Matthew Stiegler

Started fun!

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Prof. @rachelbarkow.bsky.social's book should be required reading for *state* justices, specifically.

Why should state supreme courts blindly follow deeply-flawed rulings responsible for widespread atrocities when they have their own, independent *state* constitutions?? bsky.app/profile/stri...

The number of investigations worked by the US Marshals has gone down each year from from FY2022, from over 1,300 investigations in FY2022 to 808 in FY2025, even though the number of threats and judges targeted has gone up 3 out of those 4 years. I don't know the explanation for that.

Note that federal fiscal years run from Oct 1 of the preceding calendar year through Sept 30. So FY2025 is fall '24 through fall '25.

The data is posted at this link:
www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/j...

The US Marshals have posted updated data on threats to federal judges.

Comparing FY2025 to the year prior, more judges reported threats, and the total number of reported threats increased by over 10%. About 16% of all judges--1 in 6--were targeted.

The rise in threats continues so far in FY2026.

Watch this 👇 I am proud to have @crow.house.gov as a fellow public servant and friend. Calls to arrest and execute public servants are outrageous. And calls to uphold the Constitution are important and our shared duty.

Acts of political violence are characteristic of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships – not strong democracies.

Violence of any kind has no place in our society and we must all condemn it. Especially when it comes from the President.

John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...

"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...

I keep hearing about how AI is going to obliterate appellate practice any second now, but stuff like this gives me hope the human brains are going to hold on a bit longer.

Yeah, I agree with you about it raising serious questions.

bsky.app/profile/matt...

State Challenges to Immigration Enforcement Practices Recent lawsuits in Wisconsin, New York, and California explore questions about the role of state law in federal immigration enforcement.

NEW: I wrote for @statecourtreport.org about the important role *state* law plays in immigration enforcement, and some ongoing litigation in WI, NY, and CA that will shape the relationship between ICE and the states and localities in which it operates. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

I envision a handful of judges around the country absolutely furious at themselves now for not taking a leave of absence from the bench to rep Trump in 24.

Lucky

I was recently surprised and a little alarmed to be informed that an anonymous account I've interacted with a bit here is someone I know in real life. If you post anonymously and you wonder if I've puzzled out who's behind your anonymous account without you actually telling me: not a chance.

Yes, I get that, I’m just admiring the gumption of dressing it up as a how-dare-we-keep-disrespecting-state-courts move.

Exactly

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

We’re still a couple months away from judicial opinions consisting entirely of a photograph of the “I ❤️ Trump” tattoo on their ass, luckily.

"One area in which state courts have remained uniform in their adoption of certification procedures is in allowing the state high court the discretion to decline questions that federal courts have certified."
ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol92/is...

(And for the record I think the Bluesky jab is just magavirtue signaling.)

That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time

I skimmed the opinion, but I’m still struggling to grasp how federal courts are being mean to state courts by inviting them to say what state laws mean.

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Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

Grim

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...

/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.

You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Okay. Bots and clueless randos.

I haven't seen anyone suggest Judge Smith should be impeached, if that's what you're referring to.