North Carolina Governor Josh Stein has denied most clemency petitions he’d received from juvenile lifers. Two of the four men whose petitions haven’t yet been decided have already been exonerated but they remain in prison.

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BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional, issues preliminary injunction requiring compliance with the law. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, opens his opinion with an Orwell quote.

A new report used census data to estimate that more than 100,00 U.S. citizen kids had an immigrant parent detained since Trump took office in January. Brookings’ analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on detentions, which can lead to family separation www.propublica.org/article/trum...

As Sotomayor notes:

I know that it's Calvinball now but saying you're going to dismantle a district because it's 47% African American sure seems like the intentional racial discrimination that's still banned

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

...the law binds but does not protect...

Do read this 🧵 from Melissa —>

One of the famous duties of Vice Presidents of the United States, "investigating" US states. And the media just nods along.

I kind of question any interview that doesn’t have a follow up to, “You have to show ID to walk in a restaurant.”

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Cook Co prosecutors are trying to block nearly every exonerated person who is seeking a certificate of innocence, which can help w/ getting jobs, housing and modest state compensation More great digging by @injusticewatch.org on the changing approach to innocence claims by the new state's attny

There is no way that the country can allow the Fifth Circuit's en banc decision allowing forced classroom presentation of the Ten Commandments to exist alongside Mahmoud. It's laughable. And offensive. It's discussed elsewhere, but Higginson, dissenting, got the last word — and it's good:

Kavanaugh Stops

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

"To have your child abused while in the government's care, to not understand what has happened or how to protect them, to not even be told about the abuse, it is unimaginable," said an attorney representing the girl. https://to.pbs.org/3PV4hr9

They were lying? No. This is my shocked face.

8th Cir. holds it was clearly established law that it would violate the Fourth Amendment for state troopers to fail to give effect to the expungement of a prior felony conviction when arresting for felon-in-possession. No QI for trooper superintendent. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/04...

A new lawsuit today asks a federal judge to end a recent policy shift at DHS, under which ICE agents have used their own administrative warrants to force entry into peoples’ homes without sign-off from a judge. It brings together three families whose homes were raided and claims clear 4A violations.

Oh, well, in that case

This style of argument—the president can defy a federal law, one signed by an earlier president, because the law interferes with the president's power to take care that federal laws are faithfully executed—is nonsense and should be treated as such.

6th Cir. holds that district court's policy "as a matter of custom" to not consider requests for early termination of supervised release for individuals until they have completed at least half the term of supervision was an abuse of discretion. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

This is embarrassing writing and position taking by DOJ

As the number of people in detention climb, so have the deaths: The 33 fatalities in 2025 were the most in a single year on record since the Department of Homeland Security started operating in March 2003. Reporting w/ Allison McCann and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

A veteran who was in the US Army for 22 years. #NoKings in DC.

Jim Crow shit

JUST IN: Citing "grave" violations of right to legal counsel, Judge Nancy Brasel (Trump/MN) converts TRO to preliminary injunction, no transfers of immigration detainees out of state for 72 hours plus chance to call lawyer within an hour of arrest. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

TSA tipped off ICE before the arrests of a mother and daughter under deportation orders at San Francisco’s airport, federal documents show.

I simply can’t believe this is a real photo in the Times profile of Bovino

Q: President Trump has railed against mail in voting, but yesterday he voted by mail in Florida. How do you square that? JOHNSON: Look, I think some states have handled mail-in balloting well. Florida is a good example of that. They don't allow fraud. That's not true in other parts of the country.

ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient. trib.al/BOeMew3

Get it giiiiiiiiirl

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Compare the Court's decision — paving the way for police demands to "show your papers" — with the text of the relevant Alabama law, which says literally nothing about showing ID or any other paper.

Application deadline is Friday; tell all your pals!!

sand in every MFing gear

4th Cir., 2-1,: it violated the 4A for officers to cite only passenger's romantic relationship with already-arrested driver-boyfriend to justify searching car that she owned and was prepared to drive away. "this amounts to a criminality-by-association test" www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

This is from the same Administration that DOGE'd the entire Honors Program class of highly credentialed new-graduate attorneys.

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

This is a great write-up. And, from a practitioner's perspective, the kind of conduct DOJ lawyers have gotten away with to date is massively beyond what would get a private lawyer fined or locked up. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/federal...

I unscrapped scrapping my article about Charles Sonny Burton, and wrote about a different positive aspect of the commutation of his death sentence: It's another signal that Americans are ready to stop executing people for murders they didn't commit ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

👀 ICE deported two U.S. citizen children with their mother to Guatemala, even though she had apparently elected to leave them with their grandmother in Florida. The govt is now arranging their return under court order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICYMI, @thecoalition.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a new First Amendment lawsuit earlier today challenging the Trump admin's denial of visas to tech researchers, tech workers, fact-checkers. Here's a post explaining why we're suing. mailchi.mp/knightcolumb...

Oh my god

Your Honor, we would like to introduce this clip as Exhibit #1.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...