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Kim Lane Scheppele

@kimlanelaw.bsky.social

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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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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 5h

The rule of law disappears when ICE appears. Witness and act.

Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 5h

Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 8h

Powerful - from someone who has been a witness. "During the interregnum between the last gasps of a democracy and the emergence of a dictatorship, the nation is gaslighted. ... These lies mollify those being frog-marched into their own enslavement." open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

The Machinery of Terror

The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 8h

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.

WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 8h

👀 67% increase in the number of applications to the Toronto political science PhD program from last year, 92% increase from 2024 👀

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 10h

1/DOJ OLC's memo on the #Venezuela attack makes clear that that in the Executive's view, there's nothing left of Congress' Art. I power to decide whether the nation goes to war.

Congress needs to push back hard on this.

More to come, but a few initial observations:
www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Mark Rice, David Darmofal

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 10h

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15h

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target

Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.

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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, David Darmofal

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11h

The story www.propublica.org/article/vide...

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11h

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.