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“[T]he Supreme Court’s willingness to resort to a procedural ruling to avoid a direct clash with the executive could have real costs, not just for those swept up by the [Alien Enemies Act], but also for the Court’s position in the separation of powers,” writes @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social.

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 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 13 hours ago • 471 comments

I’ve just posted this video message to members of the DC Bar, urging them to vote AGAINST AG Pam Bondi’s brother to be its next president. Please pass this on to anyone who is eligible to vote. www.instagram.com/reel/DIcQFxt...

submitted 18 hours ago • 319 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 2 hours ago • 257 comments

Gross: The GOP is planning $5.3 TRILLION in tax cuts for their Sugar Daddy donors. And WE are going to PAY for them through tariffs and cuts to our healthcare. #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

submitted 19 hours ago • 342 comments

Musk and Trump’s constant chaos can be taxing, just like April 15th is every year. So I’m glad to have more good news for you today. Read it here:

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

submitted 5 hours ago • 202 comments

AOC: Only 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied.. I saw Mike Johnson saying we have to stop all the able-bodied men from being on Medicaid — as if it’s a crime for someone to have healthcare in America. Healthcare is a human right, and everyone should have it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 180 comments

New: Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 10 other colleges and organizations that represent them filed a lawsuit Monday in an effort to halt research funding cuts by the US Department of Energy. @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Here's a lawsuit I hope we'll see more like--fr Liberty Justice Center & Ilya Somin on behalf of 5 small businesses reliant on imports: wine importer, plastic pipe co, an electronic kit co, a fishing tackle co, & a woman's cycling apparel co. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 🗣CT Special Election: vote by Apr.22 Vote for Mike Duncan for the state rep District 113 Get to know Mike & Voting Info ( location, early voting & more) duncanforshelton.com

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

“Trump has signed fewer bills into law at this point in his presidency than any new president taking office for the last seven decades, according to government records.” - @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

submitted 1 hour ago • 15 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 3 hours ago • 135 comments

Trump on sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador: “I call them homegrown criminals…We want to do it. I would love to do that.”

submitted 59 minutes ago • 43 comments

The administration’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed judicial activists, saying that “the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

submitted 58 minutes ago • 27 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 1 hour ago • 152 comments

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

The Ice Man Cometh Trump's Gestapo is here. It operates throughout the country. It can suddenly arrest anyone, with no crime alleged, and deport them for permanent imprisonment overseas. Will anyone stop this? open.substack.com/pub/tristans...

submitted 55 minutes ago • 45 comments

The court system is a coequal branch of government. If the administration isn’t going to follow their orders it’s time to hold some senior officials in contempt.

submitted 13 hours ago • 200 comments

"the worst and dumbest people in the world gloating about how they solved the ‘grift’ of sending lifesaving medications to dying babies...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

submitted 11 hours ago • 163 comments

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

submitted 13 hours ago • 35 comments

there’s no reason not to do this. it’d probably end up with another kind of constitutional crisis, which is exactly why it should happen.

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

A US judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration not to deport Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist, who was arrested upon arriving for an interview for his US citizenship petition reut.rs/3RhXBAR

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

It's worth reading the full list of Trump admin demands on Harvard. Some are ridiculous, e.g. reduce the power of jr. faculty! But most are chilling & antithetical to what a university is--basically they want to install commissar audit committees to oversee everything www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

submitted 1 day ago • 599 comments

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of NC Alliance for Retired Americans and VoteVets AF, my firm has filed an appeal to the Fourth Circuit to block the Republicans' efforts to steal a North Carolina state Supreme Court election. Follow Democracy Docket for full details. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

submitted 17 hours ago • 346 comments

@BenjaminWittes.bsky.social provides some suggestions to Judge Xinis on how she should deal with the government's flouting of her court order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States in The Situation. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 22 hours ago • 1821 comments

After being ordered by the court to confirm by this week that all records potentially responsive to our requests had been preserved, DOGE’s attorneys instead filed a vague and evasive statement. americanoversight.org/american-ove...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

submitted 21 hours ago • 103 comments

I know we beat this drum daily, but today especially it’s obvious these are not the actions of a party that anticipates ever losing power.

submitted 21 hours ago • 136 comments

UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.

submitted 22 hours ago • 251 comments

look at this crooked punk mocking American laws. this guy's government is best known for human rights abuses and death squads. and now he says he has no control over the prison.

submitted 22 hours ago • 173 comments

It is difficult to convey precisely what is happening at HHS—how it’s so unprecedented and why it’s so destructive—because the changes are happening in so many places throughout the department simultaneously, and with no transparency.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

The new leader of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ — the section tasked with enforcing voting rights and anti-discrimination laws — has a long history of trying to make it harder to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments

"The history of the present King of MAGAts is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world." (Check marks for current things he's doing)

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

No American should have to give up their right to privacy just because they’re traveling.

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.

submitted 19 hours ago • 324 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1302 comments

Republicans are attacking voting rights with anti-voter bills like the SAVE Act because they know their plan to cut health care and nutrition assistance programs to pay for their tax giveaway for billionaires is deeply unpopular. I am leading the fight to STOP this bill in the Senate.

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

“So the president of the United States proposes, on camera, to deport Americans to foreign concentration camps.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 20 hours ago • 212 comments

The Justice Department’s hour-late status report cites Salvadoran President Bukele’s refusal today to return Abrego Garcia. It also continues to defy the court’s explicit order to explain what steps the U.S. government is taking to bring him back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

SCOOP: I obtained a budget document laying out Trump’s plans for State and what’s left of USAID. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

Trump Says He Will NOT Bring Abrego Garcia Back, Signaling He Will Defy Supreme Court Order. youtu.be/M6vrf2G_YOg?...

submitted 17 hours ago • 88 comments

NEW: The government has filed its status update in the Abrego Garcia case. It says DHS does not have the authority to “forcibly extract an alien from the domestic custody of a foreign sovereign nation” and quotes Bukele’s comments during his meeting with Trump today:

submitted 17 hours ago • 177 comments

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.

submitted 17 hours ago • 277 comments

China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.

submitted 1 day ago • 1249 comments