Tom “T.M.” Wolf
@tomtmwolf.bsky.social
Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf
@tomtmwolf.bsky.social
· Nov 25
I had a blast talking about Sound, novelizing, and balancing the writing life with the non-profit life with @penamerica.bsky.social.
A short thread with some of the tidbits I mentioned while chatting with @baldereg.bsky.social about my novel written like a musical score 🧵🔽 @faberbooks.bsky.social
A short thread with some of the tidbits I mentioned while chatting with @baldereg.bsky.social about my novel written like a musical score 🧵🔽 @faberbooks.bsky.social
If you’re born here, you’re one of us.
The Supreme Court has announced that it’s going to hear arguments on President Trump’s order rescinding birthright citizenship. The text and history ought to make this an open-and-shut case. bit.ly/40oplbc
Presidents Can’t End Birthright Citizenship
President Trump's executive order is almost certain to be struck down.
www.brennancenter.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you’re born here, you’re one of us.
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Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power in democracy-eroding ways. Our latest guide for litigators equips lawyers with the strategies, arguments, and citations they need to push back. bit.ly/48MyFJV
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power in democracy-eroding ways. Our latest guide for litigators equips lawyers with the strategies, arguments, and citations they need to push back. bit.ly/48MyFJV
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution
The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
www.brennancenter.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Give yourself the Christmas gift of learning how to fight back against originalism!
Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power in democracy-eroding ways. Our latest guide for litigators equips lawyers with the strategies, arguments, and citations they need to push back. bit.ly/48MyFJV
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Give yourself the Christmas gift of learning how to fight back against originalism!
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution
The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
www.brennancenter.org
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power, weaken long-standing rights and protections, and entrench inequality. It’s crucial that lawyers push back. Our new guide shows you how. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
Art Credit: Adrià Fruitos
Art Credit: Adrià Fruitos
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power, weaken long-standing rights and protections, and entrench inequality. It’s crucial that lawyers push back. Our new guide shows you how. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
Art Credit: Adrià Fruitos
Art Credit: Adrià Fruitos
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
The Supreme Court has announced that it’s going to hear arguments on President Trump’s order rescinding birthright citizenship. The text and history ought to make this an open-and-shut case. bit.ly/40oplbc
Presidents Can’t End Birthright Citizenship
President Trump's executive order is almost certain to be struck down.
www.brennancenter.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Supreme Court has announced that it’s going to hear arguments on President Trump’s order rescinding birthright citizenship. The text and history ought to make this an open-and-shut case. bit.ly/40oplbc
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Working with our partners in IL AG Raoul’s office, we did everything we could to bolster our case in Court. We believed we could win - we did not give in to fatalistic thinking. I’m not defending the court btw - they’ve done some horrible things - but we believed a win like this was still possible.
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Working with our partners in IL AG Raoul’s office, we did everything we could to bolster our case in Court. We believed we could win - we did not give in to fatalistic thinking. I’m not defending the court btw - they’ve done some horrible things - but we believed a win like this was still possible.
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
We can win if we fight. Keep fighting.
BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We can win if we fight. Keep fighting.
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In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt.
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt.
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
We can win if we fight. Keep fighting.
BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We can win if we fight. Keep fighting.
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
NEW:
One brought a gun home.
One moved.
Others improved home security.
Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
One brought a gun home.
One moved.
Others improved home security.
Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
NEW:
One brought a gun home.
One moved.
Others improved home security.
Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
One brought a gun home.
One moved.
Others improved home security.
Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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"Defendants violated their fundamental obligations as trustees and, in Defendant Grenell's case, as an employee. ... Defendants' actions wasted the trust property, including by expending resources to unlawfully deface the Kennedy Center's building and its website ...."
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"Defendants violated their fundamental obligations as trustees and, in Defendant Grenell's case, as an employee. ... Defendants' actions wasted the trust property, including by expending resources to unlawfully deface the Kennedy Center's building and its website ...."
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Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
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Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
December 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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lots of takeaways from the 60 Minutes debacle, but here's one: support investigative journalism, public media and human rights NGOs! with one week left in the year, give now as much as you can, b/c independent voices are more important than ever.
December 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
lots of takeaways from the 60 Minutes debacle, but here's one: support investigative journalism, public media and human rights NGOs! with one week left in the year, give now as much as you can, b/c independent voices are more important than ever.
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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Damned if you do; damned if you don't. The government spent months turning immigration court into a deportation trap.
More immigrants are not showing up for their mandatory immigration court hearings compared to prior years, an NPR analysis shows, allowing the government to order their immediate deportation. n.pr/4saLnem
NPR analysis shows skyrocketing number of 'no-shows' in immigration court
More immigrants are not showing up for their mandatory immigration court hearings compared to prior years, an NPR analysis shows, allowing the government to order their immediate deportation.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Damned if you do; damned if you don't. The government spent months turning immigration court into a deportation trap.
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Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are."
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Do you want to learn how to spot originalist arguments, understand how they work, and respond effectively? Then we’ve got the guide for you: Countering Originalism. It’s written for lawyers, but it can help scholars, teachers, students, journalists, and commentators, too. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Do you want to learn how to spot originalist arguments, understand how they work, and respond effectively? Then we’ve got the guide for you: Countering Originalism. It’s written for lawyers, but it can help scholars, teachers, students, journalists, and commentators, too. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution
The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
www.brennancenter.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Reposted by Tom “T.M.” Wolf
Hate to say it, but you should no longer trust anything from CBS News. I'm sure there are great reporters there trying to do honest work, but how can we know anymore? If they're willing to kill a Trump-critical 60 Minutes segment at the order of Bari Weiss, it's been over.
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Hate to say it, but you should no longer trust anything from CBS News. I'm sure there are great reporters there trying to do honest work, but how can we know anymore? If they're willing to kill a Trump-critical 60 Minutes segment at the order of Bari Weiss, it's been over.