@aqualawyer.bsky.social
Chicago lawyer, brief-writing specialist (anon for work), mom, scuba fiend, UCONN basketball superfan, all around🦈
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Some updates:
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Some updates:
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
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🚨NO national coverage🚨
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚨NO national coverage🚨
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
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This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
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Aha!
This is what I imagined back in 2024, as private prison companies ramped up construction in anticipation of Trump’s return.
That “slavery hole” in the 14th amendment?
That’s the underlying plan.
So glad this is finally getting exposed.
This is what I imagined back in 2024, as private prison companies ramped up construction in anticipation of Trump’s return.
That “slavery hole” in the 14th amendment?
That’s the underlying plan.
So glad this is finally getting exposed.
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Aha!
This is what I imagined back in 2024, as private prison companies ramped up construction in anticipation of Trump’s return.
That “slavery hole” in the 14th amendment?
That’s the underlying plan.
So glad this is finally getting exposed.
This is what I imagined back in 2024, as private prison companies ramped up construction in anticipation of Trump’s return.
That “slavery hole” in the 14th amendment?
That’s the underlying plan.
So glad this is finally getting exposed.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene told me to go back to my country and kicked our then-18-year-old communications director.
And then sent an army of trolls and death threats my way when I called her out.
She doesn’t get to play victim now.
And then sent an army of trolls and death threats my way when I called her out.
She doesn’t get to play victim now.
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene told me to go back to my country and kicked our then-18-year-old communications director.
And then sent an army of trolls and death threats my way when I called her out.
She doesn’t get to play victim now.
And then sent an army of trolls and death threats my way when I called her out.
She doesn’t get to play victim now.
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Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
Harlow's still here
www.inquirer.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
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If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
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it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
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The alleged drug boat that the Trump administration sunk off the coast of Trinidad wasn’t even headed to the U.S., CNN national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand reported Friday.
Boat Struck Multiple Times By Pentagon Wasn’t Even Headed To U.S.: CNN
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The alleged drug boat that the Trump administration sunk off the coast of Trinidad wasn’t even headed to the U.S., CNN national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand reported Friday.
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Yep. Murder.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Yep. Murder.
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I don’t know if anyone follows me for real but putting this out there. I’m a lawyer licensed in IL and admitted in multiple federal courts. I’m off work now (former fed) and would happily commit pro bono time to any organizations or firms doing immigration or election law right now. Please share.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don’t know if anyone follows me for real but putting this out there. I’m a lawyer licensed in IL and admitted in multiple federal courts. I’m off work now (former fed) and would happily commit pro bono time to any organizations or firms doing immigration or election law right now. Please share.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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Probably the most important post you will read today. #HoldFast
An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Probably the most important post you will read today. #HoldFast
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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President Donald Trump, who has assailed Illinois’ governor and its largest city, denied disaster aid to thousands of Chicago residents even though his administration documented extraordinary damage from two major storms this summer...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump refused to send disaster aid to Chicago after 2 devastating storms
The destruction caused by the summer storms was enough that past presidents likely would have approved requests for federal assistance, former FEMA officials said.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
President Donald Trump, who has assailed Illinois’ governor and its largest city, denied disaster aid to thousands of Chicago residents even though his administration documented extraordinary damage from two major storms this summer...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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A “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD), dated 28 August 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD), dated 28 August 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.