But only as to “care.”
Maryland attorney specializing in appeals and insurance coverage.
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But only as to “care.”
It didn't migrate with my Twitter data, but I'm reminded of maybe my favorite social media post: tHiS eLePhAnT cOmEs As aN ElEpHaNt
Is ... Is one of the institutions democracy?
I won't tell you the song, but I will say that it’s great and it starts with an earthquake.
@carlcecere.bsky.social is going to disown me.
Guys. GUYS! I have the perfect analogy for the argument that ORR can deport children without removal proceedings. Okay so 😂 that would be a big power in a small statutory provision. A bit like if Congress hid an 😅 elephant in a 😱 mouse hole!
I just realized that D.C. Pub Trivia team names must be amazing lately.
The Rooster mustache has gotten out of control. You're not Miles Teller, boys.
I agree, but he says "I've been told" so often in these TRO hearings that it's basically implied top-to-bottom.
Yeah, but I think the immigration lawyers agree that ORR has no general immigration or repatriation authority. They're just taking care of the kids while DHS manages their immigration issues. bsky.app/profile/joed...
Based on his past performance, I think he's relaying — agency counsel told him this and he has not verified it. Maybe that's lying on his part, but I think it's closer to bullshitting.
I suppose. But imagine I told you (1) you're allowed to go grocery shopping and (2) you have to ask me before buying steak. You cannot show up with unexpected steak and say, “you said I had grocery shopping powers!”
Ordinarily, these children are in HHS/ORR’ care (not, say, ICE detention), but their immigration matter remains with DHS. www.hhs.gov/programs/soc...
This is what I sound like when somebody gives me a dispositive motion to edit. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6t1GPCm/
Am I legally allowed to file this video as an amicus brief? www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GobR6F/
For now, it doesn't matter much what the Supreme Court thinks. And once we get there, I do think the relative quality of these arguments will matter to at least eight justices.
By contrast, here is the statute on which the children are relying. In no uncertain terms, it says that you cannot remove children without placing them in removal proceedings and giving them lawyers.
You sure? I've been reading cases, and I can't tell if there are amendments between 8 and 13.
I can't find “vaccine” in the Constitution. QED.
I'm lucky to have never represented anyone who did something so cataclysmically stupid that a judge had to order a one-hour deadline.
I know you've been up since 2:36 a.m. managing this brand new emergency case, Your Honor, but I didn't think you wanted the “today” report on the status of children we loaded into planes during business hours.
In fairness, his enthusiastic work avoiding court review of death flights deserves little sympathy.
There are some incredible lawyers and dedicated judges out there without whom this administration would be acting truly lawlessly. Here, they would be denying CHILDREN statutorily required due process.
How do you do a tweet where you hide the word “bullshit” in a fake cough?
Somebody is Katsas-proofing their contempt proceedings.
This is what back-to-school week needed: More death flights, this time full of children.
The first time, I thought it was a washing machine—the cyclical pre-heaves. I still hear that first, then translate it into oh-no.
I understand the attraction of internal rhyming with “switchin’” and “positions,” but intercourse does not belong in the kitchen, Ms. Grande. The kitchen is for sharp objects and clean counters.
Esp.: bsky.app/profile/joed...
I have a hunch he said a lot of these things in my 2013 seminar.
Not rebellion. Slavery.
More generally, the entire Roberts jurisprudence around equal state sovereignty is in tension with the basic purposes of XIV/XV. States wedded themselves to a mortal sin, so we reorganized government.
Yeah, dawg. What evidence could there be of Congress’s intent to preempt when it passed the Voting Rights Act?
You cannot double-tap a HOSPITAL. after the first hit, the only people you kill with the repeat are DOCTORS trying to save LIVES. You absolute monsters. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6sDc7pn/
Excited for Heidi Gardner’s eventual guest appearance as the boxer’s widow.
If these companies are offering insurance subject to state regulation, then denying claims based on this cursed sentence might be actionable bad faith. I don't know the preemption law here, though.
i mean i guess we already knew he doesn't believe in the separation of powers
Very, very good summary of increasing shenanigans in immigration court: The gov’t will not stipulate to ANYTHING, and the “judges” now have four trials a day (up from two). So immigrants have less time to prove more facts and mounting pressure to under-prove them. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6p3SSSC/
It's the sort of thing you might correct if you were motivated by something other than racism.
Tailor Lorenz
She also probably needs them bound by any judgment if she wants to vote on committee matters.
This paragraph is fully insane coming from any human person. It is a governmental crisis coming from the Secretary of Health and Human Services. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6pMs4UK/
It is weird to me that the introduction features the weakest causes of action. The straight-up DJ count (I need a court to resolve whether the President lawfully fired me) ought to be the centerpiece. The procedural stuff feels dubious.
