katefromnyc
Newly horrified every day.
We can all do our part.
Not a lawyer.
- Reposted by katefromnycA bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
- 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...
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- Reposted by katefromnyc“I’m the last one that wants to complain” is fucking priceless coming from the guy who doesn’t just complain about having lost states in 2020 but also about everything from protesters to remarks by legislators or entertainers to media coverage to polls to judicial rulings to SNL portrayals.
- Reposted by katefromnycIn this year’s appropriations process, Trump and Republicans will be seeking another massive increase in military spending - $450B. DOD budget was $870B in 2024. They want it to be $1.5T next year, nearly double in 2 years, with the national debt already accelerating at $38.5T.
- Reposted by katefromnycThe reaction of the Trump admin from Karoline Leavitt: “It’s a brutal war.” That’s all you get. That’s the reaction. Don’t forget to thank Trump, or Vance will get upset.
- Reposted by katefromnycI just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag
- There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley, climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira..., who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released
- Reposted by katefromnyc‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- Reposted by katefromnycIt was also the property of the American public, and they trashed it.
- Reposted by katefromnycMy actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.
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- Reposted by katefromnyci think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- Reposted by katefromnycKamala Harris mused about price controls for food for about five minutes in fall 2024, & the entire country & national media lost its stuff over “SOCIALISM!!!” 🤔🤷♂️ Happy week, everyone.
- Reposted by katefromnycReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by katefromnycAgain, not once has the media asked “Can we afford ICE?” the way they obsessed about affordability with Biden’s student loan debt relief or Obama’s health care plan. And the media surely isn’t going to ask “Can we afford this?” about this crazy military spending increase 🤔🤷♂️ bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- We do not need a $1.5 trillion dollar defense budget. 50% increase in one year?!? breakingdefense.com/2026/02/excl...
- Reposted by katefromnycAt this point, some leaked videos might help.
- Reposted by katefromnycFed judges are getting PISSED. The levels of overt anger we are seeing in opinions is not, I think, at all usual.
- Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
- Reposted by katefromnycDOJ is a joke. And dangerous. Part 294841. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- Reposted by katefromnycA manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
- Reposted by katefromnycThis entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen. It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).
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- Reposted by katefromnyc"Law Dork has identified 253 federal habeas corpus petitions filed in the month of January — 21 general habeas petitions and 232 'alien detainee' petitions — in the U.S. District for the District of Minnesota... [And] only 6 habeas corpus petitions filed... in the entire month of January 2025."
- Here's my full report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-system...
- Reposted by katefromnycafter everything else this week, it’s really hard not to imagine what bezos’s friends in his inbox are telling him about how awesome what he did to the post is
- Reposted by katefromnycPlease don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
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- Reposted by katefromnycI like that @51st.news is being built from the ground up, and with support from individual readers. But that we are building something this way makes what Jeff Bezos did to the Post even more shameful. He has endless resources to sustain a great newspaper. He chose not to.
- Reposted by katefromnycSome good news: A little girl from the same Minneapolis-area school district as Liam Conejo Ramos was released from a Texas ICE detention facility late Tuesday. Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, a 4th grader, had been locked up there with her mom since Jan. 6. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Reposted by katefromnycI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by katefromnycNEW: A federal judge in Indiana has ordered the Trump administration not to deport Juan Espinoza Martinez, the Chicago man acquitted last month of offering $10,000 for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. Story from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by katefromnycFor those who missed it: www.lawdork.com/p/the-system...
- Reposted by katefromnycMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Reposted by katefromnycOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Reposted by katefromnycSmall scoop here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by katefromnycThis is a great analysis of what’s happening in cases related to mandatory detention. The Trump administration’s inability to administer the obvious effects of their own policies are only creating more problems for them in court.
- My full report, overnight at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-system...
- Reposted by katefromnycBREAKING: BRAD KARP OUT AS CHAIR OF PAUL WEISS.
- Reposted by katefromnycEvery lawyer. Every bar president and state supreme court justice. Every city and state prosecuting attorney. They all need to read this transcript and @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's reporting.
- I don't know when I last read something like the transcript out of Minnesota, so I spent the evening putting this together. www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...
- Reposted by katefromnyc/6 This is fundamental to being a lawyer. If it’s intolerable don‘t be a lawyer. However, I am EXTREMELY sympathetic to Le being forced into a terrible position with no ethical supervision while genuinely concerned about the lives of the people her client is trying to destroy.
- Reposted by katefromnyc/5 So the right way would be for Le to ask to be replaced as rep in Court, and quit, and if forced into Court by the Court to say she is moving to withdraw and is ethically prohibited from answering Court’s questions. Not “my client is a fucking crook that is deliberately defying the court.”
- Reposted by katefromnyc/4 This may be a “noisy withdrawal” — like “I am obligated by the Rules of Professional Conduct to seek to withdraw and am unable to answer the Court’s questions,” which screams “my client is a crook who wants me to lie” — but they cannot reveal client confidences.
- Reposted by katefromnyc/3 If the U.S., through its actions, has tried to make them commit fraud on the court, or made it unreasonably difficult to do their job and abide by the Rules of Professional Conduct, their remedy is to quit and (if necessary) move to withdraw.
