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Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
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Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.
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I wonder if ruling for an authoritarian president of your own party 18 straight times (or whatever it is now), often without any reasoning at all, gives any impressions that a Supreme Court justice should wish not to give.
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I wonder if ruling for an authoritarian president of your own party 18 straight times (or whatever it is now), often without any reasoning at all, gives any impressions that a Supreme Court justice should wish not to give.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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It’s really worse than any confirmation in modern memory. There’s just no argument - none- that he’s suitable unless you think all the whistleblowers are lying (and even then, with the rest of the evidence, EG Adams). Republicans didn’t think that they just put their heads down. Travesty.
July 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s really worse than any confirmation in modern memory. There’s just no argument - none- that he’s suitable unless you think all the whistleblowers are lying (and even then, with the rest of the evidence, EG Adams). Republicans didn’t think that they just put their heads down. Travesty.
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“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen.”
~ Maureen Comey
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
~ Maureen Comey
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Maurene Comey warns her former colleagues: ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant’
Comey, who prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein, was fired from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office amid a public uproar over the attorney general's decision not to release additional files in the case.
www.politico.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen.”
~ Maureen Comey
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
~ Maureen Comey
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Love this and love Ann.
It’s Friday, and if you haven’t read this towering stack of great literature, it’s new to you! This week, Ann mixes it up a bit and responds to an op-ed by David Brooks in the NYT. Is the novel really dead? Read the article, watch Ann’s take, and let us know what you think.
New to You: Literature Isn’t Dead
YouTube video by Parnassus Books
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July 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Love this and love Ann.
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On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
[Painting of a family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreifufhjor4i5ijjyh2cuswhmtmoybnr7rzjg3pdi6ow3udhtbuxhnu@jpeg)
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
[Painting of a German family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreidjr6b3w65abp2xtc5qax7rxhupvocfkvdvh23gfwlrnr7f555nmu@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The cruelty is the point.
This is the picture of fascism in America.
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The cruelty is the point.
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Sam's view of the case is my view. The problem with it isn't that nationwide injunctions are good. They often aren't. It's that it was irresponsible for the Court to decide this issue now, in this case, and through this mode of analysis.
As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)
June 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sam's view of the case is my view. The problem with it isn't that nationwide injunctions are good. They often aren't. It's that it was irresponsible for the Court to decide this issue now, in this case, and through this mode of analysis.
Exactly.
As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)
June 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Exactly.
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“The extraordinary lengths to which the government has gone to pursue this flimsy case against our client speaks volumes: they’d rather keep genuinely dangerous, deportable people on the streets than admit a simple mistake.”
EXCLUSIVE
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported after firing shots in a Houston suburb & reentering the U.S. illegally.
Now he’s being freed.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported after firing shots in a Houston suburb & reentering the U.S. illegally.
Now he’s being freed.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“The extraordinary lengths to which the government has gone to pursue this flimsy case against our client speaks volumes: they’d rather keep genuinely dangerous, deportable people on the streets than admit a simple mistake.”
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Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...
June 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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Does this man look or sound like a United States Secretary of Defense to you
Most of this “press conference” is this lunatic yelling at the media. This guy is so obsessed with his press coverage that he can’t even function.
June 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Does this man look or sound like a United States Secretary of Defense to you
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FBI has never covered its faces. DEA has never covered its faces, even though its officers have been targeted for assassination by the cartels.
Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
adamkinzinger.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
FBI has never covered its faces. DEA has never covered its faces, even though its officers have been targeted for assassination by the cartels.
Should be obviously disqualifying for a federal judgeship, but Republican Senators will not consider it so.
It’s been about 30 years since I was an Assistant U.S. Attorney. And maybe it’s just me, but I think I would remember telling my fellow prosecutors that we should ignore a court order and tell the court “fuck you.”
June 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Should be obviously disqualifying for a federal judgeship, but Republican Senators will not consider it so.
Helpful explainer from @becingber.bsky.social. Will we see an OLC opinion on the Art. II portion? 🧐
The WH letter to Congress on the Iran strikes — I’ll explain in a brief thread below what we can read into this of the Admin’s legal position on both domestic and international law.
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) On the night of June 21, 2025, at my direction, United States forces conducted a precision strike
www.whitehouse.gov
June 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Helpful explainer from @becingber.bsky.social. Will we see an OLC opinion on the Art. II portion? 🧐
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“We are pleased by the Court’s thoughtful analysis and its express recognition that Mr. Abrego Garcia is entitled both to due process and the presumption of innocence, both of which our government has worked quite hard to deny him.”
www.cnn.com/2025/06/22/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/22/p...
Judge says Justice Department failed to make case for Abrego Garcia’s detention ahead of criminal trial | CNN Politics
A judge in Tennessee said the Justice Department hasn’t made a convincing case that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be kept in pretrial detention, though the mistakenly deported man who was returned to th...
www.cnn.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“We are pleased by the Court’s thoughtful analysis and its express recognition that Mr. Abrego Garcia is entitled both to due process and the presumption of innocence, both of which our government has worked quite hard to deny him.”
www.cnn.com/2025/06/22/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/22/p...
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I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
Utterly lawless. There are no longer any legal limits on unilateral uses of force because the President has refused to abide by them, Congress has abdicated its role, and the American people are unengaged.
Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites
President Trump announced the United States had struck Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facilities, as well as two other sites.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
President Trump announced the United States had struck Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facilities, as well as two other sites.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Utterly lawless. There are no longer any legal limits on unilateral uses of force because the President has refused to abide by them, Congress has abdicated its role, and the American people are unengaged.
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ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
June 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
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Trump created the problem. The single reason Iran was so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon is that Trump destroyed the diplomatic agreement that put major, verifiable constraints on their nuclear program.
June 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Trump created the problem. The single reason Iran was so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon is that Trump destroyed the diplomatic agreement that put major, verifiable constraints on their nuclear program.