#lawfare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lawfare, aggregated by home.social.
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"The court process was the weapon, and the target was wider than one journalist."
https://michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostakidis-stared-down-the-zionist-lobby-and-courage-won/This is not justice. Cassuto should be declared a vexatious litigant. He should be ordered to pay Mary's costs. He should be penalised a seven-figure sum.
#Lawfare #AusPol #terrorism -
"The court process was the weapon, and the target was wider than one journalist."
https://michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostakidis-stared-down-the-zionist-lobby-and-courage-won/This is not justice. Cassuto should be declared a vexatious litigant. He should be ordered to pay Mary's costs. He should be penalised a seven-figure sum.
#Lawfare #AusPol #terrorism -
"The court process was the weapon, and the target was wider than one journalist."
https://michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostakidis-stared-down-the-zionist-lobby-and-courage-won/This is not justice. Cassuto should be declared a vexatious litigant. He should be ordered to pay Mary's costs. He should be penalised a seven-figure sum.
#Lawfare #AusPol #terrorism -
"The court process was the weapon, and the target was wider than one journalist."
https://michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostakidis-stared-down-the-zionist-lobby-and-courage-won/This is not justice. Cassuto should be declared a vexatious litigant. He should be ordered to pay Mary's costs. He should be penalised a seven-figure sum.
#Lawfare #AusPol #terrorism -
"A federal appeals court on Friday said the top federal prosecutor in the Northern District of New York was unlawfully serving in his role when he subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of two investigations into her last year":
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-court-john-sarcone-letitia-james-federal-prosecutor/
#TrumpLostAgain #justice #lawfare -
"Meta will pay up to $18 billion and strictly limit how teenagers use #Facebook and #Instagram under a sweeping agreement with nearly all U.S. states to resolve claims it designed those social media platforms to addict children":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/meta-us-states-settlement_n_6a8ee667e4b0229baac3e7cc
#SocialMedia #tech #lawfare -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/117161631266142128
When they do it, it’s fine.
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Norm Eisen: "Please don't overreact to the Roberts Court's decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves. They simply held that the injunction came too early, before a final rule. Now we HAVE a final rule and we will litigate it. I am as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!"
#SCOTUS copy: @renewedresistance #politics #lawfare #voting #GoodNews -
A quotation from John Lescroart
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.
John Lescroart (b. 1948) American novelist
A Plague of Secrets, Part 1 (2009)More about this quote: wist.info/lescroart-john/85629…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #JohnLescroart #lescroart #fascism #injustice #law #lawenforcement #lawfare #totalitarianism #tyranny
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@CppGuy @anon_opin
Agreed. I find the VPN relationships chart (it also has a catchier more uncouth name along the same lines) handy to know which firms might be known in some way to be shady. -
"Republican Steve Hilton said to California voters: 'It’s OK to vote for me even if you don’t like Pres. Trump'."
He told a self-serving lie. The fact is that with Gavin Newsom as governor, California sued the Trump Administration dozens of times to protect our rights. A Republican governor is unlikely to ever let California sue Trump.
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"A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from abandoning a planned move for the F.B.I. from its crumbling headquarters in Washington to a new facility in Prince George’s County, Maryland":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/fbi-headquarters-maryland-trump.html
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"Supreme Court Again Rejects Trump’s Appeal of $5 Million E. Jean Carroll Payment":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-carroll.html
#SupremeCourt = #SomeDegreeOfIndependence #GoodNews #lawfare #SCOTUS -
"A judge ordered the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay a musician more than $250,000 in legal fees after dismissing a lawsuit the center had filed against him for backing out of a concert late last year, in protest of Pres. Trump’s name being added to the institution":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/arts/music/chuck-redd-kennedy-center.html
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"Trump Drops Key Claim in $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against BBC to Avoid Giving Up Financial Records":
https://www.aol.ca/articles/trump-drops-key-claim-10b-121415000.html
"Trump withdrew allegations that the broadcaster’s reporting damaged the president’s businesses and brand." This is one more way that Donald Trump is cowardly. Trump appears to be afraid that his financial records contain evidence of some of his crimes.
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"Four human rights groups in the United States are suing Pres. Donald Trump’s administration over its sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), which they say are unlawful":
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-icc-sanctions-lawsuit-9.7302876?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
"By targeting the ICC's work through these sanctions, the Trump administration is undermining the very rule of law we depend on to stay safe and promote and protect #HumanRights everywhere."
