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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Trump's secret police vandalize houses and cars, assault citizens, fire potential lethal weapons for the hell of it, and assault children, often as sexual predators... and claim impunity for all of this. CATO proposes the fix. In the meantime it's essential to document all these crimes rigorously.
What Good Is a Right Without a Remedy?
Flagrant civil rights abuses are enabled by a legal scheme that makes it all but impossible to sue federal agents for constitutional violations and shields them with immunity should that barrier ever ...
www.cato.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
Abstract This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency applications relating to the Trump administration during its October 2024 Term. As it demonstrates, the justices in those cases not only flouted the traditional standards for emergency relief; they exhibited repeated and sustained disrespect for both lower courts and Congress, enabling the executive branch to act in defiance of countless statutory restrictions; of settled constitutional understandings; and even of coercive district court mandates, all with dramatic (and deleterious) real-world consequences. As the Alien Enemies Act cases illustrate, the takeaway is not that the Court always ruled for President Trump; it's that it pushed back only when its mandates were on the line. The upshot is an attempt by the Supreme Court to preserve its supremacy, as such. But such an approach, the essay concludes, is likely to be self-defeating. In the short term, it will encourage the executive branch to take ever-more-aggressive actions against both the people and the lower courts. And in the long term, it will not just further weaken Congress and the lower courts; it will further erode public confidence in the judiciary as an institution. Together, the increased power and momentum of the executive and the decreased credibility of (and respect for) the courts will make it that much harder for the Supreme Court to wield the supremacy it's protecting, even when it wants to.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
t-hane.bsky.social
Happy 9th Birthday to Sweet Eddie! Given his status as a Certified Good Boy, he got to wear this hat today and he enjoyed a cheeseburger
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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segalmr.bsky.social
The basic dynamic is that Congress and SCOTUS left a federal-government-sized hole in the remedies available for people subjected to unconstitutional searches and seizures, and the Trump administration is presently driving an ICE caravan through it.
October 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review
Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.
www.bostonreview.net
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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commonfence.bsky.social
The case is settled! The Boss said it is 'Authoritarianism.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZHW...
Land of Hope and Dreams
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October 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
Glad to be partnering with the ACLU in my attempt to hold whoever was in charge of firing me responsible. It’s important, especially during these particular times, that we fight for our rights (and not just to party)
July 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
New at The Watch:

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police...
The police militarization debate is over
Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force
radleybalko.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
t-hane.bsky.social
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Texas Deserves Far Better Than This
The recent flooding in and around Kerrville has exposed a number of failings in the state’s disaster preparedness and response. It also kicked off a widespread public blame game. Officials have long b...
www.theringer.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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rparloff.bsky.social
With the help of colleagues @tylermcbrien.com & @annahickey.lawfaremedia.org of @lawfaremedia.org , I compiled this interactive table of the state of play of litigation over Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Lemme know if you see errors.
lawfaremedia.org/alienenemiestable
June 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
“We are currently clean on op sec.”
Joe Pesci entering the basement in Goodfellas (1990).
March 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
Federal courts now have to treat the DOJ like a pro se plaintiff who is suing all the Jews of the world for one quadrillion dollars
lizdye.bsky.social Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · Mar 21
DOJ just moved to DQ Judge Beryl Howell in Perkins Coie case because she was mean to Trump and nice to Robert Mueller and Jack Smith.

"This Court has not kept its disdain for President Trump secret."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISQUALIFY JUDGE BERYL HOWELL Fair proceedings free from any suggestion of impartiality are essential to the integrity of our country’s judiciary and the need to curtail ongoing improper encroachments of President Trump’s Executive Power playing out across the country. In this case, reasonable observers may well view this Court as insufficiently impartial to adjudicate the meritless challenges to President Trump’s efforts to implement the agenda that the American people elected him to carry out. In fact, this Court has repeatedly demonstrated partiality against and animus towards the President. Examples include this Court enabling the improper efforts of disgraced former prosecutor Jack Smith despite a readily apparent lack of venue in this District; wrongly suggesting in public that President Trump is an authoritarian; and incorrectly finding that President Trump—the most wellknown man on Earth—presents a flight risk where even the prior Administration’s Department of
March 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
t-hane.bsky.social
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January 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM