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Here's the majority's entire discussion of the balance of equities: "And the District Court’s grant of class-wide relief enjoins enforcement of an Executive Branch policy with foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document." They're not even trying.

See, as always, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

(1) We don't know that this was a jury nullification situation. (2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged. And that's fine. It's what juries are for.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Ditto. www.scotusblog.com/2025/07/whos...

Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification" www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Judge Ellis was quite clear about how frequently video showed DHS' allegations were simply not true, or even DHS officials admitting that earlier claims were untrue.

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth. Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.

One of the most chilling things about this story is that some did not even know it was ICE. They thought it was “an attack on the school” i.e. a school shooter. Think on that for a minute.

So in one courtroom the DOJ is arguing that a sandwich thrown into an armor-wearing officer is a forcible assault while simultaneously in another courtroom DOJ says tackling protestors or shooting them in the head with less lethal munitions does not count as use of force. One rule for thee...

ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district. #ice #chicago

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.* Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

"Law professors @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Anthony Michael Kreis pointed out in a rebuttal of Wurman and others echoing his argument in July that this entire [allegiance and birthright citizenship] exercise took us far afield of the Fourteenth Amendment’s context and circumstances."

I wish I could show you all the joyous photos and videos being shared on Muslim and South Asian WhatsApp right now with people reacting to Mamdani's victory. It's really beautiful and cathartic. So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate. And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

Trump says he knows nothing about a crypto billionaire who got a presidential pardon. Trump says he won't make SNAP payments, but his underlings walk that back and say he’ll make partial payments. Is Trump too busy picking out bathroom tile to run the government? Who’s in charge? Stephen Miller?

Bovino, on resistance to their operations in Chicago: “I didn’t have any reason to think it would be this bad, but it’s far worse than I ever thought.” For the most part, they’ve been met by whistles, insults, and the occasional person blocking a vehicle.

Of course, this is precisely why we expect law enforcement to wear badges and uniforms and show identification. Anyone could have foreseen (and many of us did) that this would be a serious side-effect of ICE's insistence on behaving like unaccountable thugs.

Anyone else? Heather is blocking me for some reason and John is covering Broadview conditions today

Btw, demanding Vought's resignation should still be a non-negotiable demand for re-opening government.

“Alito’s incredulity at the idea that there could be a conflict between Scalia’s words and deeds suggests that Hencely must be wrong, because if Hencely is right, Scalia is a hypocrite.”

It's journalistic malpractice not to immediately follow these statements with questions like "Are you saying you didn't sign it?" and "Was it signed by autopen?" And "Is someone else making decisions for you?"

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

cc: @mcuban.bsky.social

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

No "maybe" about it. Schumer wrote on X, “Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview. It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris.”

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?

So the World Series MVP is an… immigrant

to be clear—the TRO remains in place and the use of the national guard around Chicago is still blocked

One thing Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on is that when Democrats are in power it is Democrats' fault and when Republicans are in power it is Democrats' fault.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

The world is going to hell, but at least I have this: Wordle 1,594 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Narrator voice: the legal case for a third term is that Trump violates the constitution at will. This is not so much a legal case as an illegal one.

Kristi Noem is a liar and a dog killer.

Brilliant read: “We will collectively manifest a Trump third term if we do not hold fast to the reality of its impossibility. Trump cannot legally be president again” but “bad people with evil intentions try to scare you into thinking he can.” THAT is just a desperate bid to ward off irrelevance…

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

Horrifying.

NEW: Bovino's Fox News interview leaves Judge Sara Ellis 'surprised' at the feds' opposition to her daily check-ins. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

OK! Here's a QR code for Feeding America donate page. You can print this out (I know very old school) and stick it on your kid's trick or treat bag.

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

100%

The central point of this brief is so utterly convincing that I struggle to see any reasonable argument against it succeeding.

Whatever they are thinking about statutory interpretation, the timing indicates that they certainly don’t seem to think there is immediate irreparable harm. All the more reason they should deny the application.

That’s uhh insane.