Stephanie K. Patten

brilliant

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Sloppy.

Neither even said thank you.

Texas lawmakers should not roll back Michael Morton Act State law requires prosecutors to turn over to defense attorneys virtually all evidence in a case. State lawmakers are seeking to change that. Bad move.

Texas lawmakers should not roll back Michael Morton Act www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

The Suspension Clause:

1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session;

2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and

3) *Even then,* applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)

Robert Prevost reposted Rocco Palmo @roccopalmo · Apr 14 As Trump & Bukele use Oval to 🤣 Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident (https://bit.ly/3ROMjnP), once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC Aux +Evelio asks, “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” https://bit.ly/4j700KN Robert Prevost reposted Synod.va @Synod_va · Feb 25 We continue praying together the Holy Rosary for the health of #PopeFrancis this evening at 9 PM in St. Peter’s Square, The prayer today will be presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization. #pope #PopeFrancis

Robert Prevost reposted Synod.va @Synod_va · Feb 15 #PrayForThePope #GoodNews: The Holy See Press Office has announced that Pope Francis' health is improving. Let us pray together for his full recovery @franciscus Be strong, We are looking forward to seeing you again soon at St. Peter's Square. #WeLoveOurPope

Robert Prevost @drprevost · Feb 13 Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration From americamagazine.org Robert Prevost @drprevost · Feb 3 JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others https://ncronline.org/node/292716 via @NCRonline

The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he:

- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.

Fort Worth police spent $7K on New York trip as part of Modern child pornography investigation Five officers visited four New York City art institutions as part of their investigation into allegations of child pornography at the Modern.

Protip Fort Worth Police Department: Google is free.

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The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee yesterday heard hours of testimony against HB 3330 (Cook) that would gut the Michael Morton Act. They want to pretend there's confusion over whether only DA's or also police must turn over exculpatory evidence, but no, it always applied to both. 🧵

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?

The answer is due process.

a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him

How the FedSoc judges on SCOTUS want you think habeas corpus works:

What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"

“MS-13 members such as Abrego.”

This is what we lawyers call an allegation, not a fact. Another sign of the times that it’s in a brief filed in the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General of the United States.

Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal- vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a 2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal- vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip- lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ- ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur- ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor- ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to- night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

You had your opportunity to do something and did nothing.

Matthew Martens on why due process matters:

"Without a trial … we do not know whether a crime occurred and, if so, who committed the crime."

"And that trial cannot provide a reliable answer … if its procedures are not of a sort designed to yield accurate results."

One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.”

That’s fatuous.

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Historically, law enforcement determinations of who is or isn’t in a gang has been some of the most entrails-of-a-sheep subjective voodoo bullshit in the entire criminal justice system. So now if a neo-Nazi is wiling to call you a gang member you are summarily deported.

So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.

I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective

Supreme Court throws out death sentence, murder conviction of Okla. death row inmate The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.

The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.

So, folks on here have probably caught a whole bunch of lawyers and law professors (correctly) lashing out at a law professor (Ilan Wurman) for suggesting there's some meaningful "literature" supporting Trump's attack on birthright citizenship that the courts didn't "engage with"

It's worth taking

Live updates: Trump sentenced in hush money case | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced to unconditional discharge for his hush money case conviction. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

If my clients had the opportunity for similar treatment, I’d be on board with this non-sentence. For some reason, other similarly convicted felons aren’t afforded such grace. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Nobody gives voir dire, dude.

“Gifted and tenacious attorney”?! Dude didn’t even know how to switch his Venmo to private.