David McBuckeye
@davidmcbuckeye.bsky.social
ATLien, but always a Buckeye. Plastics by trade. Hobbies include woodworking, law and politics, and being right.
Always curious to learn.
The past decade has radicalized me.
Always curious to learn.
The past decade has radicalized me.
Pinned
DOJ has thoroughly trashed their reputation and must no longer receive the benefit of the presumption of regularity.
“DOJ’s ‘Notice of Corrections’ ought to give the justices real pause … about substituting their judgment for that of district courts at least where preliminary relief has been based upon an impoverished (or non-existant) record.”
Today’s “One First” on developments in the DOGE/Social Security case:
Today’s “One First” on developments in the DOGE/Social Security case:
Bonus 203: Correcting the Record in the Social Security/DOGE Case
An eye-opening filing by the Department of Justice should give more than a little pause to the justices with respect to one of their earlier grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:39 PM
DOJ has thoroughly trashed their reputation and must no longer receive the benefit of the presumption of regularity.
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“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 AM
“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”
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I AM SO SORRY BUT THE SUE BIRD WITH THE MEGAN RAPINOE WITH THE MALALA YOUSAFZAI AT A PWHL GAME IS ONE OF THE WILDEST CROSSOVERS I'VE SEEN LMAOOOOOO I love women's sports sm 🥰😂
January 20, 2026 at 5:40 AM
I AM SO SORRY BUT THE SUE BIRD WITH THE MEGAN RAPINOE WITH THE MALALA YOUSAFZAI AT A PWHL GAME IS ONE OF THE WILDEST CROSSOVERS I'VE SEEN LMAOOOOOO I love women's sports sm 🥰😂
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Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 21, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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I sort of am becoming a statue posting “REMEMBER WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU” because they are in fact taking things from me, right now.
the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I sort of am becoming a statue posting “REMEMBER WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU” because they are in fact taking things from me, right now.
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Only a conservative Supreme Court justice could be surprised to learn that many historical laws in America were grounded in gutter racism
The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism
Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Only a conservative Supreme Court justice could be surprised to learn that many historical laws in America were grounded in gutter racism
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I just wanna be clear concerning the Church protest in Minneapolis...
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
January 20, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I just wanna be clear concerning the Church protest in Minneapolis...
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
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"Ms. Halligan’s Response asserts that she is free to act in an unlawful capacity, because she disagrees that she does so unlawfully. But that’s not how our legal system works... this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District ... must come to an end."
NEWS: Judge Novak strikes Lindsey Halligan’s use of the “U.S. Attorney” title, finding that her doing so “ignores a binding court order.”
He also says her brief on the matter contains “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”
He also says her brief on the matter contains “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”
![Virginia was invalid and that Ms. Halligan has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025."). In both opinions, Judge Currie concluded that "[a]ll actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment... [constituted] unlawful exercises of executive
power ...." Comey Opinion at 28; James Opinion at 25.
Ms. Halligan's response, in which she was joined by both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice. The Court will not engage in a similar tit-for-tat and will instead analyze the few points that Ms. Halligan offers to justify her continued identification of her position as United States Attorney before the Court. Ultimately, the Court concludes for the reasons that follow that Ms. Halligan's continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for this District ignores a binding court order and may not continue; otherwise, Ms. Halligan and anyone who joins her on a pleading containing the improper moniker subjects themselves to potential disciplinary action in this Court pursuant to the Court's Local Rules.
I.
Relevant Procedural History
In her opinions, Judge Currie set forth the procedural history leading up to her decision.
The Court recounts here only that history necessary to evaluate Ms. Halligan's position in this
case:
On January 20, 2025, Jessica Aber, who had been nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate, resigned from her position as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The following day, the Attorney General appointed Erik Siebert as Interim U.S. Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 546. Mr. Siebert's 120-day interim appointment vas set to expire on May 21, 2025. So, on May 9, 2025, the judges of the district xercised their authority under section 546(d) to appoint Mr. Siebert to continue in hi](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreif3bv223wshsxxmb4jasqdgvweo47hwuddhlwuxr7rptl6edzh2qy@jpeg)
January 20, 2026 at 8:04 PM
"Ms. Halligan’s Response asserts that she is free to act in an unlawful capacity, because she disagrees that she does so unlawfully. But that’s not how our legal system works... this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District ... must come to an end."
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Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me
January 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me
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THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT…
We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself.
📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.
We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself.
📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 PM
THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT…
We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself.
📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.
We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself.
📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.
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waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 20, 2026 at 1:09 PM
waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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“Ohhh de’re gonna kick him”
January 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM
“Ohhh de’re gonna kick him”
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When I saw the phone alert his morning, "Indiana fights off Miami," I was relieved to read further and see that it's just a football game.
January 20, 2026 at 12:04 PM
When I saw the phone alert his morning, "Indiana fights off Miami," I was relieved to read further and see that it's just a football game.
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Goodnight noises everywhere.
January 20, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Goodnight noises everywhere.
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In the great green room 🌝
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 AM
In the great green room 🌝
Either this begins to close the hellmouth portal that ripped open in 2016, or it widens the devouring gyre. Dunno.
Anyway, at least the title stays with the B1G.
Congrats Hoosiers!
Anyway, at least the title stays with the B1G.
Congrats Hoosiers!
January 20, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Either this begins to close the hellmouth portal that ripped open in 2016, or it widens the devouring gyre. Dunno.
Anyway, at least the title stays with the B1G.
Congrats Hoosiers!
Anyway, at least the title stays with the B1G.
Congrats Hoosiers!
Manifested INT
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Manifested INT
MENDOZA HAS THE JUICE
January 20, 2026 at 3:39 AM
MENDOZA HAS THE JUICE
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It’s tough, because I think Miami got away with a personal foul there BUT I also firmly believe Miami needs personal foul penalties to power up, so I’m not sure who the non call helps
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 AM
It’s tough, because I think Miami got away with a personal foul there BUT I also firmly believe Miami needs personal foul penalties to power up, so I’m not sure who the non call helps
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BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest.
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest.
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."
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He was a Communist, Elmo.
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 PM
He was a Communist, Elmo.
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Holy Shit.
This is from Keeper of the Flame with Kathryn Hepburn & Spencer Tracy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeper_...
This is from Keeper of the Flame with Kathryn Hepburn & Spencer Tracy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeper_...
January 19, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Holy Shit.
This is from Keeper of the Flame with Kathryn Hepburn & Spencer Tracy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeper_...
This is from Keeper of the Flame with Kathryn Hepburn & Spencer Tracy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeper_...