Every time there’s snow forecasted in Texas I think of this passage from LONESOME DOVE

Tonight January 21, 2025, six planets—Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn—will align. A larger alignment, including Mercury, will occur on February 28, 2025. Planetary alignments happen because all planets orbit the Sun on roughly the same plane, the ecliptic. As

A small preview. Here's a list of reasons that lawyers have given *in just the past 2 years* for not filing their clients' notice of appeal—all of which were found to be ineffective assistance of counsel: #appellatetwitter

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95% of all convictions come from guilty pleas. 99% of cases resolve without a trial. Why: Mandatory minimums make trial too risky & the violence & trauma of pretrial detention coerce people to plead to go home or get out sooner. A perfect combination of forces to suppress truth.

The 1876 Texas Constitution is quite the historical document. It has been amended hundreds of times since it was adopted.

Litigating in the public interest requires many sacrifices. Today’s Supreme Court decision in Lackey v. Stinnie means it will require even more. The decision is a setback for civil rights plaintiffs who will now find it more difficult to muster the legal resources they need. 🧵

The Fifth Circuit today held a *secret* oral argument in an administrative law case. This surprises me very much. The Fifth Circuit has for the past several years been warning everyone that sealing should be used in only narrow circumstances. 1/

On 4/29, the Supreme Court will hear the Institute for Justice case Martin v. U.S. (24-362). We represent an innocent family subjected to assault, battery, and false imprisonment by an FBI SWAT team conducting a #WrongHouseRaid. The questions presented are below. The focus will be on QP2... 1/2

Ca5, 2-1, grants habeas and vacates a death sentence. Link to come. Judge Duncan dissents - picture of that in the next post. /1

The term “due process” can sound like jargon, so when people use it consider replacing it with “factual accuracy.” The law says the government can do certain things to people if certain facts exist. Due process is how courts ensure that those facts actually exist.

If you live in any of the CA and TX zip codes below, on April 14, the federal gov't will begin unconstitutionally surveilling financial transactions over $200. If you'd like to join Institute for Justice in fighting this abusive government overreach, contact us at this link:

It's finally done, I can't believe it. After months, I have finally plotted every single Atlantic hurricane landfall on record. There are approximately 1,167 hurricane landfalls listed. This is so unreal to look at.

Close-ups of the Gulf, Carribean, and East Coast regions:

This supplement filed by Jake Daughtry's 2255 counsel would add the report of Dr. Ashraf Mozayani to the record for consideration in Jake Daughtry’s 2255 Motion. Dr. Ashraf Mozayani concludes the Government made false claims that the deaths were caused by 1,4 butanediol.

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Matt Zorn being named deputy general counsel at HHS, or the government's "psychedelics czar," is pretty significant news. Zorn has written extensively about how a real renaissance requires rescheduling general psychedelic substances, not just their pharma/medicalized spinoffs.

Victoria Litman I can say from long personal experience that Matt is special. He has proven himself effective precisely where everyone else fails. He is one of a kind. All I can say is just watch. Remember this post two years from now.

"The Trump administration appears to have made a good move — possibly a great one — by hiring Matthew Zorn, a well-known lawyer in drug policy reform circles who made a name for himself going up against the government. Now he’s working on the inside." msnbc.com/deadline-white…

In a wild immunity case involving ridiculous police misbehavior Judge Oldham points out there’s no basis to allow an immediate appeal for the officer in those cases. He’s right. Honestly there shouldn’t be an immediate appeal in any immunity case. ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/2…