@andrewtorrez.bsky.social
HLS '97, ex-BigLaw Practicing lawyer and cohost of the @lawandchaospod.bsky.social podcast with @lizdye.bsky.social READ MY STUFF! lawandchaospod.com LISTEN TO MY STUFF! patreon.com/lawandchaospod he/him
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05.03.2026 02:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@andrewtorrez.bsky.social and @lizdye.bsky.social 's brand is so strong that when I saw the insane filing from Patrick Byrne in the Hunter Biden case I immediately went "DOCKET ALERT" and started hoping it will be on Friday's podcast.
04.03.2026 22:43 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Yesterday, we learned that Trump is on track to get the Republicans crushed in the 2026 midterms. But can Trump steal them??
Almost certainly not - but you can learn all the weird shit they're gonna try with the latest @lizdye.bsky.social for @legaleagle.tv
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"Letโs not bury the lede here: The DoD wants to use AI for fully autonomous lethal systems and mass surveillance of American citizens. Anthropic said 'no,' and now the US government is retaliating by trying to destroy it." โ @lizdye.bsky.social
04.03.2026 19:55 โ ๐ 2249 ๐ 865 ๐ฌ 72 ๐ 29Or โฆ Bondi could stop asking DOJ lawyers to do crazy unethical shit that gets them in trouble with state bars
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New in PN: Pete Hegseth C*ckblocks Anthropic
"Itโs an abuse of power by an intemperate cable news host using nat'l security law to destroy a company that dared to defy him. Itโs also a signal to every govt contractor that negotiating too hard may lead to being exiled from the federal marketplace."
I really love spicy curries but at the same time I am so intrigued by Japanese curry
04.03.2026 04:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.
When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?
Obviously you never played A&A Classic
04.03.2026 04:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cait we need to play Fortess America
04.03.2026 03:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0US Phalanx production up 900%
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Everyone in the Trump administration should be forced to play a group of randomly-selected 12-year-olds at RISK, the family game of world domination from Parker Brothers.
If they win, they can keep their jobs.
(For Pete Hegseth, Axis & Allies.)
DOJ filed the motions to dismiss last night? Just ... what?
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The Supreme Court's dishonest stay of New York redistricting dropped too late for us to do more than give it a one-line mention on today's show, but @stevevladeck.bsky.social really gets into the weeds of yet another example of the right-wing justices reinventing the facts (see e.g., Bremerton)
03.03.2026 15:09 โ ๐ 37 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1We need fewer votes than you might think.
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Check out today's latest at @atrupar.com featuring contributions from @snipy.bsky.social on the Article I crisis in Iran and Joe Dye's roadmap for today's primaries.
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Todayโs show goes through the history of modern conflict and the law of war, why what Trump did in Iran is indefensible & how Congress can get us out.
With @lizdye.bsky.social
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Did she mention the schoolchildren in Iran killed in the illegal war her husband just kicked off?
03.03.2026 01:49 โ ๐ 320 ๐ 79 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 2
What Trump did, why it was illegal, and โ most importantly โ how weโre much closer to stopping him than you might think.
With @lizdye.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-cant...
I would think the prime would also raise legal impossibility as an affirmative defense. It's not a perfect fit but it wouldn't require impleading the gov't.
28.02.2026 15:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I make this look GOOD
27.02.2026 22:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Heโs not wrong (except for the use of the word โunprecedentedโ to describe a thing thatโs been going on for 14 months)
27.02.2026 22:05 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This is a really good show! Iโm so proud of what we do.
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Is it UGG boots or ugh boots? Can a big company attempt to monopolize a market through cutthroat litigation tactics?
Find out! Plus all the Trump news thatโs fit to pod!
With @lizdye.bsky.social
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OpenAl and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate Al innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world. Amazon will also invest $50 billion in OpenAl, starting with an initial $15 billion investment and followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met.
OpenAI announcing โ$110 billionโ in new funding, leaving out that $35 billion of Amazonโs $50 billion is contingent on an IPO, and the $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA is paid in installments. Anyone reporting this as fully closed is wrong. Itโll happen anyway.
