🎧 On the #BrokenLaw podcast, @scottsakiyama.bsky.social joins @lindsaylangholz.bsky.social to discuss his experiences combatting authoritarian tactics used by federal immigration enforcement agents and what activists in other cities can learn from Chicago. www.acslaw.org/podcast/epis...

This this this 👇🏻

Today is the 70th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

Rest of the country getting the DC treatment as they run the exact same play.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest. “If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?" She's calling for new measures to end harassment www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Real people live in this (incredibly Democratic) city. It would be nice if national Democrats seemed to care about that fact even a little. Willing to sacrifice the people of DC to avoid a government shutdown. Willing to sacrifice the people of DC to government occupation.

This is doubly true: we can’t vote for our top prosecutor *and* we can’t vote for any of the senators who do.

also raising my eyebrow at 'huh, so many historian briefs support liberal positions--I guess history profs are Dem elites' or maybe historians felt compelled to respond to originalism's ascendancy and the Supreme Court's reliance on spurious historical arguments to advance a far-right policy agenda

📖 Informative new piece in @boltsmag.org with redistricting expert and ACS friend @mcpli.bsky.social!

Do you remember the horrific abduction in Worcester, MA where protestors clashed with ICE as they ripped a woman away from her family? The horror continues. The woman’s 13 and 17 year old daughters were placed in foster care. They are now both missing. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...

And also, national media have completely lost the vocabulary to describe when something is unconstitutional but there’s no court order coming. Here’s the missing vocab: it’s “unconstitutional.” (Would also accept “illegal,” “unlawful,” or “a violation of the oath of office”)

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

🎧 In light of escalating instances of political violence, @cwrightdurocher.bsky.social & @lindsaylangholz.bsky.social discuss on Broken Law the ways in which our legal system is being weaponized against disfavored groups & the toll that political violence takes on our rights & communities.

Love Island USA watchers learning in real time what happens when you don’t have ranked choice voting.

SCOTUS’s order to keep independent officials fired by Trump out of their offices while their legal challenges move forward bodes ill for checks and balances. Grateful to discuss with @lindsaylangholz.bsky.social on Broken Law, the podcast of the ‪@acslaw.bsky.social‬. www.acslaw.org/podcast/epis...

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

This election is effectively the one that determines who will be the next governor. The margin is likely to be no more than 100,000 votes. Never have New Jerseyans been this powerful in setting the direction of their state. Vote tomorrow.

Hotline for Immigrant Law Defenders: 213-833-8283 Legal representative line for CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles): 213-201-3797 ACLU Rapid Response Hotline for LA County: 888-624-4752

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Pope Sixtus the Sixth

Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases — cases backed by Jonathan Mitchell (think, Texas's S.B. 8), the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (think, Hobby Lobby), and Alliance Defending Freedom (think, 303 Creative and mifepristone). Do not sleep on these cases.

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Can’t find the words to describe how bleak this is

Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.

👇 This right here. Lawyers provide both solidarity and the legal representation we will need to preserve our legal and constitutional rights. We will not be intimidated. If you are looking for ways to stand together, here are a few opportunities (🧵 below). This fight will take all of us.

The Floor schedule for next week just announced by House Republican leadership does not include Senate-passed legislation to restore $1.1B in funding stripped out of the D.C. budget in last week's C.R.

“Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.” - Ted Sorensen

People also need to understand this isn’t federal money, this is DC money collected through DC taxes. They’re openly stealing from the city with the intent to immiserate the people living there because they resent the idea they should be allowed to govern themselves.

The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*

Senseless pain is about to be afflicted to D.C., a place that has no congressional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

Andrea Dworkin said this in 1995 and it could be this week nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin...

👋 Action Needed! Public comment! Proposed changes to passport access creates barriers for individuals who already face discrimination & delays when obtaining accurate identification. Comments due next week & can be submitted w/ @transequality.bsky.social transequality.org/news/freedom...

anyway as i've argued before any class politics worth its name is not going to treat identity as an obstacle to solidarity but as an asset. "we all suffer in different ways under capitalism and the only way to relieve your particular suffering is to help me relieve mine and vice versa."

Marginalized people who accept their denial of dignity are often applauded by those untouched by such violations. But Douglass was right: "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

Trump is now < 50%, and leads Harris < 2%. This election was extremely close. That margin will have enormous consequences. But it’s small enough that instead of debating which vulnerable groups and standards of decency Dems should abandon, they could just focus on how to better defend both.

I have 0 interest in the intraleft blame game (except that I will not tolerate throwing trans people to the wolves at a time they need our support most). But dear fellow campaigners, please keep these charts in mind when building your senior teams in 2026 and 2028. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Trans people deserve the same rights as everyone else, you ghoul.

People will be like "Oh! These trans people want outrageous things!" and the "outrageous things" are literally just • legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc • the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender

“I think it’s the clearest message you could have possibly received from an anti-abortion state that they never meant the medical exemption to mean anything at all.” www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

Abortion ban "exceptions" don't exist. They never existed. Not for rape. Not for incest. Not for the life of the mother. The only people they're designed to protect is the politicians who tout them as a fraudulent defense of an inhumane policy. Exceptions are a talking point and nothing else.