Public Defendering

Public Defendering

@foddery.bsky.social

Public defender ⚖️ Criminal Defense Attorney 🆘 Don’t talk to cops 🐽 Cajun/Creole to the marrow⚜️Louisiana vs all y’all🦞

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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

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Replying to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Since some people have questioned whether this really happened—or whether such a policy actually exists—here's an auto-generated transcript (with errors) from the voicemail canceling our reservation, and a sign posted next to the front desk when we arrived.

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Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

Adam Rose@adamrose.bsky.social

Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled. ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture. Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.

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Really letting the hood slip, here.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BERMAN: How many of the 40,000 people born in Somalia living in Minnesota do you consider to be garbage? McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data BERMAN: All of them? McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.

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Replying to @radleybalko.bsky.social

The "terrorist attack" by a traumatized former US child soldier who was torn from his homeland under threat of murder, relocated to a strange country where he had inadequate support and couldn't find work, and was just told he might be sent back to die. And never lived within 2000 miles of Somalia.

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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

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Kavanaugh stop

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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Throwing this out to the four winds: The Florida Keys are where I live, and I care about them quite a lot. If you have info on ICE and CBP activity in the area, please contact me. I'm a reporter cataloguing civil rights abuses. (If you have info on abuses elsewhere, I'll take those, too.)

CJ Ciaramella@cjciaramella.bsky.social

I was in this same spot this morning taking pictures of ICE and just missed this arrest. ICE and CBP have been running all over the Upper Keys for the past few weeks.

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I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking. I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"

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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

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It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic." It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.

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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Margy O’Herron@margyoh.bsky.social

Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov

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Lord have mercy the Supreme Court is hearing oral argument rn in an appeal from a case I wrote about last year it's undisputed that Damon Landor suffered a *brazen* violation of his legal rights, yet the GOP justices sound skeptical that he can actually sue the prison guards who violated his rights

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

Louisiana prison guards subjected Damon Landor to horrible treatment--none of the judges who heard his case dispute that Nor do they contest the flagrant illegality of the guards’ abuse But they're divided on whether Damon—and the courts—can do anything about it ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

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I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.

😆😆😆

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This is 100% true. I’m in Manhattan today for work and they made me convert to Islam before I was allowed to purchase my BEC and coffee this morning. Inshallah I’m able to get a slice of pizza tonight because the ration lines are so long.

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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Replying to @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

But let's not forget that jury nullification is the *right* of every jury and juror and is a long-established power of the people to resist despotic rule.