@Techmeme@techhub.socialCourt filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta related to a previous $97.4B bid for OpenAI's assets (Shubham Kalia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-law
@kornel@mastodon.socialGoogle lawyers navigating European anti-monopoly laws: oh noes, too complex! can't innovate! reset plz?
Google lawyers navigating European tax laws: Double Irish with Dutch Sandwitch.
@cdarwin@c.imLawyers for the Trump administrationargued in court on Thursday that
the administration has the authority to send migrants to military bases around the globe, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported on Thursday on an exchange between Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the Federal District Court in Washington and August E. Flentje, a senior Justice Department lawyer.
The two argued over whether the Trump administration could detain migrants abroad, a question that…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"CDC erupts in chaos after ousted chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/cdc-director-susan-monarez-ousted
This is the way: resistance!
@servelan@newsie.socialAn army of lawyers?
Justice Dept. Agents to Protect ICE Facilities, Bondi Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/doj-agents-ice-facilities.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/27/dc-traffic-stop-shooting-dispute/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p142#a251027p142
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI don't know about you but I am rather tired of judges who respond to fed or trump lawyers with mere "warnings" or "scoldings".
It is long past time since judges ought to have realized that dithering and lying and besmirching defendants is the maga play-book. And in response judges should haul up any lawyer who uses those tactics onto a judicial yardarm (metaphorical yardarm) and impose contempt (both civil and criminal) sanctions (involving jail and fines), di…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and
@wikonsult@ieji.de
@stefan@gardenstate.socialAmerica's lawyers vs. China's engineers | The Gray Area by Vox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaf7Xtt_Vwg
@servelan@newsie.socialCDC head's lawyers deny firing after vaccine clash — and vow 'she will not resign' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/susan-monarez-2673934060/
@cdarwin@c.imThe indictment of former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey
was just two pages long and contained so little detail that it was hard for legal experts to assess its merits.
Some former government lawyers, as well as prominent Democrats, said the case appeared so flimsy that it was likely to fail.
Some Republicans also expressed concerns
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say he wants to seek asylum in the United States (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-asylum-62f3d781878a3787ae27d6ea42662dc0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p59#a250827p59
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@…
©️: I’m mistakenly under the impression that the date attached to this thing should be updated every Jan 1st, despite the work being from sometime in the past.
™️: I came up with a really clever word/phrase and I’d hate for you to use it.
®️: I’m a pompous corporation and my lawyers tell me to put this everywhere I go.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialAI has created the best job market in years... for lawyers.
@cdarwin@c.imDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Sunday that
the United States has revoked the visa for British journalist
Sami Hamdi,
alleging that he has supported terrorism and worked to
"undermine American national security."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) confirmed that Hamdi has not been deported but remains in custody,
and lawyers for the advocacy group are "working to address this injusti…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
UK High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/07/uk-high-court-to-lawyers-cut-the-chatgpt-or-else/
saved 2025-06-08
@comex@mas.toWith Elon Musk news at a low ebb, here’s a blast from the past.
Remember last year when Elon Musk set up a $1m daily sweepstakes for swing state voters who signed a petition, creating a controversy over vote-buying?
Do you remember the part where the sweepstakes turned out to be a scam with handpicked winners, as freely admitted by his own lawyers?
Promptly leading to a class action for fraud?
Well, that class action has now survived a motion to dismiss.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHalf a dozen lawyers and scholars say President Trump's lawsuit against NYT lacks legal merit and its main purpose is to threaten criticism of the president (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/trump-new-york-times-nyt-lawsuit-meritless-experts…
@light@noc.social
@steve@s.yelvington.com
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzUseful bit of political/legal analysis from @….
Plus bonus enjoyment from this little piece of advice:
"(As a general rule, the more reliance which is placed on how “distinguished” a lawyer is making a point, the weaker the legal point being made.)"
Haha!
#law #UKPol #Palestine
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeParalegal (n): portmanteau of "paratrooper" and "legal".
Highly trained elite attorneys who are airdropped onto a defendant's premises to serve papers and demand discovery before they have time to react.
(With how much lawyers cost these days you probably could afford to parachute drop one lol)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialAny lawyer who contributes to such a drafting effort should be quickly stripped of their license to practice law on the grounds that they have forgotten even the rudiments of our Constitutional system.
"Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting"
https://www…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
@mapto@qoto.orgThe signs of what is happening in the USA are more than clear for a while now. The question is what response is emerging. The rest is irrelevant.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-2674210174/
@cdarwin@c.imMarc Elias, a prominent Democratic election attorney, has not shied away from standing up to the Trump administration, and has been targeted for retribution this year multiple times as a result.
