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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · 1d

Some Con Law humor...

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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WIRED @wired.com · 2d

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

NEW: Judge Immergut issues her written second TRO, blocking the Trump admin from deploying ANY federalized National Guard troops from ANY state in Oregon. (Full hearing thread below) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Based on this Court's prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs' First Motion for
Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the
National Guard in Oregon.

2. This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen
days on October 19, 2025.
3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The
bond shall be filed in the Clerk's Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants' Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary
Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order, is DENIED.
The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on
October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be extended for another 14 days.
6. Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17,
2025; Defendants' opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs' reply shall be due on October 27, 2025.
A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits
under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 5th day of October.
/s/ Karin J. Immergut
Karin J. Immergut
United States District Judge

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10d

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · 12d

One of the best. Glad for what good he did in the world, wish he was still here to keep doing it.

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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · 13d

Portland ❤️

a man in a red shirt and suspenders stands in front of a sign that says " put "

ALT: a man in a red shirt and suspenders stands in front of a sign that says " put "

media.tenor.com

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 16d

Sociologist Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social (Princeton University) provides comment in the recent article, “Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump?” @newyorker.com

Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump?

From Disney’s capitulation on Jimmy Kimmel to tech moguls’ White House dinner, corporate élites are choosing self-preservation over principle.

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Angela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social · 16d

Huge DOGE oral history from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @mollytaft.com, @aarianmarshall.bsky.social, @peard33.bsky.social, + @jakelahut.writes.news

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

www.wired.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19d

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 18d

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · 19d

A good explainer on the First Amendment and what happened with Jimmy Kimmel

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 19d

Why Jimmy Kimmel’s First Amendment rights weren’t violated – but ABC’s would be protected if it stood up to the FCC and Trump

Think you know what the First Amendment means and protects? You − and a lot of Jimmy Kimmel’s defenders − may well be wrong.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 22d

this is absolutely wild

the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a)

so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

This complaint stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements of Rule 8. This action will begin, will continue, and will end in accord with the rules of procedure and in a professional and dignified manner. The complaint is STRUCK with leave to amend within twenty-eight days. The amended complaint must not exceed forty pages, excluding only the caption, the signature, and any attachment.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 22d

This is a Rule 8 dismissal, which is not common when you’re represented by a lawyer, but is very common when you’re a sovereign citizen suing without a lawyer.

This judge is treating the president of the United States as a pro se litigant.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22d

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times.

The suit, he says, "stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements" of federal court rules.

It is "decidedly improper and impermissible."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 23d

"What's happening now is what happened in Hungary and Turkey, which is using regulatory threats and lawsuits as a way to capture the media,
and to capture the information ecosystem. We should be all very, very concerned," says @krforde.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/kimmels-su...

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 23d

Harvard, like all Americans, can’t be punished by the government for speaking freely – and a federal court decision upholds decades of precedents saying so:

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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · 22d

Such an important contribution -- especially for letter writers, as well as for folks going up and needing to contextualize their subfield to colleagues in other subfields.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23d

The Supreme Court has amended its November argument calendar and will now hear the Trump tariff case on Wednesday, Nov. 5! www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
OCTOBER TERM 2025
For the Session Beginning November 3, 2025
Monday, November 3
(1)
24-1056 RICO V. UNITED STATES
(2)
24-924 HENCELY V. FLUOR CORP.
Monday, November 10
(1)
23-1197 LANDOR V. LOUISIANA
DOC
(2)
24-758 GEO GROUP, INC. V.
MENOCAL
Tuesday, November 4
(3)
24-808 CONEY ISLAND AUTO
PARTS, INC. V. BURTON
(4)
24-724 HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP,
INC. V. PALMQUIST

Tuesday, November 11

LEGAL HOLIDAY
Wednesday, November 5
(5)
24-1287) LEARNING RESOURCES, INC.
V. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF
UNITED STATES
25-250 ) TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF
UNITED STATES V. V.O.S.
SELECTIONS, INC.
(Consolidated - 1 hr. for argument)
Wednesday, November 12
(3)
24-556 FERNANDEZ V. UNITED
STATES

(4)
24-820) RUTHERFORD V.
UNITED STATES
24-860) CARTER V. UNITED STATES
(Consolidated - 1 hr. for argument)
Court Convenes at 10 a.m. Amended – September 18, 2025

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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · 24d

I would alert the journal's editors. Some journals have changed their policies about AI to include explicitly banning reviews to be generated by GAI. At the very least, it would help them assess whether to use that reviewer again!

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 24d

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas

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Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas

A federal judge found a Florida law censoring school library books violates students’ First Amendment rights.

theconversation.com

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Ashis Basu @ashis.bsky.social · 25d

“I recently spoke by phone with @lilymasonphd.bsky.social , a professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins S.N.F. Agora Institute and an expert on political violence.” @ichotiner.bsky.social

Where Political Violence Comes From www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Where Political Violence Comes From

Is our era of extreme partisanship to blame?

www.newyorker.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

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Laura Moyer @moyer.bsky.social · 26d

I have to think that he would have a strong case for wrongful termination, no? This is clearly viewpoint discrimination (if what he posted was a summary of Kirk's views and not, say, a violent threat). Is the univ calculus that they are willing to pay damages rather than risk fed defunding?