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interesting how rapidly academic freedom and free speech disappeared from the conversation after dominating it for years and years www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 hours ago • 86 comments

Even though Trump backed off on some of the tariffs – seeing that it would lead us to economic calamity – the ones that are still in place will cost the average American family $4,700/year. What a ridiculous and cruel policy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 comments

Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

submitted 14 hours ago • 184 comments

NEW from judge in Maryland immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case: "For the reasons discussed during today’s status conference, the Court finds that the [Trump admin] have failed to comply with this Court’s Order..." Next hearing: Tuesday, April 15 at 4 pm storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 hours ago • 44 comments

“He offered a dirty ashtray’s view of the future, with migrant fear-mongering, transphobic attacks, and outright threats against his enemies.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Anna, who is a must-follow for coverage of legal developments, is covering the government’s pathetic display at the Abrego Garcia hearing.

submitted 16 hours ago • 37 comments

He looks like this

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Upshot of today's hearing: the DOJ went in front of the judge and said, in essence, "I've got nothing for you and I don't think we can give you anything until next Tuesday." Judge's response: You're going to give me daily updates starting tomorrow.

submitted 16 hours ago • 90 comments

You might have noticed that basically every link that you see to a court filing is at courtlistener.com. Ever wondered why? Court Listener is a tiny non-profit with a staff of four and a four-person board, plus some dedicated volunteers. They receive no government funding. free.law/team/

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

I hope there's a law firm willing to sue the absolute shit out of everyone who had a part in this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Lawlessness and shamelessness.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

The right thing to do would have been to deny the application before the deadline, as the liberal justices say they would have done.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

No, the President actually does not decide how tax dollars are spent. Congress does. It would be good if we had an Attorney General who focused on understanding the law rather than groveling and reciting lies to score points with the President. What an embarrassing spectacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

This is 100% nonsense

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

What do you call it when there's a branch of the security state that views its job as quarantining the spread of unwelcome ideas?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

We are still in the middle of the biggest trade war in a century and the biggest tax increase in decades, despite the partial “pause” of even higher tariffs that did not exist a couple weeks ago.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Buried within one of Trump’s executive orders was a shady pull back on notice-and-comment rulemaking. Essentially: the public would not be given the opportunity to comment on new rules, thereby helping the president fast-track any deregulation in the future.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Trump approaches the presidency like a man who has done a heroic amount of cocaine.

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

"Even under the most tyrannical monarchs, the king never asserted unilateral authority to issue bills of attainder—a power the president now asserts for himself." From Edward II to Henry VIII, the historical record here is eye-opening. ⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Dearborn attorney’s detention condemned as ‘blatant’ intimidation by Trump administration michiganadvance.com/2025/04/10/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Make it easier & then maybe it would go viral.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's not just his delusion that tariffs will bring manufacturing jobs back. It's the paranoia, and the sense that trade is somehow rigged. @saletan.bsky.social on Trump's big tariff lie:

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

You're following Ari, right? You should be following Ari.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

"We now go live to the Rose Garden ... " www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnR...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

submitted 2 days ago • 1415 comments

“We need to get better at treating this like a business.”

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

Fox News kept telling its viewers that Kamala was the dumb one.

submitted 3 days ago • 190 comments

Trump's 90-day pause on his tariffs is an admission that they were bad policy to begin with. Trump is not negotiating—he's walking back a disastrous idea because markets tanked and all signs were pointing to a recession. Small businesses and consumers deserve stability, not back and forth chaos.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 163 comments

The entire reason you curb the exercise of arbitrary power is it prevents one asshole's mood swings from wrecking an entire country! You don't praise it when it momentarily swings in your favor

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

I'm going to start saying "art of the deal" every time I do something really stupid and then start backtracking

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs. These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 346 comments

Art of the deal!

submitted 2 days ago • 465 comments

Law profs, you too.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

[Darkest galaxy-brained take] Y’see the aborted tariffs were akshually tactically BRILLIANT because now they have an extensive list of social media critics that they can round up and send to the camps.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Trump on the markets: "Up 2500 points. Nobody has ever heard of it. Gotta be a record."

submitted 2 days ago • 506 comments

Thank you to the local advocates who visited my office to emphasize the need to support Ukrainians. Putin’s illegal invasion threatens global peace and stability, and the U.S. must continue to stand with our allies against this attempted authoritarian takeover.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

fake news: 10% on all islands solely populated by penguins still in force

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

At DOJ, we used to call these “for profit prisons” and when BOP or a state used them, those inmates were still considered to be in the custody of that prison system for relevant legal purposes. There is no reason El Salvadoran terror prison should be any different.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

LIVE: Fox presenters’ souls leave their body as they’re forced to finally tell the truth about tariffs. Here, the story a small business making products for kids with special needs. Its tariff bill has gone from $26,000 to $346,000. Fatal. A fate Fox deserves for months of tariff disinformation.

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

I think of bringing it up. I did a whole piece all about the need to bring this up and make it absolutely central to the Dem response to the tariffs: newrepublic.com/article/1936...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis" It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

He can't. It takes 535 oathbreaking cowards under Article I of the Constitution to allow him to do that.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The past four Republican administrations have tanked the US economy. But I know multiple Democrats who include their pronouns in the footer of their emails. I have never felt more politically homeless.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Speaking of “pettiness”: thehill.com/homenews/adm...

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments