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One day I will do an analysis of the articles for which @financialtimes.com doesn’t enable comments.

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Thank you so much to @petramolnar.com @faizapatel.bsky.social @maassive.bsky.social, Zahra Billoo of @cair-sfba.bsky.social, @nathan.freitas.net, and Raya Sharbain for speaking with me for this important article. It’s got practical tips and real insight into border enforcement.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Go Crimson!

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Courage is contagious. But how do we catch it? For months, @amifieldsmeyer.bsky.social and I have been asking dissidents and activists from around the world how we can topple authoritarianism. We assembled their lessons into a field guide to courage. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

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A court held searches of #FISA Sec 702 data for US person communications are subject to the 4th Amdt. warrant requirement @hannahajames.bsky.social (@brennancenter.bsky.social) asks: will broad reading of the foreign intelligence exception swallow the rule? www.justsecurity.org/109879/forei...

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Grt piece on Alien Enemies litigation in SCOTUS. www.justsecurity.org/109967/supre...

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Join us! www.brennancenter.org/events/risks...

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In a joint letter with @aclu.org, @lwvsf.bsky.social, NAACP and NAACP LDF, we explained to the Election Assistance Commission why it would be unlawful for them to follow the president's recent exec order—which could block millions from voting—and urged them to stand firm and comply with the law. 1/4

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

At least some in Congress care

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Happy to see this from the DC Circuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

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The main thing to know about the Trump Executive Order on Elections is that it is a massive overreach and will certainly end up in court before much of it can be executed. But on substance, a couple of points...

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I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Seems esp relevant these days. Both Mike & Pat have decades of experience in these issues.

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Destroying our universities & colleges through funding cuts & repression of speech doesn’t just undermine democracy, it kills it. It shatters possibilities of economic mobility for generations to come. It crushes dreams, suffocates freedom. Everything is at stake.

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We have had our criticisms of CRCL, but this is terrible www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

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"Catch and Revoke": AI-Driven State Dept. Program Targets Pro-Palestinian Students & Visa Holders

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“The Trump administration wants to eliminate or neutralize all of the institutions that could be independent sources of authority,” said @jameeljaffer.bsky.social about the administration’s attack on higher ed on @allinwithchris.bsky.social.

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1 / NEW ESSAY: I wrote about the Schumer saga, the commentators trying to minimize this massive failure of political imagination, and what it will take to build a dynamic culture of opposition that sweeps more and more Americans into this work. The full essay is here 👇, with a short 🧵 below

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Wouldn’t it be better to focus on comprehensive privacy law? Concerns about DOGE’s data grab fuel push to update privacy law

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U.S. AI-Driven “Catch and Revoke” Initiative Threatens First Amendment Rights By @faizapatel.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/109069/u-s-a...

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“Put simply, withdrawing CISA’s support for local election officials will make elections less secure.” — Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Al Schmidt in a letter to DHS secretary Kristi Noem

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The Alien Enemies Act is one of the most notorious laws in American history and is a means to violate human rights and civil liberties. Learn more:

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The Associated Press case is more important than you think. I wrote about it for Le Monde. English: knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig... French: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

submitted 64 days ago • 10 comments

The Alien Enemies Act proclamation is out. Obviously this is an illegal invocation of a wartime authority for peacetime immigration enforcement. Many thoughts to come, but the first is that they messed up the drafting for what they're trying to accomplish. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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What's happening at Columbia is an assault on the foundation of higher education. Universities need to stand together and condemn this for what it is. The fact that they haven't yet only seems to be emboldening the Trump administration. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Trump reportedly will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 -- a wartime law last used for internment -- for his mass deportation agenda. This would be a clear abuse of a law already responsible for one of the most shameful episodes in American history. /1 www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

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Some history: Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has taken money from the Dept. of Homeland Security as part of a biased, questionable "terrorism prevention" program. CEP worked closely with Parallel Networks, run by Mitch Silber, who led NYPD's efforts to spy on Muslims after 9/11. Receipts below.

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The U.S. has emptied Guantánamo again of its last 40 migrants, sent them back to stateside facilities without explanation. It has deployed 1,000 extra soldiers, ICE agents and contractors to this Pentagon and Homeland Security mission that has so far cost $16m. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

submitted 68 days ago • 33 comments

An important piece by two leading experts. Explainer on First Amendment and Due Process Issues in Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Student Activist(s) By Ahilan Arulanantham (@ahilantoolong.bsky.social) and Adam Cox (@adambcox.bsky.social)

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Must read from my @brennancenter.bsky.social colleague www.justsecurity.org/108825/el-sa...

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Remember when we had a denaturalization program (during Obama i think). Going back over old files looking for reasons to strip citizenship.

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In bad news for election security, the Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday it's cutting $10 million in funding to the Center for Internet Security.

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