Since I wrote this at 3:10 AM, because I was so enraged by the treatment of Liam Ramos and his family, and then went back to sleep, I just re-up the following: Congress can pass private bills of immigration, www.congress.gov/crs-product/....

Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The job of a lawyer is generally to tell you what the safest option is, and that’s not always the best option.

Well, they’re fucking deporting him now. So what are you going to do about it, Senator?

So incredibly racist. Would be a huge scandal for any president where everyone in the world didn’t already know he was a horrible human being with no moral compass.

So absurd — with all the corruption on the supreme court, @MarshaBlackburn wants Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson investigated for going to the Grammys, because they said mean stuff about her puppet master’s goons (As Marsha passes laws to stuff her own pockets with taxpayer cash)

Stephen Miller went from doing TV hits 24/7 to the witness protection program. Not that I mind, but it’s pretty obvious someone has figured out that his face, his voice, his words and his deeds disgusts every non-MAGA cultist in America. I’m sure he’ll be back though.

BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org is filing an OIG complaint after DOJ illegally withheld records from AG Pam Bondi, DAG Todd Blanche & other leaders discussing the Epstein files @axios.com: "DOJ omitted communication from Bondi, Patel in Epstein files, watchdog says"

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

Let me guess, there's no clearly established right for a dog not to be kicked for no reason.

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

Journalists at Washington, D.C.’s leading publication were not allowed to report on decisions by that publication’s leaders to lay off roughly 1/3 of the newsroom and shutter entire sections of the paper—decisions that will dramatically change news coverage in and of the nation’s capital and beyond.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

"Elections are unfair unless I win."

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Sir Ian McKellen, Ladies and Gentlemen. 86YEARS YOUNG.

"'The Framers of the Constitution understood that if the federal government were in charge of elections, that’s a path to tyranny.'"

Who entered Epstein's jail tier the night of his death? Newly released video logs appear to contradict official accounts. Full Story: bit.ly/4ccBYxs

The IRS contractor who leaked the returns has already been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. That satisfies Trump's vengeance but doesn't do anything to line his pockets, so ....

Every president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017. He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.

WE VOTE ANYWAY. WE WILL NOT BE COWED.

WATCH: “Is your job to make sure the health care system stays broken?” Blue Cross lobbyist Russell Marty kept their *expert* Doctor J.B. Sobel from talking to us after Sobel defended the insurance industry practice of denying/downcoding necessary care Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DUZEFzt...

This pro-Trump nostalgia absolutely was confirmed over and over again by the Dems' own internal polling, in a truly horrifying way: newrepublic.com/article/1882...

I know we have some 🔥 senators on the Democratic team. Can one of them, please, step up and throw their hat in the ring for leader? Stop complaining in private because this is intolerable. @democrats.senate.gov

I’m just going to say it: I was molested from 12 to 16. I was definitely not an adult even at the last time that man did what he did and you have to be the worlds biggest asshole pedophile apologist to think that being sixteen when an ancient man puts his fingers in you makes a fcking difference.

In fact, I just started talking about it because what the hell, America: Renee Good’s death should be the subject of a criminal and civil rights investigation. 20 lawyers have quit over this decision.

He's extorting them for revenge. Partly just because he's greedy and mean, but mostly because they embarrassed him by not caving to his original blatant extortion. Harvard told him to go f**k himself and it made him look weak and impotent. That's why he's demanding a billion dollars.

(1/2) When MAGA gets triggered by Newsom, they try to paint California as waning. In fact, it's now the 5th largest economy in the world AS A COUNTRY. Millions of dentally challenged Americans in Red States benefit from California's massive $ contributions to the federal treasury.

To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow: Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too. Signed, the American people

Best short I've seen on this topic... youtube.com/shorts/UDAOP...

Campaign says Jan 6 police responder Harry Dunn raised more than $500,000 in the first 24 hours of his campaign for Congress in Maryland

I want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.

"House Republicans have just created a precedent that allows Congress to compel former presidents to testify under threat of contempt, which can result in charges that may lead to jail." Someone's not thrilled. The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4ahzQls

This is so embarrassing. And the harder they "campaign" for the Nobel like it was an Oscar, the less likely he is to ever get it.

Talwani specifically cited the recent op-ed by DHS General Counsel James Percival, saying noncitizens with final removal orders are "fugutives from justice" and don't have 4th Amendment protection from agents entering their homes. The risk of error is high, she says.

JUST IN: In a new court filing, attorneys for Marimar Martinez call Chicago's U.S. attorney's office "active enablers of an out-of-control client." They cite reports from @chicago.suntimes.com and @npr.org in which DHS refuses to back down on claims that Martinez is a "domestic terrorist."

REP. JACKSON at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We pray (Trump) would be mindful of the poor, and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering on farms in the Midwest, and in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

I’m betting Comer will suddenly lose interest in this hearing.

The Supreme Court settled this in 1954 (Accardi): immigration judges are supposed to be neutral. If they bend to the executive's whims instead of acting neutrally, deporting people bc the President dislikes them, the deportations are unlawful. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

They were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out. (Part 2)

Important: the longstanding Department of Justice manual on election offenses emphasizes respecting states' lead role, not doing voter interviews that might chill voting, and, vitally, not seizing ballots or machines until states have certified a result. But now the manual has gone missing.

The @miamiherald.com previously reported on Mark Epstein's FBI tip accusing Trump of authorizing Jeffrey's murder. Here is a link to the official DOJ file: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... It's real. It should be an enormous scandal and the subject of an investigation.

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark sent a tip to the FBI accusing Trump of authorizing his murder: “I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe Present Trump authorized is murder.“

Spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says both President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi asked Gabbard to be present for an FBI search of the elections headquarters in Fulton County, Georgia www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-g...

NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today. "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..." Law Dork:

Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.

Boris Nikolic: When are you back in NYC? Epstein: 4th im in palm with all the trump boys. . fun Email from December 25, 2016.

The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ... 1/7 www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Judge Alvin Hellerstein, tasked by an appeals court to re-evaluate the matter, displayed a mix of questioning and disbelief during nearly three hours of arguments. Trump is seeking to transfer his case from state court to federal, so he can petition for dismissal on grounds of presidential immunity.