Breaking: María Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize. www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

In 2002 aumf news

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination." "I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

NEW: There are no plans to deploy National Guard troops to the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, a general tells U.S. District Court Judge April Perry. @wttw.bsky.social

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state. U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

SCOTUS in Trump v. US held that POTUS has broad executive immunity in part based on the fear that failing to recognize broad immunity would lead to a cycle of partisan prosecution. Fast forward to the current moment and we have...partisan prosecutions.

DOJ indicts NY AG Letitia James www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcn...

Indicting political opponents & critics because they are political opponents & critics is terrifying. It's completely inconsistent with the rule of law & democracy. It should scare everyone - and (hopefully) will get people to realize that we all need to stand against this.

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Some of the key elements:

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

Not surprising that Condé Nast named Portland one of the top 4 best big cities in the US. Chicago was ranked #1. www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best...

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Just split screen this nonsense with a live feed from the streets of Portland

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

“.. On Sept. 20, Trump meant to send a private message to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging her to prosecute” Comey. “.. Trump believed he had sent Bondi the message directly .. and was surprised to learn it was public, the officials said.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This is getting wild. The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

is this real life?

Michigan Avenue right now.

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963. It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Well that's not how appropriations work at all *WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

Hello! I am your friendly neighborhood First Amendment professor here to provide some background on Chiles v. Salazar, to be argued in Supreme Court this morning. At issue is whether Colorado can ban licensed therapists from inflicting the discredited practice of “conversion therapy” on minors

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Another Friday afternoon, another #SCOTUS grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration—this time to allow it to continue eliminating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. The three Democratic appointees all dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military. Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder: * There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

One of the questions posed by NYT to a panel of 50 legal experts - note that at least 1 of the "experts" answered "Trump is not using power excessively" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

Yesterday, Judge Immergut issued second TRO barring *any* state national guard from any state being deployed to Oregon www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

BREAKING: California joins Oregon's existing suit over National Guard deployment, both request Judge Immergut issue TRO against CA guard being sent to OR, argue Trump admin move is attempt to circumvent court order. Docs: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

Before 2025, it would be hard to imagine how federal government functions and federalism are selectively and simultaneously under attack at the same time, but here we are.

A seemingly never ending saga in which the administration will deploy another state's national guard in response to a federal court blocking deployment of the original state's national guard, requiring more litigation challenging the new deployment.

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked his Portland troop deployment plan.

The judge is a woman.

🚨NEW FROM TEXAS REDISTRICTING HEARING🚨 “They achieved those partisan objectives by focusing on race,” Matt Barreto, a political science professor with the UCLA Voting Rights Project, told the court Saturday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen newrepublic.com/article/2013...