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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

John Langdon, the first president pro tem. of the Senate, would have been 234 years old.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

“The Founders created the Senate that way” in *checks notes* 1975.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 16h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

Surrounded by like nine lawyers for five hours, and not one of them knows what to do, really.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

And these days, the folks who could really manage these cases have been purged from government for being too woke.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 12h

I still think the Trump DOJ is failing to produce competent witnesses here more out of incompetence than out of contempt — the lawyers in charge just cannot navigate agency structure and law. But as Judge Xinis’s “two strikes” comment suggests, they’re running out of time to learn their jobs.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 15h

Judge Xinis shows her frustration at the Trump DOJ.

"See, Mr. Ensign, this is the problem that I have."

She notes that her order demanded a witness who could deliver answers on Costa Rica.

"You come today with a witness that knows nothing about Costa Rica."

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 13h

A dot Ham

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 13h

Holy footnote, Batman!

Hamilton: What kind of stupid, self-defeating, tyrannical maniac would send the National Guard hundreds of miles from home to oppress people in other states?! Sit down, Don.

$1 “A sample of this is to be observed in the exaggerated and improbable suggestions which have taken place respecting the power of calling for the services of the militia. That of New-Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New-Hampshire, of New-York to Kentuke and of Kentuke to Lake Champlain. Nay the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in Militia-men instead of Louis d’ors and ducats. At one moment there is to be a large army to lay prostrate the liberties of the people; at another moment the militia of Virginia are to be dragged from their homes five or six hundred miles to tame the republican contumacy of Massachusetts; and that of Massachusetts is to be transported an equal distance to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons, who rave at this rate, imagine, that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?$

If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism what need of the militia? If
there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant
and hopeless expedition for the purpose of rivetting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen
direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a
project; to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power and to make them an example of the just
vengeance of an abused and incensed people? Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a
numerous and enlightened nation? Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of
their intended usurpations? Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgustful acts of
power calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves universal hatred and execration? Are
suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people? Or are they
the inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts? If we were even to
suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that
they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs.”
The Federalist No. 29, at 186-187 (Alexander Hamilton) (Jacob Ernest Cooke ed., 1961).

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 13h

Or just old 2020 videos.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 13h

“He’s our friend from another Con” is just a premium sentence, in that it implies that the ICE protests are simply another niche interest convention.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

Again, DOJ and ICE insisted that Abrego Garcia’s case would be handled by field officers in the ordinary course. Yet here they are invoking executive privilege over relevant communications, because OF COURSE the White House is pulling strings.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 18h

R: is that the group deciding where to send Abrego?
S: i dont know
R: who made uganda decision
S: dont know
R: what was sum & substnace of this case ~aug. 25?
S: uganda had been identified as destination for abrego. 5 minutes maybe.
obj - presidential communication
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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 17h

That is not how a document refreshes one's recollection. Like, even if the witness has changed his testimony, that's not what that phrase means.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17h

G: you have petitioners Exhibit 1: costa rica letter?
S: yes
G: you said that's first you'd seen it. i'd like you to use document to refresh witness's recollection
J: is this first time you've seen?
S: yes.
J: sure?
S: yes
J: no question in your mind?
S: [correct]
J: then nothing to refresh

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 18h

The good news about this Bivens claim is that the caption can sue the “Unknown Named Agents.”

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 19h

I have found Justice Kavanaugh’s “brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 19h

She's so bloody good at her job. This question about the A-file is a relatively tiny detail from a hearing months ago.
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