Many thanks to @npr.org's All Things Considered for talking to me about inequality. When .41 cents of every $1 of new wealth has gone to the richest 1% since 2000 while the bottom half of humanity received just .1 cent of every $1, you know there's a problem www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military. Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down. The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed. And they get another vacation

Just spoke with a staff member for L.A. City Councilmember Adrin Nazarian.The Councilmember is now officially in general support for the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His staff says he will be deferring to @cd13.lacity.gov related to any potential action. Bravo.

Thank you L.A. City Clerk for the never-before-seen CPRA records pertaining to Trump’s illegally installed name on the Walk of Fame in 2007. And a shoutout to the late Earl Lestz, who had the guts to do the right thing as a member of The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s nominating committee.

Congressman Lieu’s speech here took place next to L.A. City-owned property which happens to honor Donald Trump—an honorific which was illegally-installed in 2007 against multiple L.A. municipal codes. Congressman Lieu, will you join Rep. Friedman in calling for its removal by @lacity.bsky.social?

A reminder that Trump’s name was illegally installed on Hollywood Blvd. in 2007, it is city-owned property, and L.A. elected officials are too scared to act to remove it to a museum, as they have the power to do. Not the energy this country needs. Stop honoring hate. Stop celebrating the worst.

You know when it's @elienyc.bsky.social it's going to be an extra-spicy interview! Elie minces no words when he says that SCOTUS' anti-trans decision will "live in infamy." Get his take on that case, as well as some other SCOTUS decisions that remain pending: youtu.be/Kg_szbiSGbE?...

Four months later and we’re likely to see Congress do away with this. What world am I living in?

This is the most important thing I have written recently that you probably haven't read. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

I agree. So why won’t HRC change its corporate equality index to reflect political contributions which are easily trackable? Your two indexes are incompatible. On one side, HRC ranks politicians from 1-100, but then gives the companies who bankroll politicians who received “0” w/ perfect scores.

@theonion.com they scooped you. theshovel.com.au/2025/06/13/t...

The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

WIRED spoke with someone who applied for a job at Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE and discussed the five-step hiring process. www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

If you are watching DOJ target a Harvard researcher or Trump's political opponents and think its vindictive, politically motivated and improper, then you understand why courts must stop giving the Trump administration a "presumption of regularity." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression." -- Abraham Lincoln

Crockett: I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say: You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.

I'm trying to come up with a metaphor for how the Trump administration's gamesmanship (e.g., moving detainees around to try to defeat jurisdiction in specific districts) helps to drive home the dire consequences of a #SCOTUS ruling that would limit universal injunctions. "Cheating at Battleship"?

Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.

In Minnesota, freedom is a birthright.

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.

"I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again"

Today marked the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord and this is what the second-largest city in the United States is choosing to honor on its public sidewalk, over four years past 1/6/21, all because @cd13.lacity.gov won’t introduce the motion to remove it. Here are a few L.A. City…

I am old enough to remember when a movie character said "PAPERS PLEASE" it was a universally understood signifier of an evil regime

As a person who hails from the small New England town that hosts the rifle that allegedly fired the shot heard ‘round the world, this 250th anniversary of those events at Lexington and Concord I’m thinking about the preposterous notion that one man who openly defies the U.S. Constitution; an…

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported. "The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over... www.wral.com/story/they-f...

Wonderful.

@jasmineforus.bsky.social please consider asking HRC why they continue to give perfect “Equality Index Scores” to corps. subsidizing the political campaigns of anti-lgbtq legislation & legislators. I’d love to speak to your office. @juddlegum broke the story years ago. Almost nothing has changed.

This video Paige and I did explaining what happened in court today is going viral. Thank you for all the nice comments and to the thousands of new subscribers. I hope you find it useful. youtu.be/5HRmolBoM_k

Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

ICYMI

President Trump may soon try to invoke the “Insurrection Act” to trigger the ability to use the military for domestic law enforcement. Today’s “One First” offers an overview of the statute; how it’s been used; and what might happen if Trump tries to use it now: www.stevevladeck.com/p/142-five-q...

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

100%. It really is time to go there. Again.

So much for “facilitating”

#BREAKING: Supreme Court holds that Trump administration must attempt to “facilitate” the return of Wilmer Armando Abrego García from El Salvador, but remands to the district court to sort out exactly what the administration can and must do going forward: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

Rule of Law is in the rearview mirror.

Jamie Raskin is one of the few true public servants out there.

This is a top news story. Where are all my constitutional crisis people?

In theory this nightmare could end today:

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

"Over the weekend, Trump endorsed sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador prisons." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The is no limit to how much brutality the Trump admin is willing to allow Russia to get away with. They have never once condemned a single atrocity committed by Putin. Trump played golf while this happened and didn’t say a word about it.