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Margot Cleveland Profile picture
Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
Senior Legal Correspondent @FDRLST, Of Counsel @NCLALegal, ~25 yrs 7thCir law clerk, former full-time univ. faculty, Catholic conservative, wife to DH/mom to DS
Jul 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Liz Murrill is Rep. AG in LA. After she pointed out New Orleans officials were violating state criminal law, local officials indicted her & set $400,000 bail bond. Yet another example of big city Dems in red state using rigged grand jury system to target Republicans. 1/ 2/  Fortunately, the Louisiana Supreme Court stepped in to stop this farce.  It took them less than 24 hours. Image
Jul 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Small town America for the win! Image
Jun 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Alito throws some subtle shade to the lawfare in the Temporary Protective Status case. Image 2/ That "Nevertheless, lower courts," sentence has herculean restraint! Image
May 26 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
THREADETTE: SCOTUS issued opinion today in case where group representing immigration judges sought to challenge in federal court rule that they had to get a supervisor's approval before speaking re immigration issues. 1/ 2/ The full opinion (which is short) and Justice Thomas's concurrence are must-reads because IMNSHO they are SCOTUS first group slap to rouge judges. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
May 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
WHOA! Full filing linked below. 1/ 2/ Motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
May 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🔥Pending before SCOTUS right now is petition for cert in what is one of most consequential constitutional cases related to liberty in the form of a free-market. And yet, few have taken notice of the case. In short, EPA decided who to give market share to based on "equity." 1/ Image 2/ Article here by colleague at @NCLAlegal washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/…
Apr 30 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
THREADETTE: SCOTUS's decision yesterday in Callais case striking down Louisiana's unconstitutional race-based districts prompted voters who brought challenge to immediately file an application asking Court to rush case back to district court so the districts could be redrawn. 1/Image
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Image 2/ The losers who want to continue to discriminate based on race in district mapping oppose sending case back to district court on expedited basis. And Alito ordered them to respond by 4 p.m. Fact that pro-discrimination side wants to delay case with midterms around corner makes Image
Apr 14 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge Boasberg gets spanked! Image 2/ Image
Apr 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
2/ Trump Admin. prior comments indicated they would secure Strait of Hormuz & possibly take over Kharg Island to get oil moving. Last night, Trump indicated we will lead efforts to open Strait but those impacted need to join fight. Now, this may be misdirection to attack Kharg, 3/ Or Trump decided, we're not going to risk Americans' lives to do either if those in need of that oil won't step up. But we will continue the much safer bombing which will eventually (which he suggested may be about 3 weeks), lead to Strait opening b/c Iran is on last legs
Apr 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: @realDailyWire and @FDRLST scored a victory in their lawsuit against the State Department, filing today a Joint Motion for Entry of a Consent Decree. I was thrilled to lead this litigation with the @NCLAlegal team! 1/ Image 2/ Motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Last year I highlighted this, as it was ignored by legacy press and went largely unnoticed by the rest of the media! 1/ 1/ Here: thefederalist.com/2025/06/02/lat…
Feb 26 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
🚨🚨🚨Hearing on contempt re prison's supposed retaliation against men in women's prison. Image 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Acktually, it was Judge Boasberg who told SCOTUS to pound sand. . . 1/ Image
Image 2/ This is SO nuts: U.S. does not have custody of the aliens, so to allow them to bring a "habeas" case makes no sense! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Feb 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The press (legacy and new) and the investing public seem to have no idea what the Obama Administration launched in the Consolidated Audit Trail and what current SEC is currently doing--computer searches of OUR private data without any basis! @NCLAlegal 1/Image 2/ I'm frankly shocked that more civil libertarians aren't screaming about this! And now SEC is trying to delay Plaintiffs' day in court! Details here: nclalegal.org/feds-are-steal…
Feb 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm working on a piece tomorrow to counter all the spin on the courts refusing to issue arrest warrant against Don Lemon in first instance as somehow vindicating him. BUT I think it merits stressing WHY DOJ sought arrest warrant that way first. 1/ 2/2 DOJ feared there would be widespread copycat assaults in places of worship the following weekend unless it moved quickly to show public such behavior was illegal and would be prosecuted.
Jan 28 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: Yesterday @EdWhelanEPPC defended Judge Schlitz for not recusing in ICE cases even though he is publicly listed as a donor to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. @HarmeetKDhillon called him out. 1/ Image
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Image 2/ Ed quoted from a section of the Compendium § 4.2-3(g)), a federal appellate judge shared with him that stated: “A judge may contribute financially to legal service associations that provide counsel for the poor. A judge need not recuse merely because lawyers who accept appointments by such associations are also counsel of record in cases before that judge.”
Jan 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump wins in case where judge tried to tie hands of ICE & Border Patrol. Image
Image 2/ Eight Circuit Court of Appeals held district court improperly entered an invalid nationwide injunction. Image
Jan 24 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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Jan 22 • 47 tweets • 9 min read
🧵on Smith's testimony before @Jim_Jordan. 1/ 2/ Jordan lays out at high level all efforts to "get Trump" that has been going on for 10 years. Beginning with Clinton and Steele dossier, and Comey, and impeachment one, impeachment two, Bragg, and Fani Willis.
Jan 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My take from the video is that the officer did not believe the driver would go from reverse to drive and then to step on the gas to hit him. If he thought that was the plan, he would have pulled gun out while she was still reverse OR maybe would have done what Smith suggests. 1/ 2/ That's the thing with fluid, split-second, life-and-death decisions law enforcement officers must make. It's easy to say in retrospect, why not move out of the ways so she won't hit you & shoot tires knowing how things ended, but she was driving in reverse when agent
Dec 27, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
THREADETTE: Here's the important backstory to this miracle drug so folks don't learn the wrong lesson: The reason this miracle drug came into being is because pharma companies saw a huge payout, with the list price being $300,000. 1/ Image
Image 2/And just so you know, I have skin in the game…flesh of my flesh that skin is. Image