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![As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that โ[t]he lawyers in my civil division
didnสนt deserveโ the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that
the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the
following in the showโcause order that preceded the January 28 order:
The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss
and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled
mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court
orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to
provide them with adequate resources.
ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1.
The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government
attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and
his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneysโincluding,
unfortunately, Ana Vossโto resign). What those attorneys โdidnโt deserveโ was the
Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making
any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfdiyietterineb3cvu3ddco/bafkreib7ssy25zueiapqqkxjzoo2plk5bd3ynocwykkuacj2en4n7g3rni@jpeg)
As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that โ[t]he lawyers in my civil division didnสนt deserveโ the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the following in the showโcause order that preceded the January 28 order: The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to provide them with adequate resources. ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1. The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneysโincluding, unfortunately, Ana Vossโto resign). What those attorneys โdidnโt deserveโ was the Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow
![Finally, in his February 9 email, Rosen said:
For our part, we commit to the court that we will redouble
our efforts to achieve compliance by our client across the
board. The truth is that efforts we have already been
undertaking for weeks have led to considerable
improvementโefforts which have apparently gone
unrecognized by some on the bench, even though the
numbers prove them out. We will continue to try to find the
ways to improve.
This, too, appears to be untrue. Attached as Appendix B is a list of additional
cases in which ICE has violated court orders, most of which violations occurred after
entry of the January 28 order. Despite Rosenโs assurance of โredouble[d]โ efforts that
have โled to considerable improvement,โ Appendix B documents 113 additional orders
that ICE has violated in 77 additional casesโagain, above and beyond the 97 orders that
ICE violated in the 66 cases identified in Appendix A.
If anything is โbeyond the pale,โ it is ICEโs continued violation of the orders of
this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil
contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another
occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten
contemptโagain and again and againโto force the United States government to comply
with court orders.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfdiyietterineb3cvu3ddco/bafkreiatphbgrx3ehiwa2hvyoxzbgdasnyx23jvold6vv25rd6sav5ttvu@jpeg)
Finally, in his February 9 email, Rosen said: For our part, we commit to the court that we will redouble our efforts to achieve compliance by our client across the board. The truth is that efforts we have already been undertaking for weeks have led to considerable improvementโefforts which have apparently gone unrecognized by some on the bench, even though the numbers prove them out. We will continue to try to find the ways to improve. This, too, appears to be untrue. Attached as Appendix B is a list of additional cases in which ICE has violated court orders, most of which violations occurred after entry of the January 28 order. Despite Rosenโs assurance of โredouble[d]โ efforts that have โled to considerable improvement,โ Appendix B documents 113 additional orders that ICE has violated in 77 additional casesโagain, above and beyond the 97 orders that ICE violated in the 66 cases identified in Appendix A. If anything is โbeyond the pale,โ it is ICEโs continued violation of the orders of this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contemptโagain and again and againโto force the United States government to comply with court orders.
MN USAtty Daniel Rosen got shitty with Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz over that list of 96 orders violated in Jan.
Rosen: My staff don't deserve it
Judge: Your staff don't deserve to be hung out to dry over stupid politics, asshole [the asshole is implied]
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If the Dems retake the Senate in November, we might owe FCC Chair Brendan Carr a big thank you.
@lizdye.bsky.social weaves the tale from the defunct Fairness Doctrine to Trump's bullying of CBS to Senate candidate James Talaraico & more in the latest @legaleagle.tv
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AdV...
Invalidating ID cards based on gender is literally a key plot point in The Handmaidโs Tale. This is horrifying.
26.02.2026 02:22 โ ๐ 1100 ๐ 347 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 4Remember when Bill Clinton fired Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders because she mentioned masturbation
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With all the of the destroying this country the Trump family is doing, sometimes you can forget that theyโre also grifting on a scale never before seen in human history.
But you can trust
@lizdye.bsky.social to keep her eye on the ball in her latest must-read: