Stand-up philosopher. Raw take producer. Guns, free speech, religious liberty. I lawyer too.
Connecticut, USA
Joined May 2015
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Thanks to @WTPatriotsUSA and David Oldham for having me on to talk about the 4th Amendment. I took some historical detours on the history of qualified immunity and the U.S. Code. Hopefully both practically helpful and historically interesting.
Special Constitution Class: The Fourth Amendment nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2evWPJEmP…
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Today was just a normal day over here:
1. Filed a SCOTUS reply brief on behalf of Edwin Franqui. Yes, SCOTUS should absolutely take his case and resolve the national split over the evidentiary sufficiency of prior inconsistent statements.
2. Filed a CT Appellate Court brief on an anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss that should've been granted.
3. Worked on a SCOTUS stay application/petition for cert before judgment.
4. Will be talking about the 4th Amendment and traffic stops later this evening.
In between all of that, I answered some bankruptcy questions, opined on civil disobedience, played acting secretary for my wife, and fantasized about the new gun I want.
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Anyone attacking @HarmeetKDhillon over her Sikh faith are low wretches of the worst sort. I remember needing local counsel in California for a Catholic teacher whose faith prohibited her from using transgender pronouns for a five-year-old. Harmeet had no financial incentive to agree for her firm to be local counsel, but she did because she believed in defending free speech and religious liberty.
Without her, I'd have never met @MurdockJDF and the people she hired who stuck it out with me after she left for DOJ.
If you're targeting Harmeet for her faith, you're no friend of religious liberty.
Lastly, I will add more generally as to Sikhs. I have never met a bad Sikh or a Sikh that makes me wonder, "what kind of religion is that?" Every Sikh I've met lives their faith - both personally and to others.
My husband watched me pray in our Sikh faith at the RNC — and one of our last text messages before he died a couple of weeks later was telling me
he was so proud of me. He was supposed to be there, but he was also dying from two serious illnesses, and he could not make it at the last minute. Our medical staff at home took care of him while he watched me pray in our faith tradition -/ just as we did at home daily over each meal.
All you trash who have denigrated my prayer to the ONE GOD many faiths believe in, deeply hurt me for the last two years, but I could not comment back because I was part of a campaign and then confirmation -/ administration. It’s over. I won’t be silent any longer.
Go read the First Amendment and my extensive record on behalf of ALL people of faith in America. For 34 years. And then let’s measure our respective records on religious liberty. I welcome all comers who think they can prove they did more than I did for ALL people of faith in this country. There are none. I intend to keep fighting for ALL people of faith in America for the rest of my life. But I won’t hide my own faith for one second. It’s protected by our Constitution.
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Harmeet was the greatest fighter Christians ever had inside DOJ. I don't pay much attention to how others worship. Totally irrelevant to me in politics. Mike Johnson goes to every prayer breakfast. What did he actually do to protect Christians from hate? Nothing.
I have more faith in the American people than the click-baiting, hand-wringing social media influencers.
I told my office this morning that James Madison has never been defeated in my lifetime - a reference to Federalist No. 10. Yesterday went down just like he predicted it would.
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I'm in a different federal court every week. So I built my team an app to keep track of the local and chambers rules.
I'd like to invite you to take it for a drive. Works on your desktop, but more designed for your phone.
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“Everything Unjected has done is precisely what Denver bars invite the public to do,” Cameron Atkinson of We the Patriots USA, the lawyer representing Unjected in the suit, told The Denver Gazette in a statement Saturday.
“It’s disappointing that some people have to attack those businesses based on their fears and misconceptions. Not only are their attitudes and actions at odds with American values of tolerance and respect, but they are also hurting the small businesses in their community. Thank God Grizzly Rose believes in good fellowship for all.”
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If this is the best you can do for exclusive news, you're a bad journalist. Anyone who gets in trouble is going to call their friends for help. That's not news. It's reality.
I got in trouble in law school for running my mouth to the point I thought I'd be expelled or suspended. I told my best friend that he was free to distance himself from me if it was better for him. God love that guy, he looked back at me and said as a true Italian should, "My people don't do that."
Maybe you should get in touch with how the normal world works instead of generating click-bait off normal human behavior.
EXCLUSIVE: Once Kimberly Guilfoyle saw the walls closing in on her tenure in Athens, she breathlessly sought a lifeline to save her ambassadorship.
Three powerful men sat atop her list of frenzied calls. They include Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack.
She asked if they would call President Trump on her behalf.
READ MORE HERE: dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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I became politically unaffiliated at some point after 2020. Both major political parties were using the power of government to coerce speech censorship by social media platforms. I picked the First Amendment over political affiliation.
I am sitting at the gas pump staring at $4.75 a gallon - the highest I can recall paying in CT. The knee jerk reaction is vote the Republicans out, but you really expect that to work?
The war with Iran - and yes, I think it’s war - has driven the prices up, or so we’re told. Congress neither declared war nor stopped it. But it has not proven capable of doing so regardless of who is in power during my lifetime. Voting for the other major political party won’t change anything. It will just swap one form of jellyfish for another.
Is the solution a national third party? I am skeptical. You need unity around common principles to gain political power, but an established party will always breed graft, abuse of power, and corruption. What may start as a worthy counterbalance will quickly decay.
Our Founders were not blind to these problems. After all, human nature rarely changes. They wrote about them and designed our entire political system to counter them.
In its day, our limited historical snapshot indicates the system worked, but why? Our culture was different. It was more local. We identified with our states, not our federal identity. We controlled our national representatives through our local representatives. We constrained federal power to affect our local lives. Our technological capacity contributed. Mass media of that era - newspapers - couldn’t reach the entire country. Peer to peer communication was slower and demanded more thought.