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"The milestone ruling by a New Mexico court last week that found Meta contributed to a youth mental health crisis could serve as a blueprint for other states — and individuals — to mount lawsuits seeking to hold tech companies liable for harms stemming from their platforms":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/10/meta-ruling-new-mexico-child-safety-case-01031243
#lawfare #politics copy: @renewedresistance #tech -
"The Legal Noose Tightens Around Blanche. Katie Phang’s lawsuit is becoming a significant threat to the Justice Department’s #EpsteinFiles #coverup":
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-legal-noose-tightens-around-blanche #politics #lawfare -
"Trump's firings of federal officials set stage for next presidential power test":
https://www.aol.com/articles/trumps-firings-federal-officials-set-142018000.html
Courts can limit Donald Trump's powers, in this and in other examples.
#lawfare #politics #CivilService -
"Justice Department Accuses Duke Law School of Racial Discrimination."
Discrimination against white people:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/justice-department-duke-law-school-racial-discrimination-admissions.html
This discrimination would explain why there are so few white lawyers,
except that there are not too few white lawyers.
#racism #politics #lawfare -
Andrew Wyrich: "The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) record in its crusade to obtain voter rolls is just becoming laughably bad. A federal judge Thursday dismissed its case targeting Washington, D.C. This marks zero wins and 21 losses for the DOJ."
#politics #lawfare #DOJ #incompetence #Blanche #DoNotConfirm -
“Academic David Miller Secures Rare Victory For Free Speech In The UK”
by Justin K. P. In The Dissident on Substack
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@palestinenews“After a years-long legal battle, the UK-based anti-Zionist academic David Miller has secured a major free speech victory against the Israel lobby currently occupying Britain and using endless lawfare to silence critics of Israel.
One of the many tools used by the British Zionist lobby to silence dissent in Britain has been to get people fired for expressing anti-Zionist beliefs.
David Miller just took this tool away from it”
https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/academic-david-miller-secures-rare
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #UK #Miller #FreeSpeech #ProtectedSpeech #AntiZionism #ZionistLibby #Lawfare
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"Pres. Donald Trump’s executive order to limit mail-in voting would have costly and disastrous consequences for the upcoming midterm elections, California Attorney General Rob Bonta argues in a new filing to the #SupremeCourt. Bonta and 22 other Democratic attorneys general argue that Trump’s plan to sharply curtail mail-in voting would thrust the midterm elections into chaos":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-scotus-mail-voting-22372149.php
Do the Republican political hacks on the Supreme Court care?
#politics #VotingRights #lawfare -
"California’s $25 Million Litigation Fund Has Protected $207 Billion for Families, Schools, Businesses, Public Safety and Essential Services ... That’s money that Donald Trump attempted to rip out of California’s schools, hospitals, fire departments, and working families’ pockets. Instead, it’s still here":
https://speaker.asmdc.org/press-releases/20260804-californias-25-million-litigation-fund-has-protected-207-billion-families
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #lawfare #MoneyWellSpent #politics copy: @renewedresistance #GoodNews -
Joyce Vance: "The slush fund isn't dead. And the near-immunity deal for Trump and his family is alive and kicking."
#corruption #lawfare #politics -
"New York Attorney General Letitia James and Gov. Kathy Hochul filed suit against prediction market platform KalshiEX, LLC on Friday, alleging the company has been operating an unlicensed gambling business in the state":
https://qz.com/new-york-sues-kalshi-illegal-gambling-operation-073126
"The state contends that Kalshi never obtained a gambling license from the New York State Gaming Commission or remitted the taxes that other licensed operators, including casinos and mobile sports betting platforms, are obligated to pay." #lawfare -
He hecho un pequeño ejercicio de análisis (con LLM obvio) sobre la #sentencia del #hermano de #PedroSanchez
Aquí el análisis de la #sentencia
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T0pvS1UHAeYUOmCAE2y4z2q7-bf6Bruz/view?usp=sharingY aquí la sentencia entera:
Posibles críticas a la sentencia:
- Condena sin prueba directa del dolo.
- Contradicción al absolver por tráfico de
influencias pese a admitir un plan para favorecer al hermano del Presidente.
- Misma pena para todos pese a roles
muy desiguales.
- Dudosa calificación del beneficiario como cooperador necesario.
