"Who uses cash anymore? Tom Homan, that’s who. On September 20, 2024, Trump’s border czar accepted $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. The cash was in a bag from the food chain Cava. (Since you asked: I’m partial to the Spicy Lamb + Avocado combo.)" www.thebulwark.com/p/a-scandal-...

Follow the money: Kimmel’s suspension looks less like morality, more like monopoly. Kimmel’s suspension isn’t just about outrage. It’s about Nexstar’s $6B merger and keeping the FCC happy. Free speech gets sold when corporate money and political pressure align.👇

Dear Donald: Twiqbal doesn't demand this. See storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pleaded not pled

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s breezy suggestion that Americans who are roughed up by ICE can sue agents in federal court is drawing pushback from civil rights attorneys. They note that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has made those cases nearly impossible to win in recent years.

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Wayne Shorter often composed with the TV news in the background. Why? “I need to know,” he said, “what I’m writing the antidote for.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...

Why the Dallas Cowboys are Philly's team, not America's team: www.instagram.com/avi_wa/reel/...

appeasement ... its whats for dinner

Are they worried that by incurring Trump's wrath their profits per equity partner will drop from $7 million a year to only $6 million a year?

Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are speaking out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...

Read this post by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social prof Adam Levitin explaining why "cause" was lacking to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook: www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...

Kimberle Crenshaw & Jason Stanley on Trump's attack on the Smithsonian and other efforts to alter history: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The complaint in Lisa Cook v. Donald Trump is imbedded in this press report: www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/t...

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

Author of a terrific and well-regarded book about Watergate explains why we've had two scandals worse than Watergate just this week.

Link to CA3 opinion. Authored by Smith, joined by Shwartz and Freeman. It begins, “The ballot is a building block of our democracy.” (The thing I’m proudest of writing, ever, was a twitter thread about Judge Smith back in 2020. A true, living judicial hero.) www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/251...

Yeah, a large non-local military force walking the streets with weapons at the ready is *way* scarier than anything else I’ve experienced since moving here 5+ years ago.

I dislike Bolton. I don’t view him as a hero or someone to follow. But I agree with this, unreservedly. “Yeah but this particular person being targeted for opposing fascism actually had it coming” is not a position I expect to take ever.

Good for John Bolton!

I’m always proud of the work we do at ICAP, but especially so this year - check out our Annual Report to see how the ICAP team is defending democracy and the rule of law at this turning point for our country.

Right. No Supreme Court ruling was being defied.

Leftist: Yes, Trump’s kind of a fascist. Now let me get back to my obsession, re-litigating fights with Democratic centrists from a decade or two ago. Centrist: Yes, there are signs of fascism. Now let me get back to complaining a lefty used some woke terms a few years ago. American democracy: 🤯🤯🤯

CNN reports that “years after she was publicly accused in civil lawsuits and the press of helping Jeffrey Epstein groom and sexually abuse minors, Ghislaine Maxwell was an honored guest at the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative conference in September 2013.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/p...

Important message. And what's so great about exercising in jeans, anyway? Seems silly.

Read @citizencohn.bsky.social today on why RFK is so dangerous. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"The CFPB winds down with 'death memos'" news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

Good essay.

“If you are nice to President Trump, he will use the full force of the state to help you. There is no “law.” Not even a pretense of objectivity. There are only friends and enemies. This is Putinism. It’s happening, right here. Today.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Georgetown Law is hiring a prof to run its asylum clinic. Great job. Read about it here: apply.interfolio.com/172413

I agree with Leah: this is an exceptional opportunity. I’ve had the chance to help moot a few oral arguments for ACIC clinic fellows, and I’ve always been super impressed. One the best appellate-career launchpads I know of.

Do you want to mentor great @georgetownlaw.bsky.social students--and litigate & argue federal appeals? Apply for the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic (@immersionclinic.bsky.social) two-year fellowship. The job announcement is here: perma.cc/CX9E-NSEJ

Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

You'll be amazed to know that a bunch of countries have mail-in voting.

Fourth Circuit: Maryland law that taxes internet advertisers but prohibits them from telling their customers about how the tax affects their pricing violates the First Amendment: www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/241...

Read this CA2 opinion holding that coach Brian Flores' race-discrimination claims vs. NFL teams escape arbitration in part b/c the purported arbitration agreement was so one-sided in favor of the NFL that it's not really an arb agreement subject to the FAA. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

Andrew Sullivan on the state of our Republic: andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-perman...

one game of preseason football and we're already having fake arguments with various internet strawmen about a non-existent qb controversy? we are so back 🥹

1/5 Interesting piece by the always-thoughtful Adam Liptak. He omits one likely explanation for observation that historian briefs favor the left. Which is that avowedly "originalist" SCOTUS majority has consistently misrepresented historical record... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

See this @georgetownlaw.bsky.social linkedin story about appellate litigation handled by @immersionclinic.bsky.social students: www.linkedin.com/posts/george...

A right-wing group with ties to senior Trump administration officials posted photos and personal information of federal employees involved in DEI, education and immigration policies, spurring a wave of harassment and intimidation against the civil servants reut.rs/4mdS10o

This story is revolting. Couldn’t blue states do something to support and defend the people being targeted? Couldn’t Bloomberg give every person they target a $50k check for security? Can’t we stop standing around helplessly when fascists act?

"Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration." www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

The Trump Administration is bleeding the CFPB to death financially, while doing little substantive work, according to this report: news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

The National Review's editors on the lunacy (and danger) of firing BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer: www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/trum...

Great opportunity. They have really cool cases. They are really nice, committed people and great lawyers. One of my students was a summer associate in 2024 and loved it. I plan on applying myself.

Univ of Chicago Law hiring a Director of Public Service and Pro Bono. uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...