Liz Dye

Protect immigrants Protect trans Protect the environment That’s all we can do. (Besides get TF off Twitter.)

Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay. The USS Cole case hearing is in recess for the judge to consider the defense team's claim that the defendant is not competent to stand trial. They blame the torture he endured in CIA custody. An Army psychiatrist found the prisoner competent.

NINETY-ONE PAGES in the US v CA voter purge case? With a per curiam order and each judge on the Ninth Circuit panel writing a separate concurrence/dissent? I mean, I'm glad they came out right. But, tighten up, boys! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm going to say this for probably the 20th time now .... Comey was an Original Classification Authority at the time he allegedly disseminated the national defense information at issue here. Assuming it was FBI information, he had the authority to declassify it at his discretion.

OMG these fking dorks are trying to get around the statute of limitations by filing a criminal information against Comey instead of an indictment www.courtlistener.com/docket/75021...

do you understand how bad you have to fuck up to be denounced by your all-boys catholic high school AND the cleveland plain dealer?

The NYT — having been shamed for years for not posting court opinions — now does so, but only with its enraging workaround of posting a link to a page that has individual images of each page of any opinion. So, here, you load a page of 55 images that are completely unworkable for any future use.

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

We listened to the hearing yesterday in DOJ's attempt to purge CA votes mid-election. It went very badly for the government, because of an issue of procedural geekery. @andrewtorrez.bsky.social, that's your walk up music! www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ninth-circ...

Flavio ... Minaj ... Maher ... Mayer ...

Goddammit I went to eat dinner and come back to whatever this is

Read this post if you're worried about securing the midterms from the Trump administration. I'm not saying it will end all your fears, but it will help to contextualize what's real and what's not.

Something that's not being said. The REASON why Blanche and Bill Essayli are so defiantly violating the Constitution is bc John Roberts said they can't be prosecuted so long as they're following Trump's illegal orders. Blanche's criminality arises DIRECTLY out of Trump v. US.

The hand-wringing over the Lindsey Graham thing "because he's not here to defend himself" strikes me as absolute bullshit. People who seek positions of enormous power and influence are not entitled to the sanitized legacy they'd give you. They should be remembered for who they really were.

JUST IN: 9th Circuit will hear arguments remotely at 1PM PT tomorrow (Sunday) on the Trump DOJ bid to segregate ballots from 20K suspected foreigners registered in CA. Judges Bennett (Trump), Bumatay (Trump), Sanchez (Biden) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

1. Jared Kushner’s attorneys at Clare Locke have sent Vanity Fair a formal demand letter disputing the story and demanding its removal.

Blanche told reporters DOJ was not involved in the exact thing Trump said he ordered. The latest breach of the firewall of independence that’s burned for nearly half a century between DOJ and the executive, and it may have finally been extinguished. makeitmakesensepod.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Pastor @solomonrmissouri.com continues to be the most wholesomely filthy person on this website

This is for the east!

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

Today on the pod —Alina Habba's triumphant(???) return —Louise Lucas indictment —Trump has to site for deposition in BBC trollsuit —Trump lawyers demand 11th Circ cancel sanctions that make them sad —Soooooo many election cases with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

This is really a "come on man have some self respect" moment for anyone at DOJ who has been practicing law for more than 5 minutes.

A year ago today, for the third straight week, the Department of Justice went before the same grand jury to seek a felony indictment of me and the other five members of the Broadview Six. 📷: @jackjenkins.me

How may cases of noncitizen voting occurred in past elections? Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick breaks down the myths that surround noncitizen voting, revealing that cases are extraordinarily rare and never impacted the outcome of a single election.

The indictment looks bad as a matter of appearances but these aren't crimes, SCOTUS said so. Official acts on an "as-needed" basis? Nope, McDonnell, 579 US 550. Undisclosed self-dealing? Nope, Skilling, 561 US 358. Problem here isn't just the timing, the legal substance itself is dubious.

2/ ...this reasoning in particular was just amazing. Oh, NOW we need to divine the true intent of voters who may be confused?? How about this: we'll give you Dan Sullivan's votes if we can retroactively award those 3,407 votes for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach County in 2000 to Al Gore. Deal?

Any day now the Fifth Circuit is going to hold that the GOP has a constitutional right to win elections because doing so is self-defense under the Second Amendment, and the Times will seek Josh Blackman’s opinions on the subject.

I see that there is a wapo story a few days ago about the office of legal counsel so this is my cue to remind you that the best time to have abolished OLC was the day after it was formed, the second best was the day after torture memos, and the third best is today.

Oh FFS, the DOJ filed an emergency appeal in its attempt to purge CA voter rolls because Judge Carter didn't grant them an ex parte TRO by noon, which they construe as a constructive denial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you happen to know the identity of the HHS attorney who submitted the AI-generated error-ridden agency's brief in support of exceptions, let us know in the DMs, or at info at glowlaw dot org

Dammit, this Louise Lucas indictment is not good storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The sheer amount of bull 💩 and tomfoolery our parents are engaged In online is ridiculous nymag.com/intelligence...

Thank you to Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social for your excellent September 3, 2026 article at The Law and Chaos Newsletter & Podcast @lawandchaospod.bsky.social! www.lawandchaospod.com/p/gop-forces...

BREAKING: Citing noncompliance concerns and highlighting problems with the declaration submitted Monday, Judge Hinderaker orders *daily* reports that include a declaration from someone with "personal involvement" in effectuating the court's order to facilitate a deported gay man's return to the US.