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Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

submitted 36 days ago • 137 comments

If you're looking for an explainer on why due process matters to share with friends and family members who might ... need convincing, I've removed the (partial) paywall from my March 19 post for "One First" on the topic: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

submitted 56 days ago • 68 comments

Peter Marks, the top FDA vaccine official, resigns, saying that RFK Jr.'s stance on vaccines poses a danger to the public. “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary." @by-cjewett.bsky.social @sherylnyt.bsky.social Noah Weiland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...

submitted 57 days ago • 26 comments

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 62 days ago • 983 comments

Nebraskans voted for Trump over Harris 59.32% to 38.86%. Here’s what that got them.

submitted 65 days ago • 331 comments

Talked with @andersoncooper360.bsky.social about what is, and what IS NOT, DEI. And what Trump & his confederates are trying to accomplish with erasing the accomplishments of non-white people, women and LGBTQ people.

submitted 67 days ago • 72 comments

Something we haven’t focused on enough is that the Trump administration isn’t just deporting people without process, it’s deporting them & incarcerating them in inhumane conditions in a third country. And we are paying for that cruel & unusual punishment that our government is imposing.

submitted 68 days ago • 374 comments

The Department of Justice was created in 1870 with an explicit mission to protect civil rights and enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone. How about restoring *that* focus?

submitted 69 days ago • 562 comments

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

submitted 70 days ago • 899 comments

Update: Chief Judge James Boasberg rules for plaintiffs: "Given the exigent circumstances that [the court] has been made aware of this morning, it has determined that an immediate Order is warranted to maintain the status quo until a hearing can be set."

submitted 71 days ago • 10 comments

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

submitted 80 days ago • 872 comments

Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​"

submitted 86 days ago • 595 comments

👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

submitted 101 days ago • 582 comments

Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship by executive order is (1) unlawful; (2) predicated on conflating two entirely distinct legal arguments; and (3) doomed to fail in (even these) courts. My “One First” explainer: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-112-...

submitted 125 days ago • 33 comments

Governor Newsom’s office fact-checks Trump’s lies:

submitted 136 days ago • 259 comments

And so it begins.

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments