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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Abolitionist Law Center @abolitionistlawcenter.org · 6d

Highly recommend this @nacdl.org 3-part webinar series & resources, which provide insight and recommendations on how to make improvements in competency to stand trial systems
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NACDL - Competency in Criminal Cases

Competency to stand trial is a fundamental safeguard in the criminal legal system, ensuring that individuals can understand the proceedings against them and participate in their own defense. Yet, the ...

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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NACDL Exec. Dir. Lisa Wayne: "This is not justice; it is the weaponization of the criminal process for political vengeance. NACDL stands confident that the federal judicial system will expose this indictment for the political travesty it is." News release: www.nacdl.org/newsrelease/...

NACDL - News Release ~ James Comey Indictment

Nation's Defense Bar Slams 'Trumped-up' Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey – Washington, DC (September 26, 2025) –The federal indictment of former FBI Director James...

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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The underlying allegation is that Comey lied in his Sept 2020 testimony to Congress about authorizing media leaks concerning the Russia investigation.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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The timing is notable: "...Lindsey Halligan abruptly replaced the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia just days before the five-year statute of limitations was set to run out..."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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Birrell stated: "We also note that a grand jury reportedly rejected a third count sought by the government, signaling the weakness of this entire effort."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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Birrell concludes the quote: "...whose legal gravity would scarcely trouble the scales of justice without the downward pressure of a thumb." 👎⚖️

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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Birrell: "The question isn't whether an apparently trumped-up charge will prevail, but why the prosecutor, a former personal lawyer for the president, with no prosecutorial experience, thought fit to present an allegation..."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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Birrell continued: "The charges appear legally tenuous, even as the president pressured the U.S. Attorney's office to rush a case to the grand jury against the reported judgment of career prosecutors."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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NACDL President Andrew Birrell: "This prosecution appears to be an astonishing and corrosive assault on the rule of law. The Justice Department's foundational principle of independent prosecutorial decision-making has been upended."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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NACDL says the charges, filed just before the statute of limitations expired, subvert the independence of the Justice Department.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12d

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The nation's defense bar, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (@nacdl.org), slams the 'Trumped-up' indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as politically motivated retribution.

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Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social · 18d

Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month. It appears in four parts online:

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Murder, Pardons and Impunity: How Antiabortion Violence Escalated Under Trump

Murder, Pardons, Impunity: Antiabortion Violence Under Trump in the Age of Political Assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 18d

Leonnig reported for the Washington Post for 25 years and was part of a team of national security reporters who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting that revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans. She also won Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting in 2015 & 2018.

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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 18d

Abbe Lowell interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carol D. Leonnig at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar at the Marriott Georgetown Washington in DC on September 19, 2025. #NACDLWCDC

Abbe Lowell interviews journalist Carol Leonnig at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar at the Marriott Georgetown Washington in DC on September 19, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Hutson

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Former US Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer moderates a panel on clemency, compassionate release, and pardons featuring Ava Benny-Morrison, Cynthia Roseberry, and JaneAnne Murray at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC. #NACDLWCDC

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Michelle Merola of New York moderates a panel with Zachary Myers of Indiana and Giselle Pomerleau of New Jersey on the ethics of using artificial intelligence in the legal profession at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC on September 18, 2025. #NACDLWCDC

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Noted attorneys Norm Eisen, Nina Moreno, and David Gerger at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC on September 18, 2025, speaking on the changing role of attorneys and related challenges: proffers, retribution, funding, and more. #NACDLWCDC

Norm Eisen, Nina Moreno, and David Gerger at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC on 18 September 2025. Photo by Jonathan Hutson

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 19d

Not just cowards, but fools.

NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Abbe Lowell: Your view of the impact of attacks by the president and his administration on lawyers?

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Firms who rolled over are taking a beating, with clients leaving the firm. 'If you're my law firm, and you just rolled over for the government, what does that mean for me?'

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Abbe Lowell at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar keynote luncheon at Marriott Washington Georgetown on 18 September 2025. Photo by Jonathan Hutson

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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 19d

In a country where the federal government goes after private actors who get targeted by an impulsive, unpredictable bully, who wants a lawyer who lacks the strength to hold their ground? Who looks to a knee bender to stick up for them?

NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Abbe Lowell: Your view of the impact of attacks by the president and his administration on lawyers?

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Firms who rolled over are taking a beating, with clients leaving the firm. 'If you're my law firm, and you just rolled over for the government, what does that mean for me?'

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) addresses the 2025 White Collar Seminar on public corruption and the erosion of trust in both parties, Republicans & Democrats.

"Democracy depends on a basic understanding that we entrust officials with power in exchange for their service for the public good." #NACDLWCDC

Congressman Dan Goldman at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC: "While there is no question that President Donald Trump has taken public corruption to new lows that we could have barely imagined, he has been able to do so because of the erosion of trust in both parties, Republicans and Democrats." Photo by Jonathan Hutson, Marriott Washington Georgetown, 18 Sept 2025.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Thanks to Everlaw (@everlaw.bsky.social) for sponsoring our Keynote Luncheon at the 2025 White Collar Seminar on September 18, featuring noted defense attorney Abbe Lowell interviewing Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 19d

Abbe Lowell: Your view of the impact of attacks by the president and his administration on lawyers?

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Firms who rolled over are taking a beating, with clients leaving the firm. 'If you're my law firm, and you just rolled over for the government, what does that mean for me?'

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 20d

Jenny Kramer moderates a panel on Trial Skills: Cross-Examination of Government Cooperators and Challenging Government Summaries, featuring Jonathan Cogan, Cathy Fleming, and Marci LaBranche at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC on September 18, 2025. #NACDLWCDC

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 20d

At NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar, Sara Kropf of DC moderates a panel on lessons from recent trials, featuring Todd Pugh of Chicago, Sarah Schwietz of DC, Teny Geragos of NYC, and Alex Wolens of Dallas. Topics included how to deselect jurors & how to manage high-profile clients. #NACDLWCDC

At NACDL's White Collar Seminar in DC, Sara Kropf of DC moderates a panel on lessons from recent trials, featuring Todd Pugh of Chicago, Sarah Schwietz of DC, Teny Geragos of NYC, and Alex Wolens of Dallas

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