Sam Vimes' Boot Salesman

Wait you guys stopped wearing those?

The Court, IEEPA, and the Legislative Veto We're all trying to find the guy who did this

My take on Learning Resources v. Trump: the elephant in the room in Chadha and the legislative veto.

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art of the deal, baby

To be fair, the judge ordered the detainee immediately released when he could have just ordered a bond hearing

More importantly, it’s going to be widely ignored

Tina Peters' lawyer appeals directly to Trump to make long-shot case for pardon | Colorado Newsline An attorney for Tina Peters addressed President Donald Trump directly in a letter to make the case that he should grant Peters a pardon.

If you recognize the name it was because he was last seen asking Trump to pardon Tina Peter’s’ state convictions coloradonewsline.com/2025/12/08/t...

Would it though?

this is going to be a very fancy press release that carries no legal weight whatsoever.

please understand that. thank you.

(we should still destroy them. and we will.)

Federal Court Permanently Blocks Additional Provisions of President Trump’s Executive Order on Elections  - Elias Law WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal judge today issued a permanent injunction blocking additional provisions of President Trump's March 2025 Executive

He already tried a big election executive order last year that got blocked and then everyone forgot about it, including, presumably, him. elias.law/press-releas...

What “extraordinary presidential powers?” All we know from this report is Tina Peter’s’ lawyer (who thinks the president can pardon state crimes) totally thinks this would work.

So the lawyer who represents Tina Peters (and who tried, unsuccessfully, to convince a Colorado prison that Trump’s pardon freed her) thinks he found One Weird Trick to take over elections. This should go without saying, but he hasn’t.

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

It bothers me how nobody seems to understand that this, trans people getting booted out of the military without their contractually obligated benefits, etc. is ultimately about if the promises of the government are worth a goddamn thing as long as the Republican Party exists.

Oh no

If the Medicaid expansion was a gun to states’ heads then what’s this

Were it not for the pandemic I do not believe the riot would have happened at all. I think we still underrate the level of COVID madness going on

Oh FUCK this is incredible.

It's not so much that I think everyone who is still over there is a Nazi, but given what the site has become if you're still reading X I assume your politics have shifted to the right somewhat.* Maybe you're built different!

*applies less to electeds whose staffers are doing the posting

If you're over here it is probably because you earnestly and sincerely offended by stuff over on Twitter, and what unites the actually relevant and important cliques of journalists, activists, pundits, etc on the Left, Right, and Center is that they would never, ever admit to that.

That would be news to half the state courts in the country

Eventually one of these guys has to drag their heels and challenge the firing

A stay pending appeal, and an immediate administrative stay, are necessary to prevent immediate, irreparable harm to the Nation. And a stay would not harm plaintiffs, who can be made whole through a refund, including interest, if tariffs paid during these appeals are ultimately held unlawful. Absent at least interim relief from this Court, the United States plans to seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court tomorrow to avoid the irreparable national-security and economic harms at stake. Plaintiffs oppose this motion.1

Here's the language from Trump's appeal of the District Court ruling on tariffs that said they'd pay back the plaintiffs, at least (they made this promise to get a stay back in May).

They caused themselves the headache they're about to face.

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You can quibble with the litigation strategy but I don’t believe the plaintiffs actually asked for the tariffs to be blocked while litigation was pending

This is why “dragging it out means they’re likely to give him a win” never made sense.

Instead, Counsel for Respondet complains that he has too many cases concerning people—fathers, mothers, children, friends, and neighbors—unconstitutionally detained by Respondents. Id. at ¶ 9. As recently explained in a case against these same parties, Respondents “allocated substantial resources to sending thousands of agents to Minnesota, detaining thousands of people, and housing them in their facilities. [Respondents] cannot suddenly lack resources when it comes to protecting detainees’ constitutional rights.” The Advocs. for Hum. Rts. v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., Noem, Lyons, Easterwood, No. 26- CV-00749, slip op. at 29–30 (D. Minn. Feb. 12, 2026) (Dkt. No. 95). Counsel for Respondent cannot rely on the sheer unlawfulness of his clients’ conduct as an excuse for his failure to defend such unlawfulness.

Don't even get get me started on how an AUSA, in a sworn declaration filed in federal court, complains about how many habeas cases they have and how hard it's making their life. Pathetic.

The first muggle-born North Korean student in a generation steps off the train in Kyoto and immediately passes out

Strategic ambiguity regarding the existence of School #10.5 in Taipei

School #9 is based in Tel Aviv and none of the other countries have been allowed to send students for 80 years

Hogwarts practices anticolonialism by refusing to extend its jurisdiction over the Commonwealth countries

I think the administration is appealing in the 1st but they’re going to lose that one