Aric Press
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Happily retired journalist, ex-Newsweek and The American Lawyer. Now I cook and bake, talk to grandchildren, read, and try to find new ways to be useful. Love working with students on their essays.
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NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.
I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
By @tilleckert.com
@kristygreenberg.bsky.social helpful reminder about Boasberg’s order. Is there a procedure to lift an administrative stay?
August 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
@kristygreenberg.bsky.social helpful reminder about Boasberg’s order. Is there a procedure to lift an administrative stay?
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"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”
June 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”
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Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."
June 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."
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I’ve never seen a dissent like this (on SCOTUS stripping away the asylum parole of nearly 500K human beings on the emergency docket) utexas.app.box.com/s/fkvbpqvf8w...
May 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’ve never seen a dissent like this (on SCOTUS stripping away the asylum parole of nearly 500K human beings on the emergency docket) utexas.app.box.com/s/fkvbpqvf8w...
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Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
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May 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
In the sad era of Trump, this is now news.
May 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In the sad era of Trump, this is now news.
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The Supreme Court said you didn’t prove they are criminals. #DueProcess
May 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The Supreme Court said you didn’t prove they are criminals. #DueProcess
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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
April 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
Chief Justice John Roberts is about to learn the great lesson from Joe Louis: You can run but you can't hide.
April 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts is about to learn the great lesson from Joe Louis: You can run but you can't hide.
@rickperlstein.bsky.social “Many think…” what’s your evidence?
This critique of GOP officeholders is oft incorrect. It projects liberal views on conservatives. Many think what Trump is doing is courageous and admire him for a brazenness they wish they possessed themselves; that "giving in" to the "woke mob" to oppose would be the spineless choice.
April 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
@rickperlstein.bsky.social “Many think…” what’s your evidence?
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I'm here in Mount Kisco, NY to tell Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the GOP
HANDS OFF AMERICA
Much of the focus on today's events will probably be the large rallies in big cities
But make no mistake
It is the smaller rallies
The local rallies
That will be the backbone of this movement
HANDS OFF AMERICA
Much of the focus on today's events will probably be the large rallies in big cities
But make no mistake
It is the smaller rallies
The local rallies
That will be the backbone of this movement
April 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm here in Mount Kisco, NY to tell Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the GOP
HANDS OFF AMERICA
Much of the focus on today's events will probably be the large rallies in big cities
But make no mistake
It is the smaller rallies
The local rallies
That will be the backbone of this movement
HANDS OFF AMERICA
Much of the focus on today's events will probably be the large rallies in big cities
But make no mistake
It is the smaller rallies
The local rallies
That will be the backbone of this movement
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Given their legal shoddiness, the BigLaw orders "are fairly clearly an exercise in abusing the legal process to inflict harm on administration enemies and warning others not to cross this president. The goal is to achieve the immediate effects, before the courts can finally resolve the issues."
The Choices Lawyers Make
How they have shaped and will determine the outcome of Trump's attack on law firms
executivefunctions.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Given their legal shoddiness, the BigLaw orders "are fairly clearly an exercise in abusing the legal process to inflict harm on administration enemies and warning others not to cross this president. The goal is to achieve the immediate effects, before the courts can finally resolve the issues."
Worth reading this thread. The federal judge is very unhappy with the drek the government is presenting.
Judge Brinkema asked the government what their position was; do they still have TPS, and if so, how are they being held?
The government said it was their position that they did still have TPS — a confusing answer given what DHS tried to do — then said they were being held as public safety threats.
The government said it was their position that they did still have TPS — a confusing answer given what DHS tried to do — then said they were being held as public safety threats.
March 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Worth reading this thread. The federal judge is very unhappy with the drek the government is presenting.
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Be like WilmerHale. And good for Paul Clement.
JUST IN: My old firm WilmerHale sues to challenge Trump’s order against them, represented by the best conservative lawyer in the country, former Solicitor General Paul Clement.
THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN
👊🇺🇸🔥
assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN
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assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
![Case 1:25-cv-00917 Document 1 Filed 03/28/25 Page 7 of 63
INTRODUCTION
1. "[The right to counsel is the foundation for our adversary system," Martinez v.
