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I wish more people understood this:

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

submitted 2 days ago • 810 comments

“In Russia, dissent can cost critics their business licences, liberty and even their lives. It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum.”

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

This, sadly, is true. The United States government is in the hands of morally depraved and morally corrupted people who are enabled by moral cowards and the morally apathetic.

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

It's not relevant whether Abrego Garcia has committed thousands of crimes. Disappearing him off to an El Salvadorean maximum security prison without due process is wholly illegal totalitarian bullshit. Everyone who has been sent there by this administration should be brought back, not just him.

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

It's just very very hard to litigate against a party that is not acting in good faith and doesn't care about the penalties the courts have to offer.

submitted 2 days ago • 252 comments

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

submitted 1 day ago • 387 comments

As I’ve been saying for years, Trump’s pronouns are me/me/me/me/me/me/me. Everything is always about him. He has no consideration or empathy for anyone else, and no principles or values other than what’s best for him.

submitted 1 day ago • 266 comments

For two people. Yes...they are threatening an entire state because they refuse to discriminate against two kids. That's the fucked up place we are at.

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

You should pay attention to how much historians are shouting about the dangers of this moment. We have studied the history of humanity’s inhumanity to humanity. What we’re seeing from this regime is reminiscent of the worst moments from our past.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Shame on this man and everyone who continues to give him a position. The autism community is not your prop to drive people back to dying of preventable disease just so your buddies can get rich selling them snake oil.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It’s just me but if I had big bet-the-company dilemmas instead of going with Paul Weiss or Skadden I might choose a firm with lawyers who understand concepts like cause and effect, object permanence, and stated intent

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

HERE WE GO: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt of court against the Trump administration. In a masterclass move, he asks the government whether they’ll purge the contempt (by complying) or identify the people in the administration who should be subject to sanctions.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

RFK Jr is a eugenicist and believes that if you aren't able to contribute to a capitalist society in the way he thinks you should then you don't deserve to live.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

submitted 1 day ago • 647 comments

I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

George Lucas really emerging as the guy who saw it all coming

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I want to hear from all living former Presidents, in concert. Their joint statement could make a difference, and if not now, when? Their life’s work is dying before our eyes.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Plus, he missed the part where the U.S. government is paying Mongolia to hold you in a high-security prison, after you arrive.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

submitted 1 day ago • 555 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 3 days ago • 1338 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 3 days ago • 717 comments

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 182 comments

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Bukele: They say that we imprisoned thousands. I say we liberated millions [...] to liberate that many you have to imprison some. Under Bukele, more than 2% of El Salvador's population is now incarcerated without due process, the highest proportional incarceration rate in the world.

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submitted 4 days ago • 153 comments

Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions: A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans. I would like to amend my prior statement. Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.

submitted 3 days ago • 202 comments

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 2847 comments

First time we’ve seen this in any poll in a long time.

submitted 3 days ago • 428 comments

I am become Cat, destroyer of furniture

submitted 6 days ago • 259 comments

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 125 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 3 days ago • 368 comments

🧵: If you're wondering just how intrusive the Trump admin's demands of Harvard were, consider this one: "Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity."

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

I have to believe at this point that Alito and Thomas are pleased that things are finally happening the way they've always wanted them to

submitted 3 days ago • 197 comments

As many of you know the Declaration of Independence contains a list of charges laid against King George by the colonists. What is old is new again. Do any of these sound familiar: He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

‘“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university on Monday.’

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.

submitted 3 days ago • 347 comments

Dear friends, no one can fathom the depths we are suddenly in, just these last two months. The future of America the Beautiful is gravely endangered. As we enter Holy Week, may we be instant in worship, prayer, and Scripture--to strengthen us for a gospel witness as the Spirit moves we know not how

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"Jesus willingly suffered pain and death because he loves all of Creation... and therefore we are going to use coercion and force to defend the Christian faith and protect God." Missed it by THAT much.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

submitted 3 days ago • 722 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 7 days ago • 607 comments