Peter Orlowicz

DOJ attorney under Obama/DOJ attorney under Trump 45/DOJ attorney under Trump 47

This is also what makes it so hard to see how we get out of this particular crisis.

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Ooh, I have a copy of that Ian Toll book, highly recommended.

Bonus Army - Wikipedia

Maybe they'll pay us in coupons. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_A...

Read the statute yourself, does it seem ambiguous to you?

Yeah, this is going great.

I mean, they don't care about following any of the other laws, why should we assume they would follow this one?

I'm so tired.

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Yeah, this is a garbage take.

This will be a disaster for the disability program. The article cites an estimate of a 10% decline in approvals, but I’d bet it’ll be MUCH higher. You’re looking at easily a third of cases that were once approved now being denied if they do away with the Grid Rules.
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I for one am relieved to know that according to DOJ, lawyers aren't policymakers, so we shouldn't be eligible for Schedule Policy/Career any more.

(three weeks after argument) "The Court finds Mr. Bivens' action cannot be maintained and must be dismissed because he names seven unidentified narcotics agents as defendants, not six."

Remember when the My Cousin Vinnie rebuttal was a funny joke and not actual argument prep?

i can‘t get over how he performatively straps his gun around his back as if that somehow evens any kind of odds before jumping an unarmed man with his gun-toting buddy right next to him

I mean, I agree with you, but it's also a disturbingly accurate representation of the current administration writ large, so.

I love that! Yay trains!

This flyer could not be more archetypically Polish under any circumstances.

Yay trains!

Yay trains!

...but you're the youngest 😂

Not just that, but his entire history of operating in both business and politics makes it clear he sees everything as zero-sum and doesn't believe in win-win agreements. In order for him to win, everyone else has to lose, so of course he would reject an approach that depends on a mutual benefit.

Damn. Liz ain't having it. 😮

I discovered this when we switched Tiny Human from his crib to a regular bed (we skipped the toddler bed stage) and had it in the corner of the room. Ugh.

New cover art for @badlawyerpod.bsky.social for sure.

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you

That is not, in fact, what ICE does

He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

You'd think Hollywood would have learned from the box office success of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but apparently not.

Furloughed for the first time since 2013. Just got my 15-year federal service pin, too.

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

SSI/Title XVI, though...