Wow. Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak ordered a bond hearing w/this note: "If the Court is wrong, let another court declare that a noncitizen with no criminal history, no history of flight, & an adjudicated right to asylum may be detained indefinitely without running afoul of the Due Process Clause."

Big in Louisiana today: State Supreme Court upheld decision vacating the conviction of Chris Duncan, who spent 26 years on death row claiming innocence. Context: 80% of people on Louisiana death row have been exonerated; this conviction hinged on discredited doctors. We reported on case here:

NEW: Louisiana Supreme Court Frees Death Row Prisoner, Calling Evidence Against Him “Scientifically Indefensible” @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org

The ongoing Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most significant Ebola event in years and has become an international public health emergency. 1,270+ confirmed cases, at least 360 confirmed deaths. It’s not just a local crisis, it’s a global health concern. 🧵1/7

Excellent breakdown of Chatrie v. US, the Supreme Court’s just-issued opinion finding law enforcement’s use of geofence warrants is a 4th Amendment search — by my terrific GSU Law colleague, @jvagle.me

I’ll bet you didn’t know that the GOP-Evangelical block did not begin with abortion. Post-Roe most evangelicals thought it was a “Catholic issue.” It started because Evangelical leaders in the early 1970’s wanted religious school tax benefits for segregated schools. But that issue wasn’t popular so…

Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits amid boot camp outbreak: Move comes after Hegseth made shot optional for military in April &Texas outbreak has sickened nearly 300 people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A single death in immigrant detention is unacceptable. Mamuka Artmeladze was the 50th person to die in ICE custody during the second Trump administration, according to ABC News. ACT: Join NIJC's action list to help us stop future funding for ICE and CBP: immigrantjustice.org/subscribe

How the Supreme Court interpreted a simple statutory phrase to give executive branch license to undercut asylum protections at the U.S. border. Lucas Guttentag on Court's decision in Al Otro Lado. Guttentag is professor at Yale Law and Stanford Law and former senior official at DOJ and DHS.

Colorado jails put mentally ill and other vulnerable people in solitary confinement. This didn't happen once, it was a routine practice that happened more than 15 days at a time on at least 315 occasions between July 2023 and March 2025. ✏️ @boltsmag.org

At least 35 states have laws against behaviors that can potentially spread HIV. These laws punish people for potentially exposing others to the illness, even if no transmission occurs, and can lead to people being criminalized for simply having sex while HIV-positive.

A useful resource for tracking pending, enacted, and considered state and federal laws increasingly criminalizing protest from 2017 to now, from the International Center for Non-Profit Law. Caveat: you don't always need an enacted law to criminalize protest. www.icnl.org/usprotestlaw...

We've been thrilled to publish ambitious projects all month in collaborations with wonderful newsrooms: @azmirror.com, @themarshallproject.org, @thelensnola.bsky.social, @injusticewatch.org, @boulderrl.bsky.social. Editorial partnerships really enrich journalism, and you'll see that in this thread!

LPRs should seek legal counsel BEFORE traveling outside the U.S. if they have pending criminal charges — EVEN if these charges are untrue. 🧵

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Supreme Court struck a BLOW to lawful permanent residents 👇🏽 We denounce a ruling handed down today by the conservative Supreme Court justices giving immigration officers MORE power to remove lawful permanent residents from the U.S., facilitating deportation. 🧵

"Activities such as speeding, walking a dog not on a leash, or fishing without a valid license may now serve as the basis for the government filing a civil denaturalization complaint in federal courts." From new TRAC report on rising denaturalizations. tracreports.org/reports/774/

Mayor Andre Dickens’ $3.2 billion budget is the largest in Atlanta’s history, but not everyone is thrilled with the way their tax money is being allocated.

I cannot believe they made the exact same mistake that doomed them in the first term: leaving a paper trail showing that the subject-matter experts were overruled by the politicals and thus violated the requirement that TPS decisions be based on country conditions. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/u...

In Alamance County, North Carolina, a pastor is running as an independent to challenge a longtime GOP sheriff, and fears about an immigration crackdown are a defining factor in the race.

BREAKING: Billionaires in America now own a record $9.2 TRILLION in wealth. That's up 32% over the last year. The country's GDP has only risen 6% in that time. Tax breaks for the wealthy don't trickle down to working people. They just create trillionaires.

Good morning, Georgia. Go vote!

Sadly this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects roughly 45 million acres of national forest land.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, the Eleventh Circuit denies Alabama's request to stay the district court order declaring Alabama's nitrogen gas execution protocol unconstitutional. (A stay would allow Thursday's scheduled execution of Jeffery Lee to proceed.) Background: www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-ni...

In newly leaked audio, Rick Jackson, Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, agreed with a voter at a community outreach event that women “need to prove” they were raped and that “two wrongs don’t make a right.” Yet it was just a month ago he publicly supported exceptions for rape and incest

In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.

It also violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. A case about similar GEO Group practices in Colorado is finally going to trial this year (was filed in 2014!). I wrote a bunch about GEO's forced labor policies and the litigation against them here scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...

And it got remanded back to the district court concluded air hunger for 1-3 minutes isn’t a problem & the 11th Circuit told them that was not the case. Alabama’s probably going to appeal this. Super interesting discussion in there about finding firing squad executioners.

Lee actually won a method of execution challenge on nitrogen gas in district court in Alabama after remand from the 11th Circuit & showed the firing squad is a readily available alternative & Alabama has no legitimate penological reason not to use it.

Do you know what surveillance technologies are in use in your community?

In the upcoming midterms, voters in six states will face restrictive voting laws enacted this year. Learn about all of the voting law changes in our latest roundup: bit.ly/4dzRNNM

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

like 80 percent of GDP, in nominal terms at least www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨SHARE WIDELY🚨 The House is voting soon to hand another $70 BILLION to ICE and CBP to expand Trump’s mass deportation agenda. 📣Tell your rep to vote NO: act.nilc.org/page/93101/a... & then tell all of your friends to take action too!

I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

Between 2025 and 2026, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day grew by nearly 60%. Thanks to Trump's deportation agenda, expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since last year.

Old trees are valuable. There is hardly anything else on Earth that harbors such a rich community of life within a single living organism. David Attenborough

In North Carolina, a board was set up to review the sentences of people who were convicted as minors and it provided a rare chance for them to talk about their childhood and what they’d accomplished in prison. The board has since disbanded.

Flock Safety has a $7.5 billion valuation, a massive drone lab, and a brand-new Boston office. It can also be defeated by a fifty-cent piece of plastic. READ HERE: binj.news/2026/06/01... #surveillance #ALPR #privacy #4thAmendment

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

❗️FBI is reaching out to people who were previously arrested by NJSP during protests outside Delaney Hall. Some have received phone calls or door knocks. National Lawyers Guild is spreading an advisory for people to contact their hotline if feds come knocking:

“The zoo says that the facility would be about 50 yards from some of its animals and that the noise could disturb its residents, including a leap of leopards that hail originally from Southeast Asia.”

This happens about once a week in Denmark

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

I just want to point out that temperatures over land (where we all live) have warmed over twice as fast as ocean surface temperatures. The latest update through 2025 is... not great 🥴 Graphic created by www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temp...

William Pulte is currently the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Now he's acting Director of National Intelligence. @thomasberry.bsky.social explains the loopholes that allow this appointment under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act and what Congress can do: