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submitted 4 hours ago • 69 comments

One President wildly exceeded his authority by forgiving some student loans; a different President barely scratched the surface of his authority by disappearing anyone he pleases without trial to a foreign gulag. Constitutional law is a serious intellectual enterprise.

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

At 5pm, about 11 minutes before the govt filed its new contemptuous response in Abrego Garcia—asserting only that he was being held at CECOT under El Salvador’s “sovereign, domestic” authority—his attys asked Judge Xinis to order discovery & start contempt proceedings. Proposed order: 1/3

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

Trump: I am the strongest, most powerful person ever! The whole world lines up to kiss my ass! Courts: Return Kilmer Abrego Garcia from the El Salvador torture prison you sent him to Trump: Sorry. No can do. Totally out of my hands

submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

More Trump capitulation. And a big one. Computers, smartphones and chip making equipment. Released at slowest news period possible.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, that settles the question as to whether he has the power to bring Garcia back..

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A stunning catalogue of bad faith by gov’t lawyers, whollly undermining the “presumption of regularity.” And it’s still less than three months in. 👇👇👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Excellent piece from @walterolson.bsky.social who notes this as a new level of revenge orders, and that the spirit is pure Beria: “show me the man, and I will show you the crime” More Russification* of American politics. Так стыдно. *Beria was Georgian, and it’s not exact translation but it holds

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

BigLaw has collapsed. All hail the rise of SmallLaw. And, of course, MediumSizedLaw. Which is in desperate search of a good name.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Garcia v. Norm: Judge: "There are no business hours in this court."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Judicial proceedings regarding Abrego Garcia. Judge has the lawyer in her teeth, like a dog shredding a plush toy...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Trump begs China to call him. China laughs.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

After our story on Deployed Resources was finished -- in a major development -- ICE posted an up to $3.8 billion to the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss. The first move in plans to detain thousands of migrants on military bases www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Helluva headline. Trump doesn't want to call China. He wants China to call him. So that the can claim they came begging:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The least surprising legal story you will ever see:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Reuters wants you to know that Trump must face a defamation suit from the Central Park Five, according to a federal judge. But Reuters seems also incapable of linking to the actual decision. Which can be found here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“Sorry, folks. Autism doesn't make you a fascist.”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Great. Tariffs being treated like a wildfire.

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submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

A small example on why you shouldn't instantly trust statements from certain governmental authorities:

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

How very Soviet.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

That Trump capitulated on tariffs and has seemingly reversed course does not mean boom times are ahead. To the contrary… 👇👇👇

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump tariff policy explained: When he wanted to build a 40-story building on a site zoned for 30 stories, he would apply for a 70-story permit. That “settle” for 40. That’s what he’s doing with tariffs. But not factoring in the downside effects on trade as people seek more reliable partners.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Odd to see a POTUS concede to deliberately manipulating markets. (I’m bring charitable by saying “odd.”)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just send the interns. White House press corps doesn’t mean what it used to.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

President Trump's nominee to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, really really really really really did not want to admit that Elon Musk was in his meeting with Trump, when Isaacman was offered the NASA post. This ranks up there as some of the worst testimony that I have ever seen on Capitol Hill.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Trump tariff policy explained: When he wanted to build a 40-story building on a site zoned for 30 stories, he would apply for a 70-story permit. That “settle” for 40. That’s what he’s doing with tariffs. But not factoring in the downside effects on trade as people seek more reliable partners.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

That Trump capitulated on tariffs and has seemingly reversed course does not mean boom times are ahead. To the contrary… 👇👇👇

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I remain shocked about two things: 1. That the richest and most powerful country the world has ever seen is whining that other countries aren’t being fair to us. 2. That there are people who accept that.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“Even if cult members and co-conspirators don’t care, rational Americans should. Including those in the news media. Journalists must put it all together and loudly declare the alarming reality: The president is mentally unfit”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

No, Trump isn't cratering our economy. The entire Republican Party is cratering our economy. The enablers deserve just as much blame as Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

Today would be an excellent day for several GOP congressman to declare themselves independent and caucus with the Democrats.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump used an emergency powers law to impose tariffs — but that law contains no reference to tariffs and no president has ever used it for this purpose.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments