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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 24

REMINDERS:
* Not every post is for every person; some are to inform legal folks of something.
* If I have time & if it matters, I say more, but I don't always have time & it doesn't always matter.
* If it's important, I usually cover it at Law Dork, where I work to make reports accessible to all.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

Phew! Yes, his video! Just had to make sure.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to strike down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy by licensed therapists practiced on minors — a ruling that could affect similar laws in nearly half the country and make life more difficult for LGBTQ children at an already perilous time.”

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway, conclusion for now is I’ll stay for the reporting. But, what is being done to the Post is appalling — and sad.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear, the video @joshuajfriedman.com shared is from June (if you click through to the X link you’ll see), but the underlying reporting about what O’Neal has done to Opinions recently — embedded in a post below that from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social — is what my second post was referencing. This:

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 7h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not sure if you mean me, but, if you don’t, you should learn how to internet better.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

I presume this is affirming/expanding my latter point.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

*cough*journalismcostsmoneyandimajournalistsoyourereallynotimpressingmewiththewaysyouallhavefoundtonotpayforjournalism*cough*

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. Journalism costs money to produce.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6h

My own story on the raid is here:

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
www.economist.com/united-state...
From The Economist

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 7h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

This might actually get me to cancel my subscription.

I know you’re saying I should have done so a long time ago. But the reporting they do is important, still, and I’m not sure it’s fair to my readers for me not to have access to it.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

“Adam O’Neal.”

I am not falling for this. The “brother” of “Tilly Norwood” is not a real thing.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

Listen, folks! Subscribe now! www.lawdork.com

musicologyman @musicologyman.bsky.social · 7h

I just subscribed this week, and you didn’t disappoint!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, this came up recently —> www.lawdork.com/p/judge-bloc...

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Although TROs — because they are meant to be temporary in nature — are not generally appealable, higher courts can hear appeals if the TRO is acts like a preliminary injunction and DOJ has regularly been claiming that orders against the Trump administration fit that exception and appellate courts have largely gone along with that even if the court ultimately does not side with DOJ in the matter on appeal.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

That’s not at all true, but they have appealed several TROs.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Judge Sooknanan has scheduled an immediate hearing on the motion to dismiss. (The trial is supposed to start on October 14.)

Case Name: USA v. REID
Case Number: 1:25-cr-00244-SLS
Filer:
Document Number: No document attached
Docket Text:
MINUTE ORDER as to SYDNEY LORI REID (1), granting Ms. Reid's [44] Motion for Leave to File Out of Time. The Court will treat the Motion to Dismiss attached to the [44] Motion, ECF No. 44-2, as filed. The Court further ORDERS the Government to respond to the Motion to Dismiss by October 8, 2025, at 12:00 PM. Ms. Reid will file any reply by October 9, 2025, at 9:00 AM. The Court further ORDERS the Parties to appear for a hearing on the Motion to Dismiss on October 9, 2025, at 11:00 AM, in Courtroom 14 before Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan. So ORDERED by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan on 10/7/2025. (znbn)

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h

FPD for Sydney Reid (a woman accused of assault after cops manhandled her for filming an ICE arrest) say that the government did not preserve video that one of the officers watching took, which she claims is exculpatory.

They're moving to dismiss the case.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Other law enforcement officers were present, including Officer Jason Klepec. Officer
Klepec told Ms. Reid that he was filming her, in response to her filming the agents. After Ms.
Reid was arrested, she was put into the backseat of a car driven by Officer Dinko Residovic.
While Ms. Reid was sitting in the backseat, Officer Residovic viewed a video of the incident,
captured by cellphone. Ms. Reid recalls that the video clearly showed what the government has
alleged was an attempted knee to the groin. She recalls that the angle of the video shows that the
knee was not directed at any law enforcement officer but was a reactive movement.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

Catching up on what happened while I was in court and then writing, and this is among the notable developments. —>

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

NEW: The Ninth Circuit schedules oral argument for Thursday in the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Immergut's order temporarily blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

The panel assignment:
Susan P. Graber (Clinton)
Ryan D. Nelson (Trump)
Bridget S. Bade (Trump)

2025-10-09 9:00 am Courtroom 2, 3rd Floor Rm 330, James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse, San Francisco
Before: GRABER, R. NELSON, and BADE, Circuit Judges
Case No.
25-6268
State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

(And it would likely end up back at the district court for factual developments, if they did that.)

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think there was interest. Going in I thought there would be, but DOJ majorly backed away from that and I didn’t see any strong push for it so much as scattered questions to Stevenson that I don’t think will result in her moving enough votes that way.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

The first Law Dork oral argument report of the new Supreme Court term is a doozy: Chiles v. Salazar, over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

And so it begins

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 9h

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss "without prejudice" the charges against Huburt Mazur, who faced a misdemeanor charge stemming from ICE protests in Broadview.

Mazur's preliminary hearing was set for Wednesday morning.

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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