P. Andrew Torrez
@andrewtorrez.bsky.social
HLS '97, ex-BigLaw
Practicing lawyer and cohost of the @lawandchaospod.bsky.social podcast with @lizdye.bsky.social
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he/him
Practicing lawyer and cohost of the @lawandchaospod.bsky.social podcast with @lizdye.bsky.social
READ MY STUFF! lawandchaospod.com
LISTEN TO MY STUFF! patreon.com/lawandchaospod
he/him
Imaginary US Atty Lindsey Halligan filed a "Notice Correcting the Record" this afternoon in the Comey prosecution.
I was pretty sure she was lying & spent about an hour spelunking documents to prove it. I should have just read @emptywheel.bsky.social instead!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/14/l...
I was pretty sure she was lying & spent about an hour spelunking documents to prove it. I should have just read @emptywheel.bsky.social instead!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/14/l...
Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's Story Gets Stupider - emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan now claims that she got at least two indictments out of one grand jury presentment. And Pam Bondi thinks that's cool.
www.emptywheel.net
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Imaginary US Atty Lindsey Halligan filed a "Notice Correcting the Record" this afternoon in the Comey prosecution.
I was pretty sure she was lying & spent about an hour spelunking documents to prove it. I should have just read @emptywheel.bsky.social instead!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/14/l...
I was pretty sure she was lying & spent about an hour spelunking documents to prove it. I should have just read @emptywheel.bsky.social instead!
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/14/l...
What’s a discharge petition and when are we getting the Epstein files??
With @lizdye.bsky.social
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With @lizdye.bsky.social
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Law and Chaos
Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
What’s a discharge petition and when are we getting the Epstein files??
With @lizdye.bsky.social
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With @lizdye.bsky.social
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Coming to a Supplement to Motion to Dismiss for Selective and Vindictive Prosecution near you*
*if you live in the Eastern District of Virginia
*if you live in the Eastern District of Virginia
Breaking: Fannie Mae watchdogs probed if Trump appointee Bill Pulte improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democrats.
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed probe report to U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James
on.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Coming to a Supplement to Motion to Dismiss for Selective and Vindictive Prosecution near you*
*if you live in the Eastern District of Virginia
*if you live in the Eastern District of Virginia
On today’s episode: the Democrats caved on the shutdown & we’ll tell you why.
And, as it turns out, Dr. Phil may be even more of a scumbag than you imagined.
With @lizdye.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/law-and-chaos/id1727769913
And, as it turns out, Dr. Phil may be even more of a scumbag than you imagined.
With @lizdye.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/law-and-chaos/id1727769913
Law and Chaos
Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
On today’s episode: the Democrats caved on the shutdown & we’ll tell you why.
And, as it turns out, Dr. Phil may be even more of a scumbag than you imagined.
With @lizdye.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/law-and-chaos/id1727769913
And, as it turns out, Dr. Phil may be even more of a scumbag than you imagined.
With @lizdye.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/law-and-chaos/id1727769913
Today's timely post breaks down how the Trump administration secretly hijacked employees' email accounts to transmit partisan messages during the shutdown.
Unless you think the government will never shut down again...
with @lizdye.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/court-slap...
Unless you think the government will never shut down again...
with @lizdye.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/court-slap...
Court Slaps Sock Puppet Emails Out Of Trump's Bruised Hand
Civil servants have First Amendment rights.
www.lawandchaospod.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today's timely post breaks down how the Trump administration secretly hijacked employees' email accounts to transmit partisan messages during the shutdown.
Unless you think the government will never shut down again...
with @lizdye.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/court-slap...
Unless you think the government will never shut down again...
with @lizdye.bsky.social
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/court-slap...
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I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
Reposted by P. Andrew Torrez
Thanks for the excellent review of the tariff argument at the Supreme Court! Actually, thank you for all of your excellent reviews of what's happening in law right now. I live in a red State and it helps me to explain my position to others.
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thanks for the excellent review of the tariff argument at the Supreme Court! Actually, thank you for all of your excellent reviews of what's happening in law right now. I live in a red State and it helps me to explain my position to others.
What’s going on at the Supreme Court with Trump’s tariffs? Is he headed for a (rare) loss at the highest court? And if so, why?
We break it all down for you
with @lizdye.bsky.social
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We break it all down for you
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Law and Chaos
Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...
podcasts.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What’s going on at the Supreme Court with Trump’s tariffs? Is he headed for a (rare) loss at the highest court? And if so, why?
We break it all down for you
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
We break it all down for you
with @lizdye.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Each day I think this Supreme Court can't hit a new low, and each day they manage to surprise me.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Each day I think this Supreme Court can't hit a new low, and each day they manage to surprise me.
The Trump administration got pummeled by the Supreme Court's conservatives yesterday in its efforts to argue that the President can raise taxes any time, anywhere in the world, by any amount, on every import, for any length of time.
We wrote about it here:
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-tar...
We wrote about it here:
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-tar...
Trump's Tariffs Get SCOTUS Side Eye
Conservative justices realize that a future President Mamdani might use the tariff power in ways they don't like.
www.lawandchaospod.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Trump administration got pummeled by the Supreme Court's conservatives yesterday in its efforts to argue that the President can raise taxes any time, anywhere in the world, by any amount, on every import, for any length of time.
We wrote about it here:
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-tar...
We wrote about it here:
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-tar...
A must-read from @lizdye.bsky.social and a special guest elections analyst who might be familiar to our listeners….
New in PN: Dem victories you missed while celebrating Mamdani's win
"Guess everyone got tired of waiting for $2 gas & decided to skip right to transgender for everyone! But across the US, there were dozens of significant down-ballot races where Dems cleaned up in ways that bode well for the future"
"Guess everyone got tired of waiting for $2 gas & decided to skip right to transgender for everyone! But across the US, there were dozens of significant down-ballot races where Dems cleaned up in ways that bode well for the future"
5 Dem victories you missed while celebrating Mamdani's win
Ride the blue wave.
www.publicnotice.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A must-read from @lizdye.bsky.social and a special guest elections analyst who might be familiar to our listeners….
Okay, I'm ready to call it: currently Justice *Gorsuch* is pantsing Sauer over the nondelegation and major questions doctrines.
"Can you give me a reason why your argument doesn't cover Congress handing off the power to declare war to the President?"
Sauer: [dissembles]
"Can you give me a reason why your argument doesn't cover Congress handing off the power to declare war to the President?"
Sauer: [dissembles]
1/ Listening to the SCOTUS oral argument over Trump's tariffs and it's seems like Trump has already lost Justice Barrett.
(Sadly), this is the most fire Solicitor General John Sauer has *ever* come under from the Supreme Court in Trump's second term.
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
(Sadly), this is the most fire Solicitor General John Sauer has *ever* come under from the Supreme Court in Trump's second term.
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
Live Oral Argument Audio
Live Oral Argument Audio
www.supremecourt.gov
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Okay, I'm ready to call it: currently Justice *Gorsuch* is pantsing Sauer over the nondelegation and major questions doctrines.
"Can you give me a reason why your argument doesn't cover Congress handing off the power to declare war to the President?"
Sauer: [dissembles]
"Can you give me a reason why your argument doesn't cover Congress handing off the power to declare war to the President?"
Sauer: [dissembles]
1/ Listening to the SCOTUS oral argument over Trump's tariffs and it's seems like Trump has already lost Justice Barrett.
(Sadly), this is the most fire Solicitor General John Sauer has *ever* come under from the Supreme Court in Trump's second term.
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
(Sadly), this is the most fire Solicitor General John Sauer has *ever* come under from the Supreme Court in Trump's second term.
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
Live Oral Argument Audio
Live Oral Argument Audio
www.supremecourt.gov
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
1/ Listening to the SCOTUS oral argument over Trump's tariffs and it's seems like Trump has already lost Justice Barrett.
(Sadly), this is the most fire Solicitor General John Sauer has *ever* come under from the Supreme Court in Trump's second term.
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
(Sadly), this is the most fire Solicitor General John Sauer has *ever* come under from the Supreme Court in Trump's second term.
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
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Legal experts agree that the indictment against me and five others is politically-motivated. Thank you @legaleagle.tv @lizdye.bsky.social for bringing attention to this case.
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Legal experts agree that the indictment against me and five others is politically-motivated. Thank you @legaleagle.tv @lizdye.bsky.social for bringing attention to this case.
