Evan Chiacchiaro

Wtf guys

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

This is just absolute gibberish. We’ve been doing all those things for decades. DC feels less safe now, not more.

We are suing to block the federal government takeover of DC police.

By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law.

This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.

This is excellent.

‘Trying to avoid problems’: DC Attorney General is lying in wait during federal takeover - WTOP News D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said his office’s first instinct isn’t to a file a lawsuit in response to President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the city’s police department.

So far, DC has declined to file litigation, especially as the Home Rule Act does permit Trump to take at some control over MPD. But directing MPD to assist DHS with a broader operation is very different from replacing the Commissioner and ordering MPD to violate DC Code. I have to image DC sues now.

DC statehood now

"In reality, the crime rate in the District of Columbia has been falling for two years and is now as low as it has been in decades."

In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide

“Their announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the Gaza war is a genocide, an assessment previously reached by some organizations like Amnesty International.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

TREMENDOUS delivery on “expired”

Very cool, fun feeling to be studying for the bar while 6 members of the Supreme Court repeatedly make it clear that the law doesn’t matter to them anymore

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

This was just a horrific decision by Mendoza. Absolutely no reason to let the Orioles pinch-hit Henderson against a righty there.

This, like everything this administration does and then claims is about antisemitism, is a disgusting use of Jews and Judaism as a prop and will make Jews everywhere LESS safe, not more safe.

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

The majority cannot deny that our Constitution was designed to split the powers of a monarch between the governing branches to protect the People. Nor is it debatable that the role of the Judiciary in our constitutional scheme is to ensure fidelity to law. But these core values are strangely absent from today’s decision. Focusing on inapt comparisons to impotent English tribunals, the majority ignores the Judiciary’s foundational duty to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States. The majority’s ruling thus not only diverges from first principles, it is also profoundly dangerous, since it gives the Executive the go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate. The very institution our founding charter charges with the duty to ensure universal adherence to the law now requires judges to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness. With deep disillusionment, I dissent.

KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I held open the door for LL Cool J at a Benihana on Long Island

This is the most straightforward thing they've said so far. They're using the military to "liberate" Los Angeles from its mayor and governor.

CANNOT wait for @megschuster.bsky.social and @spannersready.bsky.social to talk about Verstappen today

The Jewish Students Punished in the Name of Jewish Safety At colleges and universities across the country, Jewish students have been prevented from graduating after being disciplined for taking part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

“the punishment of Jewish students for these protests reveals the hypocrisy of the claim that the college or federal administration wants to protect us. The punishment of Jewish students instead betrays a disregard for their safety.”

newrepublic.com/article/1958...

Pope Leo XIV’s brother scorches trans people, female politicians and anti-Trump Democrats online The 73-year-old Florida man appears to be a staunch Trump supporter who uses his Facebook account to go on the attack.

www.wbez.org/religion/202...

That it is rapidly becoming normal for federal law enforcement to be masked and unidentifiable is terrifying. It is, frankly, the scandal here. It has no place in a free republic.

Quite a finding from Judge Sessions:

"Her continued detention potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in this country who are not citizens. Any one of them may now avoid exercising their First Amendment rights for fear of being whisked away to a detention center."

HERE WE GO:

Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.

"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."

Crazy not just that Trump himself was fooled by the "MS 13" added by his aides to the photo he held up for social media — not ideal that the person with the nuclear codes is so easily misled — but why is Moran here trying so doggedly to "move on" from a huge scoop? Yes, have him show you the photo!

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Sotomayor is making sure that when the inevitable confrontation happens nobody misses it.

Text of a letter addressed "to the Students of Georgetown Law."

Honored to be one of 91 members of the Georgetown Law faculty to sign this letter to (and for) our students:

As the service academies purge libraries of books Hegseth doesn’t like, remember what Eisenhower, a West Point grad, said on the matter: “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.