For this week's roundup, we checked in on how one of the illegal voting prosecutions is going.
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Seamus Hughes
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I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
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@bartona104.bsky.socialReposted by @seamushughes.bsky.socialI am totally here for a US Postal Inspection procedural show @seamushughes.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/194-anarch...
@seamushughes.bsky.socialLots of stories about illegal voting arrests this week. Only one story about dropping a case.
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@seamushughes.bsky.social@radleybalko.bsky.social thought you’d also love this.
@seamushughes.bsky.socialTo aspiring journalists, your reminder to just send that cold email today.
@seamushughes.bsky.socialHappy to file today (contingent on it not being a district that requires a lawyer to file a motion) Send me a DM with the details.
@courtwatch.bsky.socialReposted by @seamushughes.bsky.socialScoop: Feds have charged two men, Omar and Abdel Adhami, for raising money for Hamas.
@williambendix.bsky.socialReposted by @seamushughes.bsky.social"Ask the abliterated model how to make a bomb; a detailed response is forthcoming. Ask the tool how to develop a new pathogen to distribute in the food supply chain? No problem. Ask how to convince someone to join an extremist organization? Of course, it can do that."
@alexbrizee.bsky.socialReposted by @seamushughes.bsky.socialIt's a quiet but necessary part of my job: making sure every case we write about is followed through the system: “ If I’m naming someone in a story, their life is now being changed." Spoke with @courtwatch.bsky.social about how McClatchy's mass layoffs will impact legal coverage.
@lawfaremedia.orgReposted by @seamushughes.bsky.social"It may not be the rogue AI agent that causes our end but, rather, the computer on the shoulder of the extremist who was validated, encouraged, and guided by his AI companion without any guardrails," writes Sam Hunter and @seamushughes.bsky.social.
lawfaremedia.orgThe AI Threat We’re Not Talking AboutAI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat.
@seamushughes.bsky.socialEveryone seems to be freaking out about an extinction level A.I. event but there’s a more immediate concern that most are overlooking. My latest with my colleague Sam Hunter.
@seamushughes.bsky.socialThings will be missed
@seamushughes.bsky.socialWe pulled dozens of court dockets and talked to a lot of laid off reporters to tell the story of stories that won't get covered after McClatchy’s cuts.
@seamushughes.bsky.social"It appears federal investigators are quietly dusting off a well-worn playbook for investigating Hamas funding & Muslim-brotherhood linked groups in the U.S. But no one is noticing we’re all understandably focused on a lesbian bar in Massachusetts"
@seamushughes.bsky.socialThis is all to say, as a good rule in life, if @alexiafernandezcam.bsky.social has a story idea, you should run as fast as possible towards it. And Megan Crepeau was relentless in running this piece down. Top notch crew there.
@seamushughes.bsky.socialA few months ago, a Bloomberg Law editor threatened me with a good time.
"...according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of 11,000 pages of files that were accessible only by going to the court in person and obtaining them on paper."
@maestraoogway.bsky.socialReposted by @seamushughes.bsky.social“Two of the youngest pupils, Fletcher Merkel, an 8-year-old, and Harper Moyski, a 10-year-old, did not escape the violent fury of a person who saw nothing of value in this world or the next. “
@seamushughes.bsky.social*more than a year later. Math is hard. Finding court records is easier for us.
@seamushughes.bsky.socialNearly a year later, we still update this list in real time.