These factors made us more sensitive to local rights against the federal government and the passions of the national political movements. To the extent there was a national political fight, it primarily took place over the distribution of power between states and the federal government, just as the Framers intended.
Modern mass media provided wings to the expansion of federal power achieved by the Civil War and the change in political structure and attitude. We are more connected than ever to a national discussion. Local problems are now national problems when they shouldn’t be. The increase of national power naturally bred corrupt national entrenchments of interest to plague the nation whereas those interest were more confined to localities.
I am increasingly convinced that we may need a shakeup in our constitutional system of government to restore a structure that dilutes power back to the local level. It’s time to have that discussion.
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I once wrote a letter to a CT DCF worker telling her that if she dared to cross the threshold of the driveway, we’d sue her for trespass and a 4th Amendment search. I also informed her that if she stood in the street and tried to talk to my client’s kids without the parents present, I’d sue her. Then I told her that if she didn’t attach my letter to any warrants she applied for, I’d sue her for violating Franks v. Delaware.
Never heard from her again.
Deputy shows zero hesitation following the law when resident demands CPS officer officially tresspassed from her property. 👀
When government officials believe their badge places them above accountability, knowing your rights is your strongest defense.
A Child Protective Services officer, (later identified as Giavana Dawson) arrived at a private residence for an inquiry, accompanied by a sheriff’s deputy for civil standby.
The interaction that followed was a textbook contrast between bureaucratic overreach and lawful police conduct:
Things kicked off with resident documenting via video, the encounter on her property. The CPS worker became combative, demanding to know why she was being recorded and flatly refusing to allow her official agency badge or credentials to be filmed thus refusing to identify.
Instead of complying with public policy and transparency standards, the CPS officer attempted to strong-arm the homeowner, demanding cameras be turned off before showing identification.
State investigators operate under the color of law, not unchecked authority. In absence of an emergency warrant or court order, an uninvited welfare check is purely consensual. When an investigator conceals their identity and weaponizes procedural secrecy against a cooperative citizen, it crosses from routine duty into corrupt overreach.
Things quickly flipped when the homeowner stood her ground showing who is really in charge, revoked access to her property, and turned directly to Deputy Felix demanding action. Rather than shielding the CPS officer's unlawful actions, Deputy Felix followed the law to the letter:
Recognizing the resident’s constitutional curtilage and property rights, the deputy immediately escorted the CPS worker off the premises.
When the resident formally requested a criminal trespass warning against Dawson, the deputy did not hesitate. He entered the trespass directly into the Field Interview Report (FIR) system, confirming that any return to the property without a warrant would lead to immediate enforcement.
The deputy explicitly assured the homeowner that his official narrative would reflect her willingness to cooperate and that the encounter collapsed solely because the CPS caseworker refused to identify herself.
Department supervisors later confirmed that agency policy strictly requires caseworkers to present credentials and does not permit agents to refuse identification simply because a citizen is filming on private property.
This encounter serves as a crucial case study in asserting Fourth Amendment protections: police officers on civil standby are bound by constitutional limits, and public servants who refuse transparency have no lawful authority to linger on private land.
Great job by the deputy by showing no bias by standing up for the constitutional rights of the homeowner. It's rare that you see an officer actually choose the constitution over protecting government officials.
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My paralegal overheard my wife and I discussing a First Amendment case and lost it.
My wife: "The only way the judges and clerks get there is to be disingenuous."
Me: "Isn't that an indispensable requirement to be a federal judge or law clerk?"
My paralegal starts laughing like we're joking, and I had to explain that we were both dead serious.
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CT Supreme Court granted certification in @AtkinsonLawLLC's free speech challenge to CT's vexatious requester FOIA law. Vagueness and free speech are squarely on the docket.
Any law that permits the government to deny people a public benefit based on the content of their speech is unconstitutional.
appellateinquiry.jud.ct.gov/…
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SCOTUS issued a call for a response (CFR) in State v. Edwin Franqui today. I am asking it to determine whether an out of court statement that the witness recants at trial can be used to convict someone. Only 2% of IFP cases get CFRs.
I have some amici who would file a supporting brief, but need counsel to draft the brief. If you're interested in helping out, please let me know. Amicus briefs are now due October 30.
supremecourt.gov/search.aspx…
“Threatening to prosecute a father for refusing to become complicit in an act of abortion is the definition of un-American. No public health concern justifies forcing someone to accept or benefit from such an evil act when it violates their religious beliefs.”
🚨🚨BREAKING: Emergency appeal to First Circuit filed in Maine school vaccine lawsuit. Read more: wethepatriotsusa.org/emergen…
I believe in free speech, not anti-Semitism. I will defend your right to be as anti-Semitic as you want, but I will not endorse your anti-Jewish agenda, just like I won’t endorse an anti-Muslim agenda.
If you call my office to do nothing more than to spew conspiracies, I am going to hang up on you after telling you to get lost.
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Another example about how the government's shielding of an industry from lawsuits creates utterly terrible market conditions.
So @united oversold the flight and they are now barking and threatening that we will not board if one person doesn’t volunteer to get off the flight. Their error. Their fault. Their greed, yet somehow we, the paying customers, are the problem.
All the airlines are shit, truly. Ever since COVID they’ve gone downhill even as ticket prices climb and amenities diminish.
What a crock.
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Every day, I remind myself that the greatest joy of being a lawyer who owns a firm is that I chose the crap that I deal with. No boss told me to do it. I am not going to get fired for doing what I want to do.
Life is hard. Having freedom to choose your struggle makes it easier.
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