Joe Dudek
Maryland attorney specializing in appeals and insurance coverage. Increasing fan of watches.
- You know how I know Paul is wrong? Any serious article on the subject would start by addressing CBP.
- This DJ transition by Suangyoo made my whole week. youtube.com/clip/UgkxdkF...
- I hate even talking about Jeffrey Dahmer. 17 people out of MILLIONS in Ohio and Wisconsin and you get such bad publicity.
- Reposted by Joe DudekNEW: A rupture between DOJ and ICE has emerged in Minnesota, where overwhelmed prosecutors keep dropping the ball — and saying ICE won't return their messages. The crisis has had real-world consequences for migrants illegally detained w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- There are other public officials who we have traditionally let cover their faces: Executioners.
- Same, but with the Federalist Papers.
- Wordle 1,691 - This really felt like I played well. ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
- I have a new favorite karaoke song.
- The key here is that DHS spent annual appropriations money (with the rider), not OBBA money (without): “Plaintiffs have made a strong showing that the January 8, 2026, notice requirement was also promulgated, implemented, and is presently being enforced with the use of Section 527 funds.”
- Judge rules members of Congress can inspect all ICE detention centers without appointment. "...DHS Sec. Kristi Noem re-implemented a notice requirement…..[which] required 7-days’ warning for visits to [ICE] facilities... funded exclusively by the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’..." thehill.com/regulation/c...
- Setting aside everything else wrong with this newspaper, what kind of monster sends a critical company-wide email before 8:30 am?
- MN Fox affiliate: ICE is kidnapping so many people that its lawyers cannot handle the resulting litigation. ICE is then all but ignoring court orders, hanging those same lawyers out to dry. www.fox9.com/news/federal...
- "You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not telling the truth." The President, while not smiling
- Reposted by Joe Dudekmore generally, i cannot communicate how nuts this is. it's a strict liability offense and musk does not deny he did it (you either filed the paper or you didn't; he didn't) he's been arguing that the securities and exchange commission, its discovery requests, and the law, are unconstitutional -
- JUST IN: Judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to dismiss SEC suit alleging that when he sought to take over Twitter (now X) he failed to disclose his stake as required. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan (Biden) turns down forced-speech and SEC appointment challenges. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
- It's like a version of Your Obedient Servant in which Alexander signs his letter to Burr “A. Ham,” and then instead of responding, Burr sends federal agents to raid a stationery store.
- This paragraph works perfectly if you delete the last sentence.
- Your regular reminder that anyone who describes themself as a "constitutional lawyer" should be presumed to be sophomoric.
- I think I'm falling in love with French microbrand watches ...
- He settled contentedly, having successfully composed the music of the night.
- It's a crime to mislabel American cheese. Odds are he's wrong about this one.
- This might help explain why Steve and Chad are recruiting prosecutors via Twitter DM.
- “Whoever ... by force ... intentionally ... interferes with ... any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship ... shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsection (b).”
- In line with Ron Johnson’s proposal, I suggest the arrangement at the founding: No judicial warrant requirement, but officers who perform unreasonable searches are liable in trespass without immunity.
- Bon Iver was surrounded by half-million-dollar watches last night at the Grammys as he wore this $139 Timex x Todd Snyder MK-1 Sky King.
- Winds of Winter soon, then?
- Sca-li-a. I just met a judge named “Scalia”! And suddenly that name will never be the same to me.
- Pirro: "You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care if you're a law abiding law owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail. And that makes all the difference"
- We’re sure the groundhog saw his shadow and not just the ever-closer creeping darkness?
- Every time I get a relatively big repost:
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- Me when lawyers use inch marks as quotation marks:
- Reposted by Joe DudekChotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about And gallantly he chickened out.
- Reposted by Joe DudekA note from our editors:
- Almost every city in America has fewer police officers today than CBP has *arrested* officers over the last 20 years.
- I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
