P. Andrew Torrez

We cannot overstate just how badly this supine Supreme Court has made a hash of it in its rush to give Donald Trump (almost) everything he wants.

A few weeks ago, Justice Barrett finally asked “isn’t this a mess?”

Yes, yes it is.

@lizdye.bsky.social explains why at @atrupar.com’s Public Notice.

One More Final Nail In The Coffin For US v. Comey Deader than Monty Python's parrot?

2/ We wrote about Richman’s lawsuit today (with @lizdye.bsky.social)

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/one-more-final-nail-in-the-coffin

1/ Must-read thread from our buddy @nationalsecuritylaw.org on the EDVa instructing the FBI to “rummage” through Dan Richman’s files

Really clever use of turkey and now I want avgolemono!

(We made turkey tacos)

@andrewtorrez.bsky.social @lizdye.bsky.social
Love you guys!
#spotifywrapped2025

Featuring our very own Joe Dye:

Law and Chaos Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...

Is Pete Hegseth a murderer or a war criminal? Turns out the answer is “yes.”

With @lizdye.bsky.social

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Not a dumb question. The answer is yes. That’s how expansive the baseline powers are (that Trump has decided to blow through).

Average length of time from oral argument to written opinion in the 11th Circuit across all cases: 129 days.

Time it took a conservative panel of the 11th Circuit to tell Trump to pound sand: just 8 days(!)

@lizdye.bsky.social thinks it's a warning to Trump to stop filing garbage lawsuits in FL.

Looks like Trump and Hegseth might be preparing to throw the military under the bus on the second strike.

This is why you don’t execute illegal orders. Because you are responsible

We'll talk Habba on tomorrow's show!

YouTube video by LegalEagle "You're Not a REAL US Attorney!"

You're in for a treat as a SECOND @lizdye.bsky.social video has just dropped at @legaleagle.tv

This time it's everything you need to know about why Lindsey Halligan isn't a real lawyer... just in time for the Third Circuit to affirm that Alina Habba isn't, either!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqW...

Ep 168 — License To Kill? (feat. Brian Finucane) Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · 09/23/2025 · 1h 6m

2/ ..by which he meant a war crime, but not one that was going to be resolved in the courts. It is going to require Congress to act. It still is. But perhaps now they will?

Listen to episode 168 for the legal background and... maybe with a sliver of optimism?

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1/ On tomorrow's show, we'll discuss in depth the breaking news that SecDef Pete Hegseth gave orders to "kill everybody" on the tiny speedboat the military repeatedly drone-striked on Sep. 2.

At the time, we interviewed @bcfinucane.bsky.social & he told us this was "an Article I crisis"...

YouTube video by LegalEagle I Investigated Dr Phil

So @lizdye.bsky.social investigated Dr. Phil so you don’t have to.

Turns out he’s a giant piece of shit. (That’s probably not surprising.)

But exactly what he did turned out to be a frustrating surprise to at least one bankruptcy judge and counting! What was it?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Il...

Ep BONUS — Totally Not-Racist Racial Gerrymandering (Ft. Joe Dye) Redistricting and gerrymandering ft. Joe Dye

If you’re a subscriber, don’t forget to check out our extended bonus Thanksgiving episode where we talk about redistricting and the Voting Rights Act.

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Nothing like Thanksgiving for a brand new @lizdye.bsky.social

Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy It's backfired so spectacularly that now *they're* the ones being investigated.

"Weeks of watching Florida insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan flail around like a toddler trying to teach calculus should serve as a warning about the perils of crowdsourcing legal research to literal randos on the internet. *But it won’t.*" — @lizdye.bsky.social

Tea kettles couldn’t come up with a worse system than the electoral college

ICE has just under four years to spend $29.9 billion, they are going to outsource AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to contractors because money is essentially not a problem anymore for the agency.

If they have a “z” in the name odds are decent it’s a collateral relative.

No relation to former Oriole Mike Torrez, though.

Law and Chaos Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...

If you want to know all the ins & outs of the latest Lindsey Halligan ruling, including what happens next, we’ve got you covered!

With @lizdye.bsky.social

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/law-and-chaos/id1727769913

Per multiple sources:

Two hours after ruling that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed to her post as US Atty in Virginia, prosecutors in the office were notified to put name of an assistant U.S. Atty atop cases

At 430p, instruction was reversed. They were told to resume using Halligan’s name

Currie did address - see p.25 of Comey & p.23 of James

FYI that is NOT how I read FN 21 or the law. Judge Currie found that there was no tolling during the consideration of the MTDs *and* she found that Bondi couldn’t use 18 USC 3288 as a basis to ratify Halligan’s defective indictment. That doesn’t mean 3288 wouldn’t apply to a reindictment of Comey

Tolling SoL is different from (but interacts with) the 3288 safe harbor issue

I agree with Jay. Judge Currie's order dismisses these cases (without prejudice). The gov't will certainly appeal Comey's case, which would divest Judge Nachmanoff of jurisdiction even if something remained.

There's a stickier question with James; the gov't could reindict instead of appeal.

of course, those records will become Brady material in any subsequent prosecution of either James or Comey

It's the Trump administration, of course they will.

7/ On first impression, I don't *think* that 3288 safe harbor argument will be precluded via estoppel or as law of the case. Comey's lawyers will certainly argue that the gov't can't bring a defective indictment as pretext for tolling statute of limitations. There's not a lot of case law either way.