Haydn Lambert
@hclamb2.bsky.social
J.D. '25 @umichlaw.bsky.social; huge fan of golden retrievers. I'm interested in the law of protest; civil rights in prisons/schools; & experimental jurisprudence.
hcla [at] umich [dot] edu |📍 Chicago | All views are my own.
hcla [at] umich [dot] edu |📍 Chicago | All views are my own.
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Last weekend, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."
unreal quote 😭
unreal quote 😭
Jeanine Pirro seems to have pissed off this judge
"We don't just charge people criminally and then say, 'Oops, my bad,'" [Judge Faruqui] said. "I'm at a loss how the U.S. Attorney's Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court."
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...
"We don't just charge people criminally and then say, 'Oops, my bad,'" [Judge Faruqui] said. "I'm at a loss how the U.S. Attorney's Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court."
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...
'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges
Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
www.npr.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."
unreal quote 😭
unreal quote 😭
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Attention legal writing profs and folks interested in teaching legal writing—we are hiring! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law- Legal Practice Program | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu
August 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Attention legal writing profs and folks interested in teaching legal writing—we are hiring! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The public can’t be sure whether the John Bolton search is a legitimate investigation — and this very fact highlights the current crisis of trust in federal law enforcement, writes the former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa in a guest essay.
The public can’t be sure whether the John Bolton search is a legitimate investigation — and this very fact highlights the current crisis of trust in federal law enforcement, writes the former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa in a guest essay.
Opinion | John Bolton, Trump and the Crisis of Trust in Federal Law Enforcement
If the F.B.I. is seen as a tool of retribution, it will come at the expense of its effectiveness in the long run.
nyti.ms
August 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The public can’t be sure whether the John Bolton search is a legitimate investigation — and this very fact highlights the current crisis of trust in federal law enforcement, writes the former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa in a guest essay.
The public can’t be sure whether the John Bolton search is a legitimate investigation — and this very fact highlights the current crisis of trust in federal law enforcement, writes the former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa in a guest essay.
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5Qs with Professor Don Herzog on LGBTQ+ Opt-Outs in Mahmoud v. Taylor Supreme Court Decision
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/5qs-her...
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/5qs-her...
5Qs: Herzog on LGBTQ+ Opt-Outs in Mahmoud v. Taylor Supreme Court Decision | University of Michigan Law School
The Supreme Court decided on June 27 that parents can opt their elementary school children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ stories. The court’s 6-3 opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor states that den...
michigan.law.umich.edu
June 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
5Qs with Professor Don Herzog on LGBTQ+ Opt-Outs in Mahmoud v. Taylor Supreme Court Decision
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/5qs-her...
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/5qs-her...
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My university has no business doing this. I love the University of Michigan, and this is not how we should operate.
“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My university has no business doing this. I love the University of Michigan, and this is not how we should operate.
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The opening of Judge Boasberg’s opinion:
![One morning, Kafka's Josef K. awakens to encounter two strange men outside his room.
As he gets his bearings, he realizes that he is under arrest. When he asks the strangers why, he
receives no answer.
"We weren't sent to tell you that," one says. "Proceedings are under way
and you'll learn everything in due course." Franz Kafka, The Trial 5 (Breon Mitchell trans., Schocken Books Inc. 1998). Bewildered by these men and distressed by their message, K. tries to comfort himself that he lives in "a state governed by law," one where "all statutes [are] in force." Id. at 6. He therefore demands again, "How can I be under arrest? And in this manner?"
"Now there you go again," the guard replies. "We don't answer such questions." Undeterred, K. offers his "papers" and demands their arrest warrant. "Good heavens!" the man scolds. "There's been no mistake." "[O]ur department," he assures K., is only "attracted by guilt"; it "doesn't seek [it] out…. That's the Law." Id. at 8-9. "I don't know that law," K. responds.
"You'll feel
it eventually," the guard says. Id. at 9.
