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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 11h

In hindsight, it’s interesting that this was the example Barrett chose to explain her reasoning on the limits of presidential immunity

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 12h

News: Trump declares Oct 14 “National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk,” calling him a Christian martyr

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 14h

Going to say this again at the risk of being yelled at...it's not the media's job to promote a protest. That is the job of political organizers. There will be PLENTY of media coverage of the protests themselves.

And I've seen many stories about people hurt by ICE, the shutdown, and much more.

Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s the post https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretsullivan/p/the-media-is-largely-ignoring-the?r=1yc91&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 14h

“Whenever lower courts are deciding issues of federal law and this court cannot step in, then this court ceases to be the Supreme Court,” said Andrew Adler, a Florida public defender. "The courts of appeals then become their own mini supreme courts." www.courthousenews.com/relief-for-f...

Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

A complex jurisdictional fight was further complicated as the high court considered if Congress could prevent the justices from reviewing lower court decisions.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 14h

Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

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Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

A complex jurisdictional fight was further complicated as the high court considered if Congress could prevent the justices from reviewing lower court decisions.

www.courthousenews.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 14h

@benjaminweiss.bsky.social told @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social that, despite claims otherwise, Judge Boasberg has been assigned Trump cases at a similar rate as other jurists on the D.C. federal bench.

@sidebarcns.bsky.social on SCOTUS' shadow docket and more: open.spotify.com/show/0hP2TEY...

The Shadow Docket

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 22h

Just a reminder that this emergency appeal is still pending...

Seemingly lots of preliminary issues on this (the school district says it hasn't even been properly served with the initial lawsuit)

www.courthousenews.com/conservative...

Conservative group asks SCOTUS to skirt vaccine mandate at California school

As predicted by some justices in June, advocates are already trying to expand on the high court’s June ruling in a case about LGBTQ books to challenge other school policies that they oppose.

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 1d

University of California & Cal State campuses have together shared the names of thousands of employees with the Trump admin as it probes antisemitism allegations. Faculty are demanding schools, which say they are legally required to share data, push back:

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC, CSU released troves of personal employee information to the feds. Now the backlash

Cal State and UC have face campus protest and intense rebuke by faculty, students and staff for sharing employee personal information with the Trump administration as part of investigations into alle...

www.latimes.com

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 1d

Disney executives when everyone said they were canceling Disney+ last month

a man in a suit and tie is laughing while sitting at a table .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing while sitting at a table .

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 1d

AHHHHHHH 6 part docuseries?!?!??

a woman in a black dress is standing in front of a drum set in a room .

ALT: a woman in a black dress is standing in front of a drum set in a room .

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 2d

NEW

Prince Andrew to Jeff Epstein in 2011: “We are in this together”

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d

I mean they can do whatever they want, but I wouldn’t bet on that being persuasive with the justices

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d

The conflict here is that the justices aren’t using the emergency docket as a temporary tool, they’re making “precedent” and expecting lower court judges to apply it without explanation. This is why we’re seeing so much frustration from lower court judges.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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."

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 3d

WH is still sending out Trump’s Truth Social posts despite staff shortages in the press office

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 3d

It's really a pathology with them. Every TJs has terrible parking and they seem to chose their locales based on it.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 3d

Cross-ideological agreement that Justice Kagan is the GOAT.

The judges were also asked to respond to the following:
Lower-court judges have sufficient guidance from the Supreme Court about
how to apply emergency docket orders.
48 disagreed
5 were neutral
12 agreed
What effect, if any, has the Supreme Court's use of the emergency docket,
since President Trump returned to office, had on the public's perception of the
judiciary?
42 said caused harm
10 said no effect
2 said an improvement
Note: Eleven judges who either declined to respond to this question or said they did not know are not
included. By Joey Sendaydiego

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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 4d

Freelance reporter @leighgiangreco.bsky.social was on assignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social, covering Sept. 19 protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview, IL, when federal officers shot her with pepper balls.

The newsroom has since filed suit and won a temporary restraining order.

Freelancer struck by projectiles at Illinois anti-deportation protest

Freelance reporter Leigh Giangreco was shot with multiple pepper balls by federal officers while covering protests outside a U.S. Immigration …

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 4d

Leo cited Arendt’s warning that “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 4d

Supreme Court redistricting fight sounds the death knell for Voting Rights Act

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Supreme Court redistricting fight sounds the death knell for Voting Rights Act

The justices’ ruling could help Republicans add 19 safe seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, potentially securing GOP control for a generation.

www.courthousenews.com

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 4d

Rereading Jackson's dissent in SFFA before next week's arguments

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