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  • Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training

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  • this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class,

    That's, uh, not why DoD occasionally sends officers to Harvard and other elite universities. DoD does this because they want some of their officers to have high quality advanced degrees.

  • Interesting way to address Trump and Noem

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  • I've heard that Trump was too scared to say the line to people's face, so he pre-recorded it.

  • LETS GOOO

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  • Also, the man is not his son.

  • “This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt

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  • Update: the government fired the attorney the next day, so she can at least get some sleep.

    (The judge declined to grant her request for contempt.)

  • Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

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  • As far as I can tell, this man is guilty of allowing people to use his bathroom if they ask nicely.

  • “This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt

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  • She could say what exactly the feds are doing wrong, for example, with federal officers' names and dates and details. Create the record.

    My guess is that the ICE and DHS people who are breaking the law have figured out not to tell the attorneys this stuff, for precisely this reason. The attorneys have a duty of candor to the court, but ICE does not.

    She could refuse to file motions supporting the feds.

    She may already be doing this, at least with respect to 100% dilatory motions. I haven't kept up with her case work.

    Then the people would win those uncontested cases.

    In this case, and in many others like it in MN, the petitioners already won their case. They've been ordered to be released, but they aren't getting released in a timely manner.

    When a judge issues a release order, it is the responsibility of the federal attorney to communicate the contents of that order into the federal bureaucracy, to ensure it is carried out. That process has turned into an all-consuming job, because that's how ICE wants it.

    I agree in general, though, that the only ethical or moral move here is to resign.

  • “This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt

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  • The long term problem is that lawyers are often not stupid, and they can see that working for this DOJ will have deleterious effects on their future careers when this stuff is over. I've heard that the Minneapolis office is down to 9 attorneys, and should be staffed for 50.

    But the immediate problem here dates back to Rumsfeld v. Padilla*. In that case, the supreme court decided that habeas petitions must be filed in the district of actual, physical confinement. This created a race condition, where ICE is trying to get these people out of Minnesota as fast as possible, and these people's lawyers are trying to file the lawsuits in Minnesota before their clients physically leave the state. ICE would prefer for these petitions to be filed in Texas, because the Texas district courts are a lot more favorable to them. The Minnesota lawyers don't want to have to file in Texas, both because it's a disadvantage to them, and because they aren't admitted to practice in Texas, and it's a big hassle to work around that.

    Combine that with Trump v. CASA, and no one wants to try a habeas class action. So you have a crap ton of individualized habeas petitions, all over the same issue, which is ICE's incorrect interpretation of federal immigration law. And in many, many of these cases, they properly got filed in Minnesota, but the prisoners got shipped to Texas anyway. The Minnesota judges are figuring out that all these cases are the same, and they're making the decisions real fast now, and ICE is not keeping up, by design. It's a total logistical cluster.

    *Yes, it's that Donald Rumsfeld, and that Jose Padilla, the dirty bomb guy.

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    “This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt

    newrepublic.com /post/206115/this-job-sucks-doj-attorney-judge-contempt-ice-court-orders

  • DOJ misconduct complaint against D.C. federal judge dismissed

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  • Boasberg's allegedly inappropriate remarks were delivered in a private breakfast with other judges prior to judicial conference. The point is that it was the kind of judicial conference that's supposed to remain private. So much so, that the DOJ refused to provide the court with their copy of Boasberg's actual words, because then they would have to explain how they got hold of them (probably illegally).

    So that gave the court an easy reason to dismiss the complaint.

  • OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics' Houses With Threats and Demands

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  • “It’s a bit scary to know that the most valuable private company in the world has your address and has shown up and has questions for you,”

    That's how "service of process" works. "Process server" is an entire career for people who figure out how to deliver legal documents to people personally.

  • Judge quotes Bible and Thomas Jefferson as he orders release of 5-year-old and father detained by ICE

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  • No. I am suggesting that these times are abnormal.

  • Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans

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  • Rehmet won by around 10 points too, which puts the total swing around +30. If that kind of swing holds up in the rest of the state, it would completely blow up the Texas gerrymander. Remember, gerrymanders turn a lot of very safe districts into only moderately safe districts.

  • Judge quotes Bible and Thomas Jefferson as he orders release of 5-year-old and father detained by ICE

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  • This is, uh, this is not how judges normally sign off on opinions:

  • Can anyone explain why?

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  • alcohol in pretty much any quality has negative effects

    The key is that this guidance came out somewhere between millennial and gen z coming of age.

    When I was a child the TV news would run "health" stories about how moderate amounts of red wine are good for you. It turned out those studies were funded by the alcohol industry.

  • Don Lemon Taken Into Custody

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  • They did some wildly unprecedented legal maneuvers to try to get these warrants.

    1. Went to magistrate duty judge, who approved 3/8 warrants.
    2. Went to that judge's manager, Chief Judge Schlitz. He didn't outright deny the warrants, he just wanted to take a few days to think about it.
    3. That wasn't good enough. They went to the judge-manager's manager, the 8th circuit court of appeals. In a sealed emergency petition for writ of mandamus.
    4. Judge Schlitz was required to defend himself in this mandamus action with two hours of notice and he wasn't even allowed to read the papers.

    Since the mandamus action failed, it seems likely that the government has gotten a grand jury indictment. Which process bypasses judges nearly entirely.

    Note that it's pretty normal to get indictments first in the federal courts (before the current times), because if the feds arrest someone on a complaint, they have a 30 day deadline to get that indictment. If they don't arrest first, there's no deadline and they can retry as many times as they want.

    So normally the feds only use complaints when they need to get someone off the street urgently. These feds use complaints because they only care about splashing the perp walk on social media. They don't care what happens to the case after that.

  • TIL Apollo astronaunts had to use a fecal bag, leave it open, massage in a bacterocide before discarding.

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  • Some of those bags are still on the moon today, in the lockers on the descent stages where they were left.

  • Army vet detained by ICE for 8 hours says he wasn't allowed to call an attorney

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  • Obviously, this is why you should keep your habeas attorney on retainer at all times. (/s)

  • US warns they will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal doesn’t go through | The Independent

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  • The planes are adaptable, multirole fighters that can, in fact, fly in all sorts of conditions. The problem is the ratio of maintenance hours to flight hours is really high. I was once quoted that it was an amortized $12k just to turn it on bring the engine to idle, and turn it off again.

    Given that reality, in peace time, many operators will pick and choose when and where they fly. In wartime, of course, the way economy will either expand to handle the maintenance, or (more likely, imo) designs will pivot to something more manufacturable and maintainable.

  • US warns they will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal doesn’t go through | The Independent

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  • Isn't that similar to the shit that got Turkey kicked out of the F35 program?

  • Deep Time

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  • If that's a Tomcat, where's that lizard's RIO?

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump Admin Suffers Blow in James Comey Case

    www.newsweek.com /trump-admin-suffers-blow-james-comey-case-10871043
  • Political Weirdos @lemmy.world
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    Laura Loomer explains the meaning of the phrase "Arby's in her pants"