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The Illinois Bivens Act is now law - people can sue under state law for ICE’s constitutional violations. Which state is next? When the feds fall down on their obligations to protect people’s rights, it is time for states to step up.
gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...
gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...
Gov. Pritzker Signs Bill to Protect Immigrants from Unjust Federal Actions
HB 1312 enacts protections for immigrants as the Trump Administration terrorizes Illinois communities
gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Illinois Bivens Act is now law - people can sue under state law for ICE’s constitutional violations. Which state is next? When the feds fall down on their obligations to protect people’s rights, it is time for states to step up.
gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...
gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...
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This one is speaking to me today
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This one is speaking to me today
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Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Blumenthal & Robert Garcia to Hold Forum to Receive Testimony from Five U.S. Citizens Assaulted, Illegally Detained by DHS | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, DC] – On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 3 PM ET in 216 Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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Roger Taney really perking up at the prospect of no longer being the worst Chief Justice.
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Roger Taney really perking up at the prospect of no longer being the worst Chief Justice.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
"Trump’s dep. attorney general, Todd Blanche, has been supervising Mr. Reding Quiñones’s actions in the grand conspiracy investigation through Christopher-James DeLorenz, a lower-level official in his office who had been Judge Cannon’s law clerk until August 2024..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
"Trump’s dep. attorney general, Todd Blanche, has been supervising Mr. Reding Quiñones’s actions in the grand conspiracy investigation through Christopher-James DeLorenz, a lower-level official in his office who had been Judge Cannon’s law clerk until August 2024..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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NEW: Judge dismisses the Trump Admin's challenge to NY's Protect Our Courts Act, a law prohibiting immigration arrests at NY's courthouses!
This is an important response to those who say states can't hold ICE officers accountable to the law.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70522...
This is an important response to those who say states can't hold ICE officers accountable to the law.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70522...
Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim – #66 in United States v. State of New York (N.D.N.Y., 1:25-cv-00744) – CourtListener.com
Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim
www.courtlistener.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
NEW: Judge dismisses the Trump Admin's challenge to NY's Protect Our Courts Act, a law prohibiting immigration arrests at NY's courthouses!
This is an important response to those who say states can't hold ICE officers accountable to the law.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70522...
This is an important response to those who say states can't hold ICE officers accountable to the law.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70522...
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11th Cir. joins the 3d, 4th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Cirs. in holding that the United States does not have federal sovereign immunity for certain intentional torts committed in the course of a TSA officer's employment.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
11th Cir. joins the 3d, 4th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Cirs. in holding that the United States does not have federal sovereign immunity for certain intentional torts committed in the course of a TSA officer's employment.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
I'll say something not pleasant about Nancy Pelosi & the cost of our ongoing gerontocracy.
Imagine if, on 1/6/2021, the Dem party was lead by people in their 40s or 50s or even early 60s. Impeachment would have started on 1/7, when there was real momentum on both sides of the aisle to remove Trump.
Imagine if, on 1/6/2021, the Dem party was lead by people in their 40s or 50s or even early 60s. Impeachment would have started on 1/7, when there was real momentum on both sides of the aisle to remove Trump.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'll say something not pleasant about Nancy Pelosi & the cost of our ongoing gerontocracy.
Imagine if, on 1/6/2021, the Dem party was lead by people in their 40s or 50s or even early 60s. Impeachment would have started on 1/7, when there was real momentum on both sides of the aisle to remove Trump.
Imagine if, on 1/6/2021, the Dem party was lead by people in their 40s or 50s or even early 60s. Impeachment would have started on 1/7, when there was real momentum on both sides of the aisle to remove Trump.
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“I think I will long remember the sight of Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney, absolutely alone on the Republican side of the House chamber. This was during the commemoration of the January 6 attack on the first anniversary…”
open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...
open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...
Dick Cheney in the Arena
On the late vice president, and defense secretary, and House leader, etc.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“I think I will long remember the sight of Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney, absolutely alone on the Republican side of the House chamber. This was during the commemoration of the January 6 attack on the first anniversary…”
open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...
open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...
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AMEN
I’ve seen what’s happened around here the last month, & who’s been getting in the faces of ICE/Border Parol & screaming so hard that they’re showering those masks of cowardice w the spittle of righteousness. So I don’t want see that condescending “wine mom” shit ever again
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
AMEN
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
Times Square, around 15 minutes ago.
October 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Times Square, around 15 minutes ago.
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I must have missed all the headlines and video clips of Facebook employees beating and kidnapping people in Portland and Chicago.
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I must have missed all the headlines and video clips of Facebook employees beating and kidnapping people in Portland and Chicago.
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"This is a picture of a militarized American agent forcing his way into a private residence to abduct an illegal immigrant and deport him to his country of origin. When it was taken in April 2000, American conservatives were incensed by it." What happened?
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:
Elián González, Trump, and What Happened to “True Conservatism”
Toward a quantum theory of politics.
www.thebulwark.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"This is a picture of a militarized American agent forcing his way into a private residence to abduct an illegal immigrant and deport him to his country of origin. When it was taken in April 2000, American conservatives were incensed by it." What happened?
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:
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This is an excellent idea. The genius of the American system is that power is distributed widely, among different branches of the government--and among the states. Anyone who has some share of this power needs to be using it.
I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES
Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
October 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is an excellent idea. The genius of the American system is that power is distributed widely, among different branches of the government--and among the states. Anyone who has some share of this power needs to be using it.
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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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Recommended reading in light of this video: “Explainer: Can States Prosecute Federal Officials?” by @bgodar.bsky.social of @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social
statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/202...
statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/202...
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Recommended reading in light of this video: “Explainer: Can States Prosecute Federal Officials?” by @bgodar.bsky.social of @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social
statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/202...
statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/202...
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