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@rparloff
May 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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The Trump/Blanche $1.776B "settlement" fund purports to be challengeable only by those who colluded to create it. ...
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To help themselves to nearly $2 B of our tax dollars, claimants present evidence to the (wink-wink) “settlement” fund that they were victims of “Lawfare” or “Weaponization,” terms that are nowhere defined. ...
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The fund is administered by 5 people chosen by Todd (“I love you, sir”) Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche ), and are removable at will by Trump. ...
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The procedures for processing these claims can be as secret as Blanche’s appointees choose to make them ...
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... The identities of those given our tax dollars, and how much, will be kept secret from us, and known only to Todd ("I love you, sir") Blanche.
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Mar 24
At 4:30pm ET / 1:30pm PT—technology permitting—I will live-blog for @lawfare a hearing in Anthropic v Dept of War. Anthropic seeks a preliminary injunction against Secy Hegseth’s designation of it as a “supply-chain risk”—the 1st US company to be so designated.
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The dispute stems from Anthropic’s long-time insistence that its AI products not be used for (a) autonomous lethal weapons or (b) mass surveillance of Americans. Its refusal to change its terms of service to permit such uses triggered the dispute. ...
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Some Anthropic updates: On 3/4, just hours before Hegseth declared Anthropic a “supply chain risk”—allegedly due to threats of “sabotage” & “data exfiltration”—his under sec’y wrote Anthropic that they were “very close” to a deal, asking to change a prepositional phrase. ...
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Since 3/4, govt has claimed that Anthropic sought a veto over DOD actions. But 2 top Anthropic officials assert it never did. Similarly, govt’s purported fear that Anthropic might “disrupt” the military was never raised with company & is a “technical impossibility.” ...
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As for Anthropic’s refusal to allow its product to be used for autonomous lethal warfare & mass surveillance of Americans, Hegseth himself said those concerns were “understandable” & the commander of US CentCom echoed those sentiments, Anthropic’s head of policy writes. ...
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Mar 10
The status conference in the Anthropic case in ND Calif just ended. Judge Rita Lin set a preliminary injunction hearing for 3/24 at 1:30pm PT. DOJ wanted later, but would not commit to not taking additional onerous actions against Anthropic before then ...
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Atty Michael Mongan (WilmerHale) for Anthropic said they feared invocation of the Defense Production Act to "commandeer our technology" and threats of criminal consequences. Said that more than 100 enterprise customers had already expressed doubts about continuing to use them ...
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said that a fintech company cut a contract from $10M to $5M and that universities & business-to-business companies have switched to other providers. Said govt is affirmatively reaching out to their customers & urging them to stop working with Anthropic. They fear an executive order may soon target them ...
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Feb 27
After MN's US Atty Rosen attacked the accuracy of his figures, Chief Judge Schiltz double-checked his list of 96 violations of court orders in 74 cases in MN for January. The recount showed 97 violations in 66 cases. But there’s more ...
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Schiltz then asked his judges do more research. Today he released a new list of 113 orders that were violated in 77 other cases—all in addition to his corrected original list.
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Schiltz comments: “The court is now aware of another occasion in the history of the US in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again and again and again—to force the United States government to comply with court orders.”
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Feb 15
The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched.
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Complaint alleges 200 officers descended on the families, guns drawn, with a helicopter, 2 drones, 5 armed vehicles, rifles, tasers, pepper balls. They allegedly grouped the Latinos (mostly ethnically Mexican) by skin color as a proxy for presumptive citizenship. No water, few bathrooms.
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Zipties cut into wrists. When a 15yo said they were too tight, an agent allegedly tightened them further. Adults were searched & items from their pockets were put in plastic bags strung around their necks. ...
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The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ...
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Judge Jerry Blackwell’s own comments deserve attention: Unlawful detention “falls on the heads of those who have done nothing wrong to justify it. ... The overwhelming majority of the 100s seen by this Court have been found to be lawfully present ... in the country.”
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“[Y]ou cannot ... detain first & sort out lawful authority later. ... Continued detention is not lawful just because ... an operation has expanded beyond the Government's capacity to execute it lawfully.” ...
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