Zero surprise to see @amandafrost.bsky.social earning this award. Congrats!

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

The rise of the shadow docket in 2016 was followed in 2017 by another procedural trick from the Roberts Court, known as "Munsingwear vacatur," which they weaponized to wipe out progressive precedent without having to explain why. Profs. Lisa Tucker (my wife) and Michael Risch (he's not) explain. 1/2

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This one's just a lovable doofus.

#ajax #dogsky

As seen in Takoma DC

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A little more come-hither.

That tail is shodō - must be the akita in the mix.

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They dressed like a bear and damaged a Rolls-Royce in an audacious insurance scheme A fraud scheme involving wearing bear costumes across Southern California has ended in jail time for three people, according to authorities.

What about their Second Amendment rights? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Blame Congress a bit for this one, for setting the limits so low. I keep wondering if the case would have come out the same if the limits had been $1M instead of $1000.

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This one has a sort of school-yearbook vibe.

And yeah, that's almost certainly a ball just off-camera.

#ajax #dogsky

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Years ago, my wife took Ajax for a photo shoot with Josh Blumental (www.blumental.us), who happened to be in town. Josh is a genius. Over the next few days, I'll share some of his handiwork.

It's one of the best birthday presents I've ever gotten.

#ajax #dogsky

Trump DOJ loses again, now 0 for 5 on voter roll cases, as court rejects Rhode Island lawsuit U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy, a Trump appointee, called the DOJ’s widespread voter roll demands a “fishing expedition.”

The DOJ is now 0-5 in its voter roll cases, as experts like @beckerdavidj.bsky.social and @justinlevitt.bsky.social predicted to me so many months ago. A Trump appointee ruled against the DOJ in RI this morning.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Episode 12 of the "Rationally Based" pocast, titled (not ironically) "Judges Gone Wild." Description: "Our hosts, law professor Ilan Wurman and Kathryn Johnson, rave about the Supreme Court's shadow docket. The shadow docket allows the Court quickly to rein in rogue district judges and their crazy opinions. Our hosts in particular talk about Justice Kavanaugh's shadow docket decision involving "Kavanaugh Stops," Justice Sotomayor's personal attack on Kavanaugh, Judge Boasberg's TdA ruling, and the D.C. Circuit's benchslap of his recent attempt to hold Trump officials in contempt. They also talk about exit taxes, and their most academic topic to date: What is the object of legal interpretation? Does the intent of the legislature matter? Only the text? Something else?"

It has to be a bit at this point.

One important component of a story about a federal investigation is at least some general suggestion about what federal statute is at play.

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The future's so bright...

#ajax #dogsky

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.

Good.

And so it begins.

On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.

Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

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Tax Day makes me sooooooooooooooooo sleepy.

#ajax #dogsky

At Patel’s request or encouragement, NAF provided the Biden DOJ with substantial information that aided in identifying investigation targets and substantiating warrants and

prosecutions. 53 NAF alerted Patel to social media posts that made violent threats against clinics54 and concerns about protest activities that could constitute blockades in violation of the FACE Act. 55 In the Handy matter, Patel emailed NAF: “I can’t recall if you ever shared anything with me (either through an attachment or via Dropbox) about Jonathan Darnell’s arrest . . . If you did, can you resend that to me?” 56

53 See, e.g., E-mail from Patel, to Megan Healy (Nov. 16, 2020) (Exhibit 040) (“NAF is obtaining the security video from the vandalism for me.”). 54 E-mail from Patel, to Emma Goldberg (NAF) (Apr. 12, 2021) (Exhibit 041) (flagging that Patel forwarded the information to the FBI immediately and noting that he was “designated as the DOJ National FACE Act Task force director” and wanted to call about exploring outreach initiatives). 55 E-mail from Fleisher, to Patel (Aug. 18, 2020) (Exhibit 042) (responding to a NAF alert about Handy’s pro-life activities in Washington, D.C., a CRT attorney asked NAF to let him know “[i]f she actually ends up causing any obstruction,” and noted that while he could not speak for the Criminal Section, “we on the civil side might be interested in looking further”); E-mail from Davidson, to [Redacted], FBI (Jan. 30, 2021) (Exhibit 043) (alerting DOJ to Handy’s activities in Maryland). 56 E-mail from Patel, to Davidson (Dec. 8, 2020) (Exhibit 044).

In its "weaponization" report on the FACE Act, DOJ once again struggles to answer the most difficult question of all: who was president in 2020? www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

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What we have here is a fundamental misunderstanding of basic bed technology.

#ajax #dogsky

we know who Donald Trump is at this point

he will rage, he will flail, he will escalate, and he has enough core loyalists that he'll do a lot of damage

but if enough people on his side think their best bet to return to power is to abandon him and rebrand themselves in a few years, he will fail

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Not every day is a pretty flower mood.

This one's more "Venom."

#ajax #dogsky

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

Feed’s wonderfully free of all of the “there’s no point to voting” armchair warriors right now, for some reason.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

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Post-dance derp. With flower enhancement.

He thinks he feels pretty.

#ajax #dogsky

i will never forgive the new jersey devils for not signing miroslav satan at any point in his career

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My sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the sign.

#ajax #dogsky

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Also keeping an eye on it all from a great height, but with substantially less effort.

#ajax #dogsky #worksmarternotharder

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Keeping an eye on it all, from a great height.

#ajax #dogsky