How can we defend our culture against the white supremacists that have infiltrated our government?

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Outstanding line of questioning by Rep. Neguse about a terrible provision in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill. Here’s Erwin Chemerinsky’s analysis of the language: www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

This provision of the budget bill made it through the House. It undercuts federal courts' ability to enforce contempt orders. Read Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s sharp analysis. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

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Great explainer by Erwin Chemerinsky about a dangerous provision that House Republicans are trying to sneak into their budget reconciliation bill. A direct attack on judicial independence and the rule of law.

Excellent breakdown of two emergency stay requests pending at SCOTUS with huge implications.

House Republican plan would harm 4.5 million U.S. citizen children by stripping away their access to the Child Tax Credit if either of their parents file taxes w/o an SSN: cmsny.org/publications...

Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man whose car window was smashed by agents in viral video last month turnto10.com/news/local/j...

under the gop proposal, married parents can’t claim the child tax credit if one of them isn’t a citizen. literally punishing children while creating a monetary incentive to get divorced. ghoulish shit.

And yet the Department's spokesperson calls it "a successful operation." You can't make this stuff up... www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!

Oh, there are now apparently *multiple deportations of U.S. citizen children in current cancer treatment*, one in Texas and one in Louisiana. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

1999 Dartmouth grad here. Wish I could say I was surprised... www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...

Very compelling new piece by @ahilantoolong.bsky.social arguing that while courts have long said deportation isn't a "punishment," condemnation to CECOT clearly is. That matters for constitutional purposes. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/110679/depor...

Great read.

Some notes on this morning’s remarkable emergency stay order granted by SCOTUS, stopping Trump Adm from summarily removing Venezuelans under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. SCOTUS acted while the NDTexas & 5th Circuit courts dragged their feet. Thread: 1/10 bsky.app/profile/anna...

So now we find out how directly and undeniably complicit in enforced disappearance and torture some Supreme Court justices want to be. Good times.

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This is the same lawyer who may face criminal contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case and who led the Abrego Garcia and Gitmo cases. I’m guessing he likes his celebrity more than his law license. He also appears to be arguing ALL of these cases because no career DOJ attorney would dare.

Not the first time a county has illegally imprisoned a U.S. citizen on an ICE detainer request. As in those cases, the county is likely to pay out a chunk of $$$ for violating this guy’s constitutional rights.

Good pieces by Ezra Klein and Philip Bump on Trump’s illegal disappearance of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But details matter. Withholding of removal wasn’t granted because fear of persecution was “credible”or “well founded.” The judge concluded it was *more likely than not* to happen.

The press and the courts are talking—intelligently and powerfully—about every aspect of the Trump administration’s rendition of people to El Salvador **except** the illegal use of taxpayer money to fund the imprisonment. On what authority?!? This letter is great. migrantinsider.com/p/lawmakers-...

I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.

Truly a piece of shit.

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

Americorps NCCC was a life changing experience for me. Awful.

This is a very good point.

DOJ keeps speaking out of both sides of its mouth in these cases. In one moment they argue against court orders preventing removal because there’s no irreparable harm from a wrongful removal bc the court can always order the person’s return… The next they say courts have no power to order return.

The Trump administration’s rendition of hundreds of Venezuelan nationals to a notorious Salvadoran prison is no less criminal than its family separation policy years ago. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

I’d say she should read the State Department’s own human rights report on the deadly and dehumanizing conditions in El Salvador’s prisons but it wouldn’t do any good. You should read it: state.gov/wp-content/upl…

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Yes, a law prof in 2025 is trying to deny citizenship to undocumented children by drawing spurious analogies between their parents and “wild Indians” circa 1868. And this is the best that anti-birthrighters can do.

This is the correct frame.

DOJ *in this case* said the judge could order them to return people to the U.S. after removal. It was part of their unsuccessful argument that going to a Salvadoran mega prison wasn’t irreparable harm. Said the same thing 24 hours earlier re Gitmo. They conceded the judge’s authority!

They say the TRO issued yesterday “purport[s] to halt the removal” of people under the AEA. The TRO 100% halted their removal and the judge directed that planes in the air be turned around. Trump admin appears to have flouted that order.

Judge orders any plane still in the air to return to the U.S. and bars further removals for members of the newly approved class.

In the 40 minutes the court gave the DOJ to check whether any AEA removal flights were planned, a flight to El Salvador took off. Other reporting suggests the admin plans to send Venezuelans there to be imprisoned by Bukele for a year at USG expense. All of this is lawless and so dangerous.

UPDATE: Lawyer for govt, Drew Ensign, cited 'grave national security issue' in declining to discuss current state of the deportations in a public hearing, so judge took it private. But looks like one El Salvador-bound flight took off during a break in the hearing www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

NEVERMIND. DOJ attorney Drew Ensign says operational details can’t be shared on a public line so we are about to be cut off for a little bit.

We’re literally about to hear if the government got one or more planes in the air over the last 40 minutes with people being summarily and illegally expelled from the country under the AEA. Reason to believe they might just have done that.

Judge Boasberg plans to adjourn the hearing to give DOJ 40 minutes to confirm whether flights are planned. He should enjoin removals until that time!

In a naked attempt to avoid court intervention, a senior DOJ official at a hearing just now claimed he did not know whether any deportations under the Alien Enemies Act are planned. ACLU says they should find out in 5 minutes because of reports that buses are heading to the airport right now.

While Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans are about to slash funding for DC to shower ICE with $$$, DHS displays for the world more waste, fraud, and ABUSE. How much money was wasted on this grotesque and useless display? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

Great news! They finally found some waste, fraud, and abuse to cut! www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

This is such a great interview on the Trump administration’s total disregard for the law by @steveinskeep.bsky.social. www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n...

First reporting I’ve seen identifying someone taken to Guantanamo. Appears to be someone who got a CBP One appointment and was in custody from the moment he appeared at a POE for inspection.

DHS and DOD lawyers are struggling to find legal authority for the president to fly migrants to Gitmo because none exists. These are illegal removal flights without the permission of the country of removal and unauthorized detentions post-removal. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

Looks like Gun Owners of America is all-in on Trump’s attempt to read the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment out of the Constitution. Irony storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...