Andrew L
Northwest lawyer, husband of …better northwest lawyer.
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices”-Edward R. Murrow
- Reposted by Andrew LWait, wow?
- 3d Cir. holds that habeas corpus petitions challenging immigration detention are "civil actions," so prevailing noncitizens may be entitled to attorneys' fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act. Gonna be a loooooooooot of these. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...
- Reposted by Andrew LSome terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)
- Reposted by Andrew LAOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
- Reposted by Andrew L“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”
- Reposted by Andrew LThe First Amendment's fundamental democratic safeguards do not exist if journalists are not free to cover uprisings against government abuses without fear of state retaliation ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
- Reposted by Andrew LI thank you @anthonymkreis.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Andrew LFrom this weekend: Among the things Harmeet Dhillon did in the days before her office personally indicted Don Lemon and others was to magnify tweets from right wing trolls about betting on criminal charges. emptywheel.net/2026/01/31/d...
- Reposted by Andrew LI was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
- Reposted by Andrew LI wrote about the New York Times refusing to call Neo-segregationists by their true names, the DARVO style of writing about race, and some great articles and books I read this week. If you haven't subscribed to my newsletter with @hebagowayed.bsky.social yet, now is the time.
- Reposted by Andrew LThis is well done and rings awfully true. This Is Not a Drill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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- WSJ: “.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Andrew LThe Fight Against Federal Overeach—or “FAFO” for short—will be particularly focused on states undergoing an influx of federal agents. trib.al/InsEQaM “No agency and no officer is above the law."
- Reposted by Andrew LA manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
- Reposted by Andrew L💬 Viewpoint: The rollback of DEI efforts and threats to academic freedom risk undermining the foundational teaching of bioethics, social determinants of health, and structural injustice in #MedEd. ja.ma/3ZBLR07
- Reposted by Andrew L🚨BREAKING: The FBI confirmed that it was carrying out a “lawful” search at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center in Union City, Georgia, but offered few details beyond saying the raid was authorized by a court and related to the 2020 election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Andrew LTrump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
- Reposted by Andrew LNope! bsky.app/profile/pete...
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- Reposted by Andrew Lbtw my favorite protest sign of late is "No one thought the revolution would start in Minneapolis except Prince"
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- Reposted by Andrew LNEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrew LFederal courts aren't buying the Trump administration's argument that construction of offshore wind farms should be halted for national security reasons, with some judges suggesting that the government isn't making its claim in good faith. www.law360.com/artic...
- Reposted by Andrew LContinuing the shift to an economy that produces nothing but advertising and prisons.
- Reposted by Andrew LThis morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
- Reposted by Andrew LI fell asleep reading this last night. That Ashcroft v. Iqbal was another terrible decision and I don't think there's any remedy that will fix Bivens. www.stanfordlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Andrew LMTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV
- Reposted by Andrew LI NEED EVERYONE YO UNDERSTAND THAT THE BUDGET IS NOT THE ISSUE. THIS MONEY IS ABOUT TO BE SPENT ON UNETHICAL PSEUDOSCIENCE.
- Reposted by Andrew LI try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
- Reposted by Andrew Lthis is really great
- New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
- Reposted by Andrew Lsaid it before but I'll say it again, 40 PERCENT of global bulk shipping is fossil fuels. wind & solar + batteries is maybe the most disruptive tech in history
- Reposted by Andrew LThe most important technological revolution of our lifetime has nothing to do with AI: Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.
- Reposted by Andrew LThe Pentagon is drawing up plans to invade a US city
- NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
- Reposted by Andrew LYou will not be surprised at the number of breathless conversations about space data centers I’ve heard in the Bay Area. “But how will it work?” “It just will.”
- Reposted by Andrew L#SCOTUS is likely to do the right thing in the Lisa Cook case. But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:
- Reposted by Andrew LTrump left the White House early, went on a 4 day Mar-a-Lago getaway, and flew to a football game in Miami. Meanwhile, the “Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act” and the “Trafficking Survivors Relief Act” sat on his desk.
- Reposted by Andrew LSome perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
- Reposted by Andrew LI'm very happy to share my latest article: "Textual (In)Difference in State Search-and-Seizure Provisions" (forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review). I survey textual changes in state search/seizure provisions and show that the textual distinctions have little effect on case outcomes.
- Reposted by Andrew LThe Trump admin, which says it was investigating fraud in Democratic-led states, quietly shelved a massive welfare fraud investigation in Mississippi involving public funds funneled to Brett Favre and others
- Reposted by Andrew LCharlie Kirk from The Charlie Kirk Show, Oct. 26, 2023:
- Reposted by Andrew LThousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
- Reposted by Andrew LShouldn't it be a bigger story that the immigration cops are seizing and imprisoning people who CANNOT POSSIBLY BE IMMIGRANTS
- Oglala Sioux Tribe demands the release of Lakota men detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Andrew LThis is an astounding story, including Flock's typical reaction of blaming everyone else and refusing to take responsibility.
- New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...
- Reposted by Andrew LIt would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
- Reposted by Andrew LBiden tried incredibly hard to keep an ex-China trade bloc working and not let China steamroll the world with their EVs. It would have be very difficult. Trump blew it all up and now China is on its way to steamroll the world with their EVs
- (AP) - China says it has reached an agreement with the EU on steps toward resolving their dispute over electric vehicle imports. @apnews.com
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- Washington State is considering creating a public bank. A hearing is scheduled for SB5754--a bill to create a public bank in Washington--for January 15th at 4:00 pm. Contact the Senate Ways and Means Committee today and let them know you support SB5754. app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
- Reposted by Andrew LI’ll say it for the millionth time but we need to make section 1983 apply to federal officers because Bivens is useless and need to get rid of prosecutorial immunity. These people should be financially ruined at the very least for these bullshit investigations.
- Reposted by Andrew LVideo message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- Reposted by Andrew LEveryone who has killed protesters and then blamed the protesters for “protesting wrong” has been remembered by history as the bad guys.
- Reposted by Andrew LBecause...of course.
- Reposted by Andrew LSo @hcrichardson.bsky.social has a post reviewing WWII War Department pamphlets teaching troops about how to spot and resist fascism. They seem awfully relevant. Give it a read, but mind Heather doesn’t steal your wife. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-9-...
- Reposted by Andrew LMight be a good time to re-up this @lawfaremedia.org piece by @bgodar.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...
