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Facing pressure and protests, D.C. Council partially repeals tipped wage ballot initiative But ranked-choice voting will move forward.

The D.C. council voted on Monday to fund the city's transition to a ranked-choice voting system in advance of the 2026 elections. Voters approved this transition in November of 2024. 51st.news/dc-council-p...

JUST IN: Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as US Atty for DC, 50-45

“No, I promise I already read the briefs”

Saving this for future reference

Just reading transcript of 7/24 hearing before Judge Boasberg in JGG—AEA case where govt sent Venezuelans to CECOT despite his orders. Even if DC Cir blocks criminal contempt proceedings, Boasberg says he’ll refer DOJ attys to bar authorities & court’s own disciplinary committee ...
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NJ governed by Purge Rules until this is over

Case 1:24-cr-00768-MWB| Document 117 Filed 08/01/25 Page 1 of 3 PagelD: 507 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JULIEN GIRAUD JR., and JULIEN GIRAUD III, Defendants. No. 1:24-CR-00768 (Chief Judge Brann)* ORDER AUGUST 1, 2025 In accordance with the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: The Girauds' motion to dismiss the indictment' is DENIED with respect to their request for dismissal; 2. The Girauds' motion to dismiss the indictment is DEFERRED with respect to their request to enjoin Alina Habba and any Assistant United States Attorney acting under her authority from prosecuting them; To the extent not already done, the trial in this matter and all other pretrial motions are stayed pending resolution of the instant motion; • The Honorable Matthew W. Brann, Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation. 1 Doc. 99.

Case 1:24-cr-00768-MWB Document 117 Filed 08/01/25 Page 2 of 3 PagelD: 508 4. The Court will receive supplemental briefing on the "merits" issue of whether Ms. Habba's appointment contravenes statutory or constitutional limitations, including; a. The Federal Vacancies Reform Act; b. 28 U.S.C. § 546(d); c. The Appointments Clause; d. The Due Process Clause; e. The Government's "Special Attorney" delegation theory; The Girauds' supplemental merits brief of no more than 25 pages shall be due on Thursday, August 7, 2025; The Government's supplemental merits brief of no more than 25 pages shall be due on Tuesday, August 12, 2025; The Court finds that the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey's request to submit an Amicus Brief satisfies the applicable standard'—it may submit an Amicus Brief of no more than 20 pages by Wednesday, August 13, 2025; Any other organizations or individuals who wish to submit an Amicus Brief should file a short motion to that effect and include their proposed Brief of no more than 20 pages by Wednesday, August 13, 2025; Doc. 112. Kyocera Doc. Sols. Am., Inc. v. Div. of Admin., 708 F. Supp. 3d 531, 542 n.16 (D.N.J. 2023).

Case 1:24-cr-00768-MWB Document 117 Filed 08/01/25 Page 3 of 3 PagelD: 509 9. If either party objects to the submission of an Amicus Brief, opposition to the relevant motion is due by Saturday, August 16, 2025; 10. The Court will hold a hearing and oral argument on this matter on Friday, August 15, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at the United States Courthouse and Federal Building, Courtroom Number 1, Fourth Floor, Williamsport, Pennsylvania; The Government should be prepared to submit firsthand evidence verifying the factual basis for its legal arguments- such evidence may take the form of an affidavit if live testimony is not feasible. BY THE COURT: s/ Matthew W. Brann Matthew W. Brann Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Specially Presiding

MAJOR breaking news:

The District of New Jersey is moving forward with the challenge to Alina Habba’s appointment. The judge has ordered supplemental briefing on the so called “merits issue” - whether Habba’s status as “acting” United States attorney contravenes statutory and/or constitutional law.

