Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

With some federal agents now wearing masks on the job, a growing number of states are considering mask bans. Can states apply such laws to federal actors without contravening the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause? We explore this question in a new Explainer: go.wisc.edu/bn0b1c

The cruelty is the point: ICE releases woman it had locked up for 10 days by shoving her out the door of its Burlington hole in the pouring rain, with no phone, 30 miles from home; she walked over to the Burlington Mall and begged for help at the Cheesecake Factory. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day.

Trump directs DOJ to open criminal investigations into Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs www.c-span.org/video/?c5160...

Per White House pool: Trump has announced a deal with Skadden law firm in which the firm will provide $100 million in pro bono work that the administration approves of.

“This was essentially a settlement,” Trump said.

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

Allison Riggs won the election for Supreme Court. Her victory was confirmed by 2 recounts. Yet, her opponent Jefferson Griffin is asking the Court to throw out the valid votes of tens of thousands of registered NCians 🧵

Hey, guess what? An amicus brief I helped write was just quoted very extensively in a PA Supreme Court opinion. Lawyers - don’t ever think that amicus briefs aren’t a good use of your time. We will need a LOT of them right now, so keep plugging away!