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demnc.co
August 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.

Me, via “One First”:
161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
www.stevevladeck.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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What the hell did the Supreme Court just do to equal protection law?
www.vox.com/scotus/41728...
The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained
What the hell did the Court just do to equal protection law?
www.vox.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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#ProudBlue If you live in NC - check this list. Make sure your vote counts!

thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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THERE IT IS—The Atlantic has published the transcript of that SIGNAL conversation chat with the totally “not classified” attack plans that @SecDef Pete Hegseth claimed “Nobody was texting war plans.” What a shameless liar—Hope his kids see thru this. Gift 🎁link:
t.co/2QOCDdgAKX
March 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@elienyc.bsky.social with the burn. “Trump controls the House, but he doesn’t control 2/3rds of the Senate. Judge Boasberg is not Palestinian, so I don’t think Chuck Schumer will give Trump the extra votes he needs. “
John Roberts is not "rebuking" Donald Trump. He's bending the knee. If you listen to what Roberts is *not* saying, you'll see he's telling Trump exactly what he wants to hear.
We've seen this before from another Chief Justice, in Marbury v. Madison.
My latest in @thenation.com
How a Case From 1803 Explains John Roberts’s Approach to Donald Trump
Roberts wasn’t “rebuking” Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges, he was bending the knee.
www.thenation.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hey @elienyc.bsky.social I’m out here breaking street dates
March 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.
www.thenation.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Its wild to call it a “hand gesture” without providing ONE EXAMPLE - in 2 centuries of photography & film- of that gesture being used by anyone other than Nazis
January 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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#SCOTUS is set to hear *zero* appeals from state criminal convictions this term.

That total may be a fluke, but the broader disappearance of such cases from the docket isn’t.

And as today’s “One First” explains, it has lots of (bad) downstream implications:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/113-direct...
113. Direct Appeals from State Criminal Convictions
The Supreme Court's docket for the October 2024 Term includes *zero* appeals from state criminal convictions. That's part of a broader trend—and one with significant downstream implications
www.stevevladeck.com
December 16, 2024 at 12:33 PM