Ming Cheung
@mingcheung.bsky.social
Dash's ball-thrower. Enjoys voting rights and other nice things. Lawyer dad. Views my own.
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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As a clever form of peaceful protest, a DC man walked along near National Guard troops deployed in the city playing the Imperial March from Star Wars from a portable speaker. To disprove this scurrilous slander... they arrested him. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
D.C. man sues after being detained for following National Guard around while playing 'Darth Vader's Theme'
Attorneys for Sam O'Hara said law enforcement violated his constitutional rights.
www.nbcnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
As a clever form of peaceful protest, a DC man walked along near National Guard troops deployed in the city playing the Imperial March from Star Wars from a portable speaker. To disprove this scurrilous slander... they arrested him. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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🚨 ICE has wrongfully detained over 170 U.S. citizens since Trump's return to the White House, according to a new investigation by ProPublica. 🧵⬇️
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And…
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨 ICE has wrongfully detained over 170 U.S. citizens since Trump's return to the White House, according to a new investigation by ProPublica. 🧵⬇️
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When Kavanaugh writes his solo opinion saying the VRA was great then but unnecessary now, just remember
on the day the case was argued:
- ICE detained citizens based on skin color
- Gorsuch’s former clerk called the Minority Leader “Soros’ house slave”
- American Nazi flag in congressional office
on the day the case was argued:
- ICE detained citizens based on skin color
- Gorsuch’s former clerk called the Minority Leader “Soros’ house slave”
- American Nazi flag in congressional office
October 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
When Kavanaugh writes his solo opinion saying the VRA was great then but unnecessary now, just remember
on the day the case was argued:
- ICE detained citizens based on skin color
- Gorsuch’s former clerk called the Minority Leader “Soros’ house slave”
- American Nazi flag in congressional office
on the day the case was argued:
- ICE detained citizens based on skin color
- Gorsuch’s former clerk called the Minority Leader “Soros’ house slave”
- American Nazi flag in congressional office
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The idea that the Court may use the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution to bar a remedy that helps minority voters is both ahistorical and repugnant.
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The idea that the Court may use the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution to bar a remedy that helps minority voters is both ahistorical and repugnant.
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What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
September 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"
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I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
October 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
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‘Everyone’s at risk’: Trump’s immigration crackdown reaches Bethlehem on.ft.com/3VudypQ
‘Everyone’s at risk’: Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown reaches Bethlehem
ICE raid on construction site divides Pennsylvania swing town that is focus of years-long FT project
on.ft.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
‘Everyone’s at risk’: Trump’s immigration crackdown reaches Bethlehem on.ft.com/3VudypQ
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Kavanaugh in 2023 in the argument on Biden’s loan forgiveness:
“Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”
“Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”
The conservative majority simply blocks off reality to justify its ends. Today’s decision is as chilling as it gets.
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SCOTUS, ICE Raids & The Matter of Facts
There is a lot one can say about today’s Supreme Court order lifting the stay issued by a federal district court in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo,[i]. This is the case that challenges the constitutionality o...
open.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Kavanaugh in 2023 in the argument on Biden’s loan forgiveness:
“Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”
“Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”
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While Trump and RFK Jr. have been illegally cutting funding that Congress approved, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services can barely agree that RFK Jr. can’t cancel a grant because he doesn’t like your face.
This is bad.
This is bad.
Trump’s nominee can barely agree that RFK can’t cancel a grant because he doesn’t like your face.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
While Trump and RFK Jr. have been illegally cutting funding that Congress approved, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services can barely agree that RFK Jr. can’t cancel a grant because he doesn’t like your face.
This is bad.
This is bad.
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“From the Canadian side of the border, it is evident that the American left is in the middle of a grand abdication. No American institution, no matter how wealthy or privileged, seems willing to make any sacrifice for democratic values.”
“Canada has experienced the second Trump administration like a teenager being kicked out of the house by an abusive father. We have to grow up fast and we can’t go back”
Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
“From the Canadian side of the border, it is evident that the American left is in the middle of a grand abdication. No American institution, no matter how wealthy or privileged, seems willing to make any sacrifice for democratic values.”
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The federal legal system will not fare well at all if, when Trump's DOJ misbehaves in district court, the most likely person to be sanctioned or censured is... the district court judge.
Rao, unsurprisingly, is more extreme here, calling Boasberg's actions — not the Trump administration's moves — "egregious."
![Punishment through criminal contempt might still be available in these circumstances, but the district court
cannot use the threat of such punishment as a backdoor to
obtain compliance with a vacated and therefore unenforceable
TRO.
The district court’s abuse of the contempt power is
especially egregious because contempt proceedings against
senior Executive Branch officials carry profound “separation
of power[s] overtones” that demand the most “sensitive judicial
scrutiny.” In re Att’y Gen. of U.S., 596 F.2d 58, 64 (2d Cir.
1979). Lacking the authority to compel obedience, the district
court nonetheless pressured the government to take custody of
alleged alien enemies held in El Salvador. This intrusion on the
President’s foreign affairs authority “constitute[s] an
unwarranted impairment of another branch in the performance
of its constitutional duties.” Cheney, 542 U.S. at 390. Because
the order exceeds the court’s authority and amounts to a clear
abuse of discretion, mandamus is appropriate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifo6mys7o6mjglhqkcqsqocyhbp2n2la7slwjrqfrsjq4quskx4gq@jpeg)
August 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The federal legal system will not fare well at all if, when Trump's DOJ misbehaves in district court, the most likely person to be sanctioned or censured is... the district court judge.
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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It’s striking how the workings of a competitive authoritarian system have already been internalized by the mainstream political press. It is now officially “politics as usual”.
August 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s striking how the workings of a competitive authoritarian system have already been internalized by the mainstream political press. It is now officially “politics as usual”.
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Bending the knee one after the next
First they came for Columbia. The dominos of extortion continue to line up… #HigherEd
Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million
The White House is eyeing a settlement of as much as $100 million in negotiations with Cornell University about an agreement that would reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal rese...
www.bloomberg.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bending the knee one after the next
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Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.
July 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.
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Senate Confirms Judge Who Says Government Can Ignore Court Orders
I wish that was a joke. But if anything, it's understating what just happened.
I wish that was a joke. But if anything, it's understating what just happened.
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Senate Confirms Judge Who Says Government Can Ignore Court Orders
I wish that was a joke. But if anything, it's understating what just happened.
I wish that was a joke. But if anything, it's understating what just happened.
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Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible
Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
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McConnell and Tillis are retiring. They’ve both *occasionally* spoken out against the administration and voted against them *sometimes*. But it’s all for show—they voted for this because they’re in on it.
BREAKING
In a 50–49 vote, the U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Emil Bove to serve as a U.S. Circuit Judge.
Bove, President Trump’s former attorney and a current DOJ official, has been accused of misleading lawmakers by multiple whistleblowers.
In a 50–49 vote, the U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Emil Bove to serve as a U.S. Circuit Judge.
Bove, President Trump’s former attorney and a current DOJ official, has been accused of misleading lawmakers by multiple whistleblowers.
July 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
McConnell and Tillis are retiring. They’ve both *occasionally* spoken out against the administration and voted against them *sometimes*. But it’s all for show—they voted for this because they’re in on it.
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Institutionalized xenophobia and bigotry
July 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Institutionalized xenophobia and bigotry