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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 2d

NEW POD 🎧: The Trump admin has executed 21 people it claims were “narcoterrorists.” It's a dark turn in U.S. drug war policy. It’s also in line with the U.S. legacy of killing innocent people chalking it up to “collateral damage,” says @radleybalko.bsky.social
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License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions

Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · 10/10/2025 · 42m

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

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Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · 2d

Nation’s Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in James Indictment

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NACDL - News Release ~ James Indictment

Nation’s Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in James Indictment –Washington, D.C. (Oct. 10, 2025) –The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) u...

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 2d

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Wayne concludes: "Weaponizing the vast power of the DOJ is not just ill-conceived; it is fundamentally un-American... it becomes a reckless wrecking ball that can swing at anyone."

Read the full @nacdl.org press release on the Letitia James indictment here: www.nacdl.org/newsrelease/...

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 2d

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NACDL Executive Director Lisa M. Wayne: "A political prosecution sets a dangerous and damning precedent for all Americans. The suspicious timing... proves that this does not add up to equal justice under law."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 2d

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Birrell continues: "This is not blind justice; it is the targeted weaponization of the Department of Justice... [charging decisions] must be free from the appearance of a prosecution driven by partisan goals."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 2d

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NACDL President Andrew Birrell: "The indictment... appears to be a staggering escalation of federal action against perceived political enemies, such as James and former FBI Director James Comey, Jr."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 2d

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Nation's Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in the Letitia James Indictment.

NACDL "unequivocally condemns the federal indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James," calling it an "untenable breach of institutional independence."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Abolitionist Law Center @abolitionistlawcenter.org · 11d

Highly recommend this @nacdl.org 3-part webinar series & resources, which provide insight and recommendations on how to make improvements in competency to stand trial systems
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NACDL - Competency in Criminal Cases

Competency to stand trial is a fundamental safeguard in the criminal legal system, ensuring that individuals can understand the proceedings against them and participate in their own defense. Yet, the ...

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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NACDL Exec. Dir. Lisa Wayne: "This is not justice; it is the weaponization of the criminal process for political vengeance. NACDL stands confident that the federal judicial system will expose this indictment for the political travesty it is." News release: www.nacdl.org/newsrelease/...

NACDL - News Release ~ James Comey Indictment

Nation's Defense Bar Slams 'Trumped-up' Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey – Washington, DC (September 26, 2025) –The federal indictment of former FBI Director James...

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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The underlying allegation is that Comey lied in his Sept 2020 testimony to Congress about authorizing media leaks concerning the Russia investigation.

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The timing is notable: "...Lindsey Halligan abruptly replaced the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia just days before the five-year statute of limitations was set to run out..."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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Birrell stated: "We also note that a grand jury reportedly rejected a third count sought by the government, signaling the weakness of this entire effort."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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Birrell concludes the quote: "...whose legal gravity would scarcely trouble the scales of justice without the downward pressure of a thumb." 👎⚖️

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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Birrell: "The question isn't whether an apparently trumped-up charge will prevail, but why the prosecutor, a former personal lawyer for the president, with no prosecutorial experience, thought fit to present an allegation..."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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Birrell continued: "The charges appear legally tenuous, even as the president pressured the U.S. Attorney's office to rush a case to the grand jury against the reported judgment of career prosecutors."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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NACDL President Andrew Birrell: "This prosecution appears to be an astonishing and corrosive assault on the rule of law. The Justice Department's foundational principle of independent prosecutorial decision-making has been upended."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 16d

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NACDL says the charges, filed just before the statute of limitations expired, subvert the independence of the Justice Department.

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The nation's defense bar, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (@nacdl.org), slams the 'Trumped-up' indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as politically motivated retribution.

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Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social · 22d

Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month. It appears in four parts online:

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Murder, Pardons and Impunity: How Antiabortion Violence Escalated Under Trump

Murder, Pardons, Impunity: Antiabortion Violence Under Trump in the Age of Political Assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 23d

Leonnig reported for the Washington Post for 25 years and was part of a team of national security reporters who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting that revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans. She also won Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting in 2015 & 2018.

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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 23d

Abbe Lowell interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carol D. Leonnig at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar at the Marriott Georgetown Washington in DC on September 19, 2025. #NACDLWCDC

Abbe Lowell interviews journalist Carol Leonnig at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar at the Marriott Georgetown Washington in DC on September 19, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Hutson

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 24d

Former US Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer moderates a panel on clemency, compassionate release, and pardons featuring Ava Benny-Morrison, Cynthia Roseberry, and JaneAnne Murray at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC. #NACDLWCDC

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 24d

Michelle Merola of New York moderates a panel with Zachary Myers of Indiana and Giselle Pomerleau of New Jersey on the ethics of using artificial intelligence in the legal profession at NACDL's 2025 White Collar Seminar in DC on September 18, 2025. #NACDLWCDC

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