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This is a really important point and has been a consistent theme of our coverage.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

How did we get so far down the road toward authoritarianism, with portions of the country seemingly unalarmed or even generally supportive? The answer might be differing definitions of “democracy.” We boil it down to 3 intertwined concepts: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/what-is-de...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

So is American major media just going to pretend that Donald Trump and his venal band of brigands didn't just spend the last five years of this space-time continuum daily accusing Joe Biden of taking bribes from a foreign country—something Trump just PUBLICLY did to the tune of $400 MILLION DOLLARS?

submitted 27 days ago • 131 comments

Tomorrow, we’re back in court. Fair Fight v. True the Vote is about who gets to vote – and what happens when political operatives weaponize bureaucracy to silence Americans. This appeal could set a national precedent.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes and call this China trade “deal” a masterful stroke of genius – this is just another day of chaos in an administration that’s jerking around lives and livelihoods with absolutely no plan.

submitted 27 days ago • 65 comments

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submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

It is time for Trump to put up or shut up in Court. A FEDERAL JUDGE said “no evidence before the court connects Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or any criminal organization.” No one is vouching for one man. We are standing up for EVERYONE’s right to due process under the Constitution.

submitted 51 days ago • 283 comments

Trump is betting the American people hate illegal immigrants more than the hate a dictator taking over their country and shredding the Constitution. I think he has miscalculated. (I also realize he doesn’t really care what the American people think. Just making a point.)

submitted 51 days ago • 51 comments

Article I, Section 1 United States Constitution ⚖️ There’s talk everyday of a #constitutionalcrisis. Yet so many Americans would probably be embarrassed to admit they don’t fully understand why. In order to understand how someone is defying the Constitution, you need to know what it says.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Article I, Section 1 United States Constitution ⚖️ There’s talk everyday of a #constitutionalcrisis. Yet so many Americans would probably be embarrassed to admit they don’t fully understand why. In order to understand how someone is defying the Constitution, you need to know what it says.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

New in PN: White guy DEI "Pretending that Hegseth got nominated on merit is ridiculous, but it’s a fiction conservatives have all agreed to adopt. To admit he’s not qualified would mean acknowledging that straight white maleness does not automatically confer expertise."

submitted 52 days ago • 182 comments

this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway

submitted 53 days ago • 998 comments

I don’t even have words anymore.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Seems bad that the new U.S. Attorney who is threatening to lock up Trump’s political opponents was working for Russia before getting his new job. But maybe it’s just me.

submitted 52 days ago • 58 comments

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

submitted 52 days ago • 279 comments

The President of the United States is utterly out of control and possibly out of his mind, and only the Supreme Court of the United States can deliver the absolutely vicious permanent slapdown this moment requires. If that does not happen, the options for Americans appear to dwindle precipitously.

submitted 52 days ago • 1095 comments

I don’t even have words anymore.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

THREE EQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. It’s in our Constitution and at the very heart of our democracy. Article 3 establishes the judicial branch. It’s the job of judges to determine if the actions of the Administration violate our laws. Full. Stop. That’s how our democracy works.

submitted 53 days ago • 314 comments

Big news for fired federal workers: Groups like the AFL-CIO, We The Action and Democracy Forward have launched Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network to connect you with lawyers to help you understand your rights and get legal support. WorkersLegalDefense.org/

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 53 days ago • 1853 comments

🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 53 days ago • 128 comments

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

submitted 53 days ago • 1584 comments

Donald Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court and now threatening to send American citizens to foreign prisons. Let’s talk about it.

submitted 53 days ago • 29 comments

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

submitted 53 days ago • 1276 comments

👇👇

submitted 54 days ago • 653 comments

This is what courage and clarity in defense of democracy looks like. Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov

submitted 53 days ago • 29 comments

Powell: The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the economic effects which will include higher inflation and slower growth.

submitted 53 days ago • 153 comments

FYI — workerslegaldefense.org

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: Third top Pentagon official suspended in leak investigation.

submitted 53 days ago • 61 comments

worth reiterating that in literally any other context a 10% tariff on Japan alone would be getting wall to wall financial news coverage, would be considered the largest trade war escalation in modern American history and the dumbest economic policy move by a President in decades

submitted 53 days ago • 123 comments

The United States Constitution provides that the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment" (Article I, section 2) and "the Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments …" (Article I, section 3).

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 54 days ago • 0 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 55 days ago • 713 comments

Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."

submitted 54 days ago • 618 comments

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submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 54 days ago • 1656 comments

“I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast.” Jon Stewart

submitted 54 days ago • 318 comments

Donald Trump is defying a Supreme Court order to bring back a man he illegally sent to a foreign prison. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has not been accused of any crime. He was in the United States legally. He must be brought home. The rights of all Americans depend on it.

submitted 54 days ago • 24 comments

There’s a word for this, and it’s called bribery.

submitted 55 days ago • 236 comments

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

submitted 54 days ago • 1647 comments

Marco Rubio isn't doing a lot of foreign policy these days, but what he IS doing is disappearing people for voicing their First Amendment rights. Secretary Rubio, why don't you stop lying and picking on college students and come testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?

submitted 55 days ago • 81 comments

I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release. Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.

submitted 55 days ago • 662 comments

If the Trump administration can get away with not facilitating Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the United States—as ordered by an unanimous Supreme Court—what stops them from kidnapping anyone off the streets and sending them to an overseas prison? 🧵

submitted 54 days ago • 25 comments