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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

Unknown named ones?

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

She “should” have a remedy 🤔

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

Ironically, it's those states in the middle that seem to want Chris.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11h

Judges enjoy absolute immunity from liability for any conduct within their judicial role.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 12h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

Partisan gerrymandering is still unconstitutional. It denies equal protection by intentionally diluting votes; it denies free association by punishing the other party; and it violates Art. I’s promise that “the People” pick their representatives. SCOTUS punished people who behave constitutionally.

Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 16h

Demonstrating once again that, by holding that partisan gerrymandering is a nonjusticiable “political question,” SCOTUS set up a situation in which voters and their representatives are essentially punished in Congress if they choose to run their own states fairly.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

The CBS Sunday Morning sun will now be white, not yellow.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 16h

This is my Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle. I saw it again; I must share it.

Jeff Davidson @jeffdavidson.bsky.social · Nov 11

Every time I see a comment like this, I am reminded of this classic Joe Wilkinson poem. Content warning - vulgarity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBN2...

A poem by Joe Wilkinson

YouTube video by Shadow Heart

www.youtube.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 19h

Details ...

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 21h

All that matters is the trying. These folks are not trying.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 22h

Showing real evolution, Bari Weiss’s CBS News has edited the Free Press’s misspelling of “Mamdani.” The underlying piece is still drivel unbecoming a news organization, of course, but at least they can spell. Eventually.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, if she's at CBS News, who’s running the University of Austin?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Political folks: Is it a bad sign for your campaign when your opponent is airing your interview responses, unedited and with full context?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUQ7Uto/

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

TikTok video by Zohran Mamdani

www.tiktok.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not, like, an expert in legal ethics, but it seems like you should run your arguments by YOUR CLIENT before you run them by the SUPREME COURT.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

One of the plaintiffs in the Voting Rights Act SCOTUS case doesn't know he's a plaintiff in any case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

One of them, Albert “Skip” Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.

Mr. Caissie, who is retired from grocery sales and the Coast Guard Reserve, speculated that perhaps he had received “a direct mail piece” about challenging the voting map. He said he supported the suit’s aims and hoped the need to have majority-minority districts was “something in the past.”

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

👇 They hate him because he showed their incompetence, illegality, and (ironically) cruelty. That is why he's indicted; that is why they're trying to send a Hispanic man to Eswatini.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

The undertone to all of this is that the Supreme Court is duty-bound to reach a stay decision in every (important?) case. They're not. The standards they purport to be applying are supposed to make intervention exceptionally rare. If you don't want to make law, don't make law.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe they're barred in North Carola.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcont...

We think that if these constitutional duties are taken seriously, there is a
list of candidates and officials who must face judgment under Section Three.
Former president Donald Trump is at the top of that list, but he is not the
end of it. As we have said, it is not for us to say who all is disqualified by
virtue of Section Three’s constitutional rule. That is the duty and
responsibility of many officials, administrators, legislators, and judges
throughout the country. Where they are called on to decide eligibility to
office, they are called on to enforce Section Three, applying the Constitution’s
legal standard to the facts before them in a given instance. Our point is to
emphasize Section Three’s continuing force, and broad sweep

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

What if, instead of putting oath-breakers in jail, we just bar them from holding federal office? I've sketched out what that might look like:

An image of the original Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, via https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/downloads

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this is about a horrific abuse of executive discretion, not about deviation from the immigration statutes.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 2d

Notice to agent is

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 2d

If you underline tab characters (ctrl-tab) or fixed-width spaces (ctrl-shift-space), you can avoid these ugly underscore signature blocks that break for text.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/12/s...

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things abt Lindsey Halligan's First Filing - emptywheel

Lindsey the Insurance lawyer and her two loaner AUSAs didn't do so well on their first filing.

www.emptywheel.net

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