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"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

submitted 3 days ago • 492 comments

Reiterating that what Trump is, is a large-scale abuser. When it’s looked at in that context, his decisions make a lot more sense and it’s a lot easier to guesstimate what he’ll do next.

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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

submitted 3 days ago • 313 comments

What’s going on in America right now is called a shock and awe campaign.

submitted 3 days ago • 236 comments

How sick does it get? www.reuters.com/legal/us-jus...

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you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by malicious stupidity.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

If you’re struggling today, as I am, just know this: YOU HAVE NOT FAILED. It’s the world that has failed. Keep calm and bugger on.

submitted 5 days ago • 213 comments

Republican supporters: I thought we were just gonna do the racism.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

submitted 6 days ago • 182 comments

Justice Sotomayor with a bone-chilling dissent today: “The implication of the govt’s position is noncitizens AND US citizens could be taken off streets, forced onto planes, confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress…This Nation's laws is designed to prevent, not en-able, their rise.

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments

“Gratuitous Cruelty: The Supreme Court Just Unleashed Trump” In a cold-hearted decision, writes constitutional law professor @kimwehle.bsky.social for Zeteo, five conservative justices allowed the president to restart his deportation plan. Read/share/subscribe:

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

I got over my imposter syndrome recently by internalizing the thought: have the confidence of a mediocre white man.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It was never about the tariffs.

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I feel like there’d be more certainty plucking daisy petals. “He keeps the tariffs. He keeps the tariffs not. He keeps the tariffs….” 🌼

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You know what you need for a general strike? Rent funds. Bail funds. Healthcare funds. Childcare funds. Viable tenant and homeowner unions. You know what you DON'T need? Sign up sheets.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

submitted 7 days ago • 552 comments

Let’s be clear: Trump’s plan to fine migrants $998 a DAY and steal their property is NOT about border security. It’s about pushing fear-based rhetoric—and it’s giving fascism.

submitted 6 days ago • 133 comments

Men assess their own capacity to work a factory job with the same accuracy that they assess their chance of beating Serena Williams at tennis.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘 in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

Last night in my newsletter, I wrote about an important court case you probably haven't heard about. An Alabama group, the Yellowhammer Fund, helps women go to states where abortion is legal to obtain one. They sued the state's AG for threatening to prosecute joycevance.substack.com/p/a-case-to-...

submitted 7 days ago • 57 comments

Lawyers have ethical obligations to courts regardless of what their bosses say. If a government lawyer is asked to violate their oath, they should resign. There is no excuse for caving to Trump.

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 7 days ago • 527 comments

What are we even doing here if we allow the government to just snatch people off the streets and send them to death camps?

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Trying to emotionally survive these news cycles each day requires some kind of severance simulation where you pretend like there’s a daily cutoff time for your brain when you just flip a switch to not remembering what you read, even if you’re dead sober.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments