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Kim Lane Scheppele
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Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.

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Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Scheppele works on topics related to comparative constitutional ethnography within the sociology of law. .. more

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 1h
If Trump invokes the so-called “Insurrection Act,” it won’t be on the basis of any finding that there’s an insurrection. After all, Trump himself argued that even the January 6 uprising did not qualify as an interaction.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h
GIFT LINK

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Kevin Hassett on Trump's 10% cap on credit card interest rates: "Our expectations is that it won't necessarily require legislation because there will be great new Trump Cards provided voluntarily by the banks."

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Mark D. White, Alfie Kohn

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h
The Insurrection Act does require an actual insurrection. The violence in Minneapolis is almost exclusively one-sided. People yelling at you, calling you names, and recording you on a cell phone isn’t violence. And if the courts let Trump say it is, we’re in a lot of trouble.

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Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 3h
We fact-checked the first hearing of the GOP House committee re-investigating Jan. 6.

At one point, a member suggested Biden was president during the riot - which would be impossible without time travel.

www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
House Republicans are investigating Jan. 6. NPR fact-checked the first hearing
A Republican-led congressional subcommittee is leading a new investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Do their claims add up?
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 12h
ICE eats at a Mexican restaurant and then arrests the workers there. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Trump threatens to send troops to Minnesota after federal agent shoots man over alleged attack
Trump claimed “professional agitators and insurrectionists” were among the demonstrations in Minneapolis as he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. The federal government released new details ab...
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 13h
Minneapolis.

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 13h
87 days to election: Hungary sees widening gap in favour of Tisza over Orbán's Fidesz
87 days to election: Hungary sees widening gap in favour of Tisza over Orbán's Fidesz
Journalist Veronika Munk reviews Hungary’s political developments on the road to the April election, from the latest opinion polls and Fidesz’s reshuffled slate of 106 candidates, to campaign mishaps over a hijacked slogan domain, a growing diplomatic row between Péter Magyar and Slovakia, and fresh regional tensions after Hungary granted political asylum to former Polish government officials.
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 13h
Brésil : l'ex-président Jair Bolsonaro transféré dans une prison aux conditions "plus favorables"
Brésil : l'ex-président Jair Bolsonaro transféré dans une prison aux conditions "plus favorables"
Une cellule plus grande, davantage de temps pour les visites, un vélo d'appartement : l'ancien président du Brésil Jair Bolsonaro a été transféré jeudi dans une prison aux conditions "plus favorables", sur décision de justice. Ses soutiens réclamaient qu'il purge sa peine de 27 ans chez lui pour raison "humanitaire".
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
This is chilling and must be heard to believe. And the fact that this is where we are says everything.

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Seth Masket, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15h
What happens when the Board of Peace recommends renaming the Department of War, and the Department of War moves to rename the Board of Peace?

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 15h
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill
Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.
open.substack.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15h
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest, 404 Media reports. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
www.eff.org

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Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 15h
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

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Ms. Understood @msunderstood.bsky.social · 16h
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.
www.nytimes.com

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 16h
Happy to guest lecture on backsliding democracies including ours. Also social theory, comparative constitutional government, sociology of law.

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 16h
Read the whole thread. ICE is lawless. And cruel. Not in my name.
nicolefoy.bsky.social Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18h
I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens

All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
A teenage boy with dark hair and a black and gold football jersey holds his helmet, standing on the side line of a green football field

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 17h
No more blank check for ICE www.publicnotice.co/p/government...
Democrats need to shut down Trump's terrorist government
Funding the war on their own constituents would be a grave betrayal.
www.publicnotice.co

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 17h
UPDATE from @nytimes.com: Trump is building up forces near Iran. The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and escort ships are heading there from the South China Sea — a two-week trip. And the Pentagon is sending more warplanes, many from Europe. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
"A federal officer shot a person in the leg after being attacked with a shovel during a Minneapolis arrest, an AP source says." A subsequent examination of a videotape of the incident shows that the account published by AP was entirely fallacious and supplied by DHS.
Federal officer shoots person in leg after being attacked during Minneapolis arrest, officials say
A federal officer has shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel during an arrest Wednesday. That's according to officials.
apnews.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
By Douglas MacMillan When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death. An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation. In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.” In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said. “He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18h
I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens

All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
A teenage boy with dark hair and a black and gold football jersey holds his helmet, standing on the side line of a green football field

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing.
More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021.
From @penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/report/ameri...
Map of state higher ed restrictions

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.
An immigrant agent holds a cellphone that is doing a facial scan of a detained man. The app says "Searching Face"

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22h
Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”

A profile in absolute courage.
The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie’s role “in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state’s clandestine nuclear weapons program” an “act of profound revolutionary significance.” From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites. Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 22h
As always, Asha is the best -- especially for those who think visually!
asharangappa.bsky.social Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d
Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws

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NPR @npr.org · 22h
Troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, are arriving in Greenland after talks between Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. on Wednesday highlighted disagreement. n.pr/4b0vnFP
European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security
Troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, are arriving in Greenland after talks between Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. on Wednesday highlighted disagreement.
n.pr

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 23h
Third Circuit paves the way for Mahmoud Khalil’s rearrest @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/third-circui...
Third Circuit paves the way for Mahmoud Khalil’s rearrest and deportation
In a 2-1 ruling, the appellate panel ruled that the lower court judge protecting Khalil from removal lacked the jurisdiction to interfere in the proceedings.
www.courthousenews.com

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 23h
“It is simply not true that the Chinese and Russians are there. I have seen the intelligence. There are no ships, no submarines. — Senior Danish diplomat
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Trump's Deepfake Warmongering
“It is simply not true that the Chinese and Russians are there.
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