/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.

They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.

I have spent over 45 years in the Libertarian Party opposing governmental overreach. It has been heart breaking to discover how many people I had considered friends and allies for decades turned out to only oppose overreach by the left.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Group launches $1 million ad campaign to promote "No Kings" nationwide rallies on Oct. 18. Ads running in more than 185 local papers across 31 states + full-page ads in NYT, WaPo and USA Today. All call on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I'll be speaking at Houston's protest, scheduled for 2-6pm at City Hall.

Find your local No Kings event here: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=h...

Trump didn’t just instruct his cronies to look into Letitia James to see what they could rustle up. Instead, he twisted the entire federal government into a shape designed to produce the criminal indictment he demanded. Be shocked, if you still can be.

Next Saturday there will be nationwide protests against the lawless actions of the Trump administration. I'll be speaking at the Houston's protest, which is from 2-6pm at City Hall. nokings.org

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

I shall be officially adopting this scale.

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

There is an escalation ladder here and he understands how that is the absolute last step, one you don't touch until all else has failed and you've done a lot of laying the groundwork. Things are bad, heading that way, it's deadly serious. But we're not there yet and he is right to not say it now.

Challenging red-state governors to take seriously the breakdown of the Constitution and the Union isn't something to be done because there's much realistic chance they will defect. It is something you have to do first to make plain their betrayal and the implications of that.

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On why Trump's determination that the U.S. is engaged in an armed conflict with drug cartels is (i) wrong; and (ii) insufficient, in any event, to make legal the strikes against vessels in the Caribbean. www.justsecurity.org/121844/trump...

All legal nonsense aside about the supposed state of armed conflict between the U.S. and Venezuelan gangs, what "I wish to emphasize is that there is a word for killings outside of armed conflict for which there is no domestic legal authority. That word is murder." [@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org]

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

I really don't understand why there are journalists surprised to see Cato lead against ICE and DHS. They've been doing so since the PATRIOT Act was proposed. Cato has always been better on this than the Dems, whose leaders haven't taken a principled pro-immigration stance in my lifetime.

Trump Administration Stomps All Over The Hatch Act With Shutdown Website Banners And Away Messages The Hatch Act of 1939 is a beautiful piece of legislation. It disallows all kinds of things, like bribing voters with jobs to vote a certain way, as well as limiting any campaign activity by federal…

BREAKING: Federal judge in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case finds that "there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego to discovery" in response to his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive or selective prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.

DHS has effectively reinterpreted (also illegally) “reasonable suspicion” as racial profiling, so now here it is making a statement that it uses racial profiling to arrest and cuff people, even Americans abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

These people hate our country. They hate Americans and have declared war on our constitution and freedoms. They should repent and resign

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

This ought to be the lead story for every news outlet in the country. It won’t be. Imagine that the admin just said “We’re not doing jury trials anymore.”That’s the scale this is on.

The Trump Administration here clearly violating the Fourth Amendment. This lawless administration needs to be ended.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Luby's has a reputation for catering to senior citizens. But I came in for an early lunch and thought, "Hey, they're going for a younger demographic! They're playing 80's music, and the folks here are about my age, and...oh, no!"

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

Post you from a different era.

Trying hard to moderate my Maia Sandu fangirling right now, but I gotta stress she's accomplished something no EEuropean reformist ever has: brought a fugitive oligarch back to face justice AND fended off massive Ru interference to win a referendum and two re-elections (parliamentary+presidential)!

There will be nationwide protests on Saturday, October 18. Houston's will be from noon - 2pm at Discovery Green. I hope you will join me in decrying the continual undermining of the rule of law by this administration. www.nokings.org

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

There is no legitimate reason for these folks to be masked and dressed in civilian clothes. They should be in uniform, have their face and credentials clearly visible, and act only on a valid judicial warrant.

The Constitution is meant to protect ordinary people from their government rather than the other way around. Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.

"I know nothing! Nothing!"

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron

Following Christ means rejecting Christian Nationalism.

Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.

“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.” To the people of the world who wonder if there are Americans who grasp how mad he is: There are. We can see it. We are working to mobilize our people to oppose him and his dangerous regime.

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

In this post, I summarize why Trump's order imposing $100,000 fee on H-1B visas is harmful and illegal. I build in part on insightful piece by my @cato.org colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social one of America's leading immigration policy experts: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

In 'honor' of the latest in a long series of these supposed dates for "the rapture," I would like to reshare this great book that exposes the relatively recent origins of this concept and has a much better interpretation of the Book of Revelation. www.amazon.com/Rapture-Expo...

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.