The follow-up after she got her first laugh line, too.

Everyone standing together, waving their arms, and screaming “nothing to see here”

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The Volokh Conspiracy • SUPREME COURT Court Leaks and Attorney-Journalists The professional-ethics implications of making court confidences public. STEPHEN E. SACHS |4.20.20264:11 PM The recent leak of internal Supreme Court memoranda to the New York Times, discussed earlier by Jonathan Adler and Josh Blackman-as well as by Will Baude and Jack Goldsmith elsewhere-was plainly a serious violation of the Court's confidentiality obligations. But it may also reflect serious legal-ethics violations by one of the Times article's coauthors, Adam Liptak, whom I understand to be a licensed attorney in New York and subject to that state's Rules of Professional Conduct.

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A take so good he had to publish at two outlets.

Mug of great Supreme Court cases

Nothing gets me out of bed in the morning like Dred Scott

You can skip the pedantic reading of New York’s rules because any rule that forbids publishing a judge’s decade-old memo violates the First Amendment.

And the 1A analysis in this blog post is remarkably weak.

“Attorneys have to give back confidential stuff sometimes.” Okay.

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Going to be able to repost this weekly through the end of term.

There was a brief moment when two summary reversals went against officers who did awful shit, and we thought made qualified immunity was moving in the right direction.

The Court ended that hope this term.

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...

I'm so glad this brave law enforcement officer is OK after being violently smirked at. Praying for him and his family

And to take it a step further to Jeff Clark, they seems to argue that, because the President is a political position, his lawyers advising him to break the law in the name of maintaining political power are, in turn, just doing politics themselves.

Can't believe Jeff Clark, whose law license is also on the line for trying to do the coup, thinks this outcome is a travesty.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

He Was Already in Jail—So Why Did SWAT Raid Her Home? YouTube video by Institute for Justice

We filed another lawsuit over another wrong house raid in Georgia.

A SWAT team showed up Cathy George’s apartment looking for a man she never met. And it turned out he was already in jail.

It’s insane how often this stuff happens.

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500 Surveillance Cameras Are Tracking Drivers in This City YouTube video by Institute for Justice

We filed another lawsuit arguing that Flock Cameras (automated license plate readers) violate the Fourth Amendment.

This time against San Jose:

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Incredible. Police put Anjanette through a nightmare. She used it to become an advocate for accountability.

She was at our SCOTUS argument in Martin, over another botched raid. And she’s helped other victims get on the path of advocacy.

He Was Already in Jail—So Why Did SWAT Raid Her Home? YouTube video by Institute for Justice

We filed another lawsuit over another wrong house raid in Georgia.

A SWAT team showed up Cathy George’s apartment looking for a man she never met. And it turned out he was already in jail.

It’s insane how often this stuff happens.

youtu.be/QamIUQVD2X4?...

500 Surveillance Cameras Are Tracking Drivers in This City YouTube video by Institute for Justice

We filed another lawsuit arguing that Flock Cameras (automated license plate readers) violate the Fourth Amendment.

This time against San Jose:

youtu.be/VoHfteyaSRs?...

Maybe few MAGA, but I’ve talked to plenty of interns who get the Fed Soc credential because it’s a barrier to entry for so many clerkships and they’d rather work for a circuit judge more conservative than them than no circuit judge at all.

Absolutely.

So many ppl who cover the court, tho, have a vested interest in protecting its legitimacy either b/c the court is the big line on their resume or they personally like the current majority’s decisions.

of note: the Department of Justice arguments against modifying my release conditions were "we cannot see any reason why a journalist would need to travel on short notice" and "his charges were not dismissed on any substantive basis, but on the technicality of First Amendment grounds"

The worries are that courts rule that local officer w/ 287g agreements get federal immunities because they aren’t acting under color of state law. Similar to what Mohamud v. Weyker (8th Cir) did for task forces.

And even if you can sue under 1983, there’s QI where there wouldn’t be under the FTCA.

Birth right citizenship must not be one of the “new” civil liberties that made it into the alliance

ORDER OF DISMISSAL MOTION TO DISMISS (Doc. 63) filed by the STATE OF ALABAMA, by and through the OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, is hereby GRANTED based on the following: A detailed analysis or bench brief of this matter was prepared by the trial court's intern from the University of North Alabama, who was subsequently hired by the trial court as a Clerical Aid, namely Will Calhoun, and Mr. Calhoun s bench brief is hereby incorporated by reference as if set out in full herein (Court Ex. "A," filed concurrently with this Order). 2. Mr. Calhoun's legal analysis covers both search and seizure issues, as well as the immunity doctrine, both at issue here. 3. Mr. Calhoun begins his study of law at the University of Alabama School of Law this fall, August 2026. BASED ON THE FOREGOING, this matter is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. Costs taxed to the Plaintiffs, and any other pending motions are either MOOT or otherwise DISMISSED; thereby making this ORDER OF DISMISSIAL a FINAL ORDER.

Government agents entered our clients property a bunch of times without a warrant and tampered with their surveillance camera.

Today, the court dismissed our case based on an undergraduate intern’s “bench brief” that the judge attached to the order.

Don’t worry, he starts law school this fall.

Just a kid writing a book report on the constitution

That isn’t taught until 2L

ORDER OF DISMISSAL MOTION TO DISMISS (Doc. 63) filed by the STATE OF ALABAMA, by and through the OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, is hereby GRANTED based on the following: A detailed analysis or bench brief of this matter was prepared by the trial court's intern from the University of North Alabama, who was subsequently hired by the trial court as a Clerical Aid, namely Will Calhoun, and Mr. Calhoun s bench brief is hereby incorporated by reference as if set out in full herein (Court Ex. "A," filed concurrently with this Order). 2. Mr. Calhoun's legal analysis covers both search and seizure issues, as well as the immunity doctrine, both at issue here. 3. Mr. Calhoun begins his study of law at the University of Alabama School of Law this fall, August 2026. BASED ON THE FOREGOING, this matter is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. Costs taxed to the Plaintiffs, and any other pending motions are either MOOT or otherwise DISMISSED; thereby making this ORDER OF DISMISSIAL a FINAL ORDER.

Government agents entered our clients property a bunch of times without a warrant and tampered with their surveillance camera.

Today, the court dismissed our case based on an undergraduate intern’s “bench brief” that the judge attached to the order.

Don’t worry, he starts law school this fall.

Step 1: Make outlandish claims to gain noteriety

Step 2: Use that notoriety as the basis for your authority

Josh there is simply no other reason such a devout Christian would skip all three of his Easter masses