Eugene Flynn
@ejflynn.bsky.social
Law student at The University of Tulsa College of Law
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I am heir to 2,400 year old living traditions of self-government and historical inquiry, which have weathered two millennia of setbacks and long nights.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
As much as people like to dunk on liberal elitism, “these Nazi punks are crass idiots and I refuse to bow to my lessers” is, for me at least, necessary for morale and stiffens my backbone when I feel like giving up.
May 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I am heir to 2,400 year old living traditions of self-government and historical inquiry, which have weathered two millennia of setbacks and long nights.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried.
So, yeah, contempt.
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HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador.
Follow along for updates ⬇️
Follow along for updates ⬇️
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador.
Follow along for updates ⬇️
Follow along for updates ⬇️
I’m just a lowly law student, but this reads like something designed to piss off a judge.
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April 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m just a lowly law student, but this reads like something designed to piss off a judge.
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I will quit my job and work for any candidate who promises to put the leadership of this administration in the same overseas gulag they've been shipping people to
April 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I will quit my job and work for any candidate who promises to put the leadership of this administration in the same overseas gulag they've been shipping people to
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When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day.
Nothing else is good enough.
Nothing else is good enough.
hello! i am very curious if anybody is building a rapid response network to file habeas shell petitions for nice people before ice can take them out of state?
April 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day.
Nothing else is good enough.
Nothing else is good enough.
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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April 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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NEWS
A federal judge dismisses the case against Eric Adams WITH PREJUDICE, a ruling he says "ensures that, going forward, the charges in the indictment cannot be used as leverage" over the New York City mayor.
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A federal judge dismisses the case against Eric Adams WITH PREJUDICE, a ruling he says "ensures that, going forward, the charges in the indictment cannot be used as leverage" over the New York City mayor.
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April 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NEWS
A federal judge dismisses the case against Eric Adams WITH PREJUDICE, a ruling he says "ensures that, going forward, the charges in the indictment cannot be used as leverage" over the New York City mayor.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A federal judge dismisses the case against Eric Adams WITH PREJUDICE, a ruling he says "ensures that, going forward, the charges in the indictment cannot be used as leverage" over the New York City mayor.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Not a fan of the way this lead is phrased, but the rest of it is great reporting.
In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there
At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
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At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. can't get inmates to court on time, angering judges, delaying justice
Moving defendants from jails to courts is one of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's main responsibilities. For more than half a decade, it's struggled to get that done, infuriating lawyers, advoca...
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March 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not a fan of the way this lead is phrased, but the rest of it is great reporting.
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It's told by Thomas More at the end of his History of Richard III (c.1525): a fable that the lion announces execution of all horned beasts, and another with a lump on its forehead flees the forest: "Why fleest thou? That's no horn on thy head" "Aye, but what if he call it a horn, where am I then?"
March 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It's told by Thomas More at the end of his History of Richard III (c.1525): a fable that the lion announces execution of all horned beasts, and another with a lump on its forehead flees the forest: "Why fleest thou? That's no horn on thy head" "Aye, but what if he call it a horn, where am I then?"
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I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
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One of the most important things I have learned from the study of history: Our circumstances are contingent, the result of countless overlapping developments. And that means that nothing is inevitable. What comes next will be the product of the choices we make.
March 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
One of the most important things I have learned from the study of history: Our circumstances are contingent, the result of countless overlapping developments. And that means that nothing is inevitable. What comes next will be the product of the choices we make.
It’s infuriating and tragic that in this holy season when the Church reflects on God’s salvation of an oppressed people, those who most loudly claim the mantle of Christ cheer the oppression of the alien, the widow, and the orphan. Lord, have mercy.
March 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It’s infuriating and tragic that in this holy season when the Church reflects on God’s salvation of an oppressed people, those who most loudly claim the mantle of Christ cheer the oppression of the alien, the widow, and the orphan. Lord, have mercy.
America feels like a shittier version of Discworld right now: a lot of plot lines mostly connected by setting and tone, but it’s hard to know where to start to get a comprehensive understanding of it all.
March 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
America feels like a shittier version of Discworld right now: a lot of plot lines mostly connected by setting and tone, but it’s hard to know where to start to get a comprehensive understanding of it all.
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Spoke with an attorney who was harassed by law enforcement after providing pro bono help to immigrants. Wouldn't ID themselves or the agency.
My guess is he isn't the only one. If you've experienced similar harassment or know someone who has, please feel free to reach out.
Signal: @radleybalko.52
My guess is he isn't the only one. If you've experienced similar harassment or know someone who has, please feel free to reach out.
Signal: @radleybalko.52
March 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Spoke with an attorney who was harassed by law enforcement after providing pro bono help to immigrants. Wouldn't ID themselves or the agency.
My guess is he isn't the only one. If you've experienced similar harassment or know someone who has, please feel free to reach out.
Signal: @radleybalko.52
My guess is he isn't the only one. If you've experienced similar harassment or know someone who has, please feel free to reach out.
Signal: @radleybalko.52
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Trump: the streets will run like rivers with the blood of my enemies. Their heads on spikes will adorn Congress and every federal building and court.
Chief Justice Roberts: Actually the GSA is in charge of federal court decorations in consultation with the judicial counsel
Chief Justice Roberts: Actually the GSA is in charge of federal court decorations in consultation with the judicial counsel
March 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Trump: the streets will run like rivers with the blood of my enemies. Their heads on spikes will adorn Congress and every federal building and court.
Chief Justice Roberts: Actually the GSA is in charge of federal court decorations in consultation with the judicial counsel
Chief Justice Roberts: Actually the GSA is in charge of federal court decorations in consultation with the judicial counsel
My law school has not prepared me for the intricacies of federal appellate practice, so I’m left wondering what the legal effect of a whiny letter to the court clerk actually is.
NEW: DOJ complains to the DC Circuit again about Judge Boasberg, urging it to intervene before the US gov't "expose[s] itself to potential judicial micromanagement of how it conducts foreign policy and national security operations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
My law school has not prepared me for the intricacies of federal appellate practice, so I’m left wondering what the legal effect of a whiny letter to the court clerk actually is.
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This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
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!!! NEW: DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that he should CANCEL the 5 p.m. hearing "because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
!!! NEW: DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that he should CANCEL the 5 p.m. hearing "because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.
March 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.
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Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.
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I can’t believe I took a few hours off from the internet only to discover upon my return that ALLEGED ACTING ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE, AMY GLEASON, FILED A DECLARATION
March 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I can’t believe I took a few hours off from the internet only to discover upon my return that ALLEGED ACTING ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE, AMY GLEASON, FILED A DECLARATION