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Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"

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This tariff policy is stupid—and the American people know it. It’s a tax on things we use every day, crushing retirement accounts and consumer confidence. Congress must act. The Speaker can call a vote—or we can go around him with a discharge petition. Enough is enough.

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What's amazing is that the market response shows that Trump OR CONGRESS could end this recession before it really began by just cancelling the tariffs and taking them off the table. Congress needs to yank the president's delegated tariff authority, cancel every tariff since Jan 20. But will they?

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

From Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos to the Australian MMA coach to the El Salvador gulag, we see the cruelty, stupidity & lawlessness of Trump’s war on immigrants. The immigration issue can’t be ducked. It’s the beating heart of Trumpism. Confronting Trumpism means defending immigrants & immigration.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Some lawyers with backbone stand up www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

If the courts lose jurisdiction because the government puts the prisoner in a black hole then there is no law.

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Sending people outside the jurisdiction on pretended offenses and without due process is about as central to the American revolutionaries’ grievances as one can get.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Imagine spending a half million dollars to attend Police State University, where you’ll get to experience NYPD brutality up close and where they might just revoke your degree for wrongthink even after you’ve graduated.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

Belief in the efficient markets hypothesis does not survive a couple of years working for people in finance, is all I’m saying. Especially if those years were 2007-09

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Here is a VERY partial Wall of Shame of large firms that didn't sign the amicus brief: Akin Gump Alston & Bird Baker & Hostetler Baker Botts Cadwalader Cleary Clifford Chance Cravath Davis Polk Debevoise & Plimpton Foley Gibson, Dunn Hogan Lovells Holland & Knight Jones Day K&L Gates [cont'd]

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Proud that my firm, small though it is, is standing for the rule of law by joining this amicus brief.

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A group of 346 former federal and state judges have filed a proposed amicus brief in Perkins Coie's challenge to the Trump EO targeting it. The order "undermines the constitutional role of the courts as independent forums for adjudicating disputes." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The only relevant political point is that Republican members of Congress are all supporting these tariffs 100%. They could stop them at any moment. Each day is on them. Everyone with a messaging bullhorn needs to make that clear. They can pull the plug now or pay the price at the polls next year.

submitted 3 days ago • 139 comments

Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!” Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

This alum agrees.

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This is sad. History day introduced me to all kinds of things, not least of which discovering archival materials. I read and cited to a book printed on a hand press in Yosemite Valley in the 1800s - at the time (in middle school) the oldest thing I’d ever handled.

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Lincoln at Cooper Union, 1860 “Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

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Man. @tiffanyackley.bsky.social , Aliso Viejo's mayor, is a hero. Seriously—a HERO. The board leans conservative, but she's gutsy and strong and a real leader. Watch this, and lather it up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1N...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Last night in Aliso Viejo, Cal., a ruling banning the Pride Flag from waving above City Hall seemed certain to pass. Then the people showed up ... fought ... and won! A post from The Truth OC on a magical victory. www.thetruthoc.com/p/aliso-viej...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking: Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under Trump.

submitted 4 days ago • 549 comments

Trump's tariffs are a grab at dictatorial power, but he's been obsessed with them for way longer than he had real plans to destroy American democracy. I have a theory about it, and you can't convince me it's wrong. www.offmessage.net/p/nobody-ask...

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Cal Fire added 2.8 million Californias in fire hazard zones. So, we at @latimes.com read through every single reference to the zones in the state’s codes to find out what exactly that means for residents and communities. Here’s everything you need to know: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.

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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

submitted 4 days ago • 195 comments

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

submitted 38 days ago • 84 comments

Gonna be getting a lot of traction out of this one. the-good-fight.printify.me

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Those firms that have cut deals so that they can I guess keep their profits at high levels are not going to earn the respect of other lawyers and I think will be judged harshly by history," says Eric Holder on Trump targeting Big Law. "We've got to push back on in every way that we can."

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Watching collaboration in real time, I see the power and ease of the two most common lies people tell themselves: 1) “my primary responsibility is to my family/students/colleagues/employees; resistance is self-indulgent” 2) “there must be a wisdom to learn from the ordinary people who want this”

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

You know what I would love to see? I would love to see a longform piece explaining tariffs, trade deficits, their impact on economies, how they have been dealt with historically, and how to understand them so we all better understand what’s going on. /1

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

Great to see so many folks from different unions out supporting @sagaftra.org today! They’re fighting for fair pay and AI protections for work in video games. #unionstrong #sagaftrastrong

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

one thing i think the media’s surprisingly aggressive response to these tariffs shows is that in american society outrage over economic policy is seen as non-partisan (or safe, from the pov of a headline editor) in a way that outrage over equally egregious attacks on the democratic system are not.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

SOME OF US ARE VERY MUCH TALKING ABOUT THIS THANK YOU VERY MUCH And the answer of course is no, no Congress did not give the president this power.

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Pure extortion. "A Heritage Foundation-linked group is seeking to leverage President Donald Trump’s torrent of executive actions against law firms to get free legal help for conservative causes. 1/2 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"It is plain to us, as it would have been to our grandfather, that taking action to stay off an enemies list does not advance the rule of law as embodied in the Statement of Principles, it undercuts it and emboldens those who seek to dismantle it."

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Another law firm capitulates amid Trump’s pressure campaign. Milbank LLP has agreed to a deal with Trump, per a post on Trump’s Truth Social account.

submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

It’s almost like they never really believed in free speech at all.

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These guys think they're spewing cutting-edge posthumanist theory and it's all just the corniest, shittiest science fiction that actual writers wouldn't waste a minute on.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

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