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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 52m

I get this a lot, and I'll venture a slightly less damning explanation. Lot of people think someone who gets shot could avoid it. "I would have simply explained to Officer Negligent Discharge that I was cool," etc. When they see a cop shoot a toy breed dog, they understand he's just a sociopath.

Bedigger @bedigger.bsky.social · 11h

Because Americans care more about shooting dogs than shooting innocent poor people or minorities.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve been asked about Joe Arpaio and last decade’s “show me your papers” laws in a few interviews recently.

The current regime feels even worse because showing ICE your papers is not enough if you look Latino.

Officers just refuse to believe the papers are real.

ij.org/case/alabama...

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 19h

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2h

Cato filed an amicus brief in RAICES v. Noem, the case challenging Trump's Border Dictator order that purports to suspend all immigration law because it is "ineffective." Our brief describes how the government's arguments are baseless www.cato.org/legal-briefs...

RAICES v. Noem

The government’s assertions are based on either misinterpretations or tortured readings of the data, attempting to find justification for a spurious legal argument in facts that simply are not there.

www.cato.org

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 11h

“Thanks.”

Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t say.

The County gave them 12 reasons not to take it. We didn’t think any were very convincing. But Gorsuch just mentioned the “vehicle problems.”

Could be because it’s weed-related. Could be because we won every other issue below. Could be there just aren’t four who like this issue.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1d

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Cite as: 607 U. S. _
(2025)
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Statement of GORSUCH, J.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
CORRINE MORGAN THOMAS, ET AL. v. HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
No. 24-1180. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE GORSUCH respecting the denial of certiorari.
In Minneapolis & St. Louis R. Co. v. Bombolis, 241 U. S. 211, 217 (1916), this Court held that the Seventh Amendment's civil jury trial right is not enforceable against the States. Petitioners ask us to reconsider that decision. But a number of "vehicle" problems make it unlikely that we could do so in this case. See Brief in Opposition 21-44. Ac-cordingly, I agree with the Court's decision to deny review.
At the same time, I do not doubt that Bombolis warrants a second look.

THOMAS v. HUMBOLDT COUNTY
Statement of GORSUCH, J.
countable, and ensuring a fair hearing for those who come before our courts.
Bombolis may survive today, but this Court should confront its Seventh Amendment holding soon. A right "of such importance," one that "occupies so firm a place in our history,'" deserves no less. Jarkesy, 603 U.S., at 121 (quot-ing Dimick v. Schiedt, 293 U. S. 474, 486 (1935)).

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1d

What happened to Maria Greeley is the inevitable result of the admin’s enforcement policies.

ICE is stopping people based on their ethnicity + occupation, and then assuming their IDs must be fake.

They did the same thing to our client Leo Garcia Venegas in Alabama.

ij.org/case/alabama...

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the story a Latina US citizen told me about being surrounded by masked agents who demanded her papers and, when they got them, told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 5d

Our case against Humboldt is one of the relists.

The county fines people millions for unpermitted greenhouses and garages on the assumption there’s weed inside.

Instead of a jury, the facts are decided by a private law firm that’s never ruled against the county.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BdX...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 7d

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

When we sued to stop the ICE raids in Alabama, DHS said it can make immigration arrests based on reasonable suspicion.

We figured McLaughlin just misspoke.

But here’s the Chief Border Agent clarifying that they don’t think they need probable cause.

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

When we sued to stop the ICE raids in Alabama, DHS said it can make immigration arrests based on reasonable suspicion.

We figured McLaughlin just misspoke.

But here’s the Chief Border Agent clarifying that they don’t think they need probable cause.

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

If anyone knows any victims of this raid, we’d like to talk to them.

Our legal services are all completely free.

We’ve got two other cases over ICE raids already. And we just won a Supreme Court case over the FBI raiding the wrong house.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 9d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 14d

Good job Brett

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 8d

This is why our lawsuit refers to it as a demographic profile.

And it’s part of how the admin found traction with Kavanaugh.

ICE is targeting people based on ethnicity + occupation.

Their position is that brown people with certain jobs are inherently suspect and subject to countless stops.

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 9d

There is a class component to federal agents' crackdowns. They're abducting day laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, textile workers en masse. They're not going after big employers/people in Trump's corporate milieu.

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor

While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

prospect.org

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 9d

And when it comes to it, they also don’t believe you should be allowed to sue for damages after the fact

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 10d

Would also love for him to explain when damages are “appropriate” for constitutional violations.

His camp is suddenly eager to say damages remedies “should be” available after they made sure that none are.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 10d

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 11d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 11d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.

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