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May 31 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Incredible overuse and abuse of authority being exercised in Georgia today against the Atlanta Solidarity Fund and its organizers. The arrests — even if the charges were legitimate — are a clear effort to attack the #StopCopCity activists and intimidate their supporters. The charges for the first o...
The video of the arrests this morning shows that this was a coercive effort that goes far beyond the charges ...
... as does Gov. Kemp's statement, which is rhetoric aimed at crushing an opponent through claims of legal authority, not a leader's careful comments about law enforcement activity.
Here is The Intercept's writeup of today's arrests in Atlanta, from @natashalennard: theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop…

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Jun 3
This could not have gone worse for Tennessee if you sent a cat in to argue the case for them.
cat lawyer zoom call
"Should another court disagree and find that the AEA is a content-neutral regulation, the Court presents this alternative and independent basis for its conclusion."

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Jun 3
BREAKING: Late Friday night, a federal judge declared Tennessee’s anti-drag Adult Entertainment Act to be unconstitutional following a two-day trial last month. More to come at Law Dork: lawdork.com Image
Here's the order from U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker, a Trump appointee, finding the law unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLU...The Tennessee General Assem...
Oof. Parker said no no no no no no no no no and no to Tennessee. The Court concludes that st...
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Jun 2
Media orgs ask for unsealing of some documents in the Santos case. Judge sets a deadline of today for responses.

Today, Santos's lawyer asks for more time "to distinguish our case from others," which is not at all a reassuring thing for a client to see his lawyer tell a judge. The Honorable Anne Y. Shiel...
Here's the document, in which Santos's lawyer is also upset that the NYT opposed the extension because, the First Amendment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The extension was granted, until Monday, but the judge says no more extensions on this, which is, primarily, an attempt to find out "the identities of the bail sureties" for Santos, as one of the media orgs' letters put it. ORDER granting 15 Motion fo...
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Jun 2
There are big differences between each of these steps:
- individual people make choices, can express disagreement.
- government bans actions through administrative or legislative steps.
- government criminalizes actions, restricting liberty if you act contrary to law.
This change is where conservatives are leaning in to fascism, and where Elon Musk is now eagerly advocating for the most extreme of these three steps — "Prison. Long term. Without parole. No mercy." — for parents supporting their trans children. Jordan Peterson quote RTs E...
The Atlantic and The New York Times are in part to blame for this state of affairs. Their decisions to provide unbalanced coverage of this side-story of a side-story made this possible by giving oxygen to extremist voices, legitimizing their efforts to go even further right.
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Jun 1
OK, all, it's June. We're expecting 3 or 4 opinions (or 2 really long decisions) from #SCOTUS this morning, starting at 10a.
Here's my latest Law Dork update on where things stand: lawdork.com/p/clarence-tho…
The first #SCOTUS decision is in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters. The state tort claim is not preempted by the NLRA. Barrett has the court's opinion. Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch only concur in judgment. Jackson dissents alone in the labor case. supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…
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May 16
I would guess if the Republicans lose this race, there will be nonstop national stories about how the Republicans don’t know how to “connect” with city voters. And what this tells us, nationally, about the choices they’ve made in recent years, w/ features on Jacksonville voters.
(Spoiler: Of course there won’t.)
The Dem won.
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