Liz Dye
@lizdye.bsky.social
Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
Make words do yoga
Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle
Charm City forever
She/Her
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Liz Dye
@lizdye.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Protect immigrants
Protect trans
Protect the environment
That’s all we can do. (Besides get TF off Twitter.)
Protect trans
Protect the environment
That’s all we can do. (Besides get TF off Twitter.)
Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this
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December 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The problem with all arguments of this sort is that they effectively rewrite the statute to exclude critical limitations. If a statute says "the president may do X on condition Y," but no court may second guess a presidential determination that Y obtains (even if it plainly does not)...
JUST IN: 24 red states back Trump on Alien Enemies Act detentions, argue his declaration of an enemy 'invasion' can't be questioned by courts. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
RedStatesCA5WMMAmicus121525
www.documentcloud.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The problem with all arguments of this sort is that they effectively rewrite the statute to exclude critical limitations. If a statute says "the president may do X on condition Y," but no court may second guess a presidential determination that Y obtains (even if it plainly does not)...
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NEW: A US trade court denied a request to suspend a customs process for finalizing import duties while SCOTUS decides whether to strike Trump’s tariffs. Admin said it won't oppose orders to recalculate tariffs (and pay refunds) if it loses, so the court said it didn't need to act now
buff.ly/20b0YsM
buff.ly/20b0YsM
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NEW: A US trade court denied a request to suspend a customs process for finalizing import duties while SCOTUS decides whether to strike Trump’s tariffs. Admin said it won't oppose orders to recalculate tariffs (and pay refunds) if it loses, so the court said it didn't need to act now
buff.ly/20b0YsM
buff.ly/20b0YsM
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Lindsey Halligan Humiliated In Court. Again.
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/lindsey-halligan-humiliated-in-court-again/
Lindsey Halligan Humiliated In Court. Again.
Competence is woke!
abovethelaw.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Lindsey Halligan Humiliated In Court. Again.
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/lindsey-halligan-humiliated-in-court-again/
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Oh hey we are getting a United States digital service
This one has Force in the name though so you know it’s not woke.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
This one has Force in the name though so you know it’s not woke.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
Trump admin launches US Tech Force to recruit temporary workers after shedding thousands this year
Some of the recruits to government service will be on leaves of absence from private sector companies while working for government — a setup that raises ethical questions about conflicts of interest.
www.nextgov.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Oh hey we are getting a United States digital service
This one has Force in the name though so you know it’s not woke.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
This one has Force in the name though so you know it’s not woke.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
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🚨🚨 JUDGE DUGAN'S TRIAL GETS ITS SIGNALGATE
The witness agrees that federal agents spoke to each other in a Signal group called "Frozen Water Group," indicating ICE.
Dugan's lawyer notes that's not the preferred mode of ICE communications.
The witness agrees that federal agents spoke to each other in a Signal group called "Frozen Water Group," indicating ICE.
Dugan's lawyer notes that's not the preferred mode of ICE communications.
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🚨🚨 JUDGE DUGAN'S TRIAL GETS ITS SIGNALGATE
The witness agrees that federal agents spoke to each other in a Signal group called "Frozen Water Group," indicating ICE.
Dugan's lawyer notes that's not the preferred mode of ICE communications.
The witness agrees that federal agents spoke to each other in a Signal group called "Frozen Water Group," indicating ICE.
Dugan's lawyer notes that's not the preferred mode of ICE communications.
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What just happened?
The Eleventh Circuit today (1) fundamentally altered First Amendment remedies, (2) in a renewed stay request already rejected once, (3) with no opinion, (4) that this very Supreme Court previously rejected.
The Eleventh Circuit today (1) fundamentally altered First Amendment remedies, (2) in a renewed stay request already rejected once, (3) with no opinion, (4) that this very Supreme Court previously rejected.
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What just happened?
The Eleventh Circuit today (1) fundamentally altered First Amendment remedies, (2) in a renewed stay request already rejected once, (3) with no opinion, (4) that this very Supreme Court previously rejected.
The Eleventh Circuit today (1) fundamentally altered First Amendment remedies, (2) in a renewed stay request already rejected once, (3) with no opinion, (4) that this very Supreme Court previously rejected.
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BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit grants Florida’s request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary’s of Orlando.
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit grants Florida’s request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary’s of Orlando.
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
The preliminary injunction blocking all enforcement had been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years at this point. www.lawdork.com/p/florida-an...
Why does Lindsey Halligan even want to be US Attorney? It's just an unending hallway of rakes for her to step on for our amusement.
with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
Lindsey Halligan Humiliated In Court. Again.
Competence is woke!
www.lawandchaospod.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Why does Lindsey Halligan even want to be US Attorney? It's just an unending hallway of rakes for her to step on for our amusement.
with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
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Her longer quote in here whips
Amanda Seyfried refuses to apologise for calling Charlie Kirk hateful: 'Pretty damn factual'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/11/amanda-seyfried-refuses-apologise-charlie-kirk-hateful/?utm_content=1765747200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/11/amanda-seyfried-refuses-apologise-charlie-kirk-hateful/?utm_content=1765747200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Amanda Seyfried refuses to apologise for calling Charlie Kirk hateful
Amanda Seyfried has doubled down on calling Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk 'hateful' following his death in September.
www.thepinknews.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Her longer quote in here whips
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Here's my write-up of opening statements on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/judge-hann...
Judge Hannah Dugan's trial begins: 'No longer business as usual'
Trump's DOJ told a jury that the case shows "judicial robes" do not place someone "above the law."
www.allrisenews.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Here's my write-up of opening statements on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/judge-hann...
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We all know people who tried the damndest to get sober, who managed for a while, who relapsed, even though the cost was unimaginable. We can't judge, and we can't condemn. We can only express the deepest sympathy for those who struggle, and for those who fail, and for all those who pay the price.
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We all know people who tried the damndest to get sober, who managed for a while, who relapsed, even though the cost was unimaginable. We can't judge, and we can't condemn. We can only express the deepest sympathy for those who struggle, and for those who fail, and for all those who pay the price.
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
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As a little antidote to all the grim tidings here’s a classic rendition of Tom Lehrer’s classic song.
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
Hanukkah in Santa Monica
YouTube video by Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As a little antidote to all the grim tidings here’s a classic rendition of Tom Lehrer’s classic song.
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
youtu.be/MehTnsDVvU4?...
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I lost my womb due to ovarian cancer treatment. Did I lose my womanhood too?
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I lost my womb due to ovarian cancer treatment. Did I lose my womanhood too?
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
I know cancer's a bitch that takes so much, but that too???
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(slipping an undergrad $20 so they can file a complaint and get me a fully paid semester’s leave)
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
(slipping an undergrad $20 so they can file a complaint and get me a fully paid semester’s leave)
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So the new reporting is that DHS has decided to go back to a primary focus on targeted enforcement that existed before the late May orders from Stephen Mille to ramp up numbers or else.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
really don't see how they're going to manage to hit the Miller quota
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
So the new reporting is that DHS has decided to go back to a primary focus on targeted enforcement that existed before the late May orders from Stephen Mille to ramp up numbers or else.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
Is the DC Circuit emergency panel Katsas, Rao, Millet?
Asking for Judge Boasberg
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Asking for Judge Boasberg
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Notice (Other) – #206 in J.G.G. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00766) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE (Service of Mandamus Petition) by PAMELA J. BONDI, PETER B. HEGSETH, KRISTI L. NOEM, MARCO A. RUBIO, MADISON SHEAHAN, DONALD J. TRUMP, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SE...
storage.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Is the DC Circuit emergency panel Katsas, Rao, Millet?
Asking for Judge Boasberg
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Asking for Judge Boasberg
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Today's show: how realistic are potential sanctions against the Trump admin for its repeated lies in court? Two judges might help us find out!
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Ep 189 — Who’s Suing The Government Today? EVERYBODY
Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · 12/12/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Today's show: how realistic are potential sanctions against the Trump admin for its repeated lies in court? Two judges might help us find out!
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Plus a wide-ranging update AND a subscriber bonus on Trump's pardon (??!?) of Tina Peters.
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Jack Smith is due to testify on Capitol Hill next week!
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
House Dems Demand Bondi Release Jack Smith’s Final Mar-a-Lago Report Ahead of Testimony
Smith is expected to give a closed-door deposition next week in the House Judiciary committee.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Jack Smith is due to testify on Capitol Hill next week!
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
(behind closed doors 👎)
Ahead of that, Democrats are trying to get DOJ to finally release Volume II of the Special Counsel report, the one about Mar-a-Lago.
Oh? You forgot that still isn't public?
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/jack-...
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NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! DOJ & FBI have made revelatory disclosures in my #FOIA lawsuit about the docs it withheld related to their review/redaction of the Epstein files
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! DOJ & FBI have made revelatory disclosures in my #FOIA lawsuit about the docs it withheld related to their review/redaction of the Epstein files
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Cool, then Tina Peters can pardon Trump for the fraud stuff in NY
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Cool, then Tina Peters can pardon Trump for the fraud stuff in NY
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1/ I am grateful that Aysha Bagchi of USA TODAY elected to interview me about the Trump DOJ’s second “No Bill” in a week attempting to indict NY AG Letitia James.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
Trump DOJ fails for second time to get indictment of Letitia James
For the second time in about a week, a federal grand jury refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.usatoday.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
1/ I am grateful that Aysha Bagchi of USA TODAY elected to interview me about the Trump DOJ’s second “No Bill” in a week attempting to indict NY AG Letitia James.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
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“This is a humiliating defeat for the Department of Justice," Mitchell Epner, a former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.