Just a reminder that in the Los Angeles ICE case, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence played up the extent to which those *not* properly subject to immigration arrest were detained "briefly" and released "promptly." www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-177-... That wasn't true in L.A., and it isn't true here.

Oops. Looks like Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer lied to a judge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Let the countdown to Lindsey Halligan's eventual disbarment begin

Everyone's Pixel touchscreen gone completely haywire after the last up, or only mine?

Don't try to avoid your jury duty. We literally need you to defend democracy.

Any putative 2028 Dem nominee should be prepared for an indictment. This is authoritarianism 101: creating a legal pretext to indict powerful opposition figures, and then indict them.

Comey's attorney was in the DOJ from 1988 through 2012; prosectued Ramzi Yousef, Scooter Libby, and Rod Blagojevich; and was in charge of the investigations of Valery Plame and Richard Daley. Lindsey Halligan's biggest case so far was defending an homeowner's insurance company about a leaky roof.

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

MORE: Comey will be arraigned on 10/9. His son in law Troy Edwards — a federal prosecutor who helped convict several Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy over Jan. 6 — has resigned from DOJ in protest. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

1/2 Lindsey Halligan, the insurance-lawyer-turned-prosecutor-by-Trump, who has signed shameful indictment, will be remembered for this (and other questionable conduct) forever. You know how I know? Because there is new a non-profit documenting misbehavior by government lawyers in real time...

All authoritarian regimes are also engaged in a "legal enterprise". So, congratulations, or something.

We have been experiencing mass arbitrary arrests for months in this country. The main difference with today's EO, is that mass arbitrary arrests are also going to include people who never believed they'll be subject to mass arbitrary arrests, and told us we're exaggerating.

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today a member of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government said Comey "should be charged with treason" and I'm now realizing the subcommittee name doesn't actually say if they're for or against the weaponization ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/comey-indictment-making-trump-upset/

We just totally normalized & moved on from this, the greatest constitutional crime in 🇺🇸 history. Elon & a bunch of techbro fake government employees with no security clearances going in & dismantling large swathes of the government Congress created. They need to go to jail, some, like Elon, forever.

Sam, this is Bank Spendman. You can use your credit card at Burger King to get that Whopper you're craving.

We need a whole new generation of university administrators.

This is good news but I'm aghast that it is the rank and file faculty and staff who are doing the legal fighting, rather than the UC System who seems to be mostly trying to "manage" it. When we fight, we win. Fight already, you cowards!

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Trump handpicked insurance attorney is going to try to charge an individual despite a career prosecutor finding there is no basis for indictment.

Is the narrative that an anti-ICE lefty shot up an ICE facility, hit no ICE agents but, apparently, only ICE victims, left an unused, full, strip clip, with "anti ice" written with pen on it on the floor, and then shot himself?

Larry Ellison is worth $392 billion. He's bought: —Sailing team ($875 million) —Estate in Cali ($200 million) —98% of a Hawaiian island ($300 million) Now he's trying to acquire TikTok, HBO, CNN—and push them right. A lot of good his giant tax breaks are doing the rest of us.

"Everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi"

This is supposedly a stripper clip with the rounds found at the scene of the shooting in Dallas today. It’s like someone is intentionally trying to see what level of dumb shit the American people will accept as truth.

This clip makes me wonder if the shooter traveled here from 1943.

So, it's been three days without Disney/Hulu/ESPN and I lived just fine. Doesn't look like we'll be resubscribing any time soon. Thanks for the cost saving nudge, Disney.

A helpful list of all entities with 287(g) enforcement agreements with ICE, organized by state. DO NOT ATTEND UNIVERSITIES THAT COOPERATE WITH ICE.

Congress is rewriting the rules of crypto—and the stakes couldn’t be higher. In our new explainer, Brad Lipton explains why new bills moving through Congress could open dangerous loopholes in our financial system. 🧵1/3 rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-is...

BREAKING: Further confirmation that the shooter targeted immigrant detainees, not #ICE agents. All three #shooting victims were people ICE was holding and processing at the center. The shooter died of a self inflicted would and has been described as a white male www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...

How humiliating for Trump. He's probably losing his sh*t. So beautiful to watch.

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone Temple Pilots

This skeet is so well done, and it's a shame that it will only (or mostly) be understood by legal scholars. It really deserves a wide audience.

If you are a tax person, and on LinkedIn, like me, you are probably also being bombarded by an unprecedented blitz of IRS hiring ads. I have never seen anything like that. DOGE has decimated the IRS workforce, has shut down long established IRS hiring programs, and now they simply can't hire.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

New: For @msnbc.com I wrote abt Trump’s absurd EO declaring antifa a “domestic terror org” I trace history of MAGA manufacturing antifa bogeyman to both distract from v real far right violence, & to create a pretext for vigilantes & police to target the wider left www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is terrifying but necessary to watch. Speak now or they will forever hold your tongue. #MomSky

It's difficult to explain to non-lawyers how unprincipled SCOTUS is. There is no law but Trump's law. There are no discernable predicable legal standards (good or bad). They're not even making a serious effort to pretend anymore. It's just a powerful BS institution.

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

SCOTUSblog is now run by a conservative news outlet, so this should surprise exactly zero humans. no one should expect it to be neutral.

Don't renew your Disney/Hulu/ESPN subscriptions just yet, is all I'm saying.

Hummus was famously served in the Last Supper.

Removal protections are gone. Humphrey's Executor is overruled in all but name by the Shadow Docket. Rest in peace to the Presidency, and long live the Monarchy.

At Costco for Rosh Hashanah shopping. A lady next to me in line just pointed at this item in my cart and asked "what is Babka?" and I think I may have died a little.

We don't even have a tax treaty with Argentina. A tax treaty is one of the most basic, common, and uncontroversial instruments of bilateral economic cooperation. But sure, they are "systematically important" enough so we'll skip this obvious instrument, and go directly to a bail out!