Peter Orlowicz
Admin law atty, IL native, Navy veteran, sometimes appellate lawyer, board game aficionado, ethics enthusiast, railroad law-talkin' guy (he/him). Personal account, as always.
- Proving again the old saw that you can't always win a case with your oral argument, but you sure can lose one.
- Kathryn's reaction did not disappoint. bsky.app/profile/kvan...
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- Okay, where do I get a copy when it's published and who's going to play it with me at a CLE conference? @smmarotta.bsky.social @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
- Oh my God I have SO. MANY. QUESTIONS. How did this miniature railroad ever get registered as a rail carrier? Did he file with the IL Commerce Commission? (Yes, there are much weirder things in here. No, those aren't what I'm focused on. h/t @monicacarmean.com )
- You may read this article and come away with a lot of questions. What's going on in Pembroke Township? What's the deal with the miniature railroad in one of the old photos? The story is much longer and weirder than this one piece of coverage. Robert Ellis has basically been Loophole Man for decades.
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- This is just as true in the legal profession as anywhere else.
- Yay trains, boo illegal smoking!
- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczBuried lede: he realizes that it is absolutely impossible to achieve mass deportation if that process is required, which it constitutionally is.
- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczA tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
- Reposted by Peter Orlowiczhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczA retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
- Reposted by Peter Orlowicz3d 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...
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- Austro-Hungarian Empire draft dodging.
- This might not sound like it overlaps with federal employee ethics, but it 100 percent does. www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...
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- "Wait, why did I get billed $250 for this? My copay is only $30." "Oh, that's because you had the regular visit for $30 and then a followup visit, which is the higher $220 rate." "It wasn't a followup visit, my Wi-fi connection just dropped and I had to reboot the router!"
- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczEven if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- In S3E1 of Bluey, "Bedroom" establishes directly across from the girls' bedroom is a spare room that used to be a nursery, but in the Bluey Minisode "Goldilocks" we see from the girls' bedroom into the hall and it's just a blank wall. (Chilli walks by with laundry.) In this essay I will
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- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczBREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.
- Sadly, the original website appears lost to antiquity, but my favorite Ian McKellon thing I ever saw was this interactive website where he essentially annotated the opening speech of Richard III, explain what the character is thinking & what the language means. Partial YouTube capture here:
- You may recall that forcing federal employees to sign nondisclosure agreements was also a thing President Trump tried to do.
- i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczDOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczReading the astounding preliminary report of Illinois Accountability Commission on the federal abuses of Midway Blitz. Every state touched by the ICE assault needs to create a body like this just to preserve / consolidate the factual record. ilac.illinois.gov/content/dam/...
- Reposted by Peter OrlowiczI have been trying to write an essay for four weeks now about Article II under the Trump administration and I keep having to restart because the draft never appropriately conveys the insanity of whatever happened during the last week.
- Okay, but this also describes a bunch of FedSoc junkets, which made me laugh.
- I'm old enough to remember when AUSAs were supposed to be nonpartisan career hires.
- So, I guess this is a bad time to mention that I always had a hard time keeping Catherine O'Hara and Catherine Hicks straight (kind of a Bill Paxton/Bill Pullman thing, I guess.)
- *long, slow breath out through his nose* Look, @amtrak.com , I'm a mega train geek but I don't think I'm a $279 track suit mega train geek. www.store.amtrak.com/1896770/1896...
