The Pocket Lawyer

#fuckmeta #wethepeople #carrytheconstitutionnotagun

BREAKING: Family of Mahmoud Khalil releases footage from the night of his arrest.

Make no mistake: This is federal agents in plainclothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his constitutionally protected speech.

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...

The question isn’t if Trump would try to exceed his power, but when. That time is now. Seeming to defy courts & using the rare war powers in 1789 AEA law to perform unlawful deportations is the latest step to replace the Constitution with authoritarianism. apnews.com/article/trum...

🚨 BREAKING: Today we filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, arguing that he should be released because his arrest and continued detention are unconstitutional, retaliatory, and causing irreparable harm. Here’s what you need to know. 🧵

(cont.)

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

#carrytheconstitutionnotagun #firstamendment #freespeech

#carrytheconstitutionnotagun #firstamendment #freespeech

#carrytheconstitutionnotagun #firstamendment #freespeech

#carrytheconstitutionnotagun #firstamendment #freespeech

Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..." Learn about the origins and legacy of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous postwar words, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…”

#carrytheconstitutionnotagun #firstamendment #freespeech

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

The Case For: Learning from history so that it does not repeat itself. See Martin Neimoller (German Lutheran Pastor, 1892-1984) (“First they came for the socialists—and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. . . . And then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”).

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

@townofwellesleyma.bsky.social

You Are Not Special Commencement Speech from Wellesley High School YouTube video by Wellesley Public Media

FN: youtu.be/_lfxYhtf8o4?... (thanks Wellesley Public Media)

from all the wonderful teachers that I have had the privilege of learning from since my birth through present. If you’re still with me, thank you and I hope you enjoy this series in which I attempt to rationalize through use of logic what is occurring in the world right now. 🙏☮️🗺️

do this using the three simple steps that I laid out above. If you are still reading, I hope you choose to join me on this journey. My goal is best described as my attempt to teach whomever chooses to read (since I know my audience will self-select)

If this sounds familiar, yes, it is logical reasoning. I would argue that the best in the game, who are NOT me (See David McCullough, Jr. “You Are Not Special” Commencement Speech (given to the graduating class of Wellesley Senior High School)), but rather the best teachers in the world,

Part 3: I have to imagine we’d be much better off than we are on this divided day in 2025 where I’ve seen posts reminding Americans that it’s Presidents’ Day and not Dictators’ Day. (Thank you Professor @rbreich.bsky.social .)

Part 2: Listening to Hamilton again this weekend, it struck me that perhaps Miranda, I, and so many of us had backed the wrong horse that election cycle.

Part 1: In honor of Presidents’ Day, I spent much of my weekend listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton never became President, but he arguably would have been a brilliant one.

For my take on Hamilton and what it means to me today, almost a decade after its release, see ⬇️