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The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

This is an excellent analysis of the latest win blocking the Musk Administration’s illegal firings of federal employees. Keep fighting, folks. One of the ways to defeat authoritarianism is to show the authoritarians are NOT invincible. #democracy #authoritarianism

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

In our winner-take-all electoral system, the two-party grudge match has swallowed checks and balances that are crucial to our democracy surviving. This week's briefing covers what healthy party competition looks like: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/three-stor...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

really pretty much sums up what should be our mantra for the next 4 years #democracy #authoritarianism #dril

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨🚨 Court BLOCKS Dept. of Education and OPM from disclosing personally identifiable info to DOGE. This is a HUGE preliminary win from my colleagues -- this order is the first step in protecting Americans' sensitive data. Here's the ruling: protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u... #Democracy

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

An ongoing series

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is the way to treat authoritarians: with bravery, honesty, and contempt. (FYI, in addition to clerking for for Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh while he was at the D.C. Circuit, Scotten spent 9 years in the Army, including three tours in Iraq as a Special Forces officer) #Democracy

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

@protectdemocracy.org filed a Privacy Act lawsuit against the Trump Administration yesterday related to the illegal actions of Elon Musk, DOGE, and others regarding access to millions of Americans' most sensitive data. Why, you may ask, is the Privacy Act important to #democracy?

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

We're fighting back to protect your privacy, the rule of law, and #democracy. Read more in the thread below.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

In a blistering statement, the American Bar Association describes "attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize" diversity initiatives as "wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself." https://buff.ly/4bb7dqp

submitted 22 days ago • 90 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 22 days ago • 485 comments

As Trump continues seeking to fire people illegally, an update in Gwynne Wilcox's lawsuit challenging Trump's effort to fire her from the NLRB. After Wilcox filed a motion for expedited summary judgment this morning, the judge told the parties to confer & propose a briefing schedule by 2p tomorrow.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

therapist: i'm not sure you take these sessions seriously me: sad slide whistle sound

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 days ago • 466 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 22 days ago • 119 comments

Protecting the dedicated federal workers who keep our water, air, transportation systems, communications infrastructure, etc. etc. safe is absolutely CRITICAL. We cannot go back to a system of political cronyism. Incredibly proud of my @protectdemocracy.org colleagues who are fighting this fight.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

It might be a problem that the app i use to relax with jokes is also the depressing news firehose

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

UPDATE: Lawsuit filed seeking injunctive relief on behalf of USAID workers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 26 days ago • 6587 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered a block on the Fork "deferred resignation" program until additional litigation can take place.

submitted 26 days ago • 60 comments

This hearing is starting now #Democracy #DOGE

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Starting momentarily: Two labor unions and the Alliance for Retired Americans are asking federal judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (in DC) to block Elon Musk/DOGE's access to citizens' personal information via the Treasury Dept. They're represented by Public Citizen and @normeisen.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 42 comments

An important lawsuit was filed today by former National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chair Gwynne Wilcox who was illegally removed by Trump administration. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69612... #Democracy #RuleOfLaw

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Hearing on the Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to disconnect the DOGE server from the Office of Personnel Management is TOMORROW MORNING at 11:00 AM Eastern. Members of the public can call in and listen. Here's the docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69582...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

This is really critical stuff. Here's a link to the Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... And here's a link to the docket, so you can follow along: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69582... #Democracy #DOGE #DataSecurity

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

In my own personal opinion, the "deferred resignation" option that Elon had sent to hundreds of thousands of federal employees is a scam. Beware the bait and switch. Read more from my @protectdemocracy.org colleagues: #Democracy #CivilService #DOGE

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Among many, many other problems with the illegal takeover of government by a cabal controlled by an unelected paranoid billionaire is that it may well expose highly sensitive data (SSNs, addresses, etc.) of US CITIZENS to hostile foreign powers like China and Russia.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Re-upping this thread on what the Trump Administration is doing to gut and politicize the federal workforce, i.e., the folks keeping our water, air, workplaces, transportation systems, and many other aspects of our lives safe. #democracy #authoritarianism

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Just in from @anitawadhwani.bsky.social: the Tennessee House passed a bill creating a new immigration enforcement agency and criminalizing lawmakers who vote for sanctuary cities -- 72 ayes, 22 nays. Measure heads to Gov. Bill Lee to sign into law.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

submitted 34 days ago • 726 comments

The Originalist case for whatever Daddy wants

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

BREAKING: A set of nonprofits and a small business organization sue OMB over Monday's grants/loans "pause," seeking a temporary restraining order. The groups are represented by @democracyforward.bsky.social. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 35 days ago • 45 comments

“impoundment” has taken an early lead for Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year #Democracy #Impoundment #ImpoundmentControlAct

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments