Quinta Jurecic

I am genuinely flummoxed by this

The Comey Indictment Is an Embarrassment The Justice Department should never have brought such a shoddy case.

“The Justice Department should never have brought such an astoundingly shoddy case” against James Comey, @qjurecic.bsky.social argued in September. That decision, she added, was “an indication of how thoroughly Trump has been able to corrupt the department.”

Sauce for the gander, basically.

What a long, strange trip it's been

thank you!

judge rao (derogatory)

Forget Joe Rogan. The Next Big Podcast Bro Is in the Senate. Ted Cruz may see a new path to the White House in today’s changing political-media ecosystem.

I have always wondered who actually listens to this podcast

In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.

In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.

Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.

This is another Section 111 case: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Alternatively, make them the head of the FBI.

right—it's not clear to me if the quote means "we're staying far away from this" or "time to come up with some flimsy legal rationales"

this could mean several different things, none of which are reassuring

For those keeping track:

Essayli (CDCal), Habba (DNJ), and Chatta (DNev) have been found to have been unlawfully appointed. Govt appealing.

Halligan (EDVa) & Sarcone (NDNY) pending.

(Issues not always exactly the same.)

The Law Allowing Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches is Worse Than You Thought The controversial new measure paves the way for a big payday for senators—and undercuts reasonable debate about how the Justice Department should investigate Congress.

Perhaps rather than demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars, the senators could simply apologize to the nation for violating their oaths of office and lending rhetorical support to criminal conspiracies to overturn a free and fair election.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Republicans’ Redistricting Push Is at Risk of Backfiring

a few months ago on this website I got roasted by doomers for suggesting the gop had no plan for what to do when the dems hit back on gerrymandering 👍

I coin the phrase: spicacene - the era of the cob.

oh 100%

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.

However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

those people were in fact charged under this same statute!

fwiw, when the district court judge in this same case blocked trump from deploying the guard in chicago, she based her reasoning in part on several instances in which a grand jury declined to indict protestors whom ice/cbp claimed attacked them

(N.M. Ct. App. 2010). If I were a statewide elected official in Mississippi, and I was told to drop whatever else the people of that good State tasked me to do, to focus instead on interpreting a “uniform” law that apparently has fewer adopters than Bluesky, and to decide whether to follow an intermediate appellate decision from New Mexico at the behest of federal judges in New Orleans, I can tell you this much: I would not think the exercise beneficial to federalis

Judge Oldham's call for the end of certifying questions from CA5 to state Supreme Courts includes this somewhat inexplicable shot at this here website.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

On Lawfare Daily, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org spoke to @emilyehoge.bsky.social about her articles in Lawfare about Russian mobsters being sent to the war in Ukraine and how it may be altering the Russian social contract.

CBP reportedly pulling out after a week in Charlotte.

I felt an instant rush of patriotism reading this article

The federal government shot Marimar Martinez in Brighton Park, charged her with federal crimes, and just weeks later is dismissing the case. This follows several dropped prosecutions against protesters. To say the immigration raids have been all around mess is an understatement

Briggs is one of five people arrested during a Sept. 27 protest at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and subsequently charged with assaulting, impeding or resisting a federal officer.

All of the other four cases had already been tossed out. Briggs' was the last, with trial set to start on Dec. 8.

since we published this article earlier this week:
-DOJ moved to dismiss three Chicago cases under Section 111, including the case of a woman shot five times by CBP
-Two more people in the Charlotte area have been charged under this statute for allegedly assaulting or impeding immigration officers

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 want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

the coalitional dynamics are just different

always thinking about this 2024 @qjurecic.bsky.social essay