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Kennedy pressed her three times before getting her to say Trump approved the contract. Oddly, Kennedy seemed to be most mad that she’s making Stephen Miller look bad

Kristi Noem introduced to US citizen twice detained by ICE in Alabama: ‘Do you know what your agents did?’

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Our client Leo Garcia Venegas and two other victims of DHS’s lawlessness got to introduce themselves to Secretary Noem today.

The room fell silent when they stood.

Our client Leo Garcia Venegas and two other victims of DHS’s lawlessness got to introduce themselves to Secretary Noem today.

The room fell silent when they stood.

One of the classes that stuck with me most was a seminar about how Madison was a turd who gets too much credit for his contributions to the Constitution just because he was the only one at the convention who kept notes.

Washington Post Article from Jenny Gathright: “Jose Argueta was told to go to a D.C. police station to pick up his stolen car. Instead of getting his car back, he was detained by ICE at the 5D station. My latest -- about two incidents that resurface questions about MPD's relationship with ICE:”

NBC News: “BREAKING: Columbia student says she has been released from immigration detention after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he discussed her arrest with President Trump.”

Really sharp contrast between DC and NYC.

New Case: One day off our win in Newton, Iowa, we've launched a new retaliation case in Apache, Arizona.

This one's like a Coen Brothers movie. A local prosecutor sent two henchmen (on the gov payroll) after his wife's opponent for school superintendent.

youtu.be/zZIN9M_Sjlg

Jesus Christ.

New Case: One day off our win in Newton, Iowa, we've launched a new retaliation case in Apache, Arizona.

This one's like a Coen Brothers movie. A local prosecutor sent two henchmen (on the gov payroll) after his wife's opponent for school superintendent.

youtu.be/zZIN9M_Sjlg

Vindicated: Court rebukes Newton, Iowa, officials for retaliatory arrests after citizen called them “fascists” - Institute for Justice Today, a federal judge in Iowa ruled that the city of Newton, Iowa, violated Noah Petersen’s constitutional rights when city leaders arrested him for critiquing […]

Another @ij.org 1A Retaliation Victory! A mayor and police chief arrested Noah Petersen for calling them fascists in a public meeting and saying the police department is "pro domestic abuse."

Today, the court denied them qualified immunity & granted Noah summary judgment.

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Though I am critical of Justice Gorsuch's approach, I feel a certain kinship. I write what I believe, without regard to what others might think. Indeed, as I noted recently, I write what I write mostly for myself. It matters little to me whether people respond to me, either positive or negative. Justice Gorsuch cares about these issues profoundly. He has given them a lot of thought. He is, as we often are, entirely convinced he is correct. Gorsuch also thinks that some of his colleagues are being inconsistent. Gorsuch rightly calls Justice Kagan out for flip-flopping (see Jason Willick's essay), and suggests that Justice Kavanaugh has not made his case. But in the end, Justice Gorsuch does not seem to persuade anyone else. I can relate.

I fear it will soon be impossible to parody Josh Blackman

Arresting people who call you a fascist is not, imho, the best way to beat the accusations.

-5- During his remarks, Petersen referred to Mayor Hansen and Chief Burdess as “fascists” who “need to be removed from power.” Id. at 114. Mayor Hansen immediately gaveled him down and warned Petersen not to “address the chief of police in that manner.” [ECF No. 27-4 at 53]. When Petersen reiterated his criticism, Mayor Hansen suspended the meeting and ordered him to leave the chambers. Id. As Petersen walked toward the exit in apparent compliance, Lieutenant Christopher Wing intercepted him at the door and arrested him for disorderly conduct. [ECF No. 27-2 at 630]. When Petersen protested that he was attempting to leave as directed, Wing placed him in handcuffs and served him with a 24-hour no-trespass order. [ECF No. 27-4 at 54]. After the arrest, Mayor Hansen addressed the remaining audience members and instructed them to “go do your activism somewhere where somebody cares” rather than at city council meetings.2 Id. The criminal complaint filed against Petersen explicitly stated he was arrested for “speaking negatively towards the Mayor of Newton and the Police Chief.” [ECF No. 27-5 at 35].

