"Obviously women won't talk to me because I'm conservative"

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.

He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

He's doing the 'turn it off and then on again trick' but with threatening war crimes

I need to be taken seriously for this pitch, time to bust out the tiny spectacles Paul Bettany wore in Master & Commander

The great thing about this fun accessory is that it's meant to be folded up and stuffed in your pocket where no one can read it

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Honestly it's infuriating. They literally changed how the Supreme Court operated because they were worried the power companies would have to spend too much money.

"Oh, they're using the French Defense" *makes long fart noise*

One quick thought is that in recent decisions in Trump’s favor there’s a lot of talk about the government automatically facing irreparable harm when its policies are blocked but here all the talk from Roberts is the irreparable harm facing those challenging the plan.

The statute is there because of lumber thieves. People who go cut down a bunch of trees on someone else's property to sell for value. It's hard to catch so you have to have a big disincentive if you're caught--you're paying 3x damages. But happy to use it for a homeowner in need.

People don't realize how expensive mature trees are, both to buy and to plant. A sapling can be cheap, but the supply of 20 year old trees is much more limited.

I still remember his lawyer's dismissive attitude. "They're just trees!" They were *our* trees

I had a tree law case in MA back in like 2015. Neighbor "topped" a dozen trees just over the fence line because he thought they were too tall. Went Colonel Jessup at the depo, said he was justified because they could fall on his property.

MA law trebles the replacement cost by statute. Not optional

Did that even last a full day?

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Randy Barnett looking around cautiously

"Wait, people can get disbarred for lying to courts...?"

The funniest thing about this injunction is it excludes the President, so if Trump really wants that ballroom he can start pouring the concrete himself

*spend 10 years agitating against the idea of a government run by people who are biased by wanting to help others*

"Whoopsie"

Genius branding to call it a pied-a-terre tax. People will think they're taxing the French.

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Ah, great. Thanks for the info

Six Dem Senators today submitted a letter urging the judge to "closely scrutinize" the settlement agreement between DOJ and Live Nation, pointing out that it came a month after a Live Nation lobbyist appeared to have forced out the AAG for Antitrust

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Just so there's no confusion, the jury has already found that they owe at least $1.72 per ticket sold in 22 states (time period unclear to me), so it is already going to cost them hundreds of millions. In their 10-K, Live Nation estimated that they sold 637.7 million tickets through TM in 2024 alone

Makes you wonder why DOJ suddenly settled mid-trial without telling its lead counsel. Clearly it wasn't because the case was going bad for them.

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There will be another hearing to determine what the remedy should be

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

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Looks like Meta is not getting a continuance on New Mexico's claims for public nuisance and injunctive relief. The court has formally set the bench trial for May 5-15 and May 20-22.

Bret is 100% the kind of guy who, if you told him this is a war crime, would smugly tell you that sometimes it's smart to do war crimes

The. Catholic Church. Was going to. Go under.