SEPTEMBER 2025 ARIZONA PRISON DEATHS REMEMBERING ELEVEN PERSONS who died in Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) custody during the month of SEPTEMBER 2025:

ATLANTIC: “Miller, like Trump, appears to believe his side stands for what is right and good, and his opponents stand for what is evil. Any methods used by Trump are ipso facto justified, and any methods used against him illegitimate.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

According to the Medical Examiner's Office, 36 people died after being booked into Maricopa County (Phoenix) jails last year, nine more than the 27 previously reported by the Sheriff's Office. Think about that. A QUARTER of jail deaths were not acknowledged by MCSO last year.

The D stands for dick, a person who no one asked for advice and whose contempt ooze is unmatched.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

On any given day women make up about 12% of people in the Maricopa County jails. But in 2024, ten (28%) of 36 people who died in custody were women. Six died from drug OD or withdrawal, two from suicide. Six have already died in MCSO custody in 2025. Why?

Kind of surreal that a government official was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and there's not even a question that he will continue serving as it nothing ever happened. Like even the most basic standards of public accountability are a joke.

On any given day women make up about 12% of those in the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office custody. But last year 10 (28%) of 36 people who died in the jails were women, six from drug overdose, two from suicide. 12% of the population, 28% of the deaths. Six women have already died in 2025. Why?

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.

Trump posts a deranged message to Pam Bondi pressuring her to prosecute his political enemies after a U.S. attorney quit because he refused to fabricate charges: “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.”

John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.

FCC Commissioner: I have never seen the FCC act this way. We are seeing an administration that wields whatever authority it has in order to silence critics, not because they're doing anything illegal, but because they don't like the content of the message. It's unprecedented and it's dangerous.

AUGUST 2025 ARIZONA PRISON DEATHS REMEMBERING ELEVEN PERSONS who died in Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) custody during the month of AUGUST 2025:

I'm always blown away by how smoothly @kateshaw.bsky.social can synthesize and communicate her impossibly vast knowledge of the law and court cases with such insight and precision, but even by that standard this convo w @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social is top tier stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

#ICYMI: Me on Trump's latest request for "emergency" relief from #SCOTUS (on foreign aid impoundment), and how it depends upon an emergency the government manufactured and a claim that DOJ failed to properly preserve below. In other words, it relies upon the justices not caring about being played:

REMEMBERING SEVEN PERSONS who died in Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) custody during the month of July 2025:

The Department of Homeland Security is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to question anyone who speaks Spanish “to support reasonable suspicion that the person is here illegally.” This isn’t “common sense,” it’s blatant racism. trib.al/OQgw8gc

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Important Thread 🧵: This Trump Executive Order allows for the expansion of a legal doctrine called "Civil Commitment," allowing for INDEFINITE DETENTION based on a determination of dangerousness NOT for being charged and convicted of a crime Minority Report www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Opposing genocide isn’t anti-semitic. Every word of this. Jon Stewart: “I feel I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane & horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state? They’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.” #Gaza

Not hard at all

'Almost bullying': Legal expert rips SCOTUS for lack of 'explanation' in key ruling www.alternet.org/education-de...

REMEMBERING ELEVEN PERSONS who died in Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) custody during the month of June 2025.

Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.

I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine. One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."

ICE is going to get someone killed. This was outside 100 Montgomery in SF’s Financial District. If you needed proof these rookie hires aren’t trained, here it is. Real feds de-escalate. They call for backup. They don’t drag people down the street w/a car. Hope everyone’s OK. (Multi-angle footage)

BREAKING: Federal judge who ordered Trump admin facilitate the return of Cristian, who was sent to CECOT, highlights the UN Report covered at Law Dork yesterday. www.lawdork.com/p/un-documen... Judge orders government to explain by next Tuesday, July 15, how this gels with what they've told her.

In every part of the US, incarceration is out of step with the rest of the world. Even “progressive” states–like California & Illinois–have higher incarceration rates than countries with authoritarian governments. So much for the "land of the free."

The budget bill’s funding for tens of thousands more beds in ICE detention facilities comes at a time when the Trump administration is blocking congressional oversight of those facilities. bit.ly/4lm5Itx

Justice Sotomayor: "What the Government wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States from Djibouti to South Sudan, where they will be turned over to the local authorities without regard for the likelihood that they will face torture or death."

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Via "One First" (cross-posted at @justsecurity.org), @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and I break down what we view as the right way to reconcile the President's Article II power to "protect federal functions" and the Posse Comitatus Act's ban on unauthorized use of the military for domestic law enforcement:

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"No president should persecute the people who strengthen our national security, not when our military suffers from historic recruitment lows. No national leader should force soldiers to move against their own communities and allies."

MAY 2025 ARIZONA PRISON DEATHS REMEMBERING SIXTEEN PERSONS who died in Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry custody during the month of May 2025:

The cowardice of the Congressional GOP to not put guardrails on the lunatic in the Oval Office - as they are required to by oath - is overwhelming at times.

The U.S. prison labor system has deep historical roots. After the Civil War, states criminalized Black people through "vagrancy laws" and sent them into forced labor through convict leasing. Historian Robert Chase explains: boltsmag.org/the-pas...

Families are left in tatters when a loved one dies behind bars, and officials provide very few answers about the tragedy. But some families are now fighting back. prismreports.org/2025/05/22/j...

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

“It’s such bad policy to be doing this, considering who it targets and the ripple effects that it will have, it’ll cause people to be afraid to come to court,” @l-toczylowski.bsky.social warned. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Important investigative reporting reveals the huge costs of Alabama prison violence. alabamareflector.com/tag/bloodmon...

“You campaigned on lowering the price of groceries. How can you justify cutting food assistance in this [budget] bill?” a reporter asked the president. His response didn’t make any sense. https://trib.al/voHti8k

These are people who are complying with the law. They're coming to their hearings, doing what's asked of them. ICE is snatching them up because Trump wants numbers, and it's a lot easier and cheaper to detain compliant people than to hunt down dangerous people evading apprehension.

CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

In fact, those changes to the rules & procedures for Medicaid ARE actually benefit cuts...BIG cuts. The most vulnerable Americans' basic needs are being sacrificed to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Thanks @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social for revealing it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...