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i think about this photo a lot

submitted 16 hours ago • 971 comments

I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.

submitted 1 day ago • 1299 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 7 hours ago • 40 comments

The United States Supreme Court, as packed by the Federalist Society, as supported by the Randy Barretts and Ilya Shapiros and Jonathan Turleys of America, is suited to squabble over what “facilitate” means but not to achieve justice or protect or defend the United States Constitution.

submitted 8 hours ago • 58 comments

One President wildly exceeded his authority by forgiving some student loans; a different President barely scratched the surface of his authority by disappearing anyone he pleases without trial to a foreign gulag. Constitutional law is a serious intellectual enterprise.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Trump Anoints Himself With The Power To Secretly Repeal Regulations talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

In addition to violating numerous statutes, I think this is a procedural due process violation since it effectively freezes people's property without a hearing It is also an illustration of one of my many "I fucking told you so" points: the combination of the administrative state and unitary

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

“The call for resignation is to Benjamin’s knowledge a first for the APHA, a 150-year-old nonprofit that is the oldest and largest association of public health professionals in the world”

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

submitted 15 hours ago • 501 comments

NEW: For months, @juliaangwin.com and I have been interviewing foreign dissidents and opposition leaders. Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear. If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 585 comments

They’ll do it in a few high profile cases to set examples. People will say, “No way this holds up in court.” Maybe. But we now know the plan: they’ll do it first, then dare the courts to stop them. And this too will be very difficult for courts to undo. This is end of democracy stuff.

submitted 15 hours ago • 69 comments

If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

FTC now has three Republicans and no Democrats instead of the typical 3-2 split arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the state to spend $452 million on medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. But of nearly 250,000 items bought to fortify the statewide pandemic response, only three were handed out, according to a report released by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"Pearre told Coulter that the plan (to list immigrants as dead so they can't work) was illegal, cruel and risked declaring the wrong people dead." Two days later, security guards showed up and marched him out of the office. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

No DOGE savings at all. It's all a complete lie. All they've done is fire qualified workers while not actually cutting spending at all.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

EEOC agrees to drop pending enforcement letters against law firms that pledged major dollars to Trump "pro bono" fund. We now live in a country where making a payment to the ruler's slush fund lets you buy your way out of regulatory difficulty.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Per a source, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who has required that he approve all contracts over certain thresholds personally, has over 5000 review requests on his desk. Apparently he approves around 15/day.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

submitted 147 days ago • 9 comments

So Trump has conceded he has the ability to bring García back. So not doing so would be contempt of court.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1093 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 1 day ago • 1610 comments

Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 281 comments

We're proud to file on behalf of ethics professors in support of Jenner & Block and WilmerHale. Firms that settle with the government to avoid EOs blacklisting them severely imperil their lawyers' ability to comply with their ethical obligations. Read the briefs at the links in the post below.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Latham & Watkins is now running ads on Facebook seeking 2L summer associates.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

No reason to think this is anything other than what it is

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

You gotta pay attention, but this is really good. h/t @neilirwin.bsky.social “Any country other than the US precipitously raising and lowering tariffs, gutting its Internal Revenue Service and nonchalantly considering territorial grabs would have seen smoking-hot capital flight months ago.”

submitted 1 day ago • 19 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

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 • 22 comments

NEW: The Acting Director of the Immigration Courts issues a new memo purporting to authorize immigration judges to deny asylum applications without ever having a hearing. It's not clear that she has legal authority to do this; as Director, she isn't permitted to set precedent.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Big one for military folks ... Hegseth's Pentagon looking to hand on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money to the private sector. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

A fifth law firm capitulated today and agreed to become a Trump collaborator. Shameful.

submitted 1 day ago • 698 comments

NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Unearthed video: Trump nominee Ed Martin praises Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a neo-Nazi white supremacist and convicted January 6 felon: “Extraordinary man”

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted. Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

Trump has asked China to request a Xi-Trump call, CNN reports. Because he is psychologically incapable of backing down.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

I could not be prouder to be part of the team filing this amicus brief.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump admin announces they will terminate all "federal K-12 education funding, including formula and discretionary grants" for Maine's department of education because the state refuses to discriminate against transgender people.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

It is disgraceful that the Trump administration is using their “Ideological Deportation Policy” to silence students and faculty for their political beliefs. I’m co-leading a group of AGs in calling on the courts to block this dangerous policy and protect university communities.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet. It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him. And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments