Partner @SweigartMurdock. Litigator: defamation, First Amendment, political law, civil liberties. Miles Visiting Fellow @Liberty_Ctr. Former: @dhillonlaw

Joined August 2021
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My statement on the Ostroushkos’ attempt to silence @Savsays with restraining orders while under federal indictment and facing our federal lawsuit for their assault on her.
INSANE UPDATE: Chris, DeYanna and Paige Ostroushko have all been granted RESTRAINING ORDERS against me for “harassment” and “assault”, after extensively lying about me in their petitions to the court. Not only did Chris allege that I’m almost 6 FEET TALL, but all three allege that I was the aggressor and have been waging a “hate and defamation campaign” as well as a “doxxing campaign” against them while portraying myself “as the victim”, when I “assaulted them first”. Chris, whose restraining order is the CRAZIEST of the three, is also petitioning the court to BAN me from speaking about the Ostroushkos on MY OWN social media accounts and is also trying to get me and my ENTIRE FAMILY banned from the county he lives in. He and Paige are also trying to get me COMPLETELY banned from the Whipple ICE Facility, including the public sidewalk “where the protesters are”. Paige then states in her petition that I backhanded her twice and then punched her “full contact in the face”. DeYanna stated in her petition that I grabbed her by the neck and “physically assaulted” her, all while she was simply trying to “protect her daughter”. The family made sure to have police show up to my house on three separate occasions (instead of just serving these to my lawyer) and due to Minnesota state law, Chris, Deyanna and Paige have already been issued ex parte restraining orders against me, meaning it’s now up to me to show up to court to prove that all of these allegations are untrue. Every time I think this family can’t get crazier they do!
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Fun California litigation memory. During a scheduling conference, the clerk, who I could tell was very woke, offered a date for a hearing. I noted that the proposed day was Native American Day and wouldn't work, and she was very appreciative that I flagged that.
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My observation as someone who litigates First Amendment issues is that in most contexts (criminal threats and incitement, harassment, defamation, indecency), most people--left and right--favor restrictions on speech beyond what current First Amendment jurisprudence allows.
Support for free speech peak by the 2010s and has declined somewhat, while issue variance has increased. Specifically, people want much more to suppress racists while letting gays speak much more.
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock retweeted
Replying to @theintercept
Leftist publication The Intercept blamed Donald Trump and his supporters for multiple bomb threats on Jewish institutions in February 2017. It turned out the threats came from one of The Intercept's staff reporters, Juan Thompson. He was convicted and sentenced to 60 months in prison.
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Orders like these will advance the conservative legal movement in the long run.
BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelley (Biden/MA) blocks Interior Secy. Doug Burgum's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order at nat parks nationwide. Feds must restore race, climate & LGBT mentions documentcloud.org/documents/…
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“Many people are saying that Legolas did a hell of a job in that battle.”
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The hysterics about @elonmusk on the left can largely be attributed to the fact that for many professional class leftists, the notion that Elon is smarter and more capable than them breaks their mental model of the world.
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock retweeted
The SEC “protected” me by prohibiting me from investing in SpaceX for over a decade, causing retail investors to miss thousands of percent of returns that wealthy insiders got instead. Warren wants to fix this not by deregulation, but by a confiscatory wealth tax.
The SEC must delay the SpaceX IPO until investors are protected.
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This whole time, I thought the laptop was Russian disinformation. Turns out it was Hunter’s after all. Wow.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud. Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t. You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out. That is not who we are. My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count. For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame. I no longer believe that. Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us. And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts. That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena. Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next. Life does not determine our character. It reveals it. Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next? We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day. So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop. You won’t. The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing. That is the only definition that matters.
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One of the most ridiculous Covid Theater things I experienced was when they told me at the DMV they stopped doing the eye test because of Covid (this was in Hawaii not California).
In California you can get a driver’s license even if you don’t read or speak English. A bilingual employee read the letters on the eye chart to this man in Spanish. Another worker told me as long as he “understands shapes and colors of things like stop signs he passes.”
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Great moment in high school when teacher scolded Samoan student for referring to his cousin as “the fat one,” and he said “I just said she was fat, you’re the one that said that’s bad.”
We also use the terms black, fat, and thin as endearment terms in Latin America
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There are two kinds of judges. Wearing a robe, being called Your Honor, and getting to issue Orders gives some judges a deep sense of responsibility and indebtedness to the public. For others, it’s more or less like a medieval dukedom.
"While the clerks said they might have been willing to overlook isolated personal foibles, they were more broadly disturbed by the lack of attention Judge Ross paid to the civil disputes that came before her. ... It was not unusual to go weeks without hearing much from her except for a brief email — “Please docket.” — a few minutes after they sent her a draft order." nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/el…
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock retweeted
All the never-Trump “Republicans” need to study this very carefully. The choice is between those who weaponized government and those who are working tirelessly to right the ship. The third option—pretend like this is the 1980s and a few debates will clear up the matter—doesn’t exist.
Career DOJ officials were horrified at what Garland was doing targeting parents This is full weaponization caught in 4K
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No football player should ever fear visiting his ex-wife and her friend on his way to a late-night flight to Chicago
No Black mother should ever fear sending her son to a high school track meet only for him to lose his life to the prison system from a murder conviction.
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This meal at ICN (landside, T1) costs less than a latte and a muffin at SFO.
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If I’m really hungry while preparing dinner, I’ll eat raw beef and raw onions dipped in salt.
ok, tell me y'all's weird snack combinations (cottage cheese with salted pumpkin seeds mixed in)
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I saw this and wondered why neither was disabled, but I saw the kid, and my fear of an ableist graphic was assuaged.
Are there any examples of actual lesbian (one Muslim one not) couples with a baby? 😂 DEI gets so outlandish it creates realities that are so fringe, or barely exist at all.
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Kerrygold is to butter as De Cecco is to pasta.
While many in America view Kerrygold as the superior Irish butter, I take great delight in informing them of the true people’s champion: Abernethy. Handmade in the traditional manner. Tonight’s is their black truffle butter. Eaten with Fortnum’s Beaujolais.
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock retweeted
A great alternative to iPads for flights and road trips. Yoto is what they are called. It’s a small durable box that plays stories via cards you insert. Not sponsored. Should be. I would shill for this company all day.
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