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Warrantless home searches, of all things, don't somehow become constitutional just because Pam Bondi psychically reads your tattoos, attire or astrological sign and decides you must be a TdA member. This gang is torching Fourth Amendment rights that Americans have guarded zealously since 1776.

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NEW: Government officials insist that neither DOGE nor Musk have any real decision-making authority—they merely “advise” or “consult.” But internal DOJ emails provide the most compelling evidence yet that DOGE is not simply advising—it’s calling the shots. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...

submitted 6 hours ago • 149 comments

Big new one from me and @ibogost.bsky.social: DOGE has hovered up unprecedented amounts of government data and is pooling it. What can they do with it? They can actualize the surveillance state in ways that were previously unthinkable. An American Panopticon www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Only part of this initial report that appears to be inaccurate is that the Coast Guard spouse was there: apnews.com/article/coas...

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Signal is secure and private. Understanding the larger issues raised by SignalGatee requires interrogating the surveillance business model. Brilliant work, getting right to the marrow of the issue, from @rondeibert.bsky.social !

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The rule of law isn't just words. It’s the bedrock stability that protects our way of life. Attacks on it merit more than a shoulder shrug & then a look away. I wrote a little bit to help you understand more about what it is & how it impacts our daily lives. joycevance.substack.com/p/rule-of-law

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

New from me at Cato: In trying to force Harvard University to submit, the Trump administration is claiming a dangerous and unlawful power to meddle in the ideological tone of a private college. /1

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Deplorable and indisputably unChristian.

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I've completed Wurman's draft on birthright citizenship and have some thoughts. If you don't care about the original meaning of anything, fine. This thread isn't for you. I'll start with the bottom line: This paper offers no new support to the constitutionality of Trump's EO. 1.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

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“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 12 days ago • 153 comments

Trump's executive orders targeting law firms are unconstitutional and threaten judicial independence. Firms should sue to stop them, Adam Unikowsky argues.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-suprem...

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I’m speaking up in support of @thekrebscycle.bsky.social & @sentinelone.com Cybersecurity should be a non-partisan issue that unites us in our shared mission to defend our country. National security can’t afford the chilling effect on both public & private sector www.lutasecurity.com/post/in-supp...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 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 15 days ago • 41 comments

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 17 days ago • 171 comments

-Trump bans the AP from the White House press pool -Judge orders AP be allowed back into the pool -Trump admin continues to block AP from the pool, and then censors the pool report noting the AP was turned away. Great reporting from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/white-hous...

submitted 18 days ago • 60 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 18 days ago • 436 comments

For "One First," me on the good (a commitment to meaningful pre-removal judicial review); the bad (making relief for those already removed much harder); and the ugly (throwing Chief Judge Boasberg under the bus) in #SCOTUS's 5-4 Alien Enemy Act ruling: www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...

submitted 20 days ago • 101 comments

I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.

submitted 24 days ago • 33 comments

New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home. Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:

submitted 21 days ago • 65 comments

U.S. Customs and Border Protection have gotten increasingly aggressive about searching travelers' phones. Here are some ways to protect your own privacy during your next overseas trip.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Laws are only as good as the remedies for their breach.

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"porn addiction isn't real" finally has scientific proof in a meta study because it finds the root cause - religious upbringing. And this was conducted by people who went in thinking the addiction was real! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

My new @brennancenter.bsky.social article on state sanctuary policies, their constitutional basis, how they can constrain Trump's mass deportation efforts, and how Trump can try to get around them. I also describe parallels with conservative "gun sanctuaries": statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

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I pitched my NYT editor that folks really need to understand that the deadweight loss of tariffs rises in the square of the tariff rate. Despite the wonkiness of it all, they said yes--as long as you can explain that intuitively. Lemme know how I did:

submitted 22 days ago • 64 comments

Excellent op-ed from Colorado Sen. Nick Hinrichsen on the true origins and impacts of age-verification legislation coloradosun.com/2025/04/03/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This seems unlikely to pass, but it sounds like what is needed, both with respect to tariffs specifically and Congress reasserting itself generally, which our Constitution needs for its continued survival.

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This is the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote in 2024 criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to student demands for action regarding Gaza and Israel. It is unquestionably speech protected by the First Amendment. /1 www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

submitted 31 days ago • 52 comments

Good morning to everyone, and especially the Bloomberg crew who just did the deep dive on transformers I’ve been waiting 3 years for someone to write. And you should read every word of it. 🔌💡 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

submitted 34 days ago • 370 comments

Because immigration detention is not "punishment" it is both 1) interminable (eg not entitled to bail) and 2) does not require a criminal charge. You can be stopped, detained, and jailed without an opportunity to challenge your detention without a "crime."

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

submitted 37 days ago • 83 comments

My new post at Cato on Paul Weiss's capitulation. /1

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

OK, a thread on anti-birthrighters who can't be trusted. I'll go with three: John Eastman, Michael Anton, and Amy Swearer. We'll start with Eastman. Keep in mind that I am being selective--there are many reasons not to trust these people, so I'm spotlighting a chosen few...

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

"The constitution doesn’t mean anything if no one enforces and defends it." Indeed. #SCOTUS and Congressional Republicans are key to the Trump administration's destruction of the federal government.

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What if we believed men could be better and didn't excuse bad behavior based on biology? From Celeste Davis: open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Hilariously craven. Democrats invoked a law allowing Congress to override Trump’s “national emergency” declaration, which allows him to impose unilateral tariffs. Requires a vote within 15 days. To avoid a vote, the GOP declared that the entire rest of this year will just be one very long day.

submitted 44 days ago • 37 comments

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

submitted 46 days ago • 128 comments