Jamie Fox
@whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social
Law professor. A skeptic, not a cynic. https://www.stetson.edu/law/faculty/home/james-fox.php
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
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A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’
And talk of a quick invasion and easy ‘regime change’ is dangerously misleading.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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This was already litigated to the Supreme Court last year and the Supreme Court said the funding structure was constitutional. The case is Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd. , 601 U.S. 416 (2024), www.oyez.org/cases/2023/2... 👀⚖️👇🏾
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This was already litigated to the Supreme Court last year and the Supreme Court said the funding structure was constitutional. The case is Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd. , 601 U.S. 416 (2024), www.oyez.org/cases/2023/2... 👀⚖️👇🏾
What, is he in the pocket of naproxen sodium?
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What, is he in the pocket of naproxen sodium?
So this is of course how @kenwhite.bsky.social will have to sign off all his skeets for the rest of November.
Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So this is of course how @kenwhite.bsky.social will have to sign off all his skeets for the rest of November.
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I think - just at a gut level - that giving law firm ownership to private equity firms is probably a bigger threat to associates' jobs and happiness than AI.
McDermott Will & Schulte said Wednesday it is in preliminary discussions about selling a stake in the law firm to outside investors, a novel move that could advance acceptance of non-lawyer backing of Big Law operations.
McDermott Will & Schulte Considers Outside Investment in Firm
McDermott Will & Schulte said Wednesday it is in preliminary discussions about selling a stake in the law firm to outside investors, a novel move that could advance acceptance of non-lawyer backing of Big Law operations.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I think - just at a gut level - that giving law firm ownership to private equity firms is probably a bigger threat to associates' jobs and happiness than AI.
Sometimes conspiracy theories are true!
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sometimes conspiracy theories are true!
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This is inside baseball, but to me, there are three ways in which this development *bears out* Justice Jackson's unusual intervention Friday night—about which there was much confusion.
First, this makes it clear that a majority of the Court was *not* going to force the USDA to fund SNAP by Friday.
First, this makes it clear that a majority of the Court was *not* going to force the USDA to fund SNAP by Friday.
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is inside baseball, but to me, there are three ways in which this development *bears out* Justice Jackson's unusual intervention Friday night—about which there was much confusion.
First, this makes it clear that a majority of the Court was *not* going to force the USDA to fund SNAP by Friday.
First, this makes it clear that a majority of the Court was *not* going to force the USDA to fund SNAP by Friday.
This right here is why I have little faith in ed school based purveyors of pedagogy who tell me they have figured out better ways to teach (in my case, law).
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This right here is why I have little faith in ed school based purveyors of pedagogy who tell me they have figured out better ways to teach (in my case, law).
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New from me: The Transgender Boogeyman.
Universities do not see that the attack on Trans persons is ultimately an attack on themselves.
With a shoutout to Texas Universities.
abovethelaw.com/2025/11/the-...
Universities do not see that the attack on Trans persons is ultimately an attack on themselves.
With a shoutout to Texas Universities.
abovethelaw.com/2025/11/the-...
The Transgender Boogeyman - Above the Law
Universities do not see that the attacks on trans people are ultimately attacks on the universities themselves.
abovethelaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New from me: The Transgender Boogeyman.
Universities do not see that the attack on Trans persons is ultimately an attack on themselves.
With a shoutout to Texas Universities.
abovethelaw.com/2025/11/the-...
Universities do not see that the attack on Trans persons is ultimately an attack on themselves.
With a shoutout to Texas Universities.
abovethelaw.com/2025/11/the-...
I very much doubt it argues a violation of the fifth amendment’s equal protection *clause*, as the fifth amendment has no such clause. I expect the suit argues a violation of equal protection *principles* as applied to the federal government through the fifth amendment‘s due process clause.
New case filed today argues Russ Vought’s shutdown tactics on blue states violate the fifth amendment’s equal protection clause, specifically clean energy projects cancelled in sixteen Democratic-led states
Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I very much doubt it argues a violation of the fifth amendment’s equal protection *clause*, as the fifth amendment has no such clause. I expect the suit argues a violation of equal protection *principles* as applied to the federal government through the fifth amendment‘s due process clause.
I get why blsky people are pissed at dems. But if you haven’t had your paycheck and SNAP suspended, maybe think a bit before saying dems should keep going through January. If you don’t have a decent alternative to their suffering, comfort complaining is also not a great look.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I get why blsky people are pissed at dems. But if you haven’t had your paycheck and SNAP suspended, maybe think a bit before saying dems should keep going through January. If you don’t have a decent alternative to their suffering, comfort complaining is also not a great look.
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On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
SCOTUS Echoes Plessy v Ferguson in Greenlighting Trump's Transphobic Passport Policy
Repeating a pattern that has become all too familiar, late last week the Roberts Court issued a per curiam order staying a lower court rulin...
www.dorfonlaw.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
4,500 you say? Mere child’s play, my friends.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
4,500 you say? Mere child’s play, my friends.
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This is a great way to create a huge administrative clusterfuck that makes ppl even madder.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is a great way to create a huge administrative clusterfuck that makes ppl even madder.
I completely get the desire to publicize good works. But fed regs in fact do say that providers should not cut deals with people using SNAP EBT cards. Providers can be fined or barred from the program. They know the risks but we need not flag folks for the malevolent admin on here.
Yesterday at the farmer’s market I saw a vendor quietly give food to someone whose EBT (SNAP) card didn’t have enough money on it.
People helping people because the president and his administration refuse to.
Even when court-ordered.
People helping people because the president and his administration refuse to.
Even when court-ordered.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I completely get the desire to publicize good works. But fed regs in fact do say that providers should not cut deals with people using SNAP EBT cards. Providers can be fined or barred from the program. They know the risks but we need not flag folks for the malevolent admin on here.
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Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
The Free Exercise Clause, Trumpublican version
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Free Exercise Clause, Trumpublican version
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.