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🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

submitted 7 hours ago • 179 comments

They literally put an intern in charge of the department tasked with preventing another 9/11. We are living in a kakistocracy

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NARRATOR: The War Powers Resolution does not let Trump do this

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

I truly do not think that if Trump has campaign on “if I win, we will bomb Iran” that he would have won.

submitted 2 days ago • 386 comments

Anguish over the Skirmetti opinion is a completely appropriate and justified reaction. But just like w/ Dobbs, state constitutions provide add'l protections. Some state EPCs are much broader than the fed EPC; others have implicit privacy/bodily autonomy rights. The fight moves to state courts now.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

SCOTUS decision upholding the ban of gender affirming care for trans kids (but allowing cis minors to get the exact same treatment) is one of the most poorly reasoned decisions I've ever read. Roberts unbelievably says that trans youth lacks the "maturity" to get this care and may regret it - while

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

fuck Supreme Court released Skrmetti Roberts opinion, liberals dissent the awful outcome--blessing anti-trans discrimination--isnt in and of itself surprising, but it's a bit stunning the way they're pretending the Equal Protection Clause isn't even relevant www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

yes, this is very "assaulting an officer"

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

I'm in the minority, and maybe a small one, but I think these administrative stays are genuinely harmful and should not be treated as routine. A federal court has ruled that a dramatic step of national significance was illegal and unconstitutional. It ruled. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 13 days ago • 597 comments

Why stop at the US Constitution and violate the Geneva Conventions as well?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

LIVE NOW: CA AG Rob Bonta announcing his and CA Gov Gavin Newsom's lawsuit asking the court to set aside President Trump and Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth's actions mobilizing CA National Guard troops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w50a...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 15 days ago • 205 comments

Significant ruling by Judge Boasberg for men sent to CECOT prison. "The Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act." Important moment for the rule of law and against government lawlessness. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 days ago • 141 comments

We’re up to at least 97 cases in which district courts have blocked Trump policies—from 73 different judges (appointed by seven different presidents) in 25 different district courts across 10 circuits. Today’s “One First” looks at what critics of these rulings are leaving out of their narratives:

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

NY Times needs to write better headlines. Here, ICE attempted to arrest a congressional aide because they called ICE out on their bullshit. Rep Nadler’s office is in same building as a federal courthouse.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

submitted 26 days ago • 142 comments

The preliminary injunction would prevent the federal government from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

An exclamation point in sentence two of a decision overturning an executive order is a sign of how screwed up the order is.

submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments

Public comment ends tonight for the Trump admin's rule that lets family members of unaccompanied immigrant children to be disqualified as potential sponsors based on immigration status. A lawsuit seeking to overturn the rule has a hearing on Friday. Full story www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-unac...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

270,000 Pennsylvanians will no longer be able to purchase affordable health insurance from Pennie if Republicans pass their reconciliation bill in the US Senate. Are PA's Republican lawmakers supporting these harmful cuts? Do they even care about PA's working families?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

This provision of the budget bill made it through the House. It undercuts federal courts' ability to enforce contempt orders. Read Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s sharp analysis. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

submitted 33 days ago • 71 comments

The Director of the FBI is openly lying to the American public about Canada being a major source of fentanyl. In the first three months of 2025, a grand total of 1.35 lbs of fentanyl was seized by border officials at our border with Canada — 0.06% of total seizures.

submitted 37 days ago • 403 comments

NEW: Trump just suffered another blow in the effort to deport people to third countries. First Circuit rejects DOJ request for an emergency stay of an order requiring notice and an opportunity to seek protection before people can be sent to a country not their own if not previously authorized.

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

Supreme Court is going to have to step in, and I'm not too excited about the answer. Roberts may gut the Voting Rights Act even further.

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

We’ve got “ongoing diplomatic negotiations” with whom exactly?! I’m sure those “negotiations” do NOT include getting Kilmar Abrego Garcia back on US soil…

submitted 41 days ago • 69 comments

Please do not confuse the legal requirements for the crime of bribery with the concept of corruption.

submitted 43 days ago • 37 comments

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke pours from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

submitted 47 days ago • 158 comments

Officially 2/3rds done with law school!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Proud to be one of many law students to have signed onto this amicus brief. When the rule of law is attacked, we must stand up and protect it.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: An appeals court dismissed the Guam attorney general's effort to reinstate a total abortion ban. Abortion remains legal in the territory.

submitted 56 days ago • 33 comments

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

submitted 59 days ago • 169 comments

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

submitted 59 days ago • 441 comments

One thing that leaps out here: State courthouse security officers, prosecutors, and a "Victim Witness Specialist" all ratted out Judge Dugan to federal agents. The criminal complaint rests largely on their accusations about her conduct.

submitted 60 days ago • 45 comments

This WaPo headline is misleading — Voice of America is NOT back despite the preliminary injunction. No one has been called back to work. No newscasts or programs. No transmissions since mid-March. Stay tuned. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

No, you really don't "have to ask yourself" this. The right to criticize the government, even for lawful policies (let alone what Trump is trying to do), is not just central to the First Amendment's protection of free speech; it is one of the most critically important features of any democracy.

submitted 62 days ago • 40 comments

Meet the new Director of Communications for the US Navy, Kristina Wong, who on Jan 6 sat and watched the violence at the Capitol North Doors. She thought it was funny: "a lil sporty". This woman now speaks for the US Navy. (h/t/ PIperK on Twitter who first flagged her new position.) 1/

submitted 62 days ago • 24 comments

fixed the headline

submitted 65 days ago • 120 comments

you think hegseth added his lawyer because he thought it would make the group chat privileged?

submitted 64 days ago • 38 comments

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

submitted 68 days ago • 41 comments

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15. He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).

submitted 69 days ago • 61 comments

You know your legal argument is pure 💩 when all 9 justices of the Supreme Court ruled against you

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The government won’t even flat out admit what they clearly know: Garcia was last known to be imprisoned in El Salvador, the country where they erroneously sent him. All they’ll say is that they haven’t “submitted evidence to contradict that.” C’mon.

submitted 74 days ago • 57 comments

If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.

submitted 74 days ago • 636 comments

Looper Bright had nothing to do with public notice and comment of agency regulations!!!!!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

These lies are reprehensible. That includes what they're saying about Mr. Abrego, a man who has never even been charged with a crime and whose sole criminal arrest was for loitering outside a Home Depot seeking work; they've called him a "violent criminal" and accused him of human trafficking.

submitted 76 days ago • 12 comments

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: the Republican-majority on the N.C. Court of Appeals rules to overturn the decision of the Wake County Superior Court (and the voters in the state) in a 2-1 decision to disenfranchise more than 65,000 voters from LAST year’s election. ⬇️ appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&…

submitted 81 days ago • 56 comments