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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I chose an extremely unprofitable field of law in which I knew that I might not be able to fully repay my student loans for decades (if at all). I now drive a $900 car, got lucky on a great mortgage, buy 1 pair of shoes/yr... and am still only paying down interest on my loans.
AFAIK I don't have many lawyers who make more than $100K in my immediate circles, & frankly those who do typically aren't working with the ppl who most need counsel. Canceling a chunk of our debt would be one of the best things this country could do for free/low-cost legal aid
all I'm really trying to say here is that I am happy to provide @michaelbd with fifteen years of my student loan statements on the entirely reasonable condition that he agrees to shove every one of them all the way up his ass

Please don't read this thread as a complaint: I've never in my entire life known what it's like to have much more money than I actually needed to live and I honestly don't feel any need to. Pls just cool it w/the "don't ever cancel student debt for lawyers" takes and we're good

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9 Nov
Niz-Chavez in #SCOTUS today:

SOTOMAYOR: may I interest you in another copy of the opinion I already wrote on this 2 yrs ago
GORSUCH: what she said
KAGAN: can I maybe draw you a diagram, or
BREYER: how about following the law as written, have you tried that

KAVANAUGH: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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It's totally fine for a restaurant to give you 1/2 your bill at the table and send the other 1/2 along to your last known address at some point in the indeterminate future while also taking you to small claims court for the whole amount
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6 Nov
Vital reading from @DLind on Biden's most immediate immigration quandary. IMO ending #MPP & associated policies is already what Gitmo was for Obama: an easy promise to do the right thing @ enormous political cost w/no real political benefit

propublica.org/article/trump-…
Restoring and fully supporting #asylum at the southern border for the victims of our empire *is* the right thing, and we should accept nothing less. We just need to be real, as @DLind is here, re: just how politically and practically fraught this is. It's a whole lot of fraught.
To be absolutely clear, this is me committing to doing whatever I can to hold him to it and encouraging you to do the same. The war on asylum via #MPP/#safethirdcountry agmts is literally murderous, as bad as Trump policy got. It all has to go on Day 1--no delays, no excuses.
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4 Nov
Every election for more than a decade now I have slipped into #Boston's Ward 1 Precinct 1 (my #EastBoston polling station) as they're closing up just to watch the numbers come in.

This is something any citizen can do. In some states, you could go do it tonight!

#bospoli Image
The doors have just shut with a flurry of volunteer activity. Everyone has a part to play in this locked theater of democracy.

I sincerely love anyone willing to spend their day doing this, all of the love to poll workers everywhere tonight

#bospoli
"Hot off the presses, here you go kids!"

A poll worker walks over to *give me my own copy* of the results.
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3 Nov
A lot to unpack here, but what I've mostly learned from reading these so far is that I still have the capacity to be astonished. Not that they knew that the single worst Trump immigration initiative (#MPP) was bad--we all knew that--but that they would put any of this in writing
I mean a "full and fair" asylum system is literally the definition of a "safe third country." That's it! That's all it requires. We all knew none of the countries they were forcing into these agreements had one, but... Image
Here's the clearest example of "the cruelty is the point" I've seen from this boundlessly cruel govt.

They knew that conditions were so dangerous that these refugees would leave under any circumstances--all while insisting that most of their asylum claims were fraudulent. ImageImage
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3 Nov
Proud to say that I spent my Election Day winning an #asylum claim for exactly the kind of applicant the Trump administration has spent the past four years trying to keep from winning asylum, based on legal grounds they have spent the past 4 yrs years trying to eliminate.
For immigration advocates--and, far more importantly, the ppl we serve--the past four yrs have been an endless, exhausting, all-consuming nightmare of arbitrary administrative cruelty and violence. Much better lawyers than I have defended every inch, winning far more than not.
4 yrs ago, thousands of young ppl watched this country vote in the worst of us for the explicit purpose of doing violence to the most vulnerable. Many of them have just passed the bar, fresh reinforcements in a generational battle against institutional racism & xenophobia.
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27 Oct
I was reminded again today that most state judges simply don't comprehend the trauma that even a chance of imm. enforcement causes non-citizens.

If you don't already understand why my client lives in fear of being detained & exiled by ICE I'm just not sure how to explain it tbh
My client didn't appear bc he knew that he had a deportation order & that ICE would be waiting.

While I sincerely appreciate the court agreeing w/our request not to impose bail after removing the default, I can't agree that this decision was merely "putting his head in the sand"
Thanks to the Trump administration's twisted anti-federalism, states which share information w/ICE and allow them into courthouses are voluntarily giving up on prosecuting a substantial number of non-citizens. Yet they continue to defend all of this in the name of "public safety"
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