bmaz
@bmaz.bsky.social
Criminal defense, civil rights, and occasionally civil, trial lawyer. Former Emptywheel legal writer, husband, father and generally cranky observateur. Lifetime F1 fan.
Lock them up
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16h agoJudge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MS NOW discussing Michigan primary and electability. All I can say is that if we worried about electability in 2008, Obama wouldn’t have been the nominee.
Is this a FedSoc handout?? Because it looks like some Len Leo bullshit.
Politico@politico.com · 19h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
Looking through the firm bios, the firm is very wired to GOP politics, particularly in TX. I can find no other reason they received this contract. It's indefensible.
This is laughable. And, really, Ilya Shapiro? Has Shapiro ever been in a hearing or trial level court ever??
Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 19h agoIn addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
![The firm is fully owned by Jared Kushner and has a staff of approximately 20 people.[2][5] By 2024, the firm had returned no profits to its investors.[6] The firm has been controversial due to conflicts of interests arising from Kushner soliciting funds from Middle Eastern governments while also working as an envoy having direct and indirect dealings with those governments in his role in the second Trump administration.[7] According to reporting by Bloomberg News, investors in the firm do so with the expectation of influencing the Trump administration.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jjromh55tf7pp7s4hsvurf4/bafkreihebdzjog2hp37o2q3enjyrsi46btqktev76ogpneczsrrzl55fo4)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 22h agoEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
DHS said pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret overstayed visa and arrested him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport
University of Maryland ‘teacher of the year’ detained by ICE in Texas
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"And, given all this, what is the DOD budget going for?" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/how-...
How Does The World's Major Military Power Run Out Of Munitions? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Seems like I have a lot of questions these days. The numbers have been kicked around social media for a while now, but it appears that the Iran war is using up the US missile stock. CSIS has also been...
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Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
David Ellison lies up a storm in an effort to back up his failing deal with Warner Bros. Good read for pure entertainment values. Just remember the face of Bari Weiss when you read what Ellison says about his politics.
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN
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CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
The most fragile snowflakes may be in ICE. which makes sense since they are the least legitimate law enforcement agency in the US (which includes folks like LA Sheriffs). Wildly outside their mandate, incredibly abusive, totally unaccountable, engaging in rape and murder and lethal negligence 1/
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump has found the true culprit behind the Reflecting Pool case reversal: not the contractor, not the evidence, not the legal standard apparently, a cheap umbrella. In a Monday performance that blurred the lines between criminal justice commentary and discount store product review,
WATCH: Trump says Jeanine Pirro 'made a mistake' and 'choked' on Reflecting Pool vandalism case reversal
The president reiterated his disappointment with Pirro for a court filing in which her office blamed a contractor’s shoddy work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool rather than vandalism.
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Where’s Buzz Aldrin to punch that guy in the face when you need him?
What the fuck is wrong with our sports people? They are going on dumb podcasts run by evil people.
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 3mo agoYouTube trick shot golfer Bryson DeChambeau grudgingly accepts people have been to the moon only because Elon Musk says it happened.
Absolutely this corrupt piece of shit should dictate feminine hygiene and family planning.
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoBlanche pledged abortion pill crackdown in private religious call: ‘We’re putting practices and policies in place’
NY police tricked a woman into drinking from a cup, then pulled her DNA and added it to a secret database. They have done this to thousands of people who were never charged with a crime. Cato filed a brief in this case, arguing that the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant. https://ow.ly/1mHL50ZvUlN
Leslie v. City of New York Brief: NYC's "Suspect Index" of Secretly Harvested DNA Is Unconstitutional
The NYPD routinely collects DNA samples in an orchestrated surreptitious manner through ruses involving straws, bottles, or even cigarettes, without the knowledge or consent of the searched individual and without a court order.
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Is Corey Lewandowski still employed by the federal government?
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2d agotime to reup this classic
Can somebody show me the man that can make a "gash" over 1.2 football fields long with a Stanley knife? Hello, Bueller?
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoUPDATE: Liar-In-Chief Trump now reportedly considering removing Jeanine Pirro because she dropped the baseless charges against an Olympian and admitted Trump screwed up the reflecting pool, not “vandals”
I keep posting this but watch the whole thing beginning to end, truly psychotic on a level even I wasn’t quite prepped for
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump: I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella. And people get away with things. It’s a disgrace.
ANOTHER death in ICE custody, this time at the controversial Delaney Hall facility. This makes 54 deaths since Trump took office; 1 every 8 days in 2026. His mother says he was denied adequate medical care for chronic conditions, a common accusation ICE has strenuously denied.
Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d agoBreaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup
Pirro put a 350 foot gash in Trump's reflecting pool party.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoUPDATE: Liar-In-Chief Trump now reportedly considering removing Jeanine Pirro because she dropped the baseless charges against an Olympian and admitted Trump screwed up the reflecting pool, not “vandals”
LOL www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/corn...
Cornyn and Tillis roll - Lawyers, Guns & Money
For all to the talk about how mavericky some of the lame duck Republican senators have been, this is still a party fully owned by Donald Trump: The two Republican senators who had threatened to block ...
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He should send people to turn on the giant fan, like he did with the giant faucet in California.
On this day in 1958: The USS Nautilus, the world's first atomic-powered submarine, became the first to travel under the ice of the geographic North Pole. The sailors had created a North Pole postal cancellation device and used it on 1,528 envelopes while they were there.
People With Disabilities Fear Service Cuts as Trump’s DOJ Questions Legal Protections kffhealthnews.org/syndicate/pe...
People With Disabilities Fear Service Cuts as Trump’s DOJ Questions Legal Protections - KFF Health News
The Department of Justice in June issued a legal opinion saying states aren’t required to provide services that help people with disabilities remain in their homes. The new position has added momentum...
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