Jared

The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

I’m sure most school children would also comply pretty quickly if a cop pointed a gun, taser, mace, or baton at them in the hallway.

I dunno about you but I could sure use some actionable wisdom for being human

Funny story: After Maryland Rep. Andy Harris blocked marijuana legalization in DC, residents would call up his office to complain about potholes and stuff. When the staffer would explain that they weren't constituents, they'd yell something to the effect of, "Then stop fucking with our weed!"

Yesterday, the 8th Circuit denied immunity for a Missouri judge who jailed two innocent kids during a custody dispute between their parents. "Every reasonable person knows that a judge can’t throw children in jail for no good reason." - @ij.org's Dylan Moore. ij.org/press-releas...

Finally, Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski sent a statement to Laura Loomer, telling her Ms. Comans was "fired for illegally funding" migrant shelters "in violation of President Trump's Executive Order." Both Lewandowski and Noem, the government now admits, knew this was false.

It's awful this case has taken nearly 10 years and is still going on, but this is the rare circumstance of a legal loss with high odds of becoming a win. Rare to see all three panel judges tell the rest of the Circuit to take it en banc and reverse the Circuit precedent that prompted the ruling.

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

ICE has been found to maintain a secret "Agitator Log" database that records interactions with protesters and legal observers in Minneapolis, contradicting agency denials and raising concerns about First Amendment violations.

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

Last year, we won at SCOTUS in Martin v. United States, a case about whether the Federal Tort Claims Act provides a remedy for wrong-house raids Last night, we got a very interesting decision on remand. The panel ruled we lose under circuit precedent. But all 3 judges agreed that precedent is bad.

Letting the president claim absolute power over anything approaching “national security” has always been bullshit. Watching this admin cynically push it to absurdity has almost been funny. The ballroom? Nat’l sec The Trump Arch? Nat’l sec Ending the free press? Nat’l sec Union contracts? Nat’l sec

This case is interesting because wrong-house raids are the exact scenario that Congress amended the FTCA to address. But courts are so deferential to the government that they've distorted the statute's meaning so badly that it no longer does the exact thing Congress intended.

Was just scrolling back to find an old post and saw this -- even funnier now that we know about way more than just the Beetlejuice handie.

A quick video on our victory over qualified immunity on a wrong-house raid in NC: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLYARPWM/ www.instagram.com/reel/DeKvuZz...

It's been a struggle for reporters to get DHS to provide the names of officers who violate people's civil rights. Now, in our case against DHS's construction-site raids, the government is arguing in court that its employees names are "confidential" and should not be made public during litigation.

"Flock promised to read license plates. It built surveillance that can track dissenters—and the law hasn’t caught up." [Matthew Cavedon and Laura Bondank-Harmon, Cato]

A quick video on our victory over qualified immunity on a wrong-house raid in NC: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLYARPWM/ www.instagram.com/reel/DeKvuZz...

@nicolefoy.bsky.social is back with another massive report on citizen detentions by DHS. As the piece acknowledges, the 500+ victims is almost certainly an undercount. Verifying these detentions takes an incredible amount of work. And most go unreported.

@nicolefoy.bsky.social is back with another massive report on citizen detentions by DHS. As the piece acknowledges, the 500+ victims is almost certainly an undercount. Verifying these detentions takes an incredible amount of work. And most go unreported.

My first CD, Christmas ‘94

This mass surveillance tech is unconstitutional even if it’s used “properly.” Unsurprisingly, though, it’s often abused. Here’s our tracker of just the reported incidents of ALPR abuse: ij.org/the-ij-datab...

Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Those weirdos at the Manhattan Institute just lost their biggest talking point

A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

goes back to this quote from the story below: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”

New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there. No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

One big thing we’re trying to establish with this case is that a prosecutor leading a grand jury investigation is acting as an investigator, not presenting the state’s case in court. That means you get to sue them just like you would a cop who led a bad investigation to violate your civil rights.

We filed our brief in the Eleventh Circuit last night, explaining why prosecutors do not get absolute immunity when they help gather evidence to have someone arrested. The facts of Escambia County DA Stephen Billy’s conspiracy to punish school board members and journalists are nuts.

I went on the Consequential Actions podcast to talk about the legal theory behind some of my cases and our efforts to get SCOTUS to incorporate the Seventh Amendment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-YL...

The corrosive effect is real. On Monday, the chief district judge in southern Alabama, a Trump appointee, ruled DHS construction site raids are unconstitutional in 3 ways. Almost all the comments in response have said DHS won’t listen and SCOTUS won’t make them. That’s really bad for society.