A lawsuit laying out, step by step, just how cluelessly, dangerously wrong Justice Brett Kavanaugh's opinion and the majority's vote from earlier this month were. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

it will never not be wild to me that there are actual human people walking around our neighborhood streets dressed just like this I think we need to continue to remind our brains that this is extremely not normal

We need a Democratic Party led by people who understand and take seriously what it means to be the opposition party under an authoritarian regime. That has to be the framework in which all decisions are made. As individuals we won't always agree on the strategy but we have to agree on the problem.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

UPDATED. The federal government “has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

WTB Department of Kerning

And to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

"We are celery salt and tomatoes and onion, sport peppers and a dill pickle and relish so green you swear it's not real." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

We're going to end up in a massive war, aren't we? That's the logical outcome of all of this.

Judge Ali catches Trump DOJ’s attempted fraud on the court storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I have been banging on about this since March, but I’ll just say it again since it keeps coming up, this time in Rao’s dissent. The reason Humphrey’s executor didn’t sue for reinstatement should be apparent from the name of the case. Humphrey was dead.

Funny how the case from 1937 specifically upholding the constitutionality of the NLRA is completely missing from the 5th Circuit's opinion.

And specifically upheld 88 years ago by the Supreme Court in NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, 301 U.S. 1 (1937): "[T]he order of the Board was within its competency, and that the Act is valid as here applied." What's the difference? They aren't scared of workers/strikes anymore.

BigLaw was never going to save us. The tiny bit of good work they did was always just marketing to paper over their primary role: getting paid a lot of money to make the world worse.

the court is corrupt.

The Supreme Court allowing Trump to gut the Department of Education without explanation on the shadow docket shows what a colossal fumble letting SCOTUS reform go to the wayside was. If dems win in 2028, this court will allow the GOP to destroy what they rebuild once back in power.

Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA

Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”

Any Democrat who is not committed to complete structural reform of this far right #SCOTUS - including its expansion - need GTFOH - period.

It’s the way his voice broke when he said “imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers” 😣😣 As the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers and an immigration expert, I have this exact fear. They’re kidnapping and abusing our loved ones. How else are we expected to respond? Thank you, @padilla.senate.gov

ok this is genuinely getting scary

Hey ICE agents and CBP officers, have you noticed that some of your friends are wearing American flags with little pictures of skulls on them? Huh. What do you make of that? www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...

Screen grab from that video shows the CBP officer wearing a Punisher logo. “Are we the baddies?” No, seriously. There is no excuse for wearing a damn Totenkopf.

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

It’s a dangerous moment. Trump is saying political opponents as enemies who must be confronted by force.

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

@mjsdc.bsky.social The strategy seems to be to frivolously charge opponents. David Huerta (SEIU) was charged under 18 USC 372 for what appears to be peaceful picketing. Since 18 USC 372 requires "force, intimidation, or threat," I doubt it goes anywhere. But what to do in the face of this strategy?

Deeply worried about this.

This is big: Chief Judge Boasberg GRANTS class certification to the men unlawfully renditioned to El Salvador in March under the Alien Enemies Act, orders Trump administration to offer up a plan to facilitate their obtaining habeas relief. Here's how the ruling begins: With a nod to Kafka.

I can't tell the difference.

Kagan is completely right. Using the shadow docket to OVERRULE nearly a century precedent is an extraordinary act.

Also Brock Hrehor on how Jared Polis absolutely sucks. For all the insistence from the Abundance set that they are really truly pro-labor liberals, I don't think it's a coincidence that the politicians who support their ideas the most do stuff like this: prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

Alito is banging on about something. Literally.

The first thing a lawyer would do is assess whether the stated reason the employee was fired was legitimate and non-discriminatory. Here, the stated reason is laughable nonsense. They couldn’t even bother to come up with a reason that passes the smell test. This *should* have legal significance.

It's worth noting that, as in other matters, the government is complaining in AFGE v. Trump that it can't meet deadlines in related cases "[d]ue to the overlap of government personnel working on both cases and the limited resources available..." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tim Cook really burned any good will he may have had when he attended the Trump inauguration, but I really didn't expect to ever read about him willfully disobeying a court order. According to the court, "Cook chose poorly." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

In all seriousness, we’re in that weird liminal Wile E. Coyote–over-the-chasm moment where a lot of serious, completely self-inflicted pain is effectively inevitable but isn’t fully being felt yet. There’s going to be protest and unrest. And he is setting the stage to crack down hard.

Uh... This is legitimately frightening www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The affidavit references a "back jury door," a "jury door," a "backdoor of the courtroom," and a "non-public door near the courtroom's jury box." Is this all the same door? Why characterize it in so many different ways? Is it just the door to the jury room, which then leads to the public hallway?

This is an administration pushing a gobsmacking array of unconstitutional or unlawful policies, rightly getting its ass handed to it by the judiciary, looking for a pretext to send an intimidation signal, and Bondi is being explicit about it.

This also (obviously) completely undermines the basis for sending anyone to CECOT. The actual suspected criminals get held for trial in the United States.

For any American who believes in the legacy of Dr, King and everything he fought for, wake up now.

The president purports to essentially erase the concept of disparate impact liability from civil rights law.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

I have appeared before enough federal judges to know not to piss them off by submitting sloppy work and blowing their deadlines. You don't mess around with this stuff if you're practicing law. That DOJ doesn't care indicates that they don't believe there will be consequences, which is frightening.

I'm a litigator. One of the things that chills me about the Abrego Garcia case is the cavalier way DOJ is missing filing deadlines, submitting pleadings with errors and misspellings, and blowing off the rules of civil procedure. I would be terrified to do what they're doing. They're not.

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

An firm, open commitment to the destruction of habeas corpus— the creation of a new rule that says anyone the administration orders ICE to seize can be shoved onto a flight to a torture prison in another country and there's nothing any US court can do about it— destroys constitutionalism. 2/

They are defying court orders. Report that they are defying court orders.