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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 16h

Absolute peak pitchbot.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 6d

Yes.

thebestandres.bsky.social @thebestandres.bsky.social · 6d

@legaleagle.tv Do these pop-ups that are appearing on federal websites like hud.gov violate the Hatch Act? Would love a video on this.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 11d

This is a joke, right? A parody account?

We have an authoritarian prosecuting his political enemies, destroying the rule of law, subverting Congress, wrecking the economy, and, inter alia, deploying troops and masked secret police to majority-opposition party cities.

FOCUS ON HEALTHCARE?????

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 11d

My sister’s report from “war torn” Portland: “too many farmers markets, please send help.”

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 13d

People are laughing about this, but the national security bathroom vanities is where we keep our National Strategic Petroleum Jelly Reserve.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13d

The administration’s fight with Home Depot has escalated from the initial raids by the crack ICE agents in Sealant Team 6 to a full blown economic war.

He’s going to nuke one before November

We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025.
Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale "FLOODING" of these products into the United States by other outside Countries. It is a very unfair practice, but we must protect, for National Security and other reasons, our Manufacturing process. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 13d

Are you kidding me? Now we're forced to defend James Comey?

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 14d

I could be wrong about this, but I can't think of cause of action that the makers of Tylenol could use to file a lawsuit against the government and even if they could file, I can't think of a way in which the government has waived immunity.

dalcal.bsky.social @dalcal.bsky.social · 14d

@legaleagle.tv My fiance and I are debating something but we're not legal experts. Can you make a video explaining the legal ramifications for tRump claiming that Tylenol causes autism? Can Kenvue take legal action against the administration? Is there a precedent for this???

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 15d

"Trump wants to [do a thing] no matter how much suffering it causes women" has a lot of explanatory power.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 16d

Now I wish I'd taken underwater basket weaving in college.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 16d

Fun fact: I ordered a $60 basket from Spain and then had to pay $48 dollars in tariffs C.O.D. (that's still a thing?!) directly to UPS before I could take possession.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 29d

Class members will eventually need to submit a claim, but the clock won’t start running until the settlement is approved (and they’ll then have 120 days to do so). The link you provided is merely to get notice when the settlement is reached.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 29d

Not quite. The judge was mad at the attorneys and the nature of the settlement. He held a hearing yesterday demanded that they answer his questions and submit more info. The settlement is still up in the air. www.bloomberglaw.com/public/deskt...

www.bloomberglaw.com

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 29d

The court blew up the settlement and it hasn't been approved. May want to wait on that.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 29d

This entire thread.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29d

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.

But...
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29d

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 25

Can confirm. But they didn't even admit that we're entitled, they merely "would not oppose" ... part of it.

National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · Aug 25

Wait, what?

You admit that I'm entitled to file a sur-reply because you introduced new evidence, but for only *some* of the new evidence?

Is this one of those "I object because it's really bad for my case" objections?

@legaleagle.tv can confirm this happened bc he got the email too.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 21

Has anyone done the math on how much it's costing to deploy and reassign hundreds of National Guard and federal agents to DC? Got to be in the tens of millions already, right?

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 20

Has anyone figured out how much it cost to send 20 federal agents to raid the sandwich guy’s house? jw

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 15

Literally Meal Team 6.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Aug 15

The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 14

I think Taylor releasing her new album on the Kelce bros' podcast is the "Man Walks on The Moon" moment for new media.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 11

The Great Man [Parts] theory of history.

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · Aug 11

It's crazy to think that, when the history of this period is written, the gutting of the federal bureaucracy and the loss of D.C.'s semi-autonomy will lead back to a character named Big Balls.

Future historians, I envy you.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 11

Thank god. We can finally incarcerate all of those dubiously parked hot dog trucks. (Though in fairness, it looks like these DEA agents already thoroughly inspected those vendors).

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 11

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Aug 11

It's true. Crime is so out of control in Washington DC that a violent mob stormed the Capitol, tried to hang Mike Pence, and attempted to prevent the certification of the election.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Jul 11

👀

Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · Jul 11

@legaleagle.tv hey can I have 10 minutes of your time for a video cameo? It’ll get a million views. :)

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Jul 3

Man, it’s hard to be an American right now.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · Jun 17

Ken White, First AND Second Amendment advocate.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jun 17

/3….short, of course, of the unpleasant, deadly, and very hard Jeffersonian win scenario of disposing of the armed thugs, the government actors sending them, and the political and intellectual elite that wrote the plans for their thuggery.

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