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Scary house / flickering gaslight / ghosts??? / terrible family secrets / gay second chance romance / hero with ADHD / Gothic nonsense

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon.

Here it is:

Nayib Bukele tweeted "If you don't impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats." Mike Engleman quote tweeted Bukele and said "Who agrees this needs to happen here in America?" Elon quote tweeted Engleman and said "1000%"

Nayib Bukele tweeted "If you don't impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats." Eric Daugherty quote tweeted Bukele and said "We need to Bukele our court system. WATCH how quickly this country is fixed." Musk quote tweeted Daugherty and said "Essential."

Nayib Bukele purged the El Salvadoran courts, replaced judges with allies, and made the judiciary legally subservient to him. Elon Musk says we need to the same here, ending ~250 years of an independent judiciary. Stop treating his involvement in US politics as innocent and normal.

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

New protest costume released.

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Immergut deposed Monica Lewinsky for Ken Starr, was a US attorney under Bush, and was appointed to the bench by Trump during his first term. This is not some left-wing judge.

Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.

"We're going to make immigration just like great-grandpappy at Ellis Island" and then refusing to elaborate is probably a good strategy from a lot of angles

Allowing POTUS a couple of bad-faith bites at the apple with the armed forces on American soil before we determine the constitutionality of his conduct is anathema to our constitutional tradition. Prof. Wurman is wrong about the judicial power, but he's also abandoning our most cherished values.

Anyone who knows even the basics of Anglo-American constitutionalism between 1685 and 1789 would tell you that the abuses of a standing army were a significant concern for leading legal minds and the public at large.

The idea that courts have some special deference to the *domestic* deployment of military personnel despite an entire statutory regime is absurd. The Founders would have rejected the idea that courts must take a back seat and wait for the public to be injured before tort law would protect liberties.

And now they're seeing fire. And it's like 'oh it's a smol fire, not in my room' or they don't see the fire because it's not in their room so whatever

MAYBE THIS TIME WE LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS THE FIRST TO SAY SOMETHING SO WE CAN FIX SHIT INSTEAD OF IT TURNING TO SHIT

Just a thought.

SO BASICALLY WHAT I AM SAYING and this is one of the rare times I wish I had sat down and wrote out something instead of out of my brain which I always do here

WHAT I AM SAYING

Is that margenalized people said, hey we smell smoke. And lots of people were like hey no it's probably weed it's cool

So. Let me just say this.

To those who are in the dark and going 'well I'm not sure what's up so it can't be a big whoop'

And those who are not in the dark going 'well c'mon this isn't a big woop'

Regarding Bluesky, protecting marganlized people and groups, Jay, T&S and waffles

more...

Reminder: Judge Immergut was appointed to the bench by Donald J. Trump.

Video of officers abusing their power and hurting people can really matter. Video is a big part of why the police killing of George Floyd was the BLM case that provoked the biggest public reaction.
When people see violent abuse, they’re forced to confront it more. Not seeing makes it easier to deny.

lol, I watched others jump into the water and quickly bounce out again, so I didn't even try.

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:

African-Americans are experts on America.

regulations.gov is still up despite the shutdown. don't forget to go leave a comment against ED-2025-OS-0745 which is about "patriotic education" ugh
www.regulations.gov/document/ED-...

They also obviously didn't have DHS in 1894

[the legal environment around troop deployments to states has changed significantly since the Pullman Strike, though - in part *because* of the strike - so this particular history doesn't really offer much useful info for the current situation when it comes to the law and the courts]

Many people were injured or killed in the course of local unrest because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when federal authorities, unbridled in their tactics, drew weapons instead of making arrests.

The president and AG were directly advised by a circle of railroad industry men who made the situation out to be much more chaotic than it was, and strategized with the government to maximize damage to the union and criminalize its leaders, a priority held above public safety itself.

State and local authorities pivoted tactics several times to try to prevent federal intervention, including periods in which they attempted to crack down heavily on protests, inflaming tensions with locals while trying to project allyship at the same time.

And it's not just surface similarities.

Proponents of federal intervention tried to paint the ARU as being the central promoter and coordinator of several small, autonomous violent incidents, and wildly exaggerated the scale of those incidents to the press, to the AG, and to the president.

An old yellowed newspaper clipping reads: Gov. Altgeld has addressed another letter to President Cleveland with regard to the federal troops being massed at Chicago. He declares their presence unnecessary and calculated to incite disorder, and demands their withdrawal. The President insists that he is acting strictly within the law and refuses to recede from his position.

Seriously, though