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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 3d

What?!?! This is outrageous.

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 3d

I'm pleased to see this - the compact is unacceptable for institutions of higher education.

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 3d

If the country survives Trumpism, it will be partly due to the administration running out of competent lawyers.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 3d

I talked about best jury selection practices with a great team!!

www.focuswithfred.com/the-fred-fil...

Focus with FRED

www.focuswithfred.com

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 4d

Bullied is right! Nightmare for us Eagles fans. 🦅

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent news! There are so many problems with this conviction. It's good that the execution has been blocked and the case sent back to the trial court.

Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 4d

In Death Penalty news:

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/r...

Texas court blocks execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson

Roberson was scheduled to be executed Oct. 16 after being convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of his two-year-old daughter Nikki.

www.texastribune.org

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 4d

Me too

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 4d

Noooooo!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 7d

Neat idea!!

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks, very helpful context!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 9d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 9d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10d

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…

Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 11d

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building newrepublic.com/post/201258/... via @newrepublic.com

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11d

Nice story!

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11d

Here's some encouraging information (gift article):

This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 13d

JuryBall Las Vegas is underway, with John Campbell explaining to the lawyer audience about the value of data. Plus, branded cappuccino!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 13d

Same!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 15d

Sick that this is necessary.

Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 15d

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Mass Shooting Tracker

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 15d

I think it's inability to read a stacked graph.

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 15d

Hero!

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 15d

So exhausting..

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 15d

Go birds!🦅

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 16d

Eagles looking good! 🦅

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 17d

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 18d

Grand jury decisions are a mystery!

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18d

NEWS: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury, just days after Trump demanded the DOJ prosecute him “now” and fired the prosecutor who refused to bring the case

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 21d

Great news!

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 21d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

www.latimes.com

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