Reposted by P. Andrew Torrez
Yet another Trump goon illegally installed as US Attorney so Trump can prosecute his enemies.
Has he prosecuted cases before? NO.
Is he willing to drop abusive subpoenas on NYAG Tish James's office? YOU BETCHA.
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/another-da...
Has he prosecuted cases before? NO.
Is he willing to drop abusive subpoenas on NYAG Tish James's office? YOU BETCHA.
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/another-da...
Another Day, Another Fake MAGA Prosecutor
Senate confirmation is for suckers.
www.lawandchaospod.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yet another Trump goon illegally installed as US Attorney so Trump can prosecute his enemies.
Has he prosecuted cases before? NO.
Is he willing to drop abusive subpoenas on NYAG Tish James's office? YOU BETCHA.
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/another-da...
Has he prosecuted cases before? NO.
Is he willing to drop abusive subpoenas on NYAG Tish James's office? YOU BETCHA.
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/another-da...
Yes, @lizdye.bsky.social is back with another video for @legaleagle.tv. This time she has everything you need to know about the @katmabu.bsky.social indictment.
GO! WATCH IT NOW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5T-...
GO! WATCH IT NOW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5T-...
The DOJ Indicted a YouTuber (Kat Abu), and It's Crap
YouTube video by LegalEagle
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Yes, @lizdye.bsky.social is back with another video for @legaleagle.tv. This time she has everything you need to know about the @katmabu.bsky.social indictment.
GO! WATCH IT NOW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5T-...
GO! WATCH IT NOW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5T-...
1/ Judge Karen Immergut (a Trump appointee) just issued a remarkable, five-day preliminary injunction in Oregon v. Trump, where the parties just concluded a three-day bench trial on the merits of deploying national guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
1/ Judge Karen Immergut (a Trump appointee) just issued a remarkable, five-day preliminary injunction in Oregon v. Trump, where the parties just concluded a three-day bench trial on the merits of deploying national guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The following members of the House and Senate think that -- as a legal matter -- the longstanding accepted view that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship to anyone born in the US (with minor exceptions) is wrong:
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The following members of the House and Senate think that -- as a legal matter -- the longstanding accepted view that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship to anyone born in the US (with minor exceptions) is wrong:
Who’s Bronston, why does he have a motion, why is James Comey borrowing it, and will it work??
And why does Ted Cruz suck so much at his job?
These questions and more will be answered on today’s episode of Law & Chaos with me & @lizdye.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
And why does Ted Cruz suck so much at his job?
These questions and more will be answered on today’s episode of Law & Chaos with me & @lizdye.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Law and Chaos
Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...
podcasts.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Who’s Bronston, why does he have a motion, why is James Comey borrowing it, and will it work??
And why does Ted Cruz suck so much at his job?
These questions and more will be answered on today’s episode of Law & Chaos with me & @lizdye.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
And why does Ted Cruz suck so much at his job?
These questions and more will be answered on today’s episode of Law & Chaos with me & @lizdye.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."
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On Tuesday Lindsey Halligan got to splain why her Signal chats were NBD.
Then the judge deciding if she should be DQ'd asked for the Comey & James grand jury transcripts.
And another court ruled that Trump gets 1 interim USAtty per district.
She's number 2
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
Then the judge deciding if she should be DQ'd asked for the Comey & James grand jury transcripts.
And another court ruled that Trump gets 1 interim USAtty per district.
She's number 2
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
Lindsey Halligan Discovers That Prosecuting Is Way Harder Than Texting
Luckily, she probably won't be doing it for much longer.
www.lawandchaospod.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
On Tuesday Lindsey Halligan got to splain why her Signal chats were NBD.
Then the judge deciding if she should be DQ'd asked for the Comey & James grand jury transcripts.
And another court ruled that Trump gets 1 interim USAtty per district.
She's number 2
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
Then the judge deciding if she should be DQ'd asked for the Comey & James grand jury transcripts.
And another court ruled that Trump gets 1 interim USAtty per district.
She's number 2
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/lindsey-ha...
I don't have a subscription to the @economist.com, so I can't tell you who the dipshit was who wrote this piece, and I highly recommend that you don't have one, either.
No. No. No.
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I don't have a subscription to the @economist.com, so I can't tell you who the dipshit was who wrote this piece, and I highly recommend that you don't have one, either.