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NEW: Top election officials wrote in a joint letter that they are “deeply concerned” about information provided by the Trump administration concerning access to several states’ voter rolls, and with a “potential lack of compliance with federal law.”
States Want to Know: Why Does the DOJ Want Their Voter Rolls, Really?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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NEWS: Our “Free Andry” podcast and live show with
@crooked.com won an Anthem Award in the Human & Civil Rights: Partnership or Collaboration category for spotlighting the Trump administration’s cruel and inhumane treatment of gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero.
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Trump, weakly, is leaning on the same crew who helped him for Jan 6. He's found two pastors to publicly approve his plan for ICE to raid churches over Christmas: Paula White & Mark Burns. Burns was a rally speaker on Jan 5. White opened the Ellipse rally on Jan 6. 1/
(h/t @sarahposner.bsky.social)
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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If you want a GRANULAR understanding of Thursday's consolidated hearing in the Comey & Letitia James cases on whether Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed, may I humbly offer the following in @lawfaremedia.org :
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/disp...
Dispatch from the Nov. 13 Hearing on Lindsey Halligan’s Appointment
In a joint hearing in the Comey and James cases, Judge Currie appeared skeptical that Halligan had been properly appointed U.S. Attorney or that any error was harmless.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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18% of CDL license holders are foreign-born. And of the 1,600 fatal car accidents involving a CDL holder this year, only five involved a non-domiciled driver. That’s a rate of 0.3%.

Proportionately, foreign-born drivers are the safest drivers on the road.

open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...
Duffy vs Drivers
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s plan to target foreign-born CDL drivers was shut down by a DC court Friday.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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1. An abrupt decision by the Trump administration on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing — according to previously unreported ICE documents obtained by Popular Information.

Follow this thread for details.

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EXCLUSIVE: How the Trump administration sparked a health crisis for ICE detainees
An abrupt decision on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing.
popular.info
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The City Bar condemns recent remarks by the Deputy Attorney General in which he described the Administration as being at “war” with the federal judiciary and invited young lawyers to “join the fight” against purported “activist judges.” Read the statement here: bit.ly/4nWdoDd
Deputy Attorney General’s “War” on the Judiciary is an Assault on Judicial Independence | New York City Bar Association
New York City Bar Association Statement The New York City Bar Association (“City Bar”) condemns the remarks delivered by Todd […]
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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Bernard Newman, the head designer for Bergdorf Goodman and head costume designer for RKO Pictures, was born #OnThisDay in 1903. He designed this off-the-shoulder black beaded evening gown with a fishtail hem for the 1935 film, Roberta. Sold by Bonhams. #film #costume
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🤝 Ukraine`s President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy met with #French fishermen who provide Ukrainian cities with anti-drone nets.

He noted that the nets provided by the association and the committee help protect lives from drones in #Kherson, #Zaporizhzhia, and eastern #Ukraine.