He’s one of scores of lawyers the Trump administration has named in executive actions,
joining a list that includes big law firms and attorneys who worked for people Donald Trump considers his opponents.
Elias has for decades represented high-profile Democrats, including the president…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThere is never a shortage of critical cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--With cyber grants dead in Congress, states scramble to build their own defenses,
--Cl0p is extorting executives and tech departments for up to $50m,
--Nursery chain hackers remove repugnant posts,
--UK government takes another bite at an Apple backdoor,
--Oz judge continues to protect Qantas lawyers fr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents "intentional harassment" (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/47b00423-1060-43c9-8c28-23631cb7a4d1
@cdarwin@c.imFederal prosecutors reportedly gave US attorney a memo suggesting not to file charges against James Comey
ABC news has reporting that federal prosecutors in the eastern district of Virginia presented the rookie US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, with a memo that detailed why NOT to file criminal charges against the former FBI director.
ABC cites sources familiar with the memo, who also noted that justice department lawyers would be unable to secure a conviction of Comey by proving th…
@UP8@mastodon.social🛐 Leah Remini: Leaked Scientology policies direct lawyers in religious warfare
#scientology
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSources: NFLPA puts one of top lawyers on leave https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45983157/nflpa-puts-lawyer-allegations-led-fbi-probe-leave-sources-say
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange<taylor swift voice> Lawyers gonna lawy, lawy, lawy, lawy
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-ju…
@servelan@newsie.socialDOJ Has Lost So Many Lawyers It Might Not Have Enough Left To Help Trump Destroy America - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/doj-has-lost-so-many-lawyers-it-might-not-have-enough-left-to-help-trump-destroy-america/
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialIf you’re a person who can get pregnant, pls pls PLS do not use a period tracking app. PLEASE. #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveHealth #UnderHisEye
@cdarwin@c.imLawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges,
including the only count for which he could face the death penalty,
from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive.
In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPerils of the Pentagon's Plan to Use Military Lawyers to Adjudicate Immigration Cases (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/09/07/perils-of-the-pentagons-plan-to-use-military-lawyers-to-adjudicate-immigration-cases/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p75#a250907p75
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seElite athletes warned to avoid one-night stands over risk of failing drug tests https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/01/elite-athletes-warned-to-avoid-one-night-stands-over-risk-of-failing-drug-tests
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Trump is systematically corrupting our system of justice."
"…Trump’s DOJ simply ignores 35% of substantive rulings in key cases."
"…he…refuses to release federal Epstein files…because they could show just how close the relationship really was."
https://
@cdarwin@c.imThe chilling reason the military is silent now
Pete Hegseth’s campaign against the military’s traditional legal structure has been one of the most-significant but least-reported aspects of his tenure as defense secretary.
In February, he fired the top Army, Air Force and Navy lawyers,
calling them “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief.”
In March, he commissioned his personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore
— one of the people included in the leak…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialColor me confused - I see that el cheeto's dog, Lindsey Halligan, is listed as a lawyer in Virginia.
Yet, when go to the Virginia bar website and search for her in their lists of Virginia attorneys I get zero hits.
Huh?
The page below says that she is a member of the Virginia Bar, but the Virginia Bar seems not to know who she is?
Am I fat fingering something on the Virginia bar's attorney search site?
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social @servelan@newsie.socialLawyers ask Supreme Court to allow transgender boy to use boys’ bathroom - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/lawyers-urge-supreme-court-to-allow-transgender-boy-to-use-boys-bathroom/
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Your client [Yvette Cooper]’s approach in relation to briefing the media with a wholly different basis for proscription is entirely improper and a breach of her duty to the court. If your client has evidence to support her assertions, this ought to have been disclosed. As she has not, she must cease her misleading campaign immediately.”
Palestine Action lawyers accuse Yvette Cooper of ‘cynical media campaign’ | Palestine Action |Guardian
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA Nation of Lawyers Confronts China's Engineering State (Dan Wang/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/china-america-tariffs-trump-economy/683895/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p120#a250818p120
@UP8@mastodon.socialEdison's plan to pay Eaton fire victims could mean less litigation, less compensation
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-25/edisons-program-to-pay-eaton-fire-victims-leaves-questions
🆓
@ecukier@glammr.us@… there's already a website tracking lawyers getting caught using AI-hallucinated citations: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-ju…
@bici@mastodon.socialHere’s a headline, and coverage, from The Guardian that captures the situation with clarity and without mincing words: “CDC Chief ‘Targeted’ for Refusing to ‘Rubber-Stamp Unscientific, Reckless Directives’, Lawyers Say”
via @…
@cdarwin@c.imPresident Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter,
who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
The situation has no parallel in American history, as Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election,
ta…
@servelan@newsie.socialSupreme Court to consider when lawyers can be barred from speaking to their client - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/supreme-court-to-consider-when-lawyers-can-be-barred-from-speaking-to-their-client/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBiden takes aim at Trump as 'existential' threat to Black Americans in speech to lawyers group (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-takes-aim-trump-existential-threat-black-americans-speech-lawyers-group
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p6#a250801p6
@cdarwin@c.imCapitulating law firms presumably were hoping that their deals would prevent the same revocation of security clearances and cancellation of federal contracts that Trump had already leveled at other firms.
But none of that was included in the vague contents of the deals,
leaving it entirely unclear what these law firms were getting out of exchange.
What was clearer was what Trump was getting out of it:
namely, an open-ended promise from the capitulating law firms to …
@servelan@newsie.social'Breaking point': Distrustful conservative judges turn up the heat on Trump lawyers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judges-2674210696/
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialThey learned from the Grifter-in-Chief.
Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-jan-6-rioters-compensation.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Administration Weighs Having Military Lawyers Work as Immigration Judges (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/military-lawyers-immigration-judges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h08.g0t8.MoxBOvz1MiZn&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250830/p26#a250830p26
@cdarwin@c.imLawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident
arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire,
saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status after helping federal investigators solve a crime against his family.
His arrest was illegal, the lawyers said, and violated Department of Homeland Security polices
that say immigration enforcement must not be conducted at locations where emergency responses are ha…
@buercher@tooting.chSince taking office, Donald Trump and his government have placed restrictions on some lawyers and law firms, including their ability to freely represent clients, mostly because they have done legal work that the president has opposed or they have been associated with prosecutors who investigated him.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct/03/trumps-crackdown-on-lawyers-shows-no-place-is-immune-says-us-bar-chief?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEve, an AI assistant for plaintiff lawyers, raised $103M led by Spark, with a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo participating, at a $1B valuation and has 450 clients (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/eve-…
@servelan@newsie.social"One group ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper-sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call."
ICE is transferring people in its custody away from family, lawyers
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/28/2345571/-ICE-is-transferring-people-in-its-custody-away-from-family-lawyers
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialTwo trump-appointed judges on a three judge panel declares that federal goons and lawyers are exempt from and need not obey judicial orders.
One more giant step towards dictatorship.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-depor
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSince 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-ai-courts-lawsuits/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Trump's lawyers argue that Rupert Murdoch should be deposed within 15 days because of his advanced age, in the $10B libel suit against Murdoch and WSJ (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/business/media/trum…
@cdarwin@c.imDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges.
The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys
— both military and civilians
— to the Justice Department “as soon as practicable”
The military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, according to the Aug. 27 memo.
The effort comes as the Trump administration more regularly turns…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at potential issues as US judges join lawyers in testing generative AI to speed up legal research, summarize cases, draft routine orders, and more (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/112146…
@servelan@newsie.socialImmigrants battling respiratory disease at Alligator Alcatraz, lawyers say | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alligator-alcatraz-disease-outbreak-b2808462.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLuigi Mangione's lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO (Associated Press)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/us-news/luigi-mangione-asks-for-federal-charges-to-be-dropped-in-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-murder/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p12#a251011p12
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThis is an example of why our class action systems must be changed.
Class actions are good things for certain kinds of cases.
But many lawyers have found them to be a lucrative way to generate prodigious fees (while leaving the victims with only paltry amounts.)
Here's a case where the law imposed a terrible, and unjust, penalty on many small businesses. Like in many class actions the defendants settled, despite having a meritful defense. But did that settlement money…
@servelan@newsie.socialJudge shoots down Trump lawyers' effort to keep evidence hidden from James Comey - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comey-discovery/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPodcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs https://www.404media.co/podcast-landlords-demand-your-workplace-logins-to-scrape-paystubs/
@cdarwin@c.imIn a stunning reversal, the Trump administration just gave the green light to a major tech merger
— and then fired two Justice Department lawyers who opposed it.
Was corruption at play in the merger decision?
Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with The Lever’s Luke Goldstein and UnHerd Magazine’s Sohrab Ahmari, who first exposed the “mergers over martinis” story behind the reversal
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJudge Bars Trump Administration From Punishing 2 Law Professors for I.C.C. Work (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/trump-icc-lawyers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p2#a250731p2
@servelan@newsie.social'Used a broomstick as a weapon': Analyst traces Trump from high school 'bully' to the White House - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/the-right-wing/trump-lawyers-courts/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCurrent and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-r…
@cdarwin@c.imEven though Trump has given them their freedom -- and has taken steps toward satisfying their desire for retribution,
🔥January 6th rioters are asking for more:
In the past several weeks, the rioters and their lawyers have made a concerted effort to push the administration into paying them
💥"restitution" for what they claim to be their unfair prosecutions.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'No outreach' to Epstein victims despite Trump's vow to investigate, lawyers say (Victoria Bekiempis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/07/epstein-files-survivors-trump-justice-department
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p29#a250907p29
@newsie@darktundra.xyzIllinois Restores Protections For Press Targeted With Frivolous Lawsuits https://thedissenter.org/illinois-restores-protections-for-press-targeted-with-frivolous-lawsuits/
@cdarwin@c.imMany legal specialists,
including retired top military lawyers,
have rejected the idea that Trump has legitimate authority to treat suspected drug smuggling as legally equivalent to an imminent armed attack on the United States.
