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You know when it's @elienyc.bsky.social it's going to be an extra-spicy interview! Elie minces no words when he says that SCOTUS' anti-trans decision will "live in infamy." Get his take on that case, as well as some other SCOTUS decisions that remain pending: youtu.be/Kg_szbiSGbE?...

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Four months later and we’re likely to see Congress do away with this. What world am I living in?

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This is the most important thing I have written recently that you probably haven't read. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

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I agree. So why won’t HRC change its corporate equality index to reflect political contributions which are easily trackable? Your two indexes are incompatible. On one side, HRC ranks politicians from 1-100, but then gives the companies who bankroll politicians who received “0” w/ perfect scores.

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@theonion.com they scooped you. theshovel.com.au/2025/06/13/t...

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The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

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WIRED spoke with someone who applied for a job at Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE and discussed the five-step hiring process. www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

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Wanna see something incredibly ... bad? Here's Alito quoting a source to suggest that you can't do habeas class actions: 1/

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If you are watching DOJ target a Harvard researcher or Trump's political opponents and think its vindictive, politically motivated and improper, then you understand why courts must stop giving the Trump administration a "presumption of regularity." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 39 days ago • 67 comments

"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression." -- Abraham Lincoln

submitted 42 days ago • 190 comments

Crockett: I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say: You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.

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I'm trying to come up with a metaphor for how the Trump administration's gamesmanship (e.g., moving detainees around to try to defeat jurisdiction in specific districts) helps to drive home the dire consequences of a #SCOTUS ruling that would limit universal injunctions. "Cheating at Battleship"?

submitted 46 days ago • 35 comments

Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.

submitted 51 days ago • 987 comments

In Minnesota, freedom is a birthright.

submitted 57 days ago • 251 comments

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

submitted 57 days ago • 2031 comments

There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.

submitted 58 days ago • 176 comments

"I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again"

submitted 64 days ago • 663 comments

Today marked the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord and this is what the second-largest city in the United States is choosing to honor on its public sidewalk, over four years past 1/6/21, all because @cd13.lacity.gov won’t introduce the motion to remove it. Here are a few L.A. City…

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I am old enough to remember when a movie character said "PAPERS PLEASE" it was a universally understood signifier of an evil regime

submitted 65 days ago • 51 comments

As a person who hails from the small New England town that hosts the rifle that allegedly fired the shot heard ‘round the world, this 250th anniversary of those events at Lexington and Concord I’m thinking about the preposterous notion that one man who openly defies the U.S. Constitution; an…

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

submitted 65 days ago • 1038 comments

"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported. "The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over... www.wral.com/story/they-f...

submitted 67 days ago • 728 comments

Wonderful.

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@jasmineforus.bsky.social please consider asking HRC why they continue to give perfect “Equality Index Scores” to corps. subsidizing the political campaigns of anti-lgbtq legislation & legislators. I’d love to speak to your office. @juddlegum broke the story years ago. Almost nothing has changed.

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This video Paige and I did explaining what happened in court today is going viral. Thank you for all the nice comments and to the thousands of new subscribers. I hope you find it useful. youtu.be/5HRmolBoM_k

submitted 67 days ago • 98 comments

Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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ICYMI

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President Trump may soon try to invoke the “Insurrection Act” to trigger the ability to use the military for domestic law enforcement. Today’s “One First” offers an overview of the statute; how it’s been used; and what might happen if Trump tries to use it now: www.stevevladeck.com/p/142-five-q...

submitted 70 days ago • 63 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 69 days ago • 1317 comments

100%. It really is time to go there. Again.

submitted 71 days ago • 195 comments

So much for “facilitating”

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#BREAKING: Supreme Court holds that Trump administration must attempt to “facilitate” the return of Wilmer Armando Abrego García from El Salvador, but remands to the district court to sort out exactly what the administration can and must do going forward: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

submitted 73 days ago • 447 comments

Rule of Law is in the rearview mirror.

submitted 75 days ago • 325 comments

Jamie Raskin is one of the few true public servants out there.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

This is a top news story. Where are all my constitutional crisis people?

submitted 76 days ago • 74 comments

In theory this nightmare could end today:

submitted 76 days ago • 969 comments

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

submitted 76 days ago • 792 comments

"Over the weekend, Trump endorsed sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador prisons." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 76 days ago • 218 comments