Incredible! One left in my size :)
𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘥? I can’t; this is important. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵? There are even more men’s casual pink knit tops on the internet.
Yeah, but all the hits I'm getting lack that black Achilles bit with the white lines/text.
Can anyone help me identify this shirt and shoes from my Halloween costume?
Weird that he is probably eligible to seek asylum both in and from the United States.
Okay, fine, sometimes law *is* about one clever trick.
I guess there was no ham in the sandwich. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Dumb question: Is it more expensive to (1) retain Park Service employees who routinely manage D.C. landscaping or (2) fly in the West Virginia National Guard to spread mulch?
If there is a law of war, it must forbid this. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6gLGgEV/
Government officials do not have “rights.” They have powers or authorities (and duties). *We* have rights when they misuse those powers.
Can Lisa Cook make herself legally a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in a distinct historical tradition?
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
There’s always a local angle. #journalism
If these depositions do not happen or if they're unproductive, then it is time for a contempt trial.
Tired: Bondi v. the District of Maryland Wired: The District of Maryland v. Bondi
I have read the response that was on the docket and which you were probably hoping would suffice. Forgive me it was not responsive-- so dubious and so noncommittal.
What I'm saying is he could ride his bike to a place where he thinks oral orders don't work.
In Greenbelt, Maryland, which is a D.C. suburb, even.
The literal same lawyer arguing in D.C. that oral orders are nonbinding is totally cool with oral orders in Maryland.
R O F L
DOJ to Kilmar: We will send you to Uganda as soon as Monday. DOJ to judge: Not like MONDAY Monday!
HAPPENING NOW: At 2:00 p.m. ET, Judge Paula Xinis is set to hold a telephone conference regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's newly-filed lawsuit challenging his removal to Uganda. Abrego was detained by ICE earlier today. I plan to live-post the hearing for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵
They sure are murdering a lot of press and aid workers.
He looks hungry.
One of my favorite somewhat similar patient encounters was the day after NPR aired a piece about the dirtiest part of your doctor. Not having seen the piece, a friend of mine’s patient started the visit with “have you washed your tie?”
They invented Gary Walsh.
"We don't want the offense to get any separation."
Yes. It would be good for general clarity if we eliminated all words describing power dynamics or humanizing the disadvantaged from our political writing. That way, nobody will notice when power accumulates. Thank you, Tom.
"So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. .... You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne. But you'd better be prepared to kill everyone."
JD Vance: "This is how crops ultimately get fed. If you go back to Mesopotamia--if you go back to every major crop in human history--they all crave Brawndo. It's got electrolytes."
He ate.
Absolute legend.
Too proud of this, @annmlipton.bsky.social.
Alt: Donald Trump, Fashion Icahn www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
That one might be judicially enforceable, even.
30 years in prison is not enough, because the prisoner has the antisocial trait of ... trying to be social while incarcerated. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
So when Republicans say this is “lawful,” they are wrong. It is unlawful. But it is what they can get away with.
The Supreme Court has never said otherwise. The Supreme Court said only that courts will not help you even if legislatures unconstitutionally gerrymander. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Texas’s shameless partisan gerrymander is unconstitutional. • It denies equal protection of the laws by intentionally diluting votes; • It denies free association by punishing Democratic voters; and • It violates Art. I’s promise that “the People” pick their reps. www.law.nyu.edu/sites/defaul...
I am assembling a related rant: Rucho did not say partisan gerrymandering is constitutional. They remain unconstitutional (Equal Protection, 1A retaliation, Art. I §2, Elections Clause), but the courts won't stop them.
They might. IIRC, they've been pretty good on this.
They're sending him to Uganda precisely because he IS NOT a gangster. He is a sheet-metal worker caring for disabled American children.
(Yes, this is only every trans person treated at CHOP, but it's got be a trial balloon.)
Sorry, the federal government wants a list of every trans person in America? What do they plan to do with it?
Oh. You said legislators. DOJ's effort predates the Trump overture, I think, and it's sort of not purely racial under 5th Cir. precedent; it's about coalitions of racial minorities.
It sounds like that's exactly what they did. The relevant Senate chairman isolated himself from any racial data, asking his counsel to review any legality issues.
Neat tidbit right now. Tx. Leg. tried to isolate itself from any racial data. Sen. King is establishing that DOJ letters demanding new districts obviously used racial data, poisoning the well.
Maybe. His priority list of (1) Republican performance and (2) compactness could have been the only directions.
(1) make him sound like a disingenuous robot or (2) get him to slip up.
The Texas Senate proceedings are amazing. The person explaining the bill has a folder-full of sentences created to navigate the line between partisan gerrymandering (judicially in reviewable) and racial gerrymandering (reviewable). Dems making a record for VRA litigation are in deposition mode ...
Should I buy this to read The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit by Barnett and @evanbernick.bsky.social? y/n
