David Bernstein

It’s an honest mistake that any untrained, uneducated, impulsive arm of the state could make.

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This is, um, very very wrong on the law and suggests massive systematic 4A violations may be occurring.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed an executive order that restores the right to serve on state juries to more than 350,000 state residents with criminal convictions who have completed their sentences. www.law360.com/artic...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Powerful statement from Judge Salas here

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Totally normal thing for the government to be doing

HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."

I mean, let’s be honest. This kind of thing probably gets said in sealed grand jury proceedings fairly often. Which is why grand jury proceedings should not be sealed.

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In case you haven’t been paying attention, this is the kind of stuff our federal agents are doing now. Really scary.

Shameful, inexcusable, unlawful behavior by the guy whose salary we are all paying.

President for Life Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.

Donald Trump has amassed the powers of a king, J. Michael Luttig writes. He won’t give them up easily:

This is unreal. This administration continues to find new ways to shock and new lows

Chilling and shameful

ACLU’s Know Your Rights library has great resources for people planning to protest this weekend:

www.aclu.org/know-yo...

Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo...

Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo...

Be safe out there.

One of those rare circumstances where the defense and prosecution agree an injustice has occurred, and the judge inexplicably refuses to act. As always, it boggles the mind.

The Knicks are one win away from their first conference finals appearance in 25 years‼️

There aren’t enough hours in the day for the grift he wants to squeeze out of being a “public servant”

Deeply disappointing and disheartening that these powerful firms are so readily giving up this really important work

And… more about the cruelty currently pulsating through the government.

Hardly surprising that the government had no evidence whatsoever but glad to see a judge calling them out for it in such clear and stark terms.

Cool, cool. Just as the Executive Branch should be working.

Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there.

First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/

BREAKING NEWS

We agree with defendants and extend Parks to individuals who were 19 or 20 years old at the time of the crime for which they were convicted. Our Constitution and caselaw interpreting it requires us to evaluate the proportionality of defendants’ sentences. To do so, we use the factors laid out in People v Lorentzen, 387 Mich 167; 194 NW2d 827 (1972), and People v Bullock, 440 Mich 15; 485 NW2d 866 (1992), which incorporate evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a civilized society. Late adolescents who are 19 or 20 years old, as a class, share with 18-year-olds the same mitigating characteristics of late-adolescent brain development. The same considerations that were discussed at length in Parks apply equally to this class of late adolescents. Accordingly, as applied to defendants who were 19 or 20 years old at the time of their crime, a mandatory LWOP sentence that does not allow for consideration of the mitigating factors of youth or the potential for rehabilitation is a grossly disproportionate punishment in violation of Const 1963, art 1, § 16. Czarnecki and Taylor are, therefore, entitled to be resentenced in the manner set forth in MCL 769.25 and our relevant caselaw.

NEW: In a major state con law ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for anyone under age 21 violate the state's ban on "cruel or unusual" punishment -- extending a 2022 case that applied to 18 year olds. 1/ state-law-research.org/wp-content/u...

Blatantly and unapologetically illegal conduct from federal agents here.

Inexplicable that neither @cnn.com nor @msnbc.com is covering the #handsoff2025 protests.

Shameful.