Debi Cornwall

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Story below, proclamation here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Fourth Military Judge in Sept. 11 Case Retires

Today's news: The fourth judge in the long-running 9/11 case at Guantánamo Bay has retired and the chief judge for the military commissions has assigned himself to oversee it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

I also question why/whether the lender would accept consigned property as collateral for a loan.

Agreed!

Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”

Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the center of a lawsuit brought by Tamara Lanier, a descendant of enslaved individuals.

I like Zotero, a free app that can organize your saves and research.

Looking for a contact at Wolf Entertainment on the TV production side. Any suggestions?

I'm sorry, no, we absolutely cannot do this.

What the hell is wrong with the judge that allowed this?

And everyone involved in this decision, honestly?

You can't do AI séances in court to bring deceased victims back to give an impact statement!

This is not what facing your accuser means.

I would hope also there's something in process towards professional repercussions for the therapist-wife. What a betrayal of a traumatized client.

Whoa.

This is mesmerizing.

Update: I hear there are 41 immigration detainees held at Guantánamo Bay this morning, and the staff has been reduced to 760, including ICE contractors. Most are soldiers and Marines. The Army general from Texas who set up the operation has left, and a colonel is in charge.

Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.

A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown In two months, around 400 migrants have been held there, mostly Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens designated for deportation.

The Trump administration carried out its first direct deportation from Guantanamo Bay to Nicaragua this week — and other news about the offshore outpost in ICE detention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

🧵 The New York City Bar Association (@NYCBarAssociation.bsky.social), along with several other bar associations, including the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (@NACDL.org), have issued a joint statement defending the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession. (1/5)

La candidature de Marine Le Pen à la présidentielle en 2027 compromise après sa condamnation à une peine d’inéligibilité avec exécution provisoire Reconnue coupable de détournement de fonds publics, la cheffe de file de l’extrême droite française a été condamnée à quatre ans de prison dont deux ans ferme assortis d’une peine d’inéligibilité de cinq ans avec exécution provisoire.

La candidature de Marine Le Pen à la présidentielle en 2027 compromise après sa condamnation à une peine d’inéligibilité avec exécution provisoire

A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS March 29, 2025 To our students: We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students.

tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...

Notably missing: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia. Kind of mindblowing to me given what the substance of this letter is: "government should not retaliate against law firms"

We support the right of people to advance their interests in courts of law when they have been wronged. We reject the notion that the U.S. government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways. We cannot accept government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice in this manner. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard and seen must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession. There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers in private practice from Main Street to Wall Street, as well as those in corporations and who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation.

More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Written by a 9th grader during lockdown.

"The City Bar is outraged by the Memorandum’s sweeping accusations and insinuations, which are devoid of any legitimate factual basis and direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to disregard and undermine foundational principles of the legal profession and the rule of law"

Understanding every one of Signal’s identifiers We’ve heard some questions about the difference between Signal usernames, phone numbers, profile names, profiles, and nicknames. Let’s talk about it.

To help confirm someone's identity, Signal offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts. Make sure you're inviting the right person to your group. Learn about Signal's identifiers: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Looking at you, NYS Bar Assn.

First universities and now BigLaw*. After last night's news about Paul Weiss, a junior lawyer's compelling firmwide email about the existential stakes now. (*Unlike universities, BigLaw=corporations dedicated to profits, notwithstanding stated principles about hiring, pro bono programs, etc.)

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

"Rule of law is a principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are:
Publicly promulgated
Equally enforced
Independently adjudicated
And consistent with international human rights principles."
www.uscourts.gov/educational-...

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg issues a classwide, nationwide temporary restraining order, blocking removal of any noncitizens in U.S. custody who are subject to today's AEA order for the next 14 days.

With planes leaving, he says, "I am required to act immediately."