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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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OA1180 - We begin with some much-needed reminders that good things are still happening and the rule of law is still (mostly) holding on before turning to a recent Trump executive order on homelessness which reads like something out of a (not very good) Batman movie. Jenessa explains how this development fits into the history of long-term institutionalization of vulnerable and unhoused people in the US as we work through what this thing is actually trying to do. In an unfortunately not-at-all-unrelated story, Matt then breaks down the situation with Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” (aka “Gator Gitmo”), the pending challenges to this completely new (and totally illegal) approach to state-based immigration detention, and where this is all going.
Finally, in today’s footnote: has ChatGPT finally made its first hallucinatory appearance in a judicial opinion? We investigate not just one but two recent instances of federal judges who have now joined the many lawyers caught using AI to do their homework.
“Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” The White House (7/25/25)
Complaint in Friends of the Everglades v. Noem, filed 6/27/25
Complaint in C-M. v Noem, filed 7/16/25
Judge Henry Wingate’s order in Mississippi Association of Educators v. Board of Trustees declining to clarify decision of July 20, 2025 (8/1/25)
Defendant’s letter to Judge Julien Neals in In re CorMedix Securities Litigation (7/22/25)
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0:00.0 | If you have a sufficient supply of affordable housing, people with mental illness have a house. |
0:17.5 | I meant like is it normal when a normal precedent does this. |
0:20.9 | Oh, I don't remember. |
0:23.1 | It's been too long. |
0:26.0 | Don't you have a First Amendment right to be ugly? |
0:29.4 | Okay. |
0:33.7 | All right, Janessa, welcome to Rapid Response Friday. What's up? |
0:37.4 | Seems like everything at once. Yeah, well. So everything is up. That's every Friday. |
0:42.1 | Yeah. But we haven't had you on one of these yet. We're responding to law in the news, trying to explain what's going on for everybody. And got some stuff that touches on your expertise, both with disability rights and voting rights. Unfortunately, we're both once again up for grabs. So fun. Yay. So I want to, of course, as we try to do and try to balance things out, talk a little good news before we get going because, you know, good things are still happening. And then we're going to talk about the big executive order on homelessness. This came out a couple weeks ago, but it's really important. It's not great. I think we can agree. Yeah. Honestly, it's just about the most fascist thing this administration has put out yet, which is saying quite a lot. Yeah. So I'll talk that out. And then in a not totally unrelated story, I want to run down the legal issues going on right now with what they're calling alligator alcatraz, which I'm coming to call Gator Get Mau if I have to give it a name, since it doesn't have an official name. |
1:28.1 | Hey, I like that one better. Yeah, it's a little more accurate considering what's going on legally over there. And then, of course, as always, we've got a fun footnote this week. One of our favorite perennial footnote topics has been the use and abuse of AI in court, and we have just crossed the Rubicon. We have not just one, but two judicial opinions that appear to have been written by AI. |
1:28.5 | The judge? Not the lawyer. Yes. Federal judges. Oh, no. Not great. And there are federal judges, too. It's even worse. Oh. But we got to talk about it. We've got to call this out because this can't happen. Yeah, for real. It's still kind of funny also. So it qualifies |
2:02.4 | as a footnote. Well, let's take a break. We'll come back and talk about some good news and then a lot of |
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