Matthew Segal
@segalmr
Civil Rights Lawyer | Personal Views | Not Legal Advice | segalmr . bsky . social
each new President flipping the Education Dept or ICE on or off like a light switch, as the Framers intended
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
It isn't tenable for a system to allow a president to initiate a lawsuit for the purpose of chilling the media when he has been deemed constitutionally too busy to answer for other things in court.
States learned long ago that the idea of a single person in the executive branch with a lot of power was not very sensible.
FRIDAY: Your honor, the Wall Street Journal has caused overwhelming damage to my reputation. I need ten billion dollars. SUNDAY: I am more popular than ever. Everyone loves me.
My Poll Numbers within the Republican Party, and MAGA, have gone up, significantly, since the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax was exposed by the Radical Left Democrats and, just plain “troublemakers. ” They have hit 90%, 92%, 93%, and 95%, in various polls, and are all Republican Party…
A suspect's unprovoked flight from the police in a high-crime neighborhood does not create reasonable suspicion to stop them, DC Ct of Appeals rules (following a 2024 precedent that took an extremely narrow view of SCOTUS's ruling in Ill v. Wardlow). dccourts.gov/sites/default/… #N
Incredibly powerful moment as some of Neri Alvarado's relatives see him walking off the plane in Venezuela after his release from CECOT. He was targeted because of his tattoos—the largest of which is an autism awareness ribbon featuring his brother's name.
I found out my husband was cheating on me at a Linkin Park concert. We tried so hard and got so far but, in the end, it didn’t even matter.
looking forward to the first time Donald Trump adamantly insists that he was NEVER, at any time, the President of the United States
Free Law School Exam Hypo: The President of the United States threatens to sue a newspaper unless it agrees not to run a story about him. Who is potentially liable, and for what?
“The Minnesota Supreme Court made the right call … A free press demands that we protect journalists from attempts to misuse the law to strongarm them into compliance,” says @ACLU's @segalmr, who helped represent @UR_Ninja's case. aclu.org/press-releases…
Confirming Bove will send an unfortunate and unmistakable message to others about what behaviors will be rewarded with a nomination.
In NRA v. Vullo, SCOTUS held that the NRA had a First Amendment claim against NY's finance czar because she coerced NRA's insurers to punish it for speech. Today, the 2d Cir. holds it doesn't matter. Why? QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. It's time for SCOTUS to end this lawless doctrine.
BREAKING: Today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled to deny attempts by Energy Transfer, the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, to force Unicorn Riot to turn over documents from our reporting on the historic, Indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement: unicornriot.ninja/2025/minnesota…
MINNESOTA SUPREME CT: The protections of the MN reporter's shield law cannot be overcome simply by alleging that a reporter engaged in trespass or some other illegality while newsgathering.
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A Middlesex Superior Court judge has sanctioned a Boston attorney for filing ChatGPT-processed pleadings that included citations to cases that do not exist, fake quotes, and assertions of purported legal principles that have no foundation in the law. masslawyersweekly.com/2025/07/16/hal…
State courts are becoming more and more important, not just in protecting civil rights and civil liberties, but also (hopefully) in serving as examples of how courts should conduct themselves.