By contrast, the German Federal Court said that it was unconstitutional for the German state to NOT provide a "third gender option": www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/P...

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth. Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.

Trump's astonishing consolidation of power followed Orban's playbook. Will he reciprocate by helping Orban now? Orban needs a break from US sanctions on Russian oil - and a little help with Orban's upcoming election wouldn't hurt either. Orban comes to Washington Friday. time.com/7331641/trum...

The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.” Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:

CBS news just gutted its climate team.

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

NJ voters: keep on turning out to the Polls today! Some voter suppression BS going on in with bomb threats to Democratic precincts The threats have now been officially determined to be NON CREDIBLE. Voting is perfectly safe, it's a beautiful day, make your choices known!

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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Excellent explanation by @ryangoodman.bsky.social of the legal situation with the War Powers Act, what Trump’s assertion of unbridled presidential power to wage war means, its tie-in with assertions of presidential power at home, the collapse of Congress, etc. www.youtube.com/live/lUeaFCu...

NBC's new poll say the most important issue for deciding who to support for Congress is: "Protecting constitutional rights/protecting democracy." If you agree, I suggest you subscribe the news outlet that focuses like a laser on just that. Sign up for Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

The Supreme Court's immunity decision has enabled political prosecutions, ICAP's Mary McCord and her Main Justice cohost @weissmann.substack.com write for the NY Times:

One good way to destroy a society its to incentivize a snitch culture, where people learn to distrust one another. You don't have to look for Stasi examples. See state laws putting private bounties on women seeking an abortion. From 2024 @adamserwer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

A fix to our disproportionate and gerrymandered election districts is within Congress's power to change. Protect Democracy organized a major turnout of political scientists with expertise on the matter to explain how: protectdemocracy.org/work/democra...

With the president’s blessing, Skydance merged with Paramount, gaining control of CBS News. Now the giant might eat up Warner Bros. Discovery, which includes CNN Trump is surely hoping to accomplish what Orbán’s regime has done, controlling some 80% of Hungary’s media market trib.al/eqmk2Va

The White House has become the Dirty Hands House. Corruption abounds. Here is the new evidence of pay to play. prospect.org/2025/10/28/h...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

This is how the organizations and people included in Jack Smith's 2020 subpoenas connect. See more (and close-ups) in this week's newsletter! www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-web-that...

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

Expert Backgrounder on War Powers Resolution 60-Day Clock for Boat Strikes Expiring Monday | By Rebecca Ingber and Jessica Thibodeau, former State Department attorneys with deep experience on Executive Branch practice www.justsecurity.org/123717/war-p...

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

First, Trump canceled Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's US visa, and now he's threatening to invade the whole country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

House Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Robert Garcia, launched a probe into Trump’s attempt to pay himself $230 million with taxpayer funds "You waited until you became President and installed your handpicked loyalists at DOJ ... That isn’t justice, it is theft.” trib.al/EU5YoVv

The Trump Administration is basically claiming the right to kill anyone anywhere for any reason or for no reason, with no evidence provided or accountability to Congress or the American people.

Here's a smart piece explaining how the Supreme Court has got its values backwards, disguised in the way that the six-vote majority must be weighing the "balance of equities." Fictive presidential injury matters to SCOTUS far more than mass and very real pain. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Broad benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic response | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Since 2020, election officials have been the target of unprecedented harassment, leading to increased turnover and the loss of institutional expertise. Yet, elections wouldn’t happen without them. We spoke with a director of elections about the preparation that goes into an election. bit.ly/3J6JhuJ

The American people do not have confidence in the Roberts Court. Only 21% say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the Court; 79% say they have "very little" or only "some" confidence. (Economist/YouGov, n=1623) d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Today, Members of Congress got their paycheck unless (as I did) they wrote a letter to the House saying to withhold the pay pending the shutdown. Meanwhile, Congressional staffers went without pay today. Every member should answer whether they took the paycheck while their staff got nothing.

My quote of the day Abraham Lincoln

Excellent court decisions ordered the use of emergency funds for SNAP but already the Trump administration is foot dragging by asking for guidance in how to distribute the funds. The effect? People are already thrown off SNAP. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026. If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it. So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.” Because that IS what they are going to say.

The Trump administration has been demonizing Harvard so it is not surprising when violence follows. Investigation is in the early stages, so we shouldn't jump to conclusions - but I hope investigators consider the context. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net. In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

🔊 Two federal judges ordered USDA reserves to fund food aid for millions of Americans. Trump is asking for clarity, questioning if he has the legal authority to tap the fund. Listen to the full story on Reuters World News reuters.sng.link/Eng86/mi9b/r...

Mary and I take on, in our new NYT op ed, the grave mistake in the reasoning of the Supreme Court which unleashed retribution prosecutions. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

Here's a brilliant billboard campaign to put important messages before the National Guard troops being deployed to US cities! Another illustration of doing what we can, where we can. A model for us all! taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-gro...

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Great analysis of the situation in Tanzania by Dan Paget

The indictment of Letitia James is legally weak & politically motivated Her contract allows short-term rentals, meaning the case rests on a misreading of the law This prosecution is baseless & this weaponization of the DOJ cannot stand Read 👇 - TN www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

"Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites" Pity the West simply does not have any tools to pressure UAE, which is the RSF's main funder and supplier

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s behind a potential scientific brain drain.

No. The deed and mortgage documents are public land records. It's been clear from the start that the second home rider (and Fannie Mae guidelines) did not prohibit her from renting out the property, even in the first year. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

uh-oh. turns out the mortgage document that the DOJ is alleging was fraudulent b/c great niece paid some rent (great niece testified she didn't) refers to "short-term rentals," which seems to blow DOJ theory that it could't be rented out of the water. Another disaster of a case.

"Nathaniel Redmond, of the Yale school of public health, said that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites." The Trump administration has made no effort to press the UAE, which funds a number of Trump projects, to stop its support.

I mean FCOL 🙄 "6. It was further part of the conspiracy that the co-conspirators … hindered and impeded Agent A and the Government Vehicle such that Agent A was forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed."

When I subscribed to PN I got some free subs to give away. Asked one of my students if he was interested. He seemed unsure so I told him the title of the most recent article. Sold! (Hey, #LSAT students, you should be reading more. Here’s one easy and inexpensive way to get that daily reading in.)