unconstitutional, digital panopticon. This system of cameras tracks every driver, wherever he goes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mc3...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

In 2005, a narrow majority of the Supreme Court determined something that shocked Americans: the government could take your home and give it to private developers using the power of eminent domain. The case dealt specifically with Susette Kelo's little pink house. 🧵

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

"Speaking from a balcony isn't a crime. And just because a cop was offended because of some language doesn't give him the power to arrest you."

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

On Friday, #SCOTUS will consider two different @ij.org cases seeking to hold law enforcement accountable for raiding the wrong home. While each deals with different immunities, both are part of a troubling trend of immunity for cops who overlook obvious evidence of mistakes.🧵

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

"It's my property you don't have a right to take it." Check out this great investigative piece from @atlantanewsfirst.com on @ij.org's fight to save our clients' property from a private railroad's eminent domain land grab. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/04/r...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

There was a small, mostly unnoticed report years ago in DC about how guns kept disappearing from MPD evidence lockers and then being later found at crime scenes. Unfortunately, there was no Poirot around to solve that mystery.

submitted 84 days ago • 14 comments

For years, Pasco County, FL used an algorithm to predict who might commit future crimes. People on the list were routinely harassed by police. Today, before @ij.org's case was set to go to trial, the sheriff admitted it was unconstitutional and agreed to pay our clients. ij.org/press-releas...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, would you look at that: It's @ij.org's First Amendment lawsuit in New Hampshire on the front page of today's @wsj.com!

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

[email protected]'s First Amendment fight to save a New Hampshire bakery's donut mural from town zoning police is headed to trial in February. @wsj.com explains how a simple mural painted by local high schoolers has turned into a "free speech battle for the ages." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fi...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s NY Times “Word of the Day” is “Eminent Domain,” as in: “Eminent domain for private gain is a scourge on society that benefits the politically powerful at the expensive of average people, and @ij.org will continue fighting against it.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/l...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Congress has broadly delegated its constitutional tariff powers to the President. What happens when a President begins using those powers in arbitrary, destructive ways? My @cato.org colleagues Clark Packard & @scottlincicome.bsky.social wrote a paper on that last month. www.cato.org/briefing-pap...

submitted 93 days ago • 6 comments

After years of work, activists in Ohio can finally start collecting signatures for a proposed constitutional amendment to end qualified immunity. If they can collect signatures equal to 10% of votes from the last gubernatorial election, it will go to voters! www.13abc.com/2024/11/26/e...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

NFL yardage differentials...

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

Disappointed to announce #SCOTUS declined to hear @ij.org's case seeking compensation for an innocent woman whose home was destroyed by a SWAT team. The good news? Sotomayor and Gorsuch wrote a statement which could set this issue up for review in the future.🧵 ij.org/press-releas...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

On Friday, the 5th Circuit upheld Mississippi's ban on advertising state-legal medical marijuana businesses. @ij.org and our client are now considering next steps for fighting this ban. If a product is legal to sell, it should be legal to talk about. ij.org/press-releas...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

You absolutely love to see it www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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