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Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/ Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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B. Inmate Meskill’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. Error! Bookmark
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C. Inmate Pinson’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. . Error! Bookmark
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II. THE PROTECTIVE ORDER IS LEGALLY DEFECTIVE. ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK
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B. The Protective Order Fails to Comply with PLRA’s Requirements ............. Error!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. BACKGROUND ...................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. I. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION OF JUNE 3, 2025......... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. II. THREE INMATES ALLEGE RETALIATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN THIS CASE ............................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. III. THE COURT’S ENTRY OF THE NATIONWIDE PROTECTIVE ORDER ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. LEGAL STANDARD ............................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. ARGUMENT ............................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. I. THE INMATES’ RETALIATION ALLEGATIONS ARE UNSUBSTANTIATED. ............................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. A. Former Inmate Dye’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. ........... Error! Bookmark not defined. B. Inmate Meskill’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. Error! Bookmark not defined. C. Inmate Pinson’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. . Error! Bookmark not defined. II. THE PROTECTIVE ORDER IS LEGALLY DEFECTIVE. ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. A. The Protective Order Fails to Comply with Rule 65(d) ...... Error! Bookmark not defined. B. The Protective Order Fails to Comply with PLRA’s Requirements ............. Error! Bookmark not defined. CONCLUSION ......................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

04.03.2026 01:10 — 👍 2348    🔁 396    💬 54    📌 75

North Carolina Democrats outvoted Republicans 57-43 in Tuesday’s primary 👀

04.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 60    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1

Wow, the Dem primary turnout among Hispanic voters in Texas is going to be giving the GOP sweats for the next 8 months.

Take Zapata County - turnout in the Dem primary there yesterday was 143% the total number of votes Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild.

04.03.2026 12:02 — 👍 396    🔁 101    💬 2    📌 10

Jasmine Crockett concedes to James Talarico this morning: “With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominee. I'm committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot." #TxSen

04.03.2026 13:12 — 👍 527    🔁 69    💬 13    📌 19
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Trump’s desire to gerrymander Texas and purge his GOP critics may end up giving Dems a functional House majority.

04.03.2026 12:03 — 👍 763    🔁 138    💬 30    📌 12

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

03.03.2026 23:31 — 👍 1321    🔁 288    💬 13    📌 5
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Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich The state Senate and Assembly budget proposals are set to include plans to boost taxes on millionaires, a plan opposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich

03.03.2026 21:27 — 👍 151    🔁 28    💬 5    📌 4

Gulf War: Tehran Drift

03.03.2026 21:18 — 👍 85    🔁 9    💬 9    📌 1

Bexar was Harris +9.7 and so far partisan gap is Democratic +33.

Dems have gotten 37% of Harris's vote total in the county.
GOP has gotten 23% of Trump's vote total.

Seems consistent with early voting patterns?

03.03.2026 21:11 — 👍 131    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 4

the public tends to think that undermining parties is virtuous and good, but in fact it is the opposite and just creates chaos and harms voters.

03.03.2026 20:57 — 👍 37    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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Here is the war powers resolution Rep. Gottheimer is pushing w/ Reps. Golden, Cuellar, Costa, Landsman and Panetta.

Unlike Khanna-Massie, it gives the admin 30 days to end hostilities w/ Iran and allows them to maintain troop presence in the region for "defensive purposes"

03.03.2026 19:51 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 2
Zelda Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley on Marimba
YouTube video by Mart0zz Zelda Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley on Marimba

some favorites: marimba www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWhO...

03.03.2026 19:54 — 👍 44    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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Trump administration can’t stop New York's congestion pricing, court rules Gov. Kathy Hochul declared victory: “Congestion pricing is legal, it works, and it is here to stay. “

NYC FTW. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

03.03.2026 19:28 — 👍 75    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

The top-two “primary” has been & will continue to be a problem every two years until it’s replaced.

It’s one of America’s worst electoral systems in use today. It does little of what proponents claimed it would & often does the opposite—like parties playing favorites in primaries to avoid a shutout

03.03.2026 18:50 — 👍 55    🔁 14    💬 7    📌 2
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wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

03.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 25149    🔁 6598    💬 1356    📌 789

they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades

03.03.2026 16:55 — 👍 4334    🔁 709    💬 71    📌 40
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New York Times runs in-house ad asking listeners to “support any news organization dedicated to original reporting” The New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has voiced a new ad encouraging listeners to support any news organization dedicated to original reporting — even if it's not the Times. It's Sulzberger's...

"Not asking you to click on any link, just subscribe to a real news organization with real journalists doing firsthand, fact-based reporting."

A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, urging people to support "original reporting" wherever they find it.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...

03.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 197    🔁 72    💬 14    📌 8

Top-two primaries are so dumb

03.03.2026 16:34 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 1
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Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms

even longer and stranger, it seems

03.03.2026 16:32 — 👍 85    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 1
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I don't think this is the headline Trump expected to see today.

03.03.2026 15:57 — 👍 56    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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“The U.S. Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel.”

03.03.2026 14:37 — 👍 513    🔁 192    💬 66    📌 113
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This week's YouGov survey gives Trump his worst approval rating (-21) since November 2017.

In our tracker, he's down to -19, lower than any point in his first term: www.economist.com/interactive/...

03.03.2026 14:44 — 👍 317    🔁 83    💬 9    📌 20
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

03.03.2026 01:54 — 👍 12461    🔁 6238    💬 1257    📌 4125
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Residency Applications After Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization This cross-sectional study using an interrupted time-series analysis investigates disparities in the residency application rate to programs in abortion-restricted states compared with nonrestricted st...

Oh look.
Residency applications took a dive across multiple specialties (OB/GYN, family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine) in states that banned abortion after Dobbs.
They made us all less healthy and less safe.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

03.03.2026 13:35 — 👍 44    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

Pretty stable opinion on the Iran strikes. No rally around the flag bump for POTUS, and much less popular than previous wars when they started www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...

02.03.2026 21:39 — 👍 450    🔁 158    💬 18    📌 7
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epic ear architecture

03.03.2026 02:04 — 👍 328    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 0
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now he nautilus

03.03.2026 02:26 — 👍 38    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Policies that benefit the Democratic Party are presumptively unconstitutional/unlawful.

Policies that benefit the Republican Party are presumptively constitutional/lawful.

03.03.2026 02:21 — 👍 90    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 1

Our displeased 10-year-old after the Supreme Court’s evening news drop interrupted our post-dinner family hearts game:

“UGHH couldn’t dad have just been, like, an architect or something?!?!?”

03.03.2026 02:12 — 👍 570    🔁 13    💬 22    📌 3
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epic ear architecture

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