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Minneapolis attorney, advocate for planners, lover of old movies, refugee from Musk's mayhem, who rescues from obscurity fascinating people.
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This week's award for ridiculous audacity goes to the Trumped-up DOJ, for suing four states because it thinks that the enforcement of environmental laws adopted by their legislatures is a "transparent monetary-extraction scheme."

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

History always has a lesson.

Republicans can end the tariffs whenever they want to do so. They are choosing to go along for the ride.

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇

Did anyone vote for this in November? Trump bragged about deporting "them." It turns out "them" includes innocent people, lawfully in America, legally protected from being taken to El Salvador but taken there anyway. In court, federal lawyers oppose his return. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king. That’s it. Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.

This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.