📽️: Fb / Volodymyr Zelenskyy
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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NEW: Washington may have folded to Trump, but there is one powerful, underused tool that could stop him: collective state action. By pooling resources, harmonizing policies and coordinating responses, states can help build a future worth fighting for, @gabygoldstein.bsky.social writes.
Collective State Action Can Stop Trump and Protect Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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We are a 501(c)(3) created specifically to document such abuse of power by government lawyers. Lawyers/law students - we need your help!
If interested in volunteering with us, please let us know here: glowlaw.org/volunteer
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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BREAKING: Federal judge says Justice Department engaged in a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” when it secured indictment against Comey.
Judge scolds Justice Department for 'profound investigative missteps' in Comey case
A federal judge says the Justice Department engaged in a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” when it secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Mag Judge Fitzpatrick says two statements by Halligan to grand jury "appear to be fundamental misstatements of the law that could compromise the integrity of the grand jury process."
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Fitzpatrick also says that either Halligan is wrong about the grand jury minutes being complete or we are in "uncharted territory" because the indictment returned in open court is not the same as the one presented to & deliberated upon by the grand jury. (h/t @emptywheel.bsky.social )
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This is great. In (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The intro to Judge Rita Lin's 76-page opinion holding that the Trump admin's pressure campaign against the University of California system is coercive and retaliatory in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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JACH Fall 2025
The Fall 2025 issue of Journal of American Constitutional History is now online: Of Guilty Property and Civil/Remedial Punishment: The Implications and Perils of “History” for the Excessive Fines Clause and Beyond by Beth A. Colgan Contrary to the Supreme Court’s historically based determination that in rem forfeitures are nonpunitive, substantial historical evidence—including the Court’s own early opinions—show that in rem forfeitures were understood to constitute punishment. The Birth of the Dead Constitution: Arthur Machen Jr.’s Early Twentieth-Century Originalism by Austin Steelman Arthur Machen Jr.’s 1900 Harvard Law Review article “The Elasticity of the Constitution” influenced the long rise of originalism—revealing many of originalism’s now essential features--and helped give birth to a dead Constitution that proved ironically vital and ever-evolving. Dialogue Madisonian Liquidation Unliquidated by Jack Rakove William Baude’s provocative essay on “Constitutional Liquidation,” published five years ago, is the best treatment of the subject. Whether the liquidation of constitutional indeterminacies, to Madison’s way of thinking, is equivalent to the fixation of constitutional meaning, is another matter entirely. Liquidation, Then and Now by William Baude If it is true that liquidation did not “deeply engage Madison’s interest,” as Rakove writes, James Madison’s “interest”-level is not something that binds constitutional lawyers. Our historical accounts should be accurate, but our reasons for caring about historical accounts are reasons of our own. Symposium: Tenth Anniversary of Obergefell—Queer Constitutional History Queer as U.S. Constitutional History by Felicia Kornbluh and Marie-Amélie George Most of queer constitutional history is loss, as well as consolation and survival in the face of devastation. This is a fairly easy conclusion after two decades of the Roberts Court, in the wake of Skrmetti, and amid ongoing efforts to repeal Obergefell. The Tenth Anniversary of Marriage Equality: How Traditional Marriage Law Led to Constitutional Protection for Same-Sex Marriage by Joanna L. Grossman Had the history of marriage law been more uneven, it might not have been so relevant to this analysis. But the federal government’s longstanding deference to states in determinations of marital status made clear that this was a case of anti-gay exceptionalism. The Missing History of Romer v. Evans by Marie-Amélie George Although the outcome of Romer is well-known, as is its reasoning, the events that produced the jurisprudential turn have largely been forgotten. Uncovering this missing history helps explain how and why the Supreme Court inaugurated a new era in queer rights jurisprudence. Good Plaintiffs: The Women of Marriage Equality by Zoe M. Savitsky The early women who sought marriage equality did not look like “perfect plaintiffs.” Neither did many of the successful female plaintiffs in this study. There are, clearly, limits to the current perfect plaintiff tale if we have failed to see these women, intersectionally and multidimensionally. A Queer Constitutional History of Loss: Mayes v. Texas (1974), Privacy, and the Struggle for the Right to Be Trans in Public in the 1970s by Scott De Orio The history of privacy and substantive due process rights is usually narrated from the perspective of those cases the Supreme Court decided and that advocates for gender and sexual rights won. But it is also crucial to pay attention to losses, and even cases the Court turned down and to which it declined to grant cert. “I’m Not Sleazy and I Don’t Frequent Bars”: Respectability as a Legal Strategy in Transsexual Employment Discrimination Lawsuits, 1971-1995 by Shay Ryan Olmstead Transgender workers did more than simply assert their own normativity—they also actively distanced themselves from other gender crossers.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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AP reporter Bianca Vazquez Toness has heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix.
Getting the story: How an AP reporter chronicled a sensitive story about school and eviction
AP reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness has heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"The Decline and Fall of the Heritage Foundation: Its descent into conspiracy-mongering and blatant bigotry was utterly predictable" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-declin...
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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If you are into sourdough and can’t eat gluten, this is by far the best gf sourdough recipe I’ve tried. And I’ve tried a bunch.

www.natashashome.com/buckwheat-so...
Buckwheat Sourdough Bread
This gluten-free vegan buckwheat sourdough bread is airy, soft, and crusty just like any artisan loaf would be!
www.natashashome.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM