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Retired from US Cts - 30 yrs as crim defense investigator, 6 as writ clerk (think habeas petitions... but by the 100s). So, 36 yrs on Team Due Process.

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 27d

Standing with @matthewjdowd.bsky.social : /
Cable news networks so cowed, /
It falls to us each /
To stand in the breach, /
Truth-speaking twice as damn loud.

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 14h

Must disagree.

elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 14h

Well, only in the sense that they've stacked the WH press pool with extreme RW / MAGA "journalists," podcasters & influencers.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 19h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 14h

That was also my reaction to this.

Initially, one is focused on the realization that we have such an ignorant clod in the presidency that he doesn't know what habeas corpus is.

Then it occurs to you: why in God's name is this reporter asking this question?

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 15h

That's a good look for her.

elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 15h

Cheer up, Bill. You can still have "the grocery."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23h

I prefer governments that don’t try to “take the freedom of speech away.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 15h

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 15h

Did anyone think he would?

Seriously?

elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 15h

Bryan's among the top ten most admirable people I've met.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23h

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 18h

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 15h

...US Courts would, to my way of thinking, be better served to have a more even mix.

Thanks for the generous assessment.

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 15h

I've no doubt he'll be a good judge.

For every Art III judge who came up in an established indigent defense office (FPD or Commumity Defender office), there are dozens who were fed prosecutors. (That KBJ was the former is one - of several, of course - things which endeared her to me.) The...

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 17h

From what I've been able to discern, they've had inauspicious careers.

elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 19h

One source (a local radio station website, iirc) said Diaz earned his JD at Campbell University School of Law. No clue about Lemons.

elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 20h

I just checked this, before recommending it, and the AI result that Google gives in response to an open-ended query reading "discovery in a federal criminal case" is a pretty fair sketching of the broad outlines.

elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 20h

👍 I had no idea.

My 1° reference, of course, was to US Dist Judge Michael Nachmanoff. During his tenure as EDVA AFPD, Acting FPD & then FPD, MN was a coworker* then immed boss of a 35-yr friend of mine.

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* as coworker relationships go, these (AFPD/investigator) aren't casual but fire-forged

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized I'm *one* degree removed from Nachmanoff.

😊

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!!
That explains virtually all of the cabinet picks.
It's all the Donald Trump Show.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January.

Today it has two.

See how this works?

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 1d

Mandamus.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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