Sandra Kupelian
@sandrakupelian.bsky.social
Appellate lawyer, mom to an amazing human and a small pack of fur babies. Fan of democracy currently living in the land of denial 💙
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Mary and I take on, in our new NYT op ed, the grave mistake in the reasoning of the Supreme Court which unleashed retribution prosecutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Opinion | How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Mary and I take on, in our new NYT op ed, the grave mistake in the reasoning of the Supreme Court which unleashed retribution prosecutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
The Justice Department asked the judge assigned to oversee the challenge to President Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland to step aside, because he is married to a Democratic lawmaker who opposes it.
thehill.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A new biography breaks through the mythology that John Roberts has constructed around himself and argues he'll go down as the worst chief justice in American history.
How John Roberts Won Over the Bush White House and Remade the Supreme Court
Twenty years ago this week, John Roberts became the Chief Justice of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A new biography breaks through the mythology that John Roberts has constructed around himself and argues he'll go down as the worst chief justice in American history.
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2022 — a confession:
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
2022 — a confession:
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Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
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Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
www.ballsandstrikes.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
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"We are now well past the threshold point. A constitutional crisis is no longer looming. It’s here—unfolding in real time, under the cover of bureaucracy and legal twaddle, in the dog days of summer."
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
36 Hours in Donald Trump’s America
A travelogue of corruption
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"We are now well past the threshold point. A constitutional crisis is no longer looming. It’s here—unfolding in real time, under the cover of bureaucracy and legal twaddle, in the dog days of summer."
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
Here it is with gift link.
🎁Link
This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
by Will Bunch | Columnist
July 24 share.inquirer.com/vOvWrG
This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
by Will Bunch | Columnist
July 24 share.inquirer.com/vOvWrG
This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
share.inquirer.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Here it is with gift link.
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Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are, with thousands of migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
www.inquirer.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are, with thousands of migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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Must read (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Must read (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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really important to emphasize that roberts' view of the executive branch as comprising a single individual is literally contradicted by the text of the constitution itself
“What America is witnessing is a remaking of the American presidency into something closer to a dictatorship,” Peter M. Shane argues. That project is the work of Chief Justice John Roberts:
How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency
The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.
bit.ly
July 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
really important to emphasize that roberts' view of the executive branch as comprising a single individual is literally contradicted by the text of the constitution itself
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NEW: Judge Murphy says the 8 men in Djibouti on their way to South Sudan WILL GET THE DUE PROCESS he previously ordered, saying that his remedial order remains in effect despite the Supreme Court's unreasoned order lifting the stay on his class-wide injunction.
![Judge Brian E. Murphy: ELECTRONIC ORDER ENTERED ON PLAINTIFFS EMERGENCY MOTION TO ENFORCE JUDGMENT. Plaintiffs emergency Motion, Dkt. 174, is DENIED as unnecessary, subject to the below. The Courts May 21, 2025 Order on Remedy, Dkt. 119, remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding todays stay of the Preliminary Injunction. DHS v. D.V.D., No. 24A1153, slip op. At 12
(S. Ct. Jun. 23, 2025) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) (The District Courts remedial orders [were] not properly before [the Supreme] Court because the Government has not appealed them, or sought a stay pending a forthcoming appeal.). For the avoidance of doubt, and to the extend Plaintiffs N.M. And D.D. Are indeed subject to third-country removal, see Dt. 175 at 5-7, N.M. And D.D. Are included among the individuals referenced in the May 21, 2025 Order. (BAH) (Entered: 06/23/2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreido746d67f6ys2z5geaam3utgadhv55awuvguaudvqsl527mig5dq@jpeg)
June 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
NEW: Judge Murphy says the 8 men in Djibouti on their way to South Sudan WILL GET THE DUE PROCESS he previously ordered, saying that his remedial order remains in effect despite the Supreme Court's unreasoned order lifting the stay on his class-wide injunction.
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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
June 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
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"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
www.lawdork.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
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Getting Hegseth to the situation room.
June 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Getting Hegseth to the situation room.
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“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
www.propublica.org
June 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.
(Published April 2025)
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/just...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/just...
Justice Sotomayor’s Message to Lawyers: Stand Up, Fight and Win
In an era when judges are often assessed by their commitment to democracy, Justice Sonia Sotomayor stands as a stalwart in the pro-democracy camp.
www.democracydocket.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an audience of lawyers to deliver a stern message to the legal profession: stand up for democracy, take on the hard fights and do whatever you can to win.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/just...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/just...
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I'm starting a thread with the legal profession's response to President Trump's attacks on it. Please feel free to add any that I miss.
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
Perkins Coie’s response to the unlawful Executive Order targeting the firm
The order violates core constitutional protections, including the rights to free speech and due process, and undermines all clients’ right to select counsel of their choice.
www.perkinscoiefacts.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I'm starting a thread with the legal profession's response to President Trump's attacks on it. Please feel free to add any that I miss.
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
I'll start with Perkins Coie's response.They have created an entire website so that we can follow along. 1/
www.perkinscoiefacts.com?gad_source=1...
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Our freedoms are guaranteed to us by the Constitution and laws. The courts enforce those when lawyers hold the government accountable to those laws.
Attacking lawyers like @marcelias.bsky.social and every other lawyer who does this is a threat to all of our freedoms.
We must stand together.
Attacking lawyers like @marcelias.bsky.social and every other lawyer who does this is a threat to all of our freedoms.
We must stand together.
March 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Our freedoms are guaranteed to us by the Constitution and laws. The courts enforce those when lawyers hold the government accountable to those laws.
Attacking lawyers like @marcelias.bsky.social and every other lawyer who does this is a threat to all of our freedoms.
We must stand together.
Attacking lawyers like @marcelias.bsky.social and every other lawyer who does this is a threat to all of our freedoms.
We must stand together.