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submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

New enemy of the state just dropped.

submitted 31 days ago • 558 comments

Trump plans to slap Americans with a 25% tax on imports from our neighbors. Why? Because fuck you, that’s why.

submitted 137 days ago • 3 comments

Congressional Republicans are working to abolish OSHA. This is the entire text of the “NOSHA” or “Nullify OSHA” act. Two sentences.

submitted 132 days ago • 7 comments

We are the generation that must face Americas greatest constitutional crisis. WHAT Trump is doing is one issue, HOW he chooses to do it is another. His total disregard for the other co-equal branches of government is quite literally a constitutional crisis.

submitted 125 days ago • 5 comments

The man who bankrupted his own casino has hired a drug addict to cook the nations books.

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Our secretary of defense couldn’t win a custody battle, how the hell can we expect him to win a war?

submitted 119 days ago • 4 comments

I'm a sexual harassment lawyer. I help survivors of workplace abuse get justice. Due to overwhelming demand, I'll be posting more detailed advice on how to turn the tables on a creepy boss. Lots more educational content coming 👍

submitted 215 days ago • 9 comments

Retired Justice David Souter, a splendid and deeply principled jurist and a kind and gentle man, died at his home last night. He was dedicated to the Constitution and to the living tradition it embodies still — even when a Supreme Court majority betrays its spirit and ignores its enduring text.

submitted 38 days ago • 156 comments

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

submitted 39 days ago • 215 comments

It's not just that hand-picked district judges in single-judge divisions in Texas and Louisiana regularly entered nationwide injunctions against Biden policies; it's that many of those injunctions were subsequently thrown out by this Supreme Court. People have awfully short memories.

submitted 40 days ago • 14 comments

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 40 days ago • 35 comments

Sad news out of #SCOTUS: Retired Justice David Souter (who served from 1990-2009) passed away yesterday at the age of 85: www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p... For a whole bunch of very different reasons, Souter was my favorite justice when I was in law school. May his memory be a blessing.

submitted 38 days ago • 30 comments

Good. Break them.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments

I am going to keep saying this until I am blue in the face: if we survive all this, and that’s a non-trivial if right now, it will take a generation to fix the damage. By that point, China will have surpassed us.

submitted 38 days ago • 65 comments

Pee-Wee German pretending a 4-year-old was kidnapped and trafficked out of the country without her cancer medications as a favor to her mother. What a vile monster.

submitted 48 days ago • 346 comments

Trump's also extraordinarily lazy, utterly unconcerned with the operation of the government he ostensibly leads, devoting much of his time to various grifting schemes and suffering from advancing dementia. So there's that.

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 47 days ago • 609 comments

#Facts

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Bezos caved faster than it took me to type that.

submitted 48 days ago • 1001 comments

And Thom Tillis, up for reelection in 2026, was the key vote to confirm Hegseth along with Joni Ernst. Despite the fact that they knew he was unfit, they were afraid of Trump and put their political futures ahead of the country. Now they own every bit of this debacle.

submitted 57 days ago • 347 comments

Is everyone in a signal chat with Pete hegseth but me?

submitted 57 days ago • 725 comments

The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 57 days ago • 801 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 58 days ago • 808 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 63 days ago • 1320 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Judge in Abrego Garcia deportation case says she's going to demand info from govt. Judge Xinis: "We have to give process to both sides but we’re going to move there will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding."

submitted 62 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: Judge launches "intense" fact-finding, including depositions, into Trump administration response to order to return illegally deported man from El Salvador. "Cancel vacations, cancel other appointments," Judge Paula Zinis says. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 62 days ago • 9 comments

JUST IN: Judge blocks another potential deportation under Alien Enemies Act, acting in case brought by an individual Venezuelan citizen in immigration detention in Adelanto, Calif. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

JUST IN: @aclu and @democracyfwd ask Boasberg to reimpose nationwide TRO on Alien Enemjes Act deportations. They also want to refile habeas corpus claims in DC for the roughly 130 men deported March 15 despite Boasberg's order to turn planes around. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 61 days ago • 45 comments

Last night, US Judge Sweeney in Colo granted district-wide (state-wide) class habeas TRO to stop Trump from summarily removing aliens under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. @ACLU attys had warned that, despite SCOTUS ruling, Admin won't commit to providing even 24 hrs notice. 1/2

submitted 62 days ago • 13 comments

This is what judges should be doing right now. If the Trump administration is going to insist that it can’t bring back anyone once they’re removed, then federal judges should put the brakes on any and all removals until the full legal process—to ensure the removals are valid—has run its course.

submitted 62 days ago • 32 comments

Please read the latest from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on Abrego Garcia. SCOTUS is not the victim of a defiant administration. They left Trump the wiggle room he needed. www.stevevladeck.com/p/143-the-st...

submitted 62 days ago • 48 comments

Sigh.

submitted 62 days ago • 57 comments

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that you are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

submitted 62 days ago • 268 comments

Where do things stand with the Abrego Garcia case, and where will they go from here? Via "One First," I look at the ridiculousness of the government's position and behavior; the options available to Judge Xinis; and the case's (mounting) broader ramifications: www.stevevladeck.com/p/143-the-st...

submitted 62 days ago • 38 comments

Chief Judge Boasberg's probable cause ruling is not an appealable order. DOJ can ask the D.C. Circuit for an extraordinary writ of mandamus, but that requires showing that the district court ruling both (1) was clearly wrong; and (2) is not otherwise capable of being remedied on a future appeal.

submitted 61 days ago • 149 comments

You cannot legally send Americans to an El Salvadorian prison no matter what they have done. Plain and simple.

submitted 62 days ago • 402 comments

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15. He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).

submitted 61 days ago • 61 comments

JUDGE BOASBERG: “.. The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders. .. To permit such officials to freely ‘annul the judgments of the courts ..’ would make ‘a solemn mockery’ of ‘the constitution itself.’” 🇺🇸 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 61 days ago • 177 comments

Just so we're clear here💥😢

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

Trump has taken the most powerful country in the world, with the greatest alliances, and the strongest economy, and flushed it down the toilet based on his understanding of politics in 1984 and trade deficits. The greatest self shot to the nut sack in history

submitted 61 days ago • 581 comments

HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 66 days ago • 95 comments