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Debbie Jeon

@debbiejeon.bsky.social

Legal Director at ACLU of Maryland, TFXC Mom, eternal optimist, ride-or-die Dem, lover of cats and dogs. Posts my own.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin@raskin.house.gov · 2mo ago

Susan Goering was a beloved advocate in Maryland for the civil rights and liberties of our people. We honor her lifetime of splendid service, including leading ACLU of Maryland. May the memory of this wonderful woman be a blessing to her family and to all those she loved and served.

Civil rights attorney Susan Goering dies, led ACLU of Maryland

ACLU of Maryland’s Susan K. Goering worked on a lawsuit on a case against the Maryland State Police in which the agency admitted spying on peaceful protesters.

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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo ago

The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.

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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3mo ago

Today: 1. A judge temporarily blocked the $1.8B slush fund 2. A judge ordered Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center 3. A judge asked the govt to answer charges of a fraud on the court in Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS 4. A judge asked DoJ to explain why he should dismiss the Oath Keepers’ charges

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3mo ago

The NAACP launches a campaign calling on Black student-athletes to boycott Southern colleges in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act, leading to the dismantling of one majority-Black congressional district and a push to scrap others.

NAACP calls on Black athletes to pause on southern schools over voting rights.

The civil rights organization is urging recruits to withhold their college commitments in states where new congressional maps could be drawn.

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James E. Clyburn@repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I can’t make this up. Trump sued his own government, then dropped the lawsuit in exchange for his DOJ creating a $1,800,000,000 pot of money to compensate MAGA allies who baselessly claim to be “victims of lawfare and weaponization.” Astonishing corruption.

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Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 4mo ago

🚨 NEW: FOIA records show ICE included line items for a detainee labor program in contracts for two warehouse sites before the government had purchased either property. ICE has described the same facilities as short-term processing stops of three to seven days.

Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities

Contracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Mary S. McElroy, United States District Judge. The United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") possesses immense prosecutorial authority and discretion. As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors, when wielding this awesome power against a state, a company, or certainly against vulnerable children, will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary. DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the "Texas court"). It did so in an obvious effort to shield it's recent investigative tactics-previously rejected by every other court to review them-from this Court's review, in favor of a distant forum that DOJ deems friendly to its political positions. 1 Its representatives have, under oath,misrepresented salient facts. It has misled the parties with whom it was negotiating in Rhode Island, who have now been placed in an untenable and unprecedented procedural position. And when its attorneys came to this Court to explain their conduct, the senior attorney-who was present at many of the events that took place in this case sat silently by as his counterpart, a junior attorney who has been practicing law for approximately six months and had no relevant information, was forced to answer questions about DOJ's blatant disregard for the proper course of negotiations. Now before the Court is the petitioner, the Child Advocate for the State of Rhode Island's (the "Child Advocate") Emergency Motion to Quash a subpoena duces tecum issued by DOJ as well as Rhode Island Hospital's ("RIH") Motion to Quash the same subpoena. (ECF Nos. 1, 28.) For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: After a string of losses in its anti-trans project, DOJ turns to grand jury subpoenas in Texas. At least seven judges have blocked invasive administrative subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care for minors, so DOJ appears to be trying a new tactic. Tonight, at Law Dork: