Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

I mean how can such a body be considered a court within the meaning of EU law...? cc @kimlanelaw.bsky.social @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @profkochenov.bsky.social @grabowskamoroz.bsky.social @tjmcintyre.com

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

reminder re Merkel’s enabling of autocrats in Hungary and elsewhere www.politico.eu/article/ange... @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NYT/Siena poll confirms what most other polls have shown of late - the country has rejected his "strongman" authoritarian tactics, and he is deeply unpopular. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/p...

While others debate the merits of a legalistic change to voting procedures to get around Orban’s veto on starting Ukraine’s technical accession talks, the commission has another idea: Ignore Hungary and just get on with it

Great result in Moldova's parliamentary election - comfortable win for pro-EU PAS who will likely hold onto absolute majority of seats Complete failure for Russia's massive interference and disinformation

‘Under Costa’s proposal, so-called negotiating clusters — key legal steps on the path to membership — could be opened with the assent of a qualified majority of EU countries rather than unanimous agreement. Closing a cluster would still require [unanimity]’ www.politico.eu/article/anto...

Everywhere you look, the EU is busy figuring out how to bypass the Hungarian veto. Yesterday it was about using frozen Russian assets, today it’s Ukraine’s accession. They’re focused on legal formulas, not action against #Hungary — there’s no majority for that. Welcome, EU-26! 🤗

Missing Guardian of the Treaties (latest). Nothing new however unfortunately www.politico.eu/article/curi... @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @tommasopavone.bsky.social

The EO 🧵 bsky.app/profile/donm...

This is the point of the new EO: it is to make people think twice before they provide their honest evaluation of the Trump regime. You called them fascist? Well, you must be antifa. You call them authoritarian? You are inciting terrorism.

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted today against lifting the immunity of left-wing Italian MEP Ilaria Salis, arguing that she would not get a fair trial in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

The problem is not their ideology. Ideological compromise is necessary. The problem is that the current generation of leadership never wanted fighting Trump and cleaning up after him to be their main job. They have no stomach for the style of politics that is now necessary.

Very disturbing trend of testing NATO's preparedness, resolve, and unity... obviously, directly related to Trump's presidency. It again shows that "Europe" is lost without the U.S. and has not yet planned for a post-U.S. security future.

I know that complaints about headlines are annoying, but they do represent editorial choices that convey agency and responsibility to reader. Framing this as being about gender ideology is like framing Kimmel's removal as being about Kirk. Shrouds the real role of govt actors & power in censorship.

Emboldened by the Trump 2.0 administration, Orban-funded "researchers" are laying the ground for questioning some of the key tenets of European integration.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

REPORTER: How much wealthier are you now than when you returned to the WH? TRUMP: The deals I made for the most part, other than what my kids are doing - they're running my business - were made before. Where are you from? R: Australia T: In my opinion you are hurting Australia right now. Quiet.

No kings

If domestic troop deployments are so great, why aren't they sending troops to Louisiana's 4th congressional district? Surely Speaker Johnson's constituents also deserve this valuable government service.

The "papers, please" presidency

What if ICE is standing around outside the polls arresting people off the street in heavily Latino areas? What if the National Guard are deployed outside the polls in heavily Black areas?

My rule of law toolbox creation cycle theory at work (misguided focus on tools and alleged shortcomings to project facade of action rather than confronting lack of political will to apply tools in proper/forceful way and tackle serial rule of law violators) cc @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social

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Restricting voting access disproportionally to political opponents is a hallmark of electoral authoritarian regimes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...

Maybe of interest to @profpech.bsky.social, @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social, @kimlanelaw.bsky.social, @tomtheuns.bsky.social, @tverellen.bsky.social…

Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:

In poli sci, "the top 20% of departments produced 75% of all faculty and the bottom 50% accounted for less than 5% of all tenure track faculty members at a research university. 49 programs did not have a single graduate placed in a TT position at a PhD-granting department in the past 10 years."

Patriots. A lesson for the knee-benders at Paul Weiss, Christopher Wray, Columbia University, etc.

We either live in a country where the president is subject to the law or we don't.

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

"After flooding the streets of the nation's capitol with armed troops, the regime's leader promised to deploy the military to two of the country's largest cities next, both of which are opposition strongholds"

No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.

as someone who studies communist and post-communist countries, i must say i didn't have 'state-owned enterprises' on my bingo card for Trump 2.0 (although Viktor Orban did nationalize some sectors of the Hungarian economy . . . )

As Trump waves around a picture of himself and Putin like a fanboy, while promising to sign it and send it to Putin

NEW: Oregon and Pennsylvania are the latest to reject the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to acquire states’ private voter data, according to letters obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

One reason Trump is trying to fire Powell, and Lisa Cook, is the same reason he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics: they are credible actors willing to tell the truth about the faltering economy.

The President of the United States is a gangster shaking down anyone who won’t pay up

Somehow this keeps happening www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"One trademark of an authoritarian regime is the use of the legal system to target political opponents and forgive friends. This has the effect of undermining our basic conception of the law as a set of rules that is fairly and consistently applied." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

It was immediately obvious, on January 6, 2021, what was going to happen if and when we didn't permanently banish the perpetrators from American politics. And here we are.

You can tell yourself we are not living under a personalist authoritarian regime or you can listen to the spokesperson for that regime

Immediate presidency-ending scandals, for anyone from Truman onward, now happening daily. This is what happens when the far right authoritarian party has already captured Congress. Every check in our system boils down to Article I reigning in Article II, & there is no chance of that happening now.

This is an excellent clear explainer on the confusing SCOTUS decision today - where one 5-4 decision sent plaintiffs to a different court to start over and a different 5-4 majority said that the president's actions leading to scientific grant cancellations were unlawful.

saying the quiet part out loud - judges must respect the president or else be considered rogue.

💥Fox News reports Putin first wanted to meet Trump in Hungary before settling on Alaska—showing how close Viktor Orbán is to Putin and how much Russia sees Hungary as home turf. Astonishing. www.foxnews.com/world/trump-...