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they want jim crow history for a jim crow society

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

The Trump administration pays El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government $6 million to house prisoners it sends to CECOT. That’s the prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently being held. If the US controls the purse strings, then don’t pay El Salvador until Abrego Garcia comes home.

submitted 19 hours ago • 215 comments

He is saying whatever he thinks he needs to say to sidestep the courts. If the Supreme Court says “foreign relations,” he says whatever makes things more foreign-relations-y. As usual, he doesn't care what the truth is—Harry Frankfurt’s “bullshit.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

As I’ve said, yes, this was their aim all along. That’s why they didn’t just send these people to Gitmo. This is an attempt to find a step beyond Gitmo where the court says, “Well, our hands are tied.” It’s an awful, lawless gambit that must fail, but that is what they want it to be.

submitted 16 hours ago • 56 comments

The Trump administration doesn’t want to bring him back. The Supreme Court knows this, and could have been explicit about what they have to do, and didn’t ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 16 hours ago • 42 comments

Not to worry! Liberty Justice Center (major public interest law firm), and I are filing case against "Liberation Day" tariffs next week, on behalf of multiple importers. Preview of key arguments here: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

if we're kidnapping people and selling them into a foreign nation... that's just the slave trade

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Here’s a smart article that quotes @leahlitman.bsky.social, @cshaplaw.bsky.social, and @judgeluttig.bsky.social. I share Leah’s concern that “The court’s assessment of the risk Trump poses ‘has been horribly off base.’”

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Unless there was another sealed filing which isn’t on the docket (a real possibility), it would appear that the administration has failed to provide the required information about what they are doing to try to get him back.

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

Count me in on the proposition that the Democratic Party platform should absolutely include a promise of military force against Bukele if he continues to cooperate with Trump's illegal disappearances. How much is Bukele willing to bet on the continuation of the current regime?

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

“Andrew Crespo, a law professor at Harvard & general counsel of the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, said the admin’s policies are a pretext to chill universities & their faculties from engaging in speech, teaching & research that don’t align w/ Trump’s views.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

frankly there are people in the press who treat discredited views as somehow verboten and forbidden views that are interesting as such

submitted 23 hours ago • 35 comments

What kind of barbarian admits they accidentally sent a man to a foreign prison then does nothing for 28 days to get him back?! This shit has no place in a civilized society.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

This is Bob. He has appointed himself flooring supervisor, due to the fact that he is the closest to it. 12/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (FB: Grace Chambers)

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

I’d rather have a robust social safety state that allows people to have families if they want— and letting people be if they don’t. The pronatalism trend has been often not about individual autonomy and collective support, but nativism and a slippery slope toward regulating motherhood and sexuality.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

The path toward denaturalizing citizens goes hand-in-hand with undermining birthright citizenship. This is authoritarianism. If legal scholars care about the rule of law, we should not give support under any circumstances these flagrant abuses of human rights. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It’s impossible. A bona fide domicile requirement for birthright citizenship would be impossible to enforce if you cared at all about the historical domicile rule. Any such rule would depend upon subjective intent, which you’d have to ascertain in every. Single. Case.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

If the government can “deport” you for having beliefs they don’t like, none of us is free. Call it what you want, but it sure as shit ain’t democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Calling a research grant a "blank check" is utter nonsense that you would only spout if you knew your interviewer was an idiot or intentionally softballing you.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I don’t even know where to begin with this. Spouting derogatory terms (in what world did he think it was appropriate to use that term?!?), conspiracies, and just utter nonsense. Safe to say we are not going to be making America health again under his watch. Inexcusable.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Welp they're doing the Roosevelt Reservation crazy strategy, giving the military "jurisdiction" over a 60-foot-wide stretch of land from CA to AZ, authorizing troops to detain migrants for "trespassing on military property," thus trying to bypass the Posse Commitatus Act. It's bad and dumb, folks.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

Oooh, I've got some anti-Christian bias to report; the current administration that targeting Catholics and Lutherans who work with migrants.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

100 years of First Amendment law is worth very little if it doesn’t foreclose the government from arresting, imprisoning, and expelling legal permanent residents on the basis of their lawful political speech.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

In the strongest terms, I condemn the immigration court’s decision today. Even more vociferously, I condemn Rubio’s attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil for a thought crime. This marks a turning point in this country - a sharp pivot away from freedom of speech & association. My heart is broken.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Some NYT coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Because in fact they care quite a bit about getting it wrong and doing it illegally

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

NEWS: Riggs goes to federal court. Motion for injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Memorandum of law: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments