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Carpe Jugular
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Federal Criminal Defense Attorney, mostly indigent defense, probably working for free now that the Treasury is being looted.

At the threshold of hell.
I’m sure it won’t be shocking to hear that the DOJ has, for years now, required indigent defendants to shoulder the cost of producing their discovery to them by similarly requiring attorneys representing them to produce hard drives to the DOJ in order to receive their discovery.
February 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
In the early days when we discovered it, we actually were heartened that there was some political will to do something. But yeah, at this point if I hear one more “listening session” has been set up in response to them murdering us, I might lose my mind completely.
January 22, 2026 at 5:49 PM
They even set up a reporting system to document this violation of Illinois law and then surprise did nothing about it.
January 22, 2026 at 5:41 PM
You know they killed a woman right? Where are you learning journalism with this kind of batshit reporting.
January 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM
He’s saying “that war in Russia” but he means Ukraine. We should all be worried that he intends to do this again there.
January 4, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Unsurprising that you’re not seeing the opposition to this-you’re not seeing that ICE deploys teargas in our neighborhoods when we surround them on the street and scream at them for taking our neighbors. Or how they point guns at us and push us to the ground when they come to our neighborhoods.
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A real “let them eat Big Macs” moment.
October 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Except now he’s letting state police protect ICE and they’re helping escalate things in Broadview.
October 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What are you doing about our own state and local police forces being used against our citizens in Broadview today?? Please do something about this.
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Are any of your colleagues writing about how none of the panel of CJA lawyers representing indigent defendants in federal court have been paid since July and now with the government shut down we won’t be paid until that’s resolved either?
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM