Liz Dye
@lizdye.bsky.social
Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
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Liz Dye
@lizdye.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Protect immigrants
Protect trans
Protect the environment
That’s all we can do. (Besides get TF off Twitter.)
Protect trans
Protect the environment
That’s all we can do. (Besides get TF off Twitter.)
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
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As a little antidote to all the grim tidings here’s a classic rendition of Tom Lehrer’s classic song.
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
Hanukkah in Santa Monica
YouTube video by Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As a little antidote to all the grim tidings here’s a classic rendition of Tom Lehrer’s classic song.
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
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I lost my womb due to ovarian cancer treatment. Did I lose my womanhood too?
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I lost my womb due to ovarian cancer treatment. Did I lose my womanhood too?
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
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(slipping an undergrad $20 so they can file a complaint and get me a fully paid semester’s leave)
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
(slipping an undergrad $20 so they can file a complaint and get me a fully paid semester’s leave)
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So the new reporting is that DHS has decided to go back to a primary focus on targeted enforcement that existed before the late May orders from Stephen Mille to ramp up numbers or else.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
really don't see how they're going to manage to hit the Miller quota
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
So the new reporting is that DHS has decided to go back to a primary focus on targeted enforcement that existed before the late May orders from Stephen Mille to ramp up numbers or else.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
Is the DC Circuit emergency panel Katsas, Rao, Millet?
Asking for Judge Boasberg
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Asking for Judge Boasberg
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Notice (Other) – #206 in J.G.G. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00766) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE (Service of Mandamus Petition) by PAMELA J. BONDI, PETER B. HEGSETH, KRISTI L. NOEM, MARCO A. RUBIO, MADISON SHEAHAN, DONALD J. TRUMP, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SE...
storage.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Is the DC Circuit emergency panel Katsas, Rao, Millet?
Asking for Judge Boasberg
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Asking for Judge Boasberg
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Today's show: how realistic are potential sanctions against the Trump admin for its repeated lies in court? Two judges might help us find out!
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Ep 189 — Who’s Suing The Government Today? EVERYBODY
Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · 12/12/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Today's show: how realistic are potential sanctions against the Trump admin for its repeated lies in court? Two judges might help us find out!
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Jack Smith is due to testify on Capitol Hill next week!
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
House Dems Demand Bondi Release Jack Smith’s Final Mar-a-Lago Report Ahead of Testimony
Smith is expected to give a closed-door deposition next week in the House Judiciary committee.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Jack Smith is due to testify on Capitol Hill next week!
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
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NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! DOJ & FBI have made revelatory disclosures in my #FOIA lawsuit about the docs it withheld related to their review/redaction of the Epstein files
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! DOJ & FBI have made revelatory disclosures in my #FOIA lawsuit about the docs it withheld related to their review/redaction of the Epstein files
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Cool, then Tina Peters can pardon Trump for the fraud stuff in NY
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Cool, then Tina Peters can pardon Trump for the fraud stuff in NY
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1/ I am grateful that Aysha Bagchi of USA TODAY elected to interview me about the Trump DOJ’s second “No Bill” in a week attempting to indict NY AG Letitia James.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
Trump DOJ fails for second time to get indictment of Letitia James
For the second time in about a week, a federal grand jury refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.usatoday.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
1/ I am grateful that Aysha Bagchi of USA TODAY elected to interview me about the Trump DOJ’s second “No Bill” in a week attempting to indict NY AG Letitia James.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
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Antifa, the Canadian girlfriend of terrorist organizations.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Antifa, the Canadian girlfriend of terrorist organizations.
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Judge Orders Kilmar Released!
open.substack.com/pub/dankowal...
open.substack.com/pub/dankowal...
Judge Orders Kilmar Released!
And rips the feds many new ones. Ouch!
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Judge Orders Kilmar Released!
open.substack.com/pub/dankowal...
open.substack.com/pub/dankowal...
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Really? We’re giving pro bono awards to the Trump deal firms now?
Latham Honored As 'Pro Bono Innovator,' Without Mentioning That '$125 Million Trump Extortion' Thing - Above the Law
The rehabilitation tour is in full swing.
abovethelaw.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Really? We’re giving pro bono awards to the Trump deal firms now?
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Interesting that SCOTUSblog goes with Justice Kavanaugh's preferred terminology for the shadow docket.
Introducing ... the Interim Docket Blog! Check it regularly to see analysis from Jack Goldsmith, William Baude, and Daniel Epps on the latest developments on the Supreme Court's interim docket.
Interim Docket Blog
www.scotusblog.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Interesting that SCOTUSblog goes with Justice Kavanaugh's preferred terminology for the shadow docket.
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Thanks for the kind words! I don't need a monument, but if you want to support me work please sign up for a paid subscription to my newsletter: www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Here goes Aaron Rupar doing the work that no one wants.
If there's not a monument erected for this man (Aaron, obvi), then I don't know who we are.
If there's not a monument erected for this man (Aaron, obvi), then I don't know who we are.
Trump: "We won the Electoral College 312 to 226. And by the way, the real vote was much more than this, but we wanted to make it too big to rig."
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Thanks for the kind words! I don't need a monument, but if you want to support me work please sign up for a paid subscription to my newsletter: www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
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JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked DHS from enforcing a new prohibition on “unusual noise” outside a government building in Oregon, saying it unconstitutionally criminalizes and chills free speech storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked DHS from enforcing a new prohibition on “unusual noise” outside a government building in Oregon, saying it unconstitutionally criminalizes and chills free speech storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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New: Trump pardoned them for Jan. 6. Now they want millions of dollars from the US government.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/trump-pardoned-them-for-jan-6-now-they-want-millions-of-dollars?utm_medium=email&utm_source=author_alert&utm_term=251210&utm_campaign=author_22946324
www.bloomberg.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
New: Trump pardoned them for Jan. 6. Now they want millions of dollars from the US government.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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1/ In JGG, Judge Boasberg ordered DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni & current hatchet man Drew Ensign to testify next week in ongoing criminal contempt proceedings to determine whether the gov't willfully disobeyed court orders.
Today the Trump administration moved to "reconsider" that order, but...
Today the Trump administration moved to "reconsider" that order, but...
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
1/ In JGG, Judge Boasberg ordered DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni & current hatchet man Drew Ensign to testify next week in ongoing criminal contempt proceedings to determine whether the gov't willfully disobeyed court orders.
Today the Trump administration moved to "reconsider" that order, but...
Today the Trump administration moved to "reconsider" that order, but...
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know
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"Congress is finally showing signs of life. Not allowing Trump to ONE WEIRD TRICK his way around the Constitution proves the legislative and judicial branches can stop some of his excesses. We can only hope they continue to stand up as this napping duck gets lamer and lamer." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Habba booted by Senate and judges who did their damn jobs
See! It is possible.
www.publicnotice.co
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Congress is finally showing signs of life. Not allowing Trump to ONE WEIRD TRICK his way around the Constitution proves the legislative and judicial branches can stop some of his excesses. We can only hope they continue to stand up as this napping duck gets lamer and lamer." — @lizdye.bsky.social