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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 16h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar:

JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what
I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state
that wanted to prohibit certain medical
treatment, gender-affirming care, being given
to minors in the form of medication.
And we said that was okay. And I
understand there are particulars with respect
to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional
arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit
that.

Here, we have a state that wants to
prohibit gender-related medical treatment in
the form of talk therapy, but we now have the
First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's
ability to do that.

And I'm just, from a very, very broad
perspective, concerned about making sure that
we have equivalence with respect to these
things.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump says he will talk to DOJ about Maxwell pardon, says Diddy asked for one reut.rs/4o8EWG5

Trump says he will talk to DOJ about Maxwell pardon, says Diddy asked for one

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday left the door open to a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

The DC Circuit is set to consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by expelling the Associated Press from the White House press pool. @knightcolumbia.org's brief, just filed. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 7d

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Kevin H Bell Esq @kevinok.bsky.social · 8d

Today was my last day as a federal employee, but tomorrow I and my new partner, Ginger Quintero-McCall, open a new law practice, the Free Information Group. We are both FOIA lawyers, and we are very good at suing the government. 1/

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Joshua Lenon @joshualenon.bsky.social · 8d

Texas, Florida, and Ohio Republicans are attacking the @americanbar.org on behalf of Trump. The ABA’s defense of the rule of law, judicial independence, and legal representation has made them a target. www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Texas plans to end ABA's role in state's law school oversight

Texas is poised to end its reliance on the American Bar Association for law school oversight and instead let its highest court determine which schools’ graduates can be admitted as lawyers in the state.

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Alison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social · 8d

Thread!

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.

I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 8d

Drop whatever you’re doing and read the last 15 pages of this 161-page opinion. I’m serious.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8d

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Case 1:25-cv-10685-WGY Document 261
Filed 09/30/25
Page 1 of 161
Post card dated June 19, 2025
(On file in Chambers)
1 9/S UNE 2025
TRUMP HAS PARDONS
AND TANKS..
WHAT DO
You
HAVE?
Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States -- you and me --have our magnificent Constitution.
Here's how that works out in a
specific case --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS -- HARVARD FACULTY CHAPTER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AT NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY, RUTGERS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS-AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, and
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION,
Plaintiffs,
)
CIVIL ACTION NO.
25-10685-WGY
v.
MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, KRISTI NOEM, in her official
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 9d

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Chart showing the decline in the number of people charged with federal drug offenses.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9d

These Kavanaugh Stops keep seeming to be a lot more invasive than Kavanaugh tried to pretend they would be.

The extent to which Justices just make up facts, history, psychology, etc etc etc to get the outcomes they want, and the legal community as a whole just shrugs is … legit appalling.

Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 9d

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

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Alison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social · 10d

This is definitely the best news of the day

Dianna Russini @diannarussini.bsky.social · 10d

Your Super Bowl LX halftime show headliner: Bad Bunny.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12d

Senate Judiciary's Dick Durbin: "The Department of Justice has become a political tool of a vengeful President. President Trump wears his corruption like a badge of honor and defies anyone daring to challenge him."

"Is there one Republican left in Washington who gives a damn?"

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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 13d

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 13d

JUST IN: Text of Comey indictment here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... New details: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 13d

A grotesque & panoramic abuse of the DOJ is now unfolding before our eyes, w/ orders from top to investigate Comey, Soros's foundation, etc, all of whom have 2 things in common. 1) no evidence of wrongdoing; 2) Trump hates them. Looking forward to discussing on @allinwithchris.bsky.social at 8 PM ET

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

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)

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15d

Trump's choice of his former personal lawyer to lead investigations of New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey has sparked concern among former federal prosecutors.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16d

#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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Ethan Stark-Miller @estarkmiller.bsky.social · 16d

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week.
www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

EXCLUSIVE | Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show | amNewYork

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16d

It is difficult “to express how utterly transgressive Trump’s demands for personal justice are, how important the norms are that he is now violating, and how much destruction he is inflicting on the rule of law,” Paul Rosenzweig argues. But let’s try:

A Most Profound Transgression

In demanding that the attorney general go after his enemies, Donald Trump is upending fundamental norms of fairness and neutrality in the American legal system.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18d

The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you.

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