SarahHRH
@soerinebaby.bsky.social
I consume too much legal content and #IANAL. Into politics but am currently tired of it.
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North Carolina Dems are running for 50/50 Senate seats & 118/120* House seats.
Republicans are running for 45 Senate seats & just 91 House seats.
That's impressive for Dems since gerrymandering gave the GOP nearly 60% in both chambers.
*(Dem-leaning indies are running for the other 2 House seats)
Republicans are running for 45 Senate seats & just 91 House seats.
That's impressive for Dems since gerrymandering gave the GOP nearly 60% in both chambers.
*(Dem-leaning indies are running for the other 2 House seats)
NCSBE update is in. This should be the final candidate list--> #ncpol
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2026 Primary Election Candidate List
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
North Carolina Dems are running for 50/50 Senate seats & 118/120* House seats.
Republicans are running for 45 Senate seats & just 91 House seats.
That's impressive for Dems since gerrymandering gave the GOP nearly 60% in both chambers.
*(Dem-leaning indies are running for the other 2 House seats)
Republicans are running for 45 Senate seats & just 91 House seats.
That's impressive for Dems since gerrymandering gave the GOP nearly 60% in both chambers.
*(Dem-leaning indies are running for the other 2 House seats)
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Donald Trump will rename the Kennedy Center the “Trump Kennedy Center” after removing the previous board and appointing himself as its chairman.
December 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Donald Trump will rename the Kennedy Center the “Trump Kennedy Center” after removing the previous board and appointing himself as its chairman.
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RFK Jr.'s is currently holding a press briefing to "announce actions to protect children from harmful medical interventions"...
We are live tweeting.
Follow along here!
#impeachrfkjr
We are live tweeting.
Follow along here!
#impeachrfkjr
December 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
RFK Jr.'s is currently holding a press briefing to "announce actions to protect children from harmful medical interventions"...
We are live tweeting.
Follow along here!
#impeachrfkjr
We are live tweeting.
Follow along here!
#impeachrfkjr
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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An update on the California redistricting case, which wraps up today before a three-judge panel.
www.courthousenews.com/california-r...
www.courthousenews.com/california-r...
California Republican's racial gerrymandering case runs into skeptical court
While the Obama and the Biden appointees on the three-judge panel appeared unconvinced by the Republican's racial argument, the Trump appointee was more willing to entertain an improper motive behind ...
www.courthousenews.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An update on the California redistricting case, which wraps up today before a three-judge panel.
www.courthousenews.com/california-r...
www.courthousenews.com/california-r...
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
December 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
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There's a special election tonight for the KY Senate in a seat that Harris won by just 5 points last year, but the GOP doesn't seem to be contesting it seriously.
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There's a special election tonight for the KY Senate in a seat that Harris won by just 5 points last year, but the GOP doesn't seem to be contesting it seriously.
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
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Shut the law reviews down, this is the paper to end all papers
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Shut the law reviews down, this is the paper to end all papers
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Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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The immigration “judge” allegedly sua sponte — meaning without any request by a party, which is obviously a lie given the circumstances — “corrected” the 2019 order to fix a “scrivener’s error” and order Mr Abrego Garcia deported.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.
December 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The immigration “judge” allegedly sua sponte — meaning without any request by a party, which is obviously a lie given the circumstances — “corrected” the 2019 order to fix a “scrivener’s error” and order Mr Abrego Garcia deported.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.
Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.
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Yes, it’s one they handpicked, and IIRC is actually a judge in management who only hears a small number of cases. It’s so flagrantly corrupt and a perversion of due process you almost have to laugh; then go off and file a bar complaint against the judge for violating ethics rules.
Isn't it a completely different immigration judge than the one from years earlier? How can they claim a "scriveners error" from someone else's order?
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Yes, it’s one they handpicked, and IIRC is actually a judge in management who only hears a small number of cases. It’s so flagrantly corrupt and a perversion of due process you almost have to laugh; then go off and file a bar complaint against the judge for violating ethics rules.
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A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
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Deadnaming a former Assistant Secretary of HHS and selfless public servant on her official portrait is an act of cruelty and a clear violation of basic dignity.
Admiral Levine served this country honorably. Targeting her, and all trans Americans, is bigoted, cruel, and completely unacceptable.
Admiral Levine served this country honorably. Targeting her, and all trans Americans, is bigoted, cruel, and completely unacceptable.
