"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

To be clear, it would not remotely make shipping hundreds of kids off to dangerous circumstances worth it, but I wouldn't hate if this ends up with Ensign in contempt.

now i’m no law professor but

Willing to bet a very large amount that most of that 413% rise in “assaults” on ICE agents represent unarmed people attacking ICE fists with their faces and boots with their kidneys. Because these people are lying scum.

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.

the rightwing influencers are trying hard to flip the narrative to “it’s your duty to sacrifice for your country” like during WWII. except WE ARE NOT AT FUCKING WAR you walnuts.

This is nonsense. Just nonsense.

mind you this is all before things start getting really bad we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

The courts aren't equipped to deal with this single-handedly, and they're not getting needed support from either of Congress or SCOTUS. This is a bend-don't-break defense, and every day this goes on it leans further toward break. I'm sad, scared, and angry that this is where we are. But it is.

Truth. One of my favorite examples from the bench: "You lost on that issue. Move on."

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

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I'll lend my keen legal analysis to this evening's decision: 5 of them are irredeemable sacks of shit, and 3 of those are trying to convince themselves we don't realize it.

As Mark says, don't read too much into the stay. But this is sort of it. If SCOTUS agrees the government can disappear you to a Salvadorian labor camp, and there's no legal recourse even if you're innocent because of Article II, then none of your other rights mean a damn thing.

The temptation as a career DOJ attorney to go down in a blaze of glory. Not hard to make the case that it's not only ethical but a moral imperative.

THIS. #HandsOff

passim

So brave.

This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now. That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.

Our official statement from Albert Sellars LLP on President Trump's recent executive order.

I can’t compete with this

I get the impression—and this letter from Judge Hollander in the SSA DOGE case helped to crystalize it—that the federal bench is developing new procedural mechanisms for dealing with the Trump admin. It bodes well, I think. (Quick thread.)

That answers that question.

Well this is dark.

Today, a law firm with a storied history surrendered to fascism. Even with a former Attorney General, former Sec. of Homeland Security, two former U.S. Attorneys & a former federal judge among their partners, the firm decided that the rule of law would not protect them from Learned Hand’s “bad man”.

USA! USA!

This is the Chuck Schumer of TRO denials.

This is not how you address a court investigating your violation of its order:

Sincere question I had not previously considered: does presidential pardon power extend to contempt of court?

Sometimes, there’s a man. I won’t say a hero, ‘cause what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man.

Ouch. I'm glad judges are pushing, but at some point they need to get over their habitual deference to the government and handle this as they would most cases, to wit: "Counsel, step outside the courtroom, get on your phone, and bring someone here who can answer my questions. You have one hour."

My favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote--"you are what you pretend to be"--comes from Mother Night, a novel about an American spy who pretends to be a Nazi propagandist only to realize later in life he was just being a Nazi propagandist

Big Deal: The office of special counsel, the head of which Trump recently tried to fire before being blocked by a judge, has issued an opinion which suggests that many of the recent firings are unlawful. The details here matter. So def read the piece. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny