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Rhiannon12866

(233,009 posts) Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:35 PM Apr 8

'They're attacking attorneys': Lawyer representing student protestor detained - All In - MSNBC

Michigan attorney Amir Makled was detained by federal agents on his way home from a spring break trip with his family. His only crime appears to be representing a student protestor. “We're seeing a chilling effect on not just individuals and their rights, but also on the attorneys representing these individuals,” Makled tells Chris Hayes. - Aired on 04/08/2025.

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'They're attacking attorneys': Lawyer representing student protestor detained - All In - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Apr 8 OP

They're attacking attorneys' what? PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 8 #1

This was meant to be a quote so there was an apostrophe on both sides of the quote Rhiannon12866 Apr 8 #2

Quote marks look like this: "whatever". PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 8 #3

I copied the subject line which used single quote marks, likely for space Rhiannon12866 Apr 8 #4

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family struggle4progress Apr 8 #5

PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. They're attacking attorneys' what?

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:56 PM

Apr 8

Or do you simply mean attorneys, plural, not attorneys' plural possessive?

Punctuation matters.

Rhiannon12866

(233,009 posts)

2. This was meant to be a quote so there was an apostrophe on both sides of the quote

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:59 PM

Apr 8

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,789 posts)

3. Quote marks look like this: "whatever".

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:17 PM

Apr 8

The double quote marks are needed for actual quoting, as in: he said, "Don't do that!".

The single quote mark is for apostrophes and possessives. Punctuation really does matter.

Rhiannon12866

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4. I copied the subject line which used single quote marks, likely for space

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:23 PM

Apr 8

struggle4progress

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5. Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:52 PM

Apr 8

Tresa Baldas
Detroit Free Press

A lawyer's spring break trip to the Dominican Republic with his family ended on a troubling note at Detroit Metro Airport on Sunday: He was detained by federal agents, questioned about his clients, and asked to give up his cellphone, he says.

But Dearborn attorney Amir Makled, who is representing a pro-Palestinian demonstrator who was arrested at the University of Michigan last year, stood his ground. He didn't give up his phone.

"I'm an American citizen. I'm not worried about being deported," Makled said he recalled thinking to himself in the airport interrogation room. "So, I tell them, 'I know you can take my phone. I'm not going to give you my phone, however ... 90% of my work is on my phone. You're not getting unfettered access to (it)' " ...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/

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