Stephanie K. Patten
@stephaniekpatten.bsky.social
Criminal-defense lawyer
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Texas lawmakers should not roll back Michael Morton Act www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
Texas lawmakers should not roll back Michael Morton Act
State law requires prosecutors to turn over to defense attorneys virtually all evidence in a case. State lawmakers are seeking to change that. Bad move.
www.expressnews.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Texas lawmakers should not roll back Michael Morton Act www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
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The Suspension Clause:
1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session;
2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and
3) *Even then,* applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)
1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session;
2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and
3) *Even then,* applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)
Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
May 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The Suspension Clause:
1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session;
2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and
3) *Even then,* applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)
1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session;
2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and
3) *Even then,* applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)
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The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he:
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he:
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
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The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee yesterday heard hours of testimony against HB 3330 (Cook) that would gut the Michael Morton Act. They want to pretend there's confusion over whether only DA's or also police must turn over exculpatory evidence, but no, it always applied to both. 🧵
April 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee yesterday heard hours of testimony against HB 3330 (Cook) that would gut the Michael Morton Act. They want to pretend there's confusion over whether only DA's or also police must turn over exculpatory evidence, but no, it always applied to both. 🧵
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Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?
The answer is due process.
The answer is due process.
April 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?
The answer is due process.
The answer is due process.
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How the FedSoc judges on SCOTUS want you think habeas corpus works:
a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him
ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him
media.tenor.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
How the FedSoc judges on SCOTUS want you think habeas corpus works:
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What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"
![Contrary to the Government’s position, “upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.” Giovani Carandola, Ltd. v. Bason, 303 F.3d 507, 521 (4th Cir. 2002); Nken, 556 U.S. at 436 (“[T]here is a public interest in preventing [non-citizens] from being wrongfully removed, particularly to countries where they are likely to face substantial harm.”). This is the exact situation the Government has placed Abrego Garcia in. An IJ has already determined that Abrego Garcia was entitled to withholding of removal to El Salvador because he was likely to face persecution there. But the Government removed him anyway. The irreparable harm in this case is the harm being done to Abrego Garcia every minute he is in El Salvador. And the public interest undoubtedly favors requiring the Government to facilitate and effectuate his return to the United States.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqbrsb2cdeaz5ybuo3kk7vs7/bafkreifkhexumgjq76znpxp6k6uxpkd4f7wiy6ctfnoxmh5qhs6go5i6ly@jpeg)
April 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"
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“MS-13 members such as Abrego.”
This is what we lawyers call an allegation, not a fact. Another sign of the times that it’s in a brief filed in the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General of the United States.
This is what we lawyers call an allegation, not a fact. Another sign of the times that it’s in a brief filed in the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General of the United States.
The application continues the trend of increasingly hot rhetoric in the Trump administration's condemnation of federal judges.
April 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“MS-13 members such as Abrego.”
This is what we lawyers call an allegation, not a fact. Another sign of the times that it’s in a brief filed in the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General of the United States.
This is what we lawyers call an allegation, not a fact. Another sign of the times that it’s in a brief filed in the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General of the United States.
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If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.
Judge Thacker (Obama), joined by Judge King (Clinton), wrote that first concurrence. Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), then, wrote his own concurrence.
Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."
Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."
April 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Matthew Martens on why due process matters:
"Without a trial … we do not know whether a crime occurred and, if so, who committed the crime."
"And that trial cannot provide a reliable answer … if its procedures are not of a sort designed to yield accurate results."
"Without a trial … we do not know whether a crime occurred and, if so, who committed the crime."
"And that trial cannot provide a reliable answer … if its procedures are not of a sort designed to yield accurate results."
March 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Matthew Martens on why due process matters:
"Without a trial … we do not know whether a crime occurred and, if so, who committed the crime."
"And that trial cannot provide a reliable answer … if its procedures are not of a sort designed to yield accurate results."
"Without a trial … we do not know whether a crime occurred and, if so, who committed the crime."
"And that trial cannot provide a reliable answer … if its procedures are not of a sort designed to yield accurate results."
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One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.”
That’s fatuous.
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That’s fatuous.
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March 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.”
That’s fatuous.
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That’s fatuous.
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Historically, law enforcement determinations of who is or isn’t in a gang has been some of the most entrails-of-a-sheep subjective voodoo bullshit in the entire criminal justice system. So now if a neo-Nazi is wiling to call you a gang member you are summarily deported.
REPORTER: How do you determine whether somebody is a gang member? What criteria do you use?
HOMAN: Through various investigations
HOMAN: Through various investigations
March 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Historically, law enforcement determinations of who is or isn’t in a gang has been some of the most entrails-of-a-sheep subjective voodoo bullshit in the entire criminal justice system. So now if a neo-Nazi is wiling to call you a gang member you are summarily deported.
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So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.
March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.
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I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective
March 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective
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The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.
Supreme Court throws out death sentence, murder conviction of Okla. death row inmate
The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.
www.npr.org
February 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.
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So, folks on here have probably caught a whole bunch of lawyers and law professors (correctly) lashing out at a law professor (Ilan Wurman) for suggesting there's some meaningful "literature" supporting Trump's attack on birthright citizenship that the courts didn't "engage with"
It's worth taking
It's worth taking
January 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So, folks on here have probably caught a whole bunch of lawyers and law professors (correctly) lashing out at a law professor (Ilan Wurman) for suggesting there's some meaningful "literature" supporting Trump's attack on birthright citizenship that the courts didn't "engage with"
It's worth taking
It's worth taking
If my clients had the opportunity for similar treatment, I’d be on board with this non-sentence. For some reason, other similarly convicted felons aren’t afforded such grace. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
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January 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If my clients had the opportunity for similar treatment, I’d be on board with this non-sentence. For some reason, other similarly convicted felons aren’t afforded such grace. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
“Gifted and tenacious attorney”?! Dude didn’t even know how to switch his Venmo to private.
November 13, 2024 at 8:54 PM
“Gifted and tenacious attorney”?! Dude didn’t even know how to switch his Venmo to private.