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Clark can (and surely will) appeal the D.C. Bar’s determination to the D.C. Court of Appeals (not to be confused with the D.C. Circuit).

But Ryan is 100% correct—this is a big deal.

A vital precedent just set by the D.C. bar that it and other state bars should follow, including with respect to current DOJ lawyers making knowing misrepresentations to court, ordering inferior colleagues to defy court orders, etc.

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW visual investigation:

ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside

There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces

We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records

Insiders told us this used to be rare

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a *third* whistleblower

🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific.

One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).

It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.

It has written majority opinions in only 3.

Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

Citizens being assaulted, arrested, and sent to jails. Military-style sweeps of Hispanic neighborhoods. This is what Congress just gave President Trump $150 billion to do to Americans in every state. www.aclusocal.org/sites/defaul...

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Show Us Your Face The federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by ICE agents and require them to properly identify themselves.

“Descending on a person in public, laying hands on them, and taking them to a distant prison is a naked expression of state power. For it to be tolerated in a democracy, it cannot be done by shadowy, masked agents,” Brandon del Pozo argues:

With the rule of law under near constant assault, lawyers can play a key role in its defense. We’re proud to co-sponsor a webinar series to equip lawyers with the tools & resources to get involved locally and nationally. Register: www.checksandbalancesnow.org/webinars

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

We went full black mirror. Tracking anyone, anywhere, at any time using their face is simply incompatible with democracy. Terrified to think how cops will weaponize this against protesters, religious groups, and anyone else law enforcement wants to target. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Cops Are Already Unleashed. Trump Is Telling Them to Run Wild. With his new executive order on policing, Trump just wants to make sure he’s the one holding the lead.

I wrote about Trump wanting to “unleash” the police.

theintercept.com/2025/05/02/t...

Important, detailed reporting from @samstecklow.bsky.social on the harmful consequences that flow from RI being the only state in the country that doesn't vest a state licensing agency with statutory authority to revoke or suspend a police officer's license after they engage in serious misconduct

Posting 'Happy Birthday Gang' to Social Media Can Get You Added to the NYPD Gang Database And other disturbing details from a new civil rights lawsuit.

As Trump invokes gang membership to justify deportations, a new lawsuit paints a damning picture of the NYPD's secret gang database, which is 99% Black and Latino, and which you can get added to, it seems, for posting "Happy birthday, gang" to social media: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-gang-da...

🚨 @nysfocus.bsky.social scoop:

The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE.

It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity.

full story⬇️

2/2 The story I link to provides yet more evidence that New York (and other states) need pretextual traffic stop reform now more than ever

1/2 Legislation introduced in New York would prohibit officers from conducting traffic stops for low-level traffic infractions that bear little relation to traffic safety: www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...

Seeing a lot of anger over people in ICE detention having to eg file habeas claims on their own.

There are existing efforts to support these folks: not just full legal rep, but partial assistance (easier to scale).

Here’s one volunteer network (full disclosure: my org) immigrationjustice.us

The ICE Ruse: How Agents Impersonate Local Law Enforcement and Lie to Make Arrests - Documented This article was co-published with The Daily Beast.Leer en EspañolIt was early in the morning when Miguel found his Brooklyn apartment surrounded by people clad in vests emblazoned: “POLICE.” Immigra...

By the way, see a lot of folks confused by how ICE can call themselves “police” and basically lie to targets. I wrote (almost seven years ago now, how time flies!!) about how this is also completely legal and in fact is a specifically-sanctioned tactic the agency has

Once again I ask:

Do you get it yet, law firms?

These orders aren’t isolated threats to Covington or Perkins or Jenner.

They’re existential threats to the independence of the legal profession.

You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.

Say something. Do something.

Universities have to recognize that these actions pose an existential threat. They need to make clear, through action, that they won’t sit on the sidelines as the Trump administration terrorizes students and faculty alike and runs roughshod over individual rights and the rule of law.

Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/

Resharing reports I worked on with the @policingproject.bsky.social about alternative response in San Francisco, Denver, and Tucson—now on Bluesky since I'm making the switch from Twitter. Important lessons on reducing police involvement in crisis response!

2. And study after study show that stopping drivers for these low-level traffic infractions do not reduce crime, and rarely uncover evidence of serious crime: tiny.cc/pc61001

1. Even worse, as @jennifergollan.bsky.social @susien.bsky.social report, only 1 in 5 of these chases is someone suspected of a violent crime. Much of the time, people are being killed because officers chase a driver who committed a low-level traffic infraction, like having a broken taillight

Policing Project applauds Department of Justice decision to end Operation Jetway — The Policing Project The Policing Project applauds this important policy change, which comes months after we called on DOJ and the DEA to end Operation Jetway, citing the long-documented history of racial profiling asso...

We applaud the DOJ's decision to suspend Operation Jetway.

In June, we called on DOJ and the DEA to end the program, citing the long-documented history of racial profiling associated with it.

Last week's announcement by DOJ echoed many of our concerns.

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Policing Project files amicus brief in Barnes v. Felix in the Supreme Court — The Policing Project NEW YORK — On November 20, 2024, the Policing Project filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States case Barnes v. Feli x. The amicus brief urges the Court to reject the Fifth ...

NEW: Read our amicus brief on behalf of nearly two dozen law enforcement officials in SCOTUS case Barnes v. Felix, urging the Court to reject the "moment of the threat" doctrine to evaluate claims of excessive force.

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