Drawing new districts is a terrible idea #EndGerrymandering carolinajournal.com/opinion/drawin…

Lyndon Baines Johnson More criminal defense lawyer. Highest stakes. Literally defending people and the constitution, and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Talking to people where they are. Even when and especially when it is hard.

I was a law professor for seven years. This s spot on: abovethelaw.com/2025/10/teachi…

Developer agreed to $15 million road for NC town, but lawmakers paid the bill newsobserver.com/news/politics-…

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"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many also said Trump would only be restrained by people standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. ft.com/content/13772e…

A pleasure to have Woodson Bradley, Sen. Julie Mayfield and Sydney Batch in Cashiers this morning on behalf of NC Senate Dems HQ . #ncpol #wnc #wncpol

Americans have a constitutional right to be left alone. They do not have to answer masked men asking where they were born or what their citizenship is. Americans should be able to say "fuck you" and walk away unmolested. That is their constitutional right.

People routinely underestimate the likelihood that an apparatus of the state deployed ostensibly for the purpose of going after alleged terrorists and criminals will become a normal tool to be used against law-abiding citizens, including them and their family.

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"Put another way: In today’s electoral environment, almost nothing individual candidates do matters. Only super-candidates can distinguish themselves from their party’s presidential candidate. And only barely." leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-moderati…

We documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smas…

North Carolina has some of the worst infant mortality rates in the country. This program was very effective at changing that. Of course, the NCGOP refuses to fund it. northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/10/30/per…

David Shuster's great Trumpian rewrite of The Raven blueamp.co/p/the-raven-of… "Each decree grew more despotic every dawn more chaotic & the courts once proud & stoic bowed before Trump’s gilded floor Bowed before his wrath & bluster where..law lay bleeding-evermore" #Trump #Taliban

Emblematic of the entire Republican Party at the moment. Entitled and nasty to everyone while claiming to love law enforcement. #ncpol

As a criminal defense attorney and veteran of many trials, I advise you to give this aa read.