Ryan, 566 U.S. 1, 12 (2012), and the "courage" of attorneys who take on unpopular clients has
long "made lawyerdom proud," Sacher v. United States, 343 U.S. 1, 4 (1952). John Adams famously embodied these principles by defending eight British soldiers in the "Boston Massacre"
trial, an effort he described as "one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country."! And
British monarchs' practice of punishing attorneys "whose greatest crime was to dare to defend
unpopular causes"-which threatened to reduce lawyers to "parrots of the views of whatever group
wields governmental power at the moment"-helped inspire the Bill of Rights. Cohen v. Hurley,
366 U.S. 117, 138-40 (1961) (Black, J., dissenting). It is thus a core principle of our legal system
that "one should not be penalized for merely defending or prosecuting a lawsuit." F. D. Rich Co.
v. United States ex rel. Indus. Lumber Co., 417 U.S. 116, 129 (1974).
In an unprecedented assault on that bedrock principle, the President has issued
multiple executive orders in recent weeks targeting law firms and their employees as an
undisguised form of retaliation for representing clients and causes he disfavors or employing lawyers he dislikes? These "personal vendetta[s]" are so facially improper that the first court to address the merits of one of these orders concluded that it likely violates multiple foundational
' David McCullough, John Adams 68 (2001).
2 See Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block, The White House (Mar. 25, 2025) (*Jenner Order"), https://tinyurl.com/u7ts9x49; Addressing Risks from Paul Weiss, The White House (Mar. 14, 2025) ("Paul Weiss Order"), https://tinyurl.com/5w4j69fv; Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP, The White House (Mar. 6, 2025) ("Perkins Order"), https://tinyurl.com/547rwhna;
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March 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Be like WilmerHale. And good for Paul Clement.
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🚨This. Is. How. You. Do. It. 🚨
March 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🚨This. Is. How. You. Do. It. 🚨
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(ProPublica) - Elon Musk’s aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records.
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
(ProPublica) - Elon Musk’s aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records.
@jeisinger.bsky.social
@jeisinger.bsky.social
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She was my Criminal Procedure Professor years ago. She is incredible, and her thought-provoking questions literally changed the way I thought about the world. Bravo @maryannefranks.bsky.social
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
She was my Criminal Procedure Professor years ago. She is incredible, and her thought-provoking questions literally changed the way I thought about the world. Bravo @maryannefranks.bsky.social
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Trump signed an executive order punishing the Jenner & Block law firm, which employed Andrew Weissmann before and after his work on the Mueller Report.
Trump is telling law firms he’ll ruin them if they don’t submit.
He wants to bring down our justice system.
Because that's what dictators do.
Trump is telling law firms he’ll ruin them if they don’t submit.
He wants to bring down our justice system.
Because that's what dictators do.
Trump signs executive order against law firm Jenner & Block
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that takes action against the law firm Jenner & Block, for what a White House official described as the company's acti...
finance.yahoo.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Trump signed an executive order punishing the Jenner & Block law firm, which employed Andrew Weissmann before and after his work on the Mueller Report.
Trump is telling law firms he’ll ruin them if they don’t submit.
He wants to bring down our justice system.
Because that's what dictators do.
Trump is telling law firms he’ll ruin them if they don’t submit.
He wants to bring down our justice system.
Because that's what dictators do.
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When they say they want to kick out immigrants to protect "good American jobs," this is what they meant
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants.
Bill would allow 14-yr-olds to work overnight shifts, end guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17-yr-olds.
(Legislature *already* passed law allowing home-schooled 16/17-yr-olds to work any hour of the day)
Bill would allow 14-yr-olds to work overnight shifts, end guaranteed meal breaks for 16/17-yr-olds.
(Legislature *already* passed law allowing home-schooled 16/17-yr-olds to work any hour of the day)
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
New York (CNN) — Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/ne...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
When they say they want to kick out immigrants to protect "good American jobs," this is what they meant
@schumer.senate.gov c’mon Chuck.
Social Security in turmoil:
— SSA website crashed four times in 10 days this month
— Phone service a mess following Musk-led cuts
— Agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience due to DOGE
— Major staff exodus
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
— SSA website crashed four times in 10 days this month
— Phone service a mess following Musk-led cuts
— Agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience due to DOGE
— Major staff exodus
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@schumer.senate.gov c’mon Chuck.