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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 10h

"University campuses have been traditional public forums since they were founded," he said…. "The whole point of the First Amendment is that the government can't decide what is a traditional public forum." www.kut.org/crime-justic...

Former UT lecturer's lingering charges from pro-Palestinian protest dismissed

Rich Heyman was arrested after state police accused him of assault and criminal mischief.

www.kut.org

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Law + Tech News Bot @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org · 12h

TL;DR: A law professor discovered that Deloitte included fictitious AI-generated references in a government report, raising questions about the integrity of their submissions.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 10h

"To bend would also dishonor the legacy of those who did not bend. You got to stand, even when people say sit down."

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 11h

Comey’s Two Legal Challenges to His Indictment, Explained

A lawyer for the former F.B.I. director said he would accuse the Justice Department of malicious and selective prosecution and contend that a U.S. attorney was illegally appointed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Comey’s Two Legal Challenges to His Indictment, Explained

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

Reporter: "Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending Habeus Corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens?"

Trump: "I'd rather leave that to Kristi [Noem]"

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 11h

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 18h

An immigration court case to watch:

Federal agents illegally arrested nearly 2 dozen people earlier this year without warrants in violation of a 2022 consent decree, a federal judge in Chicago ruled late Tuesday.

Immigration & civil liberties advocates sued federal authorities

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 20h

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 20h

Trump fired a bunch of Immigration Judges + Board of Immigration Appeals members so that he could stack those orgs with loyalists. Our NSF funded research confirms the work background of IJs and BIA members predict their rate of asylum denial. See also our description of the immigration bureaucracy.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 16h

I don't really get the CPS decision in the China spying prosecution, any more than Mark Elliot does publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/08/o... or the lawyers quoted in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct.... My *guess* is that it must have been a complex tangle of evidential worries.

Legal experts question reasoning behind CPS dropping China ‘spies’ case

Ex-DPP Ken Macdonald says prosecutors may have been ‘over-fussy’ in seeking further assurances from government

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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 17h

mariah carey applies to register the name of her 14 y/o daughter, monroe carey, as a trademark for entertainment services, including live music performances

if monroe doesn't like that fact, there might be little she can do about it under current law:

houstonlawreview.org/article/1275...

Of Marks and Minors | Published in Houston Law Review

By Alexandra J. Roberts. 62 Hous. L. Rev. 307 (2024)

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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 16h

For the first time, I've read the full version of the Maker's Mark decision (involving Ceurvo). I did not realize how many pages of exhaustive research about Kentucky bourbon this judicial opinion actually contains. 🥃

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 16h

There’s a reason arson is one of the predicate crimes for common law felony murder. Fire resents our control.

🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 17h

I think of myself as a criminal legal system minimalist. So yes, I agree with this. We use prison too much and for too long, and yet I still agree with this.

last vixen on the left @liberalvixen.bsky.social · 17h

29-year-old Florida man has been arrested in connection with the Palisades fire. I have to be honest - I am firmly against the death penalty - but if you knowingly start a wildfire - you should be put under the jail for the rest of your life.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21h

That "Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn" is perhaps the most insightful comment yet made about Trump and his second-term Attorney General.

Typically outstanding stuff from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21h

Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn. Read the detaios & judge for yourself if this is how the people’s lawyer should do her job. joycevance.substack.com/p/oversight

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

joycevance.substack.com

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🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 17h

I think of myself as a criminal legal system minimalist. So yes, I agree with this. We use prison too much and for too long, and yet I still agree with this.

last vixen on the left @liberalvixen.bsky.social · 17h

29-year-old Florida man has been arrested in connection with the Palisades fire. I have to be honest - I am firmly against the death penalty - but if you knowingly start a wildfire - you should be put under the jail for the rest of your life.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 20h

A federal judge in San Francisco set a hearing for 10/16 on whether to temporarily halt any Trump administration efforts to carry out mass layoffs during the government shutdown. She's also ordered DOJ to submit a report on Friday explaining what's going on.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

I (jointly) got to get this into law. (With @justinbates.bsky.social and @queensparkkaren.bsky.social )

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/34

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 16h

America First Legal , co-founded by Stephen Miller, has filed an amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

Exhibit Proposed Amicus Brief – #51, Att. #1 in State of Illinois v. Trump (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-12174) – CourtListener.com

MOTION by Movant AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION for leave to file Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Defendants (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Proposed Amicus Brief)(McCotter, R. Trent) (Entered: 10/08/2025...

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 17h

Good Lord, a lawyer? Acting in their clients' best interests no matter who the clients are? What a story 😱

Jokes aside, tarring lawyers with the characteristics of their clients has a dark history in Ireland.

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 17h

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 17h

Adventures in unitary executive land:

The same administration that wants Kilmar Ábrego García prosecuted in federal court in Nashville and in ICE detention pending deportation proceedings in Maryland—at the same time—cannot make arrangements to bring him to court for a previously scheduled hearing.

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Jane @janeg.bsky.social · 17h

The state bar is giving a professionalism award to a guy who kissed my hand as a greeting AT COURT IN A SCHEDULING MEETING.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 15h

An absurd and outrageous response. Prosecutors shouldn’t bring cases until they’re ready to try them, they are the ones that decide when it happens, constrained only by the statute of limitations, if they can’t get their hands around the evidence before that time, tough.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 16h

Well that's a FAST way to spook investors away:
"Hey we need to raise at least $30,000,000 in VC money...to pay off the judgments"

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/i...

Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms

OpenAI, Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential lawsuits.

arstechnica.com

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 16h

This is your periodic reminder that saying “future trial at The Hague” requires ratification of the Rome Statute. (Assuming they mean the ICC and not the ICJ).

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 16h

so ICE shooting a clergy member in the head while praying....isn't religious liberty kind of a big deal to current SCOTUS?

man, having to choose between letting the police do what they want or putting religious freedom above all else...I hope Martha has a good flag for this

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 15h

James Comey’s indictment is a trademark tactic of authoritarians
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James Comey’s indictment is a trademark tactic of authoritarians

The former FBI director’s indictment breaks a principle that has protected American democracy for 50 years.

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