Yes, hence Noem’s atrocity tourism to CECOT and Trump airing CECOT footage at rallies. Performative sadism.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

STILL NO RULING on Trump's plea to deploy the National Guard in Chicago four weeks after (supplementary) briefing was complete. If five justices were clearly on Trump’s side we would know by now. But will we get the order before Christmas?

"What this means in practice is that if you are not white, you cannot go certain places without the risk of being kidnapped by federal agents. That is not 'common sense'; it is the nullification of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal rights under the law."

Important to note: We found more mistakes than what is listed in this piece. If we listed every missing comma or spelling mistake or superfluous statement, it would’ve been 3X longer. And we didn’t get into legal tactical mistakes - e.g. assertions in complaints that are really affirmative defenses

she's just doing what she was hired to do

Noteworthy use of term “Trump Department of Justice” in this public statement

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My dinner guest tonight.

BREAKING: The Justice Department failed to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny, Republican and Democratic lawmakers said.

Definitely a good choice to use a different font size and color for the new words and to have "The" preceding both presidents. Anyway, congratulations to JFK for this great honor!

Trump personally directing the Justice Department to go after his foes brings a whole new meaning to "trumped-up charges."

this sounds like a commercial for a used-car lot

lol wtf is this

Nearly 2 months ago Trump asked SCOTUS for help deploying National Guard troops to Illinois. The justices have yet to issue a ruling despite the "emergency" posture of the appeal www.courthousenews.com/calling-prot...

the unitary executive, folks

Because it’s a smash and grab.

U.S. military should not be present as backdrop when the President - any President - launches into overtly partisan political statements. He’s free to do so, but they should excuse themselves.

"U.S. International Command"

Trying to do the authoritarian consolidation stuff when you are are at 35 % approval and likely dropping further.

This, from an excellent piece by @philipstephens.bsky.social on the end of US global power. philipstephens.substack.com/p/making-sen...

I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

As a GOP activist, Harmeet Dhillon frequently insisted that the federal government has “little to say” about how states run their elections. Now, as head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, she claims the feds have “sweeping” authority to seize state voter rolls.

Shortly after Abrego Garcia’s release Thursday, immigration officials tried to arrest him again after an immigration judge retroactively “corrected” a years-old ruling in his immigration case — a move experts slammed as an unethical violation of due process rights.

Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS

The constitutional remedy for a president who attempts to abuse the pardon power to infringe on state rights is impeachment.

According to legal experts, state government is different than the federal government

And this is an example of how we cannot and should not cover Trump. He simply can’t “block state laws” by executive order, and his order doesn’t even claim to do that. (It’s still an awful order of course.) Trump wants to be perceived as being all powerful, and framing like this only assists him.

This from @yuniorarivas.bsky.social is how all news outlets should cover Trump’s anti-constitutional, extralegal and largely meaningless actions. Reporting the truth means reporting when Trump doesn’t have the power to do what he’s claiming to do.

I Declare Pardon!

This is a rare — and important — instance of Republicans defying the wishes of Donald Trump.

Maybe the ham sandwich can't be indicted?

everyone discovers MoE when the trendline budges in the direction they don't like and then promptly forgets it when it budges the opposite way

And the MRIs are for all that thinking

"We are building out the infrastructure right now"

when it's going great storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge again blocks Trump’s effort to keep hundreds of federalized California National Guard members stationed in L.A., saying the ongoing deployment is “contrary to law” and risks “creating a national police force made up of state troops.”

BOGO, but for First Amendment violations

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

In his latest post, Trump suggests the New York Times and other media outlets have committed sedition and treason by reporting on his health. Trump, 79, has seemed to doze off during multiple public meetings and events and has repeatedly appeared with a bruised right hand and swollen ankles.

Look, it says right there in Article II of the Constitution that "The executive Power shall be vested in a God King who shall be above the law."

Imagining how much more fun air travel would be if my two seat mates have just been to the gym.

guy is going to burst his brain worm if he's not careful.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Bondi's alarming memo was first obtained and published by investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...