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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 24

REMINDERS:
* Not every post is for every person; some are to inform legal folks of something.
* If I have time & if it matters, I say more, but I don't always have time & it doesn't always matter.
* If it's important, I usually cover it at Law Dork, where I work to make reports accessible to all.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19m

(Gentle reminder: We don’t actually need to do far-right justices’ work for them. If they want to destroy the VRA, trust me, they’ll do it. You don’t need to cut down the brush in front of them to help them on their way.)

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24m

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 59m

OK, I had a lot of behind-the-scenes, admin work to get done today.

I’ll be at SCOTUS in the morning, covering another effort from the right to kill off what little is left of the Voting Rights Act.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

If you actually read the article, you'd know there are two authors. And, why the need for shitting on journalists at the end?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 2h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

Amended complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Redline from original complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My report at Law Dork on the earlier preliminary injunction ruling:

Judge criticizes Trump admin, blocks effort to quickly deport children to Guatemala

Judge Timothy Kelly, appointed by Trump in 2017, questioned whether the "plan" was implemented in "good faith" and found that one initial claim "turned out not to be true."

www.lawdork.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

Remember the Trump administration's unsuccessful Labor Day effort to expel children to Guatemala?

The lawyers filed an amended complaint today, expanding the scope of the litigation — reflecting the long-term goals of the administration to do the same thing with kids from many countries.

INTRODUCTION
1. This is a complaint on behalf of hundreds of children at risk of unlawful removal
from the United States.
2. Plaintiffs are unaccompanied minors in Office of Refugee Resettlement (“ORR”)
custody whom Defendants have sought or are seeking to remove from the United States in clear
violation of the unambiguous protections that Congress has provided them as vulnerable
children. Defendants have unlawfully claimed the power to expel these children, in violation of
the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (“TVPRA”), the Immigration
and Nationality Act (“INA”), and the Constitution. Plaintiffs seek to represent a class of
unaccompanied children who are or will be placed in ORR custody and who do not have a final
order of removal or grant of voluntary departure by an immigration judge

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 3h

“This bullshit has to stop” is a quote for the ages.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

You do know that anyone can search by keyword, right?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

What are you talking about? Who said that was the full message? It’s a text ad like the 1000s of other ones out there.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

(It’s Sherrod’s campaign.)

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

(It’s Sherrod’s campaign.)

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

… … … no?

+1 (330) 510-4668
Do you want to know the truth?
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3h

me, every day now: 😵‍💫

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

If you know of any litigation resulting from/related to this, please reach out. Email and Signal are in my bio.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

They … do?

Follow the thread.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

OK. It’s not clear from State’s statement that they even know that. Or, as with other points within the statement, they don’t care about the distinction.

(It is possible a different standard would apply for readmittance. But, not the main point here.)

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

Not smaller, at all! They’re obviously lying, too.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

Recall Judge William Young’s decision regarding the First Amendment challenge to the student visa revocation efforts: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Ultimately, Young ruled that the administration's actions violate the First Amendment, as well as
- on related grounds - the Administrative Procedure Act. In summing up part of the constitutional ruling, Young wrote:

“[T]his Court rules that here the Plaintiffs have shown that Secretaries Noem and Rubio are engaged in a mode of enforcement leading to detaining, deporting, and revoking noncitizens' visas solely on the basis of political speech, and with the intent of chilling such speech and that of others similarly situated. Such conduct is not only unconstitutional, but a thing virtually unknown to our constitutional tradition.”

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