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Deadnaming a former Assistant Secretary of HHS and selfless public servant on her official portrait is an act of cruelty and a clear violation of basic dignity.
Admiral Levine served this country honorably. Targeting her, and all trans Americans, is bigoted, cruel, and completely unacceptable.
Admiral Levine served this country honorably. Targeting her, and all trans Americans, is bigoted, cruel, and completely unacceptable.
Somebody - @jvl.bsky.social - give @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social a prize!
“.. the controversial Georgia Republican has been working behind the scenes to gauge whether there’s support for a motion to vacate the chair, three sources familiar with her efforts who spoke on the condition of anonymity told MS NOW.”
@ms.now #GA14
www.ms.now/news/marjori...
@ms.now #GA14
www.ms.now/news/marjori...
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Somebody - @jvl.bsky.social - give @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social a prize!
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no! it doesn't! it doesn't do that! executive orders cannot do that!
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a "single national framework" for AI. https://cnn.it/49chVwf
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
no! it doesn't! it doesn't do that! executive orders cannot do that!
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"Sir you wouldn't come to this meeting and say something you can't prove, I know. I know you wouldn't do that.
But you did."
But you did."
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Sir you wouldn't come to this meeting and say something you can't prove, I know. I know you wouldn't do that.
But you did."
But you did."
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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Here is the opinion ordering Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody.
Held: (1) DHS has not produced a removal order for KAG, and so cannot hold him pending removal.
(2) Even if there were an order, detention violates due process.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Held: (1) DHS has not produced a removal order for KAG, and so cannot hold him pending removal.
(2) Even if there were an order, detention violates due process.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![convincing evidence as required by INA 240(c)(3).” ECF No. 1-1 at 2. But nowhere does the IJ order Abrego Garcia removed to any country at all. See 8 C.F.R. § 1240.12(d) (a removal order must “identify a country, or countries in the alternative, to which the [noncitizen’s] removal may in the first instance be made, pursuant to the provisions of section 241(b) of the Act.”). See also Guzman Chavez, 594 U.S. at 536. Thus, to credit this argument, the Court would have to collapse two legally distinct orders into one. This the Court cannot do. Id. at 537. Because no order of removal exists, the Court turns next to why detention in the absence of such an order cannot continue.16 C. Continued Detention Without a Removal Order Violates the INA and Due Process The absence of a removal order raises an intractable problem for Respondents. They took Abrego Garcia into ICE custody with the singular purpose of removing him to a third country pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1231. See ECF No. 1-5 (notice of removal to Uganda); ECF No. 27-3 (notice of removal to Eswatini); ECF No. 52 at 32:18–19 (confirming notice of removal to Ghana sent “prematurely” to Abrego Garcia’s counsel); ECF No. 56 (notice of removal to Liberia). See](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreidpnrbcf4fwkeiqxi54mbuhngedqnfmwpqpsvr5dnyps36wzmd2bu@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Here is the opinion ordering Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody.
Held: (1) DHS has not produced a removal order for KAG, and so cannot hold him pending removal.
(2) Even if there were an order, detention violates due process.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Held: (1) DHS has not produced a removal order for KAG, and so cannot hold him pending removal.
(2) Even if there were an order, detention violates due process.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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President Trump endorses NC Senate leader Phil Berger in primary, offers challenger a job. Trump asks Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, who was Trump’s 2020 NC campaign chair, to drop out of race & take a job in DC. (Via @dawnbvaughan.bsky.social)
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga
Trump endorses NC Senate leader Phil Berger in primary, offers challenger a job
President Donald Trump endorsed NC Republican Senate leader Phil Berger in his primary election. What he said about Berger and Berger’s opponent.
www.newsobserver.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
President Trump endorses NC Senate leader Phil Berger in primary, offers challenger a job. Trump asks Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, who was Trump’s 2020 NC campaign chair, to drop out of race & take a job in DC. (Via @dawnbvaughan.bsky.social)
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga
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Just how unserious is the Trump Gold Card program? The administration has been promising it's "days away" for the last six months, and the website is now touting a separate "Platinum Card" product with no details other than the option to join a waitlist. Email scam-ass government.
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just how unserious is the Trump Gold Card program? The administration has been promising it's "days away" for the last six months, and the website is now touting a separate "Platinum Card" product with no details other than the option to join a waitlist. Email scam-ass government.