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We’re sending gay Venezuelan barbers to concentration camps right the fuck now, Chuck

submitted 8 hours ago • 62 comments

Say what you will about Trump but he’s doing exactly what he promised middle-class midwestern voters he would do: erase the military contributions of long-dead actors because The Golden Girls made jokes about him in the mid-1980s

submitted 23 hours ago • 16 comments

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

submitted 1 day ago • 337 comments

The path back to power for the Democratic Party is to be the party that gets shit done.

submitted 2 days ago • 1438 comments

just speculation but my take on the Paul, Weiss stuff is that the firm thinks it's making meaningless commitments or ones that it can control through the way they're implemented, but totally misjudged the meaning of a public capitulation

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

As someone who had a ton of professional respect for PW, I expected better from them. Profoundly disappointed that they would rather throw the entire profession and the rule of law under the bus than take a stand like Perkins.

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Bravo, @cbsnews.com

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This is a judge who is very slowly and very carefully making an impeccable record for appeal - one that shows that the government has been given every conceivable opportunity to make its case. And that's all I have to say about that.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

As a young person, I often wondered what sort of wild debauchery the next generation could come up with that would possibly offend me. Never in a million years would I have guessed “pro bono organizational downsizing.”

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Between yesterday's hearing about the deportation flights before Judge Boasberg, today's unhinged Trump post attacking him and Roberts's response, and the decision that just came out enjoining Musk and DOGE re USAID, we're about to find out just how big of a constitutional crisis we're in.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Thomas and Alito dissented.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is the terrifying part of the DOJ’s Article II argument, since it really doesn’t depend on citizenship status. Under their interpretation of presidential authority, citizens could be deported without any due process if the government says they’re a national security threat. Beyond chilling.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Shorn of the legalities, the Admin basic position is that we can do whatever we want if we say it's national security (and that includes Trump lies about same, which can't be questioned) and we don't have to tell court or anyone why. That's tyranny, plain and simple.

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

We are not a serious country.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE ARE WE DOING THE AUTOPEN THING AGAIN

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

The argument the administration seems to be settling on – that the planes had gone into international airspace – is ludicrous. If the executive had power to act, the judiciary had power to enjoin. But even setting the merits to the side, it makes it look as if the administration was playing games.

submitted 6 days ago • 110 comments

I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status. I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.

submitted 6 days ago • 1017 comments

I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt. Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 7 days ago • 890 comments

On a scale from 1 to “The fury of the burning fire of a thousand suns,” how mad do you think Judge Boasberg will be at Trump and Rubio laughing about defying his court order?

submitted 7 days ago • 364 comments

Whether Judge Boasberg was correct on the law is largely irrelevant to whether the government is in contempt for willfully disobeying it. If the Trump administration knew there was an order from a federal judge and then willfully violated it, that is the end of the analysis.

submitted 7 days ago • 259 comments

Recall that this court order yesterday should have halted prisoner flights from landing in El Salvador as of the moment it was entered. It appears that order was not followed. All eyes are on how DOJ will explain this failure to comply and what the judge will do.

submitted 7 days ago • 374 comments

Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed

submitted 7 days ago • 208 comments

🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse. Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.

submitted 7 days ago • 1605 comments

A federal court’s jurisdiction does not stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the defendants are subject to the court order, not where the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

submitted 7 days ago • 917 comments

Elon rejecting effective altruism by losing as much personal wealth as possible while simultaneously causing maximum global harm and suffering.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Big Law continues to shame itself. It has been weeks since Trump targeted Covington, more than a week since he targeted Perkins Coie. Now he is targeting Paul Weiss. And THIS is where things stand.

submitted 8 days ago • 212 comments

Trump is doing exactly what his voters wanted him to do: tank the economy, cause measles outbreaks all over the country, surrender to Russia, and make the plane crashing.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

It’s awesome that Senate Democrats are voting to pass Trump’s budget while he’s at the DOJ calling them a bunch of criminals and saying newspapers and MSNBC should be illegal. That’s great, good job guys.

submitted 9 days ago • 83 comments

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

submitted 9 days ago • 5335 comments

Trump can call me names but the truth remains. He is an unhinged wanna be dictator who is angry that I beat him in court and won't cower in fear. Now he is weaponizing the federal government against his political opponents. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 9 days ago • 1458 comments

Turns out the haters were correct about the billionaires. Honestly great call from the haters.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

submitted 9 days ago • 791 comments

I’m voting HELL NO on the Republican CR. It hands Musk and Trump a blank check, turning your tax dollars into a wanna-be dictator’s slush fund. No accountability. Just corruption on autopilot.

submitted 9 days ago • 489 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 9 days ago • 5261 comments

my thoughts on what happened today talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/black...

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight. open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

submitted 10 days ago • 2756 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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