NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

“Because $50,000 in US paper money was not a ‘thing of value’ at English common law prior to the existence of the US government, we hold . . . .” -SCOTUS, five years from now

My next question is which Texas county did this happen in, and who is the DA of that county? And did he make any advance arrangements remotely, and if so, where was he?

it puts it clearly into trump's overall transformation of public power for private fortune. it's unclear to me why media & dem leaders aren't leaning into this thematic thread, which is not only true but powerful politically.

Very important element of this. This EO is designed to facilitate corruption and personalist rule.

As a former journalist, I fully agree. Make your news consumption choices accordingly.

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

"As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary."

BREAKING: Federal judge tosses out Trump's lawsuit against the New York Times, Penguin Random House, & journalists, finding that the complaint violated court pleading rules due to its expansive, over-the-top, "tedious" use of language. An amended complaint can be filed without all of the BS in it.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

It would be a decent legacy project if Obama and Romney teamed up to recruit capital to finance an independent DC-based media org.

Obviously pulling the show is wildly inappropriate either way, but I feel like it hasn't been pointed out enough that what Kimmel said wasn't inaccurate. Maybe I'm being overly lawyerly, but he didn't actually say the shooter was a right-winger.

I have seen this sort of thing in movies with congressional hearings in them but never in real life.

Indeed a joke. But also worth noting that Trump can't actually "extend" anything—all he can do is refuse to do his job, i.e., enforce the law. It might sound like a pedantic distinction but it's important! We shouldn't accept the premise that Trump can just delay laws he doesn't like.

This complaint is sanctionable.

Rest in peace, Jeremiah. You did alright.

I didn't agree with Klein that Kirk was practicing the right kind of politics, and I agree that this kind of engagement can fall flat or worse, but OTOH, I think de-escalation is a good thing to talk about and I don't think it helps much to talk about that only with people outside Shapiro's world.

BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, the D.C. Circuit rejects the Trump administration's request to allow Trump's purported firing of Fed Board Governor Lisa Cook to take effect during litigation. She will remain on the board for now, absent a further court order to the contrary.

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line

Another US strike on a vessel alleged to be smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific entity and individuals targeted are not identified—simply labelled as "terrorists." 1/n

This is well done. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

After the full-scale, decades-long meltdown about the speech of college students, the relative silence over the ideologically motivated destruction of DC’s paper of record is deafening.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

One reason the Obama, Trump 1.0, and Biden admins had policy & process frameworks for CT direct action away from “hot battlefields” was to safeguard against the targeting of civilians. Of course, Trump 2.0 scrapped the framework. (This strike was not actually CT.) edition.cnn.com/2025/09/11/p...

Ugh.

Read the complaint. To be placed in the category of "shocking but not surprising."

Additional evidence that these men were simply murdered in cold blood. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.” -Justice Kavanaugh

The script writers are not subtle.

On the blog, I critique Justice Kavanaugh's attempt to justify Monday's emergency docket ruling greenlighting racial profiling in Los Angeles. He's wrong about everything: standing; the 4th Amendment; the balance of harms; and his suggestion that damages lawsuits are available. 👇

Over the next 15 months, we can expect a coordinated campaign — backed by the full power of the executive branch — to undermine confidence in our election system. Here’s what to expect, and how key actors can be ready to respond: bit.ly/4fRIqtA

You say, the price of my love's not a price that you're willing to pay . . . .

An irony of this absurd fetishisizing of human ignorance is its revelation that the answer to Dahl's question is: "more democratic than the Free Press thinks it is."

Love the passion, but defense > war in basketball too.

And a subhead in a tort complaint or a prosecution memo.

I've read a few Supreme Court opinions that also did not seem to realize this.

I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.

"Formal legal justification" is a generous description of this document, which is little more than ipse dixit.

This remains a fair amount of media framing as well. I have tried to emphasize that the constitutional crisis began the moment it became clear that this executive branch has no internal account of its legal constraints, only an account of what it can get away with. That was in January.

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This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

I had suggested a few a while back. I guess they haven't caught on. bsky.app/profile/jama...

It turns out judges facing death threats after writing 100-page opinions in high-stakes cases with our constitutional democracy at stake don't much like being chastised for not mind-reading lawless shadow docket rulings.

NYT still has a little something on its fastball.

As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.

This is not normal.

When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.

Well good thing this administration wasn’t wrong about people being members of this gang bef—-

Pretty clear from reading that this was being reported the last few days but the lede was framed as “Internet goes crazy lol” when Trump emerged today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...