Dahlia Lithwick
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Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
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emptywheel
4 days ago
ABC reports that Mike Flynn’s reward for committing crimes for Trump will be $1.2M.
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DOJ to pay ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn $1M to settle malicious prosecution suit: Sources
The DOJ has reached an agreement with ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn to pay him roughly $1.2 million to settle claims that he was politically prosecuted, sources say.
https://abcnews.com/US/doj-pay-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-1m-settle/story?id=131411111
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Protect Democracy
4 days ago
All eyes are on the midterms as Trump uses the gov's full force to supercharge election lies in case he doesn't like the results. NEW: We just published a roadmap for journalists, advocates, and voters outlining what we can do about it. Join us, start here: 🔗
https://protdem.org/executive-override
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Anna Bower
4 days ago
A key question ahead of tomorrow’s hearing in Atlanta: Will the FBI agent who swore out the affidavit supporting the warrant be compelled to testify? We’re awaiting an order from Judge Boulee on that question. Stay tuned!
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The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL)
4 days ago
Absolute Units turns 1! Thanks to everyone who has listened in, supported us, and joined us in the booth in these past 12 months. Here's our special anniversary episode, answering many of the questions you very good people sent us yesterday.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 days ago
This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
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Jay Kuo
5 days ago
The danger grows each time ICE is used in ways it’s not supposed to be. Video:
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine
5 days ago
Prosecutor admits government lacks evidence of misconduct by Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell
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Greg Sargent
5 days ago
Awful: Stephen Miller is privately urging Texas lawmakers to restrict funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2081...
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Great read. Congratulations Anna!
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Reuters Institute
6 days ago
5️⃣ Younger audiences also consume more podcasts than older people, with 59% of 18–24s listening to any kind of podcast monthly, compared with just 24% of people over 54. However, news podcasts specifically are not driving as much attention as other genres
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Reuters Institute
6 days ago
6️⃣ Young people are much less interested in news than ten years ago in a trend echoed across all age groups Only 35% of 18–24 say they are very or extremely interested in news, compared with 52% of those over 54. Interest within the youngest group has fallen from 60% to 35% in the past decade.
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Christopher Webb
7 days ago
Well, ICE has arrived. Excuse me, but how are ICE agents roaming the airports and standing around helping with the long line situation? Watch this…
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Democracy Docket
7 days ago
🧵(1/X) 🚨HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS is hearing arguments in a GOP challenge to Mississippi’s mail ballot grace period — a case that could impact YOUR vote if you depend on mail-in voting. Check out our live blog and follow this thread for real-time updates and analysis from Marc Elias and our team:
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LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court hears GOP case that could decimate mail-in voting
The case is squarely part of the broader GOP effort, led by President Donald Trump, to restrict mail voting, out of a belief that it helps Democrats.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-blog-supreme-court-hears-gop-case-that-could-decimate-mail-in-voting/
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This week with
@mjsdc.bsky.social
on the box the Roberts Six have painted for themselves and the reason sometimes you say your dissent out loud.
shows.acast.com/amicus-with-...
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The Roberts Court’s Internal Reckoning | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
The Supreme Court’s shadow docket antics have fractured the judiciary, now internal tensions are spilling out in public and onto the docket.
https://shows.acast.com/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/episodes/69bd9bbb62f6c66afec5208d
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Andrew Weissmann
8 days ago
Robert Mueller, a tribute
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Robert Mueller
A tribute
https://open.substack.com/pub/weissmann/p/robert-mueller?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
11 days ago
WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.
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Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski
Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-contractors-told-white-house-officials-asked-pay-corey-lewandowski-rcna263744
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Ryan Goodman
11 days ago
Tulsi Gabbard under oath: "I was at Fulton County, Sir, at the request of the president." Feb. 5: President Trump: "She went in at Pam’s insistence.” Feb. 4: NBC's Tom Llamas: "Why is Tulsi Gabbard there?" President Trump: "I don’t know."
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Aaron Rupar
12 days ago
wow! Rand Paul begins Markwayne Mullin's hearing by confronting him about comments he made describing Paul as a "freakin' snake" & "celebrating" Paul getting assaulted "I wonder if someone who applauds political violence is right to lead an agency that has struggled to accept proper use of force"
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DrDinD.bsky.social
13 days ago
🧵Judge overrules RFK Jr's efforts to trash vaccinations. "The pediatrics academy lauded the...ruling...it “effectively means that a science-based process for developing immunization recommendations is not to be trifled with & represents a critical step to restoring scientific decision-making...
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Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/childhood-vaccines-lawsuit-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.OJ-M.Z6nHQ10Y9D1W&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Steve Vladeck
13 days ago
#SCOTUS
just granted certiorari before judgment in *both* the Syria and Haiti Temporary Protected Status (TPS) cases—and will hear argument on the merits in April. But it *deferred* the Trump administration's stay applications in both cases, so the DHS actions in those cases remain blocked for now:
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Mike Masnick
14 days ago
Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."
