News: Pennsylvania has a budget, four months late, after lawmakers passed a $50.1 billion deal that continues to fund public schools, creates a tax credit for working families, reforms permitting, and pulls the state out of a plan to cap carbon emissions from power plants.

I'd rather the next Dem president + Congress put into place a bunch of Court-curbing mechanisms *and* far more strenuous presidency-curbing mechanisms.

I don't think left-Caesarism is the best response here.

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

A new Trump administration effort to change IRS rules by executive fiat would add fuel to the raging inferno of unlimited dark money spending during elections. @campaignlegal.org is determined to do everything we can to stop this unlawful abuse of executive power. www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-su...

More than 75 former judges: "Bove’s egregious record of mistreating law enforcement officers, abusing power, and disregarding the law itself disqualifies him for this position... [Bove] explicitly plotted to violate court orders and direct law enforcement officers to engage in illegal acts”

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

The most blatant, the most corrupt assault on the rule of law since the Nixon administration.

“These stories should concern all Americans because they are our family members, neighbors and friends. No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way.”

The American Bar Association speaks out. Please read and share.
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READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com:

"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

On Tuesday, the Justice Department said it filed a voting rights lawsuit against Hazleton, Pa., alleging the city's system of electing city council members as at-large representatives of one voting district gives Hispanic citizens an unequal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice

The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

I spoke to @ryanbriggs.bsky.social about three former officials back on the public payroll after being convicted of crimes.

Out of 1.5 million Philadelphians, the mayor & sheriff want us to believe that these are the best qualified individuals for these roles? Really?

Philadelphians deserve better