Guys is it biased to favor a shared sense of objective reality

The BLS firing is a textbook example of how personalist authoritarianism causes policy nightmares. It's like Trump is trying to prove why liberal democratic guardrails aren't some kind of luxury, but essential for good governance

The philosopher Hannah Arendt has been much quoted over the past several years on the matter of lying in politics, but it’s her work on the nature of democracy—in the sense of a shared political life among citizens—that offers the greatest insight when it comes to Trump’s authoritarianism and his falsehoods. The core of Arendt’s argument is that, as she puts it, “men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world”—in other words, that we exist buffeted by the actions of others and never entirely in control of our own fate. Democratic politics, in her view, requires an embrace of this unpredictability and an acceptance of the world as shared. She contrasts this with the desire of the monarch or the tyrant to maintain control and shape reality to their will. Trump is an atypical tyrant in that he is more interested in declaring the world to be a certain way than he is in actually putting in the work to shape it, but the control he demands over truth is absolute.

I wrote this in 2019 re Sharpiegate www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

trump currently caught between a rock (BLS numbers/the existence of a world outside his head) and a hard place (epstein/glonzo)

This is a perfect example of how an unfettered presidential removal power can undermine accountability (despite unitary executive theory claims to the contrary). How can you hold the President accountable for economic conditions if the President can keep us from knowing about those conditions?

i was curious about that—is this a typical use of those exemptions?

they haven't updated the website—he's still listed: www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...

Senior officials at the FBI’s Record/Information Dissemination Section, which handles the processing of FOIA requests, pushed back on the directives. Michael Seidel, the section chief of RIDS who worked at the FBI for about 14 years, was quite vocal, the three people familiar with the matter told me. Patel blamed him for the failure to send all of the Epstein files to Bondi. Then, a couple of months ago, Seidel was told he could either retire or be fired, according to the people. He chose the former and quietly left the FBI, the people said. The details related to Seidel’s exit haven’t been previously reported.

another member of FBI leadership gone www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

the obsession with AI also really ticks the "reactionary modernism" box (many people are saying)

I think the fascism debate would be more easily resolved if the no-fascism team were more open to considering misogyny as a component of fascism

It is amazing how many reports - in partisan outlets mostly, but even so - are reporting on the "emails" discussed in the annex at face value as if they were real. Can people read?

(Putting aside that the "Clinton approved a plan" claim has been out there since Sept 2020 anyway - that's not news.)

Look we've all misplaced things

This is an escalation—previously the recommendation had been for Clark’s license to be suspended

A few weeks ago I was listening on a bunch of economists talking about what would happen w the tariffs and asked them why no one had mentioned the lawsuits at all. Why wasn't that a part of the analysis? The answer was basically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i strongly believe that it should be illegal to not provide me with pierogis

The which button to push meme

There’s a shell game going in injunction analysis in Trump2.0 executive power cases—when Trump’s power is impinged, the purported harm & balance of equities is analyzed as against *the whole constitutional order*, whereas for challengers like Perlmutter the harm is analyzed against *them personally*

In the beginning the Bove whistleblowers were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. In 4 days we could be seeing a whistleblower every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double Bove whistleblower report within seven days.

BREAKING: A FOURTH whistleblower has come forward with information about Emil Bove, a Trump judicial nominee who Senate Republicans rubberstamped yesterday.

Bove helped orchestrate the blanket pardons of violent January 6 rioters.

i will admit I initially thought the renaming was corny, but "fuck the us attorney's manual" just doesn't have the same ring to it

glad we got this reporting building on the LA Times's great story, the specific wording from Essayli really adds a lot here

Essayli shouted “Fuck the Justice Manual” at a team of his attorneys pursuing an indictment stemming from the protests, said four current and former federal prosecutors familiar with the incident. Essayli’s reference to DOJ’s handbook of prosecution rules came during a break from lawyers’ presentation to a grand jury. A grand juror overheard the exchange, they said.

Tired: Suggesting that the government should tell judges "Fuck you"

Wired: Yelling "Fuck the Justice Manual" news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

yeah, it's not always obvious from outside where the lines are, but i think it's really notable that ed whelan, the fedsoc judges' strongest soldier, was sounding the alarm over bove precisely *because* he was worried it would endanger the larger project of remaking the judiciary