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There is so very very much to learn about the origins and history of US citizenship and migration and that in turn shapes the grim, bad originalism deployed to strip it.
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
is a must-listen and a must-read in advance of the birthright citizenship arguments in two weeks.
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Scott Littlehale
15 days ago
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
(Prof. Anna O. Law) compellingly summarized parts of her forthcoming book on
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social
's podcast Amicus. I'd say it sounds like a must-read for people who want to better understand our "nation of immigrants" (e.g., me!)
www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...
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Stardust 🌏🎬
16 days ago
Judge James E. Boasberg derided the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for pursuing a case against Jerome H. Powell that appeared to be motivated by Trump’s desire for vengeance.
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Judge Quashes Justice Dept.’s Subpoenas of Fed, Crippling Its Pursuit of Trump’s Rivals
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/jerome-powell-trump-subpoenas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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JP Collins
17 days ago
Judge VanDyke's opinion was so offensive that 29 of the Ninth Circuit's senior and active judges, including a few Trump appointees, issued these rebukes:
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and this week's Amicus podcast!
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One of Trump’s Worst U.S. Attorneys Just Stepped on the Dumbest Possible Rake
Eagle Ed, up to his old tricks.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/trump-loyalist-ed-martin-dumb-fail-doj.html
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Chris Geidner
18 days ago
Per WSJ’s new reporting, it appears that DOJ, White House Counsel’s Office, and “top aides” tried to stop defense of the law firm EOs without directly telling Trump?
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Mark Joseph Stern
20 days ago
Jordan Fox, the special attorney who admitted that her office violated a ton of court orders, was in fact serving illegally the whole time ...
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NPR
22 days ago
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.
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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.
https://n.pr/4b7dB23
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With
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of Americans United on all the many many ways church is crowding out state, and why it all started at SCOTUS
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Church and State are Being Reunited, Thanks to SCOTUS | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
An unholy alliance between the Roberts majority and the Trump administration is demolishing the separation of church and state.
https://shows.acast.com/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/episodes/69ab3e6db49eecc0b7c56858
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Kyle Griffin
24 days ago
MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.
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Amanda Katz
24 days ago
The Justice Department released *some* of the missing files, namely FBI interview notes from the woman alleging Epstein trafficked her as a young teen to Trump, Trump sexually assaulted her, and then she later endured a series of threats not to talk. Very dark reading
www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
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Justice Department publishes some missing Epstein files related to Trump
The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/nx-s1-5737562/justice-department-missing-epstein-files-trump
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Protect Democracy
24 days ago
We're proud to support this bipartisan coalition of high-level former defense officials and policy leaders urging Congress to investigate the Trump admin’s threat to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk - a penalty for disagreeing w/the admin. Read the letter:
https://protdem.org/4sq0yjm
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Taniel
26 days ago
Dan Crenshaw has been ousted from Congress. The AP called the
#TX09
primary for Steve Toth, one of the most far-right members of the Texas House.
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19thnews
26 days ago
James Talarico is expected to win the Texas Senate primary over Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Decision Desk HQ projects. Many in the party viewed the race, the first major primary of the 2026 midterms, as a test of the party’s future direction.
https://bit.ly/4rQ5OwR
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Aaron Rupar
26 days ago
after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.
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Josh Block
26 days ago
Very stable genius strikes again.
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Kyle Cheney
27 days ago
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy."
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Ryan Goodman
27 days ago
“Fortunately, we have Andrew Weissmann to illuminate these dark times and to offer a roadmap back to sanity, a reinvestment in our age-old principles and a return to virtue.” -
@kenlburns.bsky.social
Order new book here:
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With former Solicitor General of the United States Donald Verrilli Jr. on why one still fights at SCOTUS
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Yes, Supreme Court Decisions Really Matter | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
No, that doesn’t mean the wizards in robes are doing magic. The former Solicitor General of the United States puts the tariffs case in its legal realism context.
https://shows.acast.com/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/episodes/69a20a5fe1cf48c7c1b7244f
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The Popehat Of Philadily
about 1 month ago
If I want to know about Supreme Court procedure I would definitely ask on Truth Social, yep
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Scott Horton
about 1 month ago
Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report.
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Pentagon removes senior official from Joint Staff post, sources say
U.S. Vice Admiral Fred Kacher only took the post in December.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-removes-senior-official-joint-staff-post-sources-say-2026-02-26/
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Trump on the Supreme Court's tariffs ruling: "Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible???"
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 1 month ago
Lest anyone think Judge Murphy selectively quoted Mary Larakers—the DOJ lawyer defending third-country deportations—here's the full exchange from the transcript.
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Don Moynihan
about 1 month ago
The most fraudridden administration in American history will make an argument to the Supreme Court that it will not fund eligible health care claims because it is fighting fraud.
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Laura Jedeed
about 1 month ago
Seeing some "fuck Kansas" replies/QTs and while I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment behind the statement, I think a better response would be "fuck, we need to help the people of Kansas" If anyone knows a good way to do that, please put it in the comments and I will amplify
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