Don't take credit for crime falling unless you want the blame when it rises!
05.03.2026 03:45
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Don't take credit for crime falling unless you want the blame when it rises!
There are Many Items of Note in today’s Law Dork, including:
- the substance of the show cause hearing in the trans prison care case, including Royce Lamberth quotes
- a Royce Lamberth story
- an after-court “emergency” filing that DOJ didn’t even mention at the hearing
- several off-putting moments
An important piece showing that losses in court haven’t stopped Trump from seizing Congress’s spending power and targeting dissenters and “blue states.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
On the other hand, if Polymarket had been around in 1983, Stanislov Petrov could have made a killing (shortly before being annihilated in nuclear armageddon)!
Same thing with the Polymarket bet on Second Coming... If you win that bet, you aren't going to be in a position to do much with your winnings
I'm just confused by how this would work--if you win the bet, odds are that you'll be vaporized before you can collect your earnings
Willie Cunningham was detained at York County Prison when he began to experience excruciating abdominal pain. A nurse told him he had heartburn. It was appendicitis. “I believed in these people,” he told me. “I didn’t know I was dying.”
theappeal.org/york-county-...
🔥 This is for anyone who wants to work with incarcerated writers and journalists or already does: a first-of-its-kind gathering from @haymarketbooks.org & Look2Justice (with which I'm doing some exciting work, details TBA) on covering prison from the inside. events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
OPB experts doing a series on protests at portland ice building and federal response
“The Crackdown”
Part 1 in doc series now w part 2 in spring
www.opb.org/article/2026...
A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Dallas ICE field office is the #2 office in terms of arrests. We found the office has routinely violated federal limits on detention, even as that limit has expanded. Family members of detainees have alleged inhumane treatment. Activists want the city to act.
www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...
...worth noting that the word "gender" doesn't appear once on that page (except in the disclaimer), nor does the EJI dataset include any data on gender or sexuality.
In other words, the disclaimer does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department ought to reject it!
Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025. Information on this page may be modified and/or removed in the future subject to the terms of the court’s order and implemented consistent with applicable law. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from truth. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.
Fun (?) disclaimer on the CDC's Environmental Justice Index page, which was taken down and later restored after a court order:
"This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it."
spreesheet showing recent LASD in custody death of 65 year old white male at ICU on 2/13/26
LA jails just posted their 10th in-custody death for this year:
Imagine being a child, thinking you're going to the "Most Magical Place on Earth" ...and instead you and your mom end up in “Dilleylandia”: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
An investigation by Floodlight News shows xAI's gas plant in Southaven, Mississippi, is still burning gas despite a recent Environmental Protection Agency ruling reiterating that doing so requires a state permit in advance.
www.mississippifreepress.org/a-different-...
A subcommittee of Iowa lawmakers has recommended passage of a bill that would once again allow judges and prosecutors to charge defendants court fees in dismissed cases. The practice was ended by a state Supreme Court ruling last month.
A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.
Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.
www.propublica.org/article/habe...
Case 1:25-cv-02463-JMC Document 55-1 Filed 02/09/26 Page 2 of 2 Secretary U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528 DEPARTMEN Homeland Security MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: SUBJECT: February 2, 2026 Todd. M. Lyons Acting Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Rodney Scott Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection James H. Percival Il General Counsel Holly C. Mehringer Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Chief Financial Officer Kristi Noon at ar Secretary of Homelet Security Congressional Access to Alien Detention Facilities - Ratification of Access Policy and Use of Appropriations for Enforcement On January 8, 2026, I issued a new policy directing that requests by Members of Congress to visit an ICE facility be submitted at least seven days in advance of the visit.' On February 2, 2026, in Neguse v. ICE, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily enjoined DHS from enforcing that policy or otherwise requiring any plaintiff to provide advance notice before conducting oversight visits for a period of 14 days.? The court concluded that DHS's policy remains inconsistent with Section 527(b) of the Department's appropriation. It is odd that the court issued this decision given the appropriation containing Section 527(b) lapsed on January 31, 2026. As a result of the lapse, Section 527 is not currently in effect. Therefore, as of this date, I am issuing this new policy that is identical in substance to the January 8 access policy. The General Counsel will provide further guidance regarding the effective date of this policy in light of the court's order. ' This updated policy-issued as a result of the case against ICE-was directed to ICE. Neither CBP nor its policy has been involved in the case to date. In light of today's decision, however, I am also issuing that policy as to CBP. 2 Neguse v. ICE, No. 25-2463, Memorandum Op. at 9 (D.D.C. Feb. 2, 2026).
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
Massachusetts is the only state run by Democrats that still partners with ICE. I dug into this and found that it’s had profound and very troubling consequences: at least 164 people funneled straight from state prisons to ICE since 2023 alone.
New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
The Trump admin has used 2339A—the “material support for terrorism” statute—against Black Lives Matter protesters in Alabama and anti-ICE demonstrators in Texas.
The ex-DOJ prosecutor who pioneered the use of 2339A says he's never seen anything like it.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-d...
BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
UPDATE: The layoffs announcements at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are trickling in. They include:
• Allie Gross, an investigative reporter, and
• Jozsef Papp, a crime and public safety reporter
So far, all of the (publicly) laid-off reporters are women and/or people of color.
@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who take money from GEO Group + CoreCivic. Find out if your reps have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. Published in @theappeal.org + @inthesetimes.com. theappeal.org/ice-cold-cas...
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
DOJ: The death rate among state prisoners increased 47% between 2019 and 2024 ... The deaths include homicides, suicides and violence, and the report concluded that understaffing and high turnover “likely contribute” to the increase
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
In the Bay Area, local prosecutors have charged student protesters who participated in pro-Palestine demonstrations with felony-level charges that critics are warning are setting a dangerous template for law enforcement responses.
@psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