"When pressed on why accusations against the rental inspector did not violate the Rule, [the mayor] offered shifting explanations: the speaker was a 'very good friend." .... "Most revealing is the mayor's own admission that praising the police department would, "of course" not violate the Rule. Criticism was restricted; praise was welcomed."

Lot of gems in here:

After arresting Noah, the mayor told him to "go take his activism somewhere where someone cares." The criminal complaint charged Noah with "speaking negatively towards the Mayor and Police Chief." And the mayor admitted the rule didn't apply to people who praise the police.

Vindicated: Court rebukes Newton, Iowa, officials for retaliatory arrests after citizen called them “fascists” - Institute for Justice Today, a federal judge in Iowa ruled that the city of Newton, Iowa, violated Noah Petersen’s constitutional rights when city leaders arrested him for critiquing […]

Another @ij.org 1A Retaliation Victory! A mayor and police chief arrested Noah Petersen for calling them fascists in a public meeting and saying the police department is "pro domestic abuse."

Today, the court denied them qualified immunity & granted Noah summary judgment.

ij.org/press-releas...

That’s the one and only Josh Blackman, famous for his detached and objective insights. No one in the game can match him.

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.

Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.

Opposition to Mega Prison Project Shapes a Local Election in Rural Arkansas - Bolts Incarceration has become a central issue in Western Arkansas, where the governor wants to build a new prison that has angered and mobilized residents.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing.

Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor.

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Grateful to @jaredmcclain.bsky.social for talking about this case on the @ij.org podcast. He highlights the subject of my next academic article, which I touch on in prior work: the equitable relief paradox. Injunctions w/ too few details are too vague; w/ too many details violate federalism.

Exactly, it’s insane. Reminds me of Rehnquist’s analysis in INS v. Delgado.

The way the Tenth Circuit neutered the ACLU's injunction against the Kansas Two Step reflects so much about what is wrong the judiciary's approach to enforcing our rights against unconstitutional policies.

NOTD, The Band Camino - Never A Good Time YouTube video by NotdVEVO

Didn't take JGR for a big The Band Camino guy. Must have missed him at The Anthem last fall.

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My grand theory of prediction markets v. sportsbooks: It's Cannabis Again

It also just shows that if they were more interested in maximizing their policies rather than pain and outrage, they could have done it a lot more effectively with less brazen messaging.

That’s exactly right. Seeing McLaughlin and Bovino go actually worries me.

Even though the facts on the ground will be the same, it was a lot easier to get a judge to distinguish Perdomo when the Admin kept admitting they were applying the wrong standard. That’s what got the PI in Escobar Molina.

It’s been nice to see so many people from accros the industry step up and help. And it’s not going to stop with habeas.

Next week we’re training our fifth group of lawyers on how to bring FTCA suits for damages. Probably close to 1,000 attendees by now.

Been thinking a lot about how the risk in a case getting to the shadow docket now isn’t just that you lose the injunction but that only one or two justices muse about why, giving their view the imprimatur of the court for several years.

The sad reality is it’s a lot harder to convince courts the government is doing awful shit every day if they don’t go on TV and admit it.

Changing their message while keeping the illegal policies seems like an attempt to leverage what’s left of the presumption of regularity.

McLaughlin and Bovino said a dozen times they make arrests based on reasonable suspicion.

Homan walking it back got the first time the same week she’s gone makes me think someone finally got sick of losing in court because their spox was being too honest about what ICE does every day.

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A lot of this Admin’s policies are an attempt to force the law to the right.

But plenty are so bad they won’t convince most conservative judges.

So the Admin is just taking advantage of all the bad SCOTUS decisions that make it hard to enforce the Constitution.