Jessica John

So my mom’s tenured academic position was terminated today. She’s 70. Any suggestions out there for age discrimination claims in Oregon & how to get started?

Thanks for sharing here!

S-H-E-D-E-U-R. It’s not that hard.

Word

*clerked 🤦‍♀️

The judiciary isn’t powerless. It just doesn’t send in the marshals. It bogs things down. It shines bright lights. It narrows procedural options until compliance becomes the only way forward. (6/6)

Even if discovery doesn’t force compliance, it ramps up the heat:
• Embarrassment
• Leaks
• Paper trails
• More potential legal exposure
It forces internal accountability that political pressure might not. (5/6)

#2 – Turn on the floodlights.
Judges can order extensive discovery: documents, emails, internal comms, depositions of officials. They can compel the DOJ to explain, on the record, why they’re defying orders. That’s risky—politically and legally. (4/6)

This doesn’t require confrontation. It’s procedural. A judge can say: “Given ongoing noncompliance, this motion is stayed.” Multiply that across dockets and it grinds things down fast. (3/6)

#1 - Procedural gridlock.
Courts can slow DOJ’s machinery to a crawl. Judges can deny or delay motions, hearings, and filings in other cases until compliance is met. You want something from the court? Not until you follow the last order. (2/6)

Did you know I’m a lawyer who cleared for the PA Supreme Ct? Everyone’s saying “the courts can’t do anything if the executive ignores them.” That’s not entirely true. They have procedural tools to make life hell for DOJ lawyers. Here’s how: (1/6)

Wendy’s. It had spaghetti on it!

Glad to see my alma mater @bulaw.bsky.social on this list!

Can confirm.

Unless things have become completely unhinged since I left, this is 100% correct. I guess it’s likely both are true.

Ugh, Barnett was the absolute worst prof I had in law school.

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Gulf of Despair

Fixed it

"In our democracy, the intelligence community must first and
foremost be responsive to the Constitution and our laws, and second, to the truth." drive.google.com/file/d/1_fGx...

Where is our billionaire threatening to primary anyone who votes for RFK jr?

I left the federal govt in 2016 before he was inaugurated

I have no fucks, but also no energy.

This is 48.

Just got the call. Fired. I was the DEI coordinator at the CIA. I was in charge of making sure the honeypots were diverse. Turns out, they didn’t appreciate my suggestion to recruit spies with dad bods.

Entrepreneurs, who else is doubling down on DEI in their business?

The grandpa on the other hand was listening to the Hegseth confirmation hearings on full blast with his phone tucked in the front of his tshirt.

A couple of weeks ago at the gate for my flight there was a man and his 4 or 5yo grandson. The boy was watching something on his device with the headphones plugged in. At one point it became unplugged and he struggled but got it back in all by himself.

I feel like what the resistance 2.0 requires is lots of really good ART in collaboration with political strategists funded by some billionaires. Is this a thing? Can we make it a thing?

I get so excited about the planning of all manner of things… but the actual doing?

Just a reminder that there’s a middle ground between reacting to every new piece of news that comes out and hiding under the covers for 4 years.

“Cunts against kakistocracy” has a nice ring to it.

Who’s with me?