- ... Más en el documentoLuego que se enfadan por qué decimos que hay #lawfare
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Lawfare: The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It. “Last week, the Justice Department began systematically removing material from its web sites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol…. At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/02/lawfare-the-justice-department-erases-history-lawfare-restores-it/ -
Lawfare: The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It. “Last week, the Justice Department began systematically removing material from its web sites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol…. At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/02/lawfare-the-justice-department-erases-history-lawfare-restores-it/ -
Lawfare: The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It. “Last week, the Justice Department began systematically removing material from its web sites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol…. At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/02/lawfare-the-justice-department-erases-history-lawfare-restores-it/ -
Lawfare: The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It. “Last week, the Justice Department began systematically removing material from its web sites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol…. At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/02/lawfare-the-justice-department-erases-history-lawfare-restores-it/ -
Lawfare: The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It. “Last week, the Justice Department began systematically removing material from its web sites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol…. At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/02/lawfare-the-justice-department-erases-history-lawfare-restores-it/ -
@simon Obviously! The source code is: that code required to produce the binary. That code was LGPL. It doesn't matter how many algorithms, nor the nature of the algorithms, it goes through to become those 1s and 0s.
#law #lawfare #computerScience #intellectualProperty #licensing #FOSS #GNU #LGPL #MIT #code #softwareEngineering #LLM #codeWashing
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The Quasi-Official State of Apartheid in Today's India
With respect to minorities, we risk the perpetuation of apartheid-like conditions under the cover of a legal system that, on paper, guarantees equality.
by Sarayu Pani
The Wire
January 12, 2026https://thewire.in/communalism/the-quasi-official-state-of-apartheid-in-todays-india
#India #Asia #communalism #Hindutva #Islamophobia #MuslimPhobia #persecution #apartheid #genocide #lawfare #judiciary #bulldozer #BulldozerRaj -
@atrupar The modern era father of this age-old idea that the judiciary must serve the regime or The Leader in full and without question is Carl Schmitt, the the Nazi ideologue who created the pseudo-rational legal framework for the Third Reich known as Legalism.
This is great for despots since it removes any normal legal recourse the people might have to oppose unaccountable authoritarian leaders.
In fact it is just a flick of a pen away to make the very act of opposing the regime illegal, and punishable by whatever measures the regime sees fit... And voilà, crushing all dissent is now not only virtuous but a *legally required* act!
Cue to "I was only following orders..."
Incidentally, the Chinese communist party turned to Carl Schmitt's legalism in early 2000's in search of a raison d'être for their continued dictatorship after actual 'communism' had failed as an ideology. Schmitt's ideas also meshed well with CCP's newly re-introduced ethno-nationalist and imperialist dogma, so what's not to like.
The MAGA ideologues pulling strings behind trump and the Project 2025 are, quelle surprise, also enamoured with Carl Schmitt...
#lawfare #authoritarianism #legalism #carlschmitt #nazism #maga #project2025 #CCP
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📌Todo lo que no es normal en la investigación contra Begoña Gómez
https://carabanchel.net/todo-lo-que-no-es-normal-en-la-investigacion-contra-begona-gomez/
#Carabanchel #Madrid #AntonioCamacho #BegoñaGómez #imputada #investigada #juezPeinado #justicia #lawfare #ManosLimpias #sintestigos UCO -
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We all know WHO the Emergency Act was going to be used on if this stood. Let's look at how Canada's various hate legislations are actually implemented to see where this shit was headed.
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Background
⚖️ ⚖️ ⚖️ ⚖️Canadian hate laws are:
• advocating genocide (s. 318(1)),
• public incitement of hatred (s. 319(1)), • wilful promotion of hatred (s. 319(2)),
• wilful promotion of antisemitism (s. 319(2.1)), and
• mischief relating to religious property, education institutions, etc. (s. 430(4.1))Additionally, other crimes can be deemed "hate motivated," which means that during sentencing heavier penalties will be assessed.
The fact that none of the ACTUAL hate laws on the books speak to attacking people DIRECTLY, results in charges against the Indigo Eleven being considered "hate motivated" for throwing paint at a building, while throwing paint at me, a living, breathing human being is abso-fucking-lutely fine¹, apparently.
#FuckThePolice #DefundDisarmDismantle #LawFare
_______¹ Ironically, I wouldn't even have spoken to the cops about the paint shitshow had he not used his whiteness to cause two other people to be arrested while not mentioning his role in things.
I still don't think jail is going to solve a damned thing, but other than one call from the cops, the point of which seems to have been to subtly threaten me, I have had zero interaction with this process, so 🤷🏾♀️
Whole annoying backstory can be traced by following the #PaintGate hashtag.
