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Ed Walker
@edwalker.bsky.social
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I read a lot of books, Some of them are interesting enough to write about at emptywheel.net. Retired lawyer. Currently reading The Ethics Of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir. Avatar: detail from Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden by Masaccio.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h
I love the sushi and sashimi there.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h
it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h
Good question.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h
Are you serving or called to serve on a Grand Jury in Chicago? Ever hear of jury nullification? It's good in Grand Juries too. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside ICE facility in Broadview
Prosecutors moved to dismiss a criminal complaint against the couple but have not ruled out new charges.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h
How about we all get Stephen Miller masks and shout You must obey my authoritah; holding signs like like I'm very hardcore; I'm a sexual matador; and other Miller cosplay gibberish.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h
Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire
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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 pre...
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h
ActUp redux!
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 7h
Hey Chicago, can we top this?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 7h
Did you miss yesterday's war in Portland too?
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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 21h
AUSAs Nathaniel Lemons and Gabriel Diaz should remember their oaths of office, their professional responsibilities, their good names, and the future knowledge of their children and grandchildren, and then, morally fortified, they should reconsider/refuse/resign from DOJ.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
Nathaniel (Tyler) Lemons and Gabriel Diaz both join the Comey case from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
Lindsey Halligan has company on the Comey docket:

Ahead of tomorrow’s arraignment, Nathaniel Lemons and Gabriel Diaz file notices of appearance on behalf of the United States.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 20h
I wonder if the authors have any idea of how infuriating they are to people being hammered. These writers won't even say this lawless administration has created a "constitutional crisis".
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Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 9d
Just posted a new essay with @williambaude.bsky.social and Sam Bray -

"Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis" (forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review).

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Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis
<p><span>In a crisis of authority, where it is unclear whether executive officials will comply with judicial decisions, the courts may seem to have limited reme
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 22h
He's feeling the fires of hell for all his lies.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d
Well, ducks have already become tape.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d
At least he won’t be bombing the earth with satellites.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d
New rule: when the president does it it’s very constitutional. See Trump v. US.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d
It's only a fact if there are 5 votes for it.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d
Remember that DHS statement about 10 cars ramming goon vehicles in Chicago, and the goons shot an armed driver wh was trying to hit them?

Yep. Not what happened.

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d
Legal experts names Eussel Vought and John Eastman.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2d
Judge should ask Hamilton directly if he advised DoJ on this effort to avoid her injunction.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2d
Chicago Strong!
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 3d
Human beings are not “collateral.”
They are friends, children, husbands, wives, colleagues, neighbors.

This kind of thinking is killing empathy in America.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 3d
Welker: Oh. OK. Next "question".
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 3d
So what should they do? Kiss Trump's ass? Beg John Thune to be reasonable? Demand Mike Johnson behave like a responsible adult?
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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 3d
The huge percentage of not sures is proof the billionaire media sucks at providing information.
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