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Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 148 Filed 06/04/25 Page 2 of 69
Such was the situation into which Frengel Reyes Mota, Andry Jose Hernandez Romero,
and scores of other Venezuelan noncitizens say they were plunged on March 15, 2025. In the
early morning hours, Venezuelans held by the Department of Homeland Security at El Valle
Detention Facility in Texas were awakened from their cells, taken to a separate room, shackled,
and informed that they were being transferred. See I.G.G. v. Trump, 2025 WL 1119481, at *2
(D.D.C. Apr. 16, 2025); ECF Nos. 44-9 (Karyn Ann Shealy Second Decl.), 11 7-8; 44-10
(Stephanie Quintero Decl.), 1 3; 44-11 (Grace Carney First Decl.), 1 11; 44-12 (Melissa Smyth
Decl.), 1 13. To where? That they were not told. See ECF No. 101 (Am. Compl.), 1 69; Smyth](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreich6mqrktywoxt6p24qwiazdxo3nbfczy7ekhgyeik62gwux4kve4@jpeg)
June 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The opening of Judge Boasberg’s opinion:
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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him?
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
June 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him?
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
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New #DataforDefenders motion to discount ShotSpotter alerts in reasonable suspicion analyses relies on research from NYC, Chicago, Houston & Dayton to argue that alerts are unreliable, rarely lead to discovery of gun-related crime or weapon use, & are unparticularized. www.datafordefenders.org
Data for Defenders
Bringing Social Science into the Courtroom
www.datafordefenders.org
June 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New #DataforDefenders motion to discount ShotSpotter alerts in reasonable suspicion analyses relies on research from NYC, Chicago, Houston & Dayton to argue that alerts are unreliable, rarely lead to discovery of gun-related crime or weapon use, & are unparticularized. www.datafordefenders.org
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BREAKING: Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, holds that Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & Block is likely unconstitutional — "doubly" — and will be blocked in full. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
BREAKING: Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, holds that Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & Block is likely unconstitutional — "doubly" — and will be blocked in full. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This feels like an absurdly bad-faith attack to me. It's true that there were no studies on *6 feet specifically*, but there is a mountain of evidence showing that social distance reduces COVID transmission.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This feels like an absurdly bad-faith attack to me. It's true that there were no studies on *6 feet specifically*, but there is a mountain of evidence showing that social distance reduces COVID transmission.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
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The Secretary of Homeland Security, ladies and gentlemen.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Secretary of Homeland Security, ladies and gentlemen.
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Here’s a judge actually writing for the ages (albeit in a footnote)
May 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Here’s a judge actually writing for the ages (albeit in a footnote)
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In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ takes the position that an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.
April 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ takes the position that an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.
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Thread:
Had he been a bigot but not also a narcissist, it would have been enough. (1)
April 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Thread:
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Earlier today, students at the University of Michigan Law School received a bizarre email from an account associated with FASORP, the anti-diversity group that has previously sued multiple law schools over faculty hiring practices and selection of law review members, per source familiar.
April 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Earlier today, students at the University of Michigan Law School received a bizarre email from an account associated with FASORP, the anti-diversity group that has previously sued multiple law schools over faculty hiring practices and selection of law review members, per source familiar.
All of this is insane, of course. But the special irony of this guy getting the Bluebooking wrong in an attack on law review members is not lost on me.
March 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
All of this is insane, of course. But the special irony of this guy getting the Bluebooking wrong in an attack on law review members is not lost on me.
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I'm very proud of, and stand with, my colleague Rachel Rothschild. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target. (Gift Article)
A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm very proud of, and stand with, my colleague Rachel Rothschild. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
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Every year, when I teach civil rights litigation, my students are confronted with & confront me questions about what civil rights suits can actually accomplish. This essay is my answer. It's a very early draft & I'd welcome your suggestions, additions & stories.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Every year, when I teach civil rights litigation, my students are confronted with & confront me questions about what civil rights suits can actually accomplish. This essay is my answer. It's a very early draft & I'd welcome your suggestions, additions & stories.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Boasberg: "I often tell my clerks before they go ou tinto the world and practice law that the most valuable" treasure they have is "their reputation and their credibility"
March 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Boasberg: "I often tell my clerks before they go ou tinto the world and practice law that the most valuable" treasure they have is "their reputation and their credibility"
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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“The lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose.”
Something the Department of Justice actually wrote in a brief. In 2025.
My word.
Something the Department of Justice actually wrote in a brief. In 2025.
My word.
2/ This does not instill confidence that the Government has accurately or properly identified individuals under the Alien Enemies Act:
Government declaration:
"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
Full context:
Government declaration:
"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
Full context:
March 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“The lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose.”
Something the Department of Justice actually wrote in a brief. In 2025.
My word.
Something the Department of Justice actually wrote in a brief. In 2025.
My word.
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Boasberg: OK, so I will hear from you from noon tomorrow—and I will memorialize this in a written order, since my oral orders apparently don't carry much weight
March 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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