Even if one accepted that premise for the sake of argument, they added,
if the boat had already turned away, that would further undermine what they saw as an already weak claim of self-defense.
“If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imm…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's lawyers just inadvertently admitted that his tariffs are illegal (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/460312/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-vos-selections
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p120#a250904p120
@servelan@newsie.social"Four separate judges have now blocked Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, including for the “born and unborn,” yet the Trump Administration has not appealed any of the rulings to the Supreme Court. At the same time, **Trump’s lawyers are arguing in court that the “unborn” have no rights—directly contradicting their anti-abortion stance**"
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Push Halted by Judges, No Appeal to SCOTUS
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/trumps-birthright-citizenship-push
@newsie@darktundra.xyzReddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them https://www.404media.co/reddit-mods-sued-by-youtuber-ethan-klein-fight-efforts-to-unmask-them/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say (Tobi Raji/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/03/afghanistan-immigrants-trump-deportations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p57#a250803p57
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges (Konstantin Toropin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-immigration-judges-trump-pete-hegseth-b07950833591270b926ad86ede8b961f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p79#a250902p79
@servelan@newsie.socialConstitutional Lawyers Urge AGs to Probe Paramount-Skydance's Millions to Trump | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/paramount-skydance-trump-cbs
@cdarwin@c.imJudge Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, called an emergency hearing Sunday,
then broadened her restraining order to cover “the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon,”
telling Justice Department lawyers that the president was ”in direct contravention” of her order.
The blizzard of moves by the Trump administration,
from Texas to California, Illinois to Oregon,
@servelan@newsie.socialDeSantis said everyone at 'Alligator Alcatraz' has a deportation order. Lawyers say that’s false. - Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/alligator-alcatraz-deportation-orders-disputed/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGhislaine Maxwell quietly moved from Florida to Texas prison as lawyers seek Trump pardon: reports (Katie Hawkinson/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-trump-pardon-epstein-b2800443.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p65#a250801p65
@cdarwin@c.imThe US justice department has initiated a criminal investigation into mortgage fraud claims against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
as a lawsuit she filed against Donald Trump over her firing makes its way through court.
Lawyers with the justice department have issued subpoenas for the investigation, according to the Wall Street Journal, who first reported the investigation,
which has since been confirmed by multiple news publications.
This is the third mortgage fr…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFormer President Joe Biden tells lawyers in Chicago: 'We need new heroes' (Olivia Olander/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/31/joe-biden-national-bar-association/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p23#a250801p23
@servelan@newsie.socialLawyers to DHS: Release Arrested Washington Wildfire Firefighter | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-dhs-firefighter/2025/08/29/id/1224491/
@cdarwin@c.imSince announcing our plan to launch Liberty Vans
-- equipped with chaplains, lawyers, veterans, and camera crews
-- to follow ICE raids in real time and expose them to the world,
we’ve seen an outpouring of support from ALL 50 STATES.
People are ready to fight back and shine a light on the Trump administration's abuse of our country.
We need to fund the vans,
the crews, the tech, and the training to hold these agents accountable.
And thanks to…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLawyers for Abrego Garcia Seek Gag Order Against Trump Officials (Alan Feuer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/us/politics/abrego-garcia-gag-order.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p142#a250828p142
@cdarwin@c.imDays after attorney general Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department’s revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom.
Norm Eisen, a former attorney for Barack Obama’s White House, had convened lawyers, Democratic communications strategists, a neoconservative Trump critic, and a former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.
This one was big, Eisen said from his parked car in Baltimore, where he had traveled for a lawsuit to ov…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Ivy League shakedowns (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/the-ivy-league-shakedowns
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p7#a250729p7
@cdarwin@c.imWhile many of the US CITIZENS detained have immediately declared their U.S. citizenship to officers,
they have routinely been ignored,
according to interviews with the men, their lawyers and court documents.
In some cases they have been handcuffed,
kept in holding cells and immigration facilities overnight,
and in at least two cases held without access to a lawyer or even a phone call.
How many U.S. citizens have been swept up in the Trump administration’s…
