Adam Bonin
Philadelphia-based 91st Most Powerful Lawyer in Pennsylvania (City and State PA, 2023) specializing in political law. Opinions are mine alone.
- This is extraordinary to see from an Assistant US Attorney: "I am not white, as you can see. And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too, so I share the same concern" about unlawful ICE detentions.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Julie Le, yesterday: "if they can't help me, then I am not here -- I'm not meant for this job. And to be honest, Your Honor, I did put for a request to be transferred back, but no one were willing to come here to stand in front of you to explain and/or to help to improve the system."
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- THE COURT: So are you telling the Court that you were brought in brand new, a shiny, brand new penny into this role, and you received no proper orientation or training on what you were supposed to do? MS. LE: I have to say yes to that question, Your Honor.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- "But then I couldn't help but wonder: should I be grateful that I'm barely referenced in the Epstein Files, or disappointed that all of these famous, wealthy New Yorkers were never talking about me?"
- 25 P.S. § 3047: law enforcement can't be within 100 feet of a Pennsylvania polling place on Election Day unless (a) they've been summoned to quell a donnybrook or fracas, or (b) they're there to vote themselves.
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- It's not just Minnesota which has a flood of habeas cases; so many are emanating from the Moshannon ICE facility near Johnstown PA that the WDPA chief judge has entered an administrative order assigning 3 Pittsburgh-based judges to also hear their claims. www.pawd.uscourts.gov/sites/pawd/f...
- My full report, overnight at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-system...
- President's House site, Philadelphia. The Trump administration has removed every sign and marker from here that it can, even though some have nothing to do with the enslaved people George Washington kept here. This is what's left.
- NOW!
- If you want to see/hear Avi and I (and other worthy panelists) discuss this and other issues around the proper federal role in elections, we're on at noon today on the radio, streaming, and on YouTube. whyy.org/programs/stu...
- If you want to see/hear Avi and I (and other worthy panelists) discuss this and other issues around the proper federal role in elections, we're on at noon today on the radio, streaming, and on YouTube. whyy.org/programs/stu...
- The Inquirer decided to do some followup reporting on the "swastika under the rug" home-selling case. Seller's attorney insisted that seller installed the swastika 40 yrs ago to reclaim it from having been co-opted by Nazis... which, um, doesn't explain the Nazi eagle which he also hid under a rug.