Sam Rubinstein

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Unfortunately, I do recall hearing about that tweet. I wish I could purge that information from my brain for something more useful, but alas.

This is the direct result of a judicial order. Law isn’t magic but it can be powerful stuff.

Extraordinary opinion for extraordinary times.

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

Fold it in, David!

Agreed and I feel like restoring DOJ independence is going to be one of the hardest things to do after Trump is gone. Can’t put the genie back in the bottle…

wooooow

These days front offices look more at advanced stats and profiles of pitches (vertical and horizontal break etc) than topline numbers like ERA. If quality stuff is there they think their coaches can get the most out of the player.

I was thinking habeas but im no expert in this area

But if lack of compliance with a warrant requirement would be a basis for an immigrant to challenge their detention that would be an improvement, no?

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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JUST IN: 8th Circuit enters stay keeping freeze on Minn. fed judge's order reining in DHS tactics v. immigration-enforcement protesters. Majority Shepherd (GWBush)/Stras(Trump) says injunction too broad. Partial dissent: Gruender (GWBush). Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A TRO issued—apparently ex parte (without notice and opportunity to respond)—against the federal government to stop it from destroying evidence of a homicide. Take a moment to appreciate how extraordinary that is.

Most Americans have no idea that if a federal agent beats you up with no justification, you can’t just sue them for damages. As a lawyer one of my abiding hopes for this period is to raise longstanding wonky legal problems like this in the popular conscience and finally address them.

They will get blanket pardons on the way out. Civil liability, state prosecution—gotta pursue accountability through many routes.

#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....

BREAKING: MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension & Hennepin DA file fed lawsuit dmeanding immediate access to federal evidence in DHS agent's deadly shooting of observer during immigration enforcement operation Sat. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Senate Dems should demand:

1. Private right of action against fed officers (Bivens)
2. Ban on immigration arrests at schools, courts, hospitals, churches
3. Strengthening immigration arrest warrant requirements and right to counsel
4. Repeal or limit insurrection act

It’s horrific!

In the past the courts have acted like 4A violations are one-off events and cut off prospective relief for them, see e.g. City of Los Angeles v. Lyons.

ICE announcing a policy of routinely violating 4A rights might be one of the few things the system is designed to block…

The bespoke “the president can fire anyone unless it affects our pocketbooks” exception

JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting from denial of motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. To file a petition in this Court, litigants must pay a $300 fee, along with the (much higher) cost of printing 40 bound copies of their filing. Litigants who cannot afford the filing fee and the cost of printing can request to proceed in forma pauperis. The Court largely grants these requests, allowing those litigants to file for free, but our openness to indigent litigants has its limits. In fact, the Court sometimes imposes blanket filing bars that prohibit litigants from filing any more in forma pauperis petitions in noncriminal matters going forward, regardless of the merits of their claims.

I believe that when balancing prisoners’ access to judicial review, on the one hand, and reducing our administrative burden, on the other, we should err on the side of keeping our courthouse doors open. For a system designed to administer justice, reflexively rejecting (potentially meritorious) petitions from incarcerated litigants has a cost that is much too high when compared to the (meager) administrative efficiency gains. Nor should we forget the role that indigent incarcerated litigants have played in the development of important constitutional doctrines—and through habeas proceedings no less. See, e.g., Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335 (1963); see also Sindram, 498 U. S., at 181 (Marshall, J., dissenting). Accordingly, I would not apply the filing bar that the Court imposes for frequent “frivolous” filers to prisoners who, like Howell, seek to proceed in forma pauperis.

Justice Jackson takes an interesting stand today. SCOTUS often waives the filing fees for indigent parties—but refuses to do so after they file multiple "frivolous" petitions. Jackson says that's unfair and dissents from the practice moving forward. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Every time Apple updates their iOS it gets worse. This new liquid glass thing is horrible.

Third Circuit paves the way for Mahmoud Khalil’s rearrest and deportation In a 2-1 ruling, the appellate panel ruled that the lower court judge protecting Khalil from removal lacked the jurisdiction to interfere in the proceedings.

Third Circuit paves the way for Mahmoud Khalil’s rearrest @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/third-circui...

Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis.

University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.

‘Abolish ICE’? Many Democrats are ready to fund it — with conditions It's not clear a Homeland Security funding bill can get done, but furious negotiations are underway.

Article claims that Dem leadership is trying to add body cam and training requirements to DHS funding bill. That’s not gonna get the job done like a cause of action for constitutional violations. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations

Six leading medical organizations plan to ask the courts to throw out revisions to the childhood vaccination schedule announced last week by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal officials.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/h...

i think it might be four words “of the United States” but the point stands!