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Steve Vladeck
8 days ago
This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
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Brad Lander
about 2 months ago
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.
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Brad Lander
3 months ago
Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)
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Andy Sellars
4 months ago
AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts.
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Reuters Legal
5 months ago
A federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its election map used in voting for state supreme court justices after finding the current one dilutes the power of Black voters in violation of a landmark federal voting rights law
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David Bier
7 months ago
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Matt Binder
7 months ago
if young voters turned out like they did for Zohran Mamdani for every race, the Democratic Party would never lose an election again so naturally, establishment Dems areā¦smearing him and refusing to endorse?
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Jonathan Cohn
7 months ago
Although Zohran would with a plurality without RCV, I think the candidate collaboration that RCV encouraged helped him do so well. It both underscored his positive message and elevated many voices talking about why NOT to vote for Cuomo.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
9 months ago
WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
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ACLU
9 months ago
Rümeysa Ćztürk speaks after her release from ICE detention and return to Massachusetts. We'll keep pushing for freedom and justice for Rümeysa and other scholars like her who've been targeted for exercising their First Amendment rights.
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Melissa Stewart
9 months ago
Thatās a hell of an introductory paragraph.
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ACLU
9 months ago
ACLU affiliates brought over a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration's unlawful termination of student visas across the country ā and now the administration seems to be reversing course. The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
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Trump administration reverses controversial termination of student visas
The Trump administration restored visa registrations for foreign students after setting off a desperate scramble by abruptly terminating them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-administration-reverses-termination-student-visas/83273309007/
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Don Moynihan
9 months ago
This is exceptionally well reported: in case after case Trump has surrendered long time US interests to favor Russia and gained nothing in return. When you put it all together it a staggering surrender.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...
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How Trump Plays Into Putinās Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions (Gift Article)
Many of President Trumpās actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck8.XhZm.NFp3XXGExe0p&smid=url-share
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Joshua J. Friedman
10 months ago
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. āThis was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,ā Dr. Abdalla said. āMy son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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Mahmoud Khalilās Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-denied-baby-birth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU8.pjhe.3Jr8pWs0F1Bz&smid=url-share
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Hayden Clarkin
10 months ago
The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
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Timothy Snyder
10 months ago
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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Steve Vladeck
10 months ago
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks canāt be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until theyāre 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Jed H. Shugerman
10 months ago
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that āhigh crimes and misdemeanorsā do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out peopleās savings in 3 days.
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Seth Cotlar
10 months ago
Someone should make a film about a mad king, say in the late 18th century, whose arbitrary rule and foolish decision-making inspired people in one of his colonies to create a political system in which power would be distributed more widely so as to avoid the harms of such mercurial policy making.
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Matt Pearce
10 months ago
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
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Marty Lederman
10 months ago
Dear Paul, Weiss/Skadden/Wilkie/Milbank: Please note the quality of the legal argument in support of the Executive Orders that prompted you to capitulate to extortion (and note the absence of *any* Civil Division or other litigating division attorneys).
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Osita Nwanevu
10 months ago
Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.
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N. K. Jemisin
10 months ago
These guys think they're spewing cutting-edge posthumanist theory and it's all just the corniest, shittiest science fiction that actual writers wouldn't waste a minute on.
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southpaw
10 months ago
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Anna Bower
10 months ago
UPDATE: A third law firmāWilmerHaleāhas filed suit over Trumpās executive orders targeting law firms. WilmerHale is repped by well-known Supreme Court litigator Paul Clement.
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Verfassungsblog
10 months ago
"Stopping Autocratic Legalism in America ā Before It Is Too Late" SCOTT CUMMINGS (
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Greg Sargent
10 months ago
Trump and MAGA's absurd handling of Signalgate aptly demonstrates why authoritarian populism that shapes everything around the leader's infallibility often delivers bad outcomes. On the pod,
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
is brilliant on this idea. Don't miss this one:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
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Trump Privately Seethes at Text Fiasco as Hegsethās New Spin Implodes
As Trump reportedly grows āfrustratedā over his teamās failure to manage media coverage of the war text scandal, a shrewd observer of the right explains how all this reveals the deeper failings of MAG...
https://newrepublic.com/article/193219/trump-privately-seethes-text-fiasco-hegseth-new-spin-implodes
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Taniel
10 months ago
The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvaniaās Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (
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Amanda Litman
10 months ago
Why
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Sam Bagenstos
10 months ago
Amazing deep dive into how Trump and Musk are destroying Social Security. Horrible. Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/social-security-phones-doge-cuts/
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Nicole Hemmer
11 months ago
lawyers were key players in limiting the first trump administration and safeguarding the 2020 election, which is why theyāre under attack now. this is why the capitulation by paul weiss was so dangerous to all of us, even non-lawyers. the entire profession has to stand against this now.
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Mark Joseph Stern
11 months ago
It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard laborāfor a soccer tattoo.
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Weāre Finally Seeing the āEvidenceā Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. Itās Unbelievable.
The Trump admin said a soccer player had a gang tattoo. Itās a tattoo of Real Madridās logo.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/immigration-trump-news-mass-deportations-tren-de-aragua.html
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Kai Ryssdal
11 months ago
A completely serious question. When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firmā¦donāt, where does that leave this country. cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others
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Maya Sen
11 months ago
The fact that the worldās richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined thereās is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
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Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges
Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/musk-donations-congress-judges.html
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jamelle
11 months ago
a popular victory imbues you with the sovereign authority of the people and gives you unbounded power to do whatever you want IS a system of government it's just not the one we have in THIS country.
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Chris Hayes
11 months ago
āletā
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Grudgie the Whale
11 months ago
NO KINGS is extremely effective because itās simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trumpās assault without having to use words lots of people donāt understand
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
12 months ago
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Federal Workers United
12 months ago
š¢ āHeās trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. Heās gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. Heās looting everything good in America for private profit.ā -
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#SaveOurServices
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump
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Peter Sagal
12 months ago
Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.
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Melissa Good Piggy š½ šŗš¦š»š¤
12 months ago
A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. Iād love to get one.
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jamelle
about 1 year ago
i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
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southpaw
about 1 year ago
Brief impoundment backgrounder: The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. Money that Congress appropriates generally must be spent. This wasnāt a big issue until Nixon, who tried to (unconstitutionally) restrict appropriated funding for lots of things and claimed the right to do so.
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Would a U.S.-Canada merger involve the admission of 10 new states (each Canadian province = one state)?
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