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John Hawkinson
@johnhawkinson
Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usu. @CambridgeDay. MIT; public recs; data; legal news #appellatetwitter Lately: immigration. jhawk@alum.mit.edu 617.797.0250
Jan 15, 2024 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
HYPOTHETICALLY, if any #cambma Cambridge City Councillor were to resign, who would replace each one? We recount their ballots and use the next ranked candidate, using ChoicePlusPro. Here are the results, and here are the rules:
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Image (I finally got around to figuring out how to run ChoicePlusPro without the GUI.

Allegedly you invoke Engine.class with -p, but you probably still need -h and it ignores everything except the -h parameter and the last argument which is an input file.

You're welcome.)
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Sep 7, 2022 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
ok #cambma election night coverage. Now hanging out in Coty Hall (precincts 3-3 and 3-3A. Used to be 4-2) waiting for machine tapes to print. Looks like it'll be fairly quick, unlike in some past years. err *City Hall. sigh...
Jun 1, 2022 • 230 tweets • >60 min read
Next phase of the #cambma City Manager selection is 6pm tonight. Choices: Farooq, Fisher, Huang, Khumalo.

Zoom link: cambridgema.zoom.us/s/97895847144

I will livetweet it in this thread.
Linked below is last night's. It is a little hard to take this sign on the front door of Cambridge City Hall seriously. If you can even notice it amongst the others, and read it in its half folded state, would you feel STRONGLY encouraged to wear a mask?

What if there was free candy? Image
Aug 3, 2020 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
It's been quiet in Savino for the past month, but today the Government filed (ANOTHER) appeal of 5 orders, including the June 3 (#206, 61 days ago) "minutes" that denied reconsideration of the earlier preliminary injunction. ImageImageImage SAVINO UPDATE: Just before 5pm today, the Savino plaintiffs (appellees) filed a motion for summary disposition at the First Circuit, seeking to dismiss the appeals for lack of jurisdiction. Image
Jul 18, 2020 • 96 tweets • 20 min read
We have the @ORDOJ complaint
ROSENBLUM V. DOES 1–10, DHS, CBP, USMS, FPS.

10:39pm Pacific.

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Image @ORDOJ It's slightly peculiar that the complaint has an attached declaration (of Mark Pettibone!) "in support of Rosenblum's motion for a TRO+PI," although no such motion has been filed [yet].

Complaint is a quite light 9 pages, unlike the 52 pages in Index/Woodstock.
Jul 17, 2020 • 147 tweets • 31 min read
DHS and the Marshal's Service were added today as defendants in INDEX NEWSPAPERS, WOODSTOCK V. PORTLAND, a class action brought by newspapers against Portland police.
Docket: courtlistener.com/docket/1730167… Apparently @ACLU_OR had concerns about this early enough to have moved to amend their complaint back on July 14, despite the rest of us apparently waking up to this concern last night. Image
Jul 14, 2020 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
LOOKS LIKE @Harvard has filed its reply an hour early! It was set to reply by noon to the Government's response from yesterday in the F-1 visa case, but here it is!
PDF: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… They've kept it to 15 pages, which…they didn't really have to do.
Table of contents here.
They avoid the term "nationwide injunction" and go for "program-wide"
Jul 10, 2020 • 82 tweets • 28 min read
New day, new thread. 10am Friday, another emergency video hearing in Harvard+MIT v. ICE+DHS. I will livetweet.
It will likely be a short hearing.

Catch up on yesterday at Image At today's hearing, we expect to find out if the Government will agree to defer implementation of its restrictions on student visa-holders & submission deadlines for school to submit "change plans." Otherwise, we'll set a schedule for a TRO hearing early next week, I think.
May 7, 2020 • 173 tweets • 42 min read
Another 10am video hearing in SAVINO v. HODGSON today, this time argument on the TRO motion. The case is about detention of immigrants at Bristol in light of COVID19, and many have been released to bail so far.

Prior thread: There were, err, 17 filings overnight (including 13 declarations by petitioners) and they only became available to the public this morning. I have not had a chance to review them.
(Honestly, I wonder if Judge Young has! the last was filed at 11pm)
Apr 30, 2020 • 54 tweets • 10 min read
OK, yesterday, I opined disappointment that judges, like Chhabria in N.D. Cal., were not requiring agency counsel or officials to show up at hearings in this emergency COVID19/ICE litigation.

Remember that?
Well, THANKS to whichever Chhabria clerk is checking out my Twitter feed, and ordering same!

:)

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Jan 31, 2020 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
Back at Boston's JFK building today for more Credible Fear Review hearings, this time before IJ Furlong. There are 5 families each at 9am and 2pm. 6 with 1 child and 4 with 2. As before, it's the respondent (the migrant)'s choice whether to close the hearing. We'll see how Judge Furlong handles it.
Jan 23, 2020 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
Another day of Dilley TX Credible Fear Reviews here in Boston at the JFK Building. Only a handful of cases, however. 1st we have the joy of Polycom videoconferencing. For some reason we dial into a DC (202) -based conference bridge that connects us to Dilley. I don't understand why it always says we're the first to join but then the other side appears 4 seconds later. Each time. 6th try…
Jan 22, 2020 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Back at the Boston Immigration Court for more Credible Fear Review hearings. Two are expected. See this morning's thread for some background:
Jan 22, 2020 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
The Boston Immigration Court will do another five Credible Fear Review hearings by VTC from Dilley, TX this morning. Before Judge Marna Rusher.

These are often tough to listen to.

Thread from last week:
As with last week, these hearings might be closed to the public if the migrants request it. So not clear how much of this I'll be able to view. They're scheduled to start at 9am Eastern.