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(1/3) Regarding the deluge of recent TROs and the gov’ts open defiance this weekend, the history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is instructive. The Supreme Court upheld it in 1966, noting the inadequacy of case-by-case litigation to overcome “obstructionist tactics.”

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1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

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Texas legislators considering a bill that would put all public university course curricula and faculty hiring in the hands of ruling party political appointees and politicians, effectively ending academic freedom.

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This is outrageous. Judge Boasberg’s order went against government agencies which were in the US, and which were in direct contact with the plane. He must hold them in contempt of court.

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(1/3) I run an AI research company and asked our neurosymbolic model to write an LSAT question about the Trump / Boasberg situation using the framework below.

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A timeline of how the Trump administration raced to use the Alien Enemies Act yesterday, delivering 250 Venezuelan people to El Salvador's brutal prison system without any chance to defend themselves, just before a judge could stop the planes.

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President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua raises a bunch of messy (but really important) legal questions. Via "One First" (and cross-posted at @justsecurity.org), I take a shot at asking and answering five of them: www.stevevladeck.com/p/132-five-q...

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Judges ruling against Trump aren’t just issuing legal decisions. They’re engaging in full contact sport. Interpreting the Constitution now requires a security detail. Fortunately, US Marshals guard them. Unfortunately, the marshals report to an AG who believes those same judges are “corrupt”.

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Lawgeeks, this is short and worth your time, but if anything, go read page 3 that starts "This order pauses to address defendants’ attempts to frustrate fact-finding." I have rarely read anything so astonishing as Judge Alsup patiently laying out the ways the gov't went to avoid telling the truth.

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(1/3) Thought of this article I wrote years ago when reading today’s play-by-play of the AEA hearing before Judge Boasberg. It kicks off with a quote from Entick v Carrington (1765), a landmark rule-of-law English case protecting individuals from arbitrary gov’t actions.

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News: Journalists at Voice of America were just informed that they’ve been put on administrative leave. Two people there told me this went to all fulltime employees. “From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.”

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“Washington has become the court of Nero,” Senator Claude Malhuret declared before the French Parliament this week. His speech, whose dark urgency and stark rhetorical force made it a social-media sensation, has been translated and adapted by The Atlantic:

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(1/2) The daily stories of self-editing, censorship, and removal of hard-won recognitions from landmarks, libraries, and workplaces are exhausting. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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