If you went your whole life studying American constitutional law, you would struggle to find a more paradigmatic example of what our Founders were expressly prohibiting the State from doing than what they did to this young woman.

Untreated mental health issues.

Red flag laws that don't work.

Easy access to guns to kill people.

The rest is bigotry.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Generally agree with a quibble: He may have had some principles. But he stomped on nearly all core American values with the authorization and oversight of torture at Guatanamo. Mayer's book on this is harrowing.

Article I Section 8 has never been so badly immolated.

Powerful piece from @mimirocah1.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social & @rachelfoster.bsky.social & Rachel Foster reminding us to avoid tabloid framing and center Epstein's victims in lieu of him and those who reprehensibly abetted him.

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Because today and all days I refuse to live in a world where we are told to pretend an act passed by Congress, signed by the President, and upheld by the Supreme Court does not exist, I present to you the "Qualified Divestiture" provisions of the federal law that banned TikTok in the US.

Florida law.

And yet. The dereliction of duty on this confirmation vote may have few precedents in the history of the Senate.

Stutzman just voted aye on this.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-releas...

On that topic, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in January, upholding a bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and signed into law by the President. The current President is lawlessly defying that law. True story.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

If you're going to listen to only one podcast on the end of the SCOTUS term, I recommend @strictscrutiny.bsky.social w/ @leahlitman.bsky.social, @profmmurray.bsky.social & @kateshaw.bsky.social. Checks on lawlessness matter more when there is this much lawlessness.

www.crooked.com/podcast/scot...

If masked agents snatch individuals in courthouse halls, folks will simply stop going to court. This will make us all less safe.

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Outstanding brief filed by NYC lawyers in a case with enormous implications for NYC's government. (ht @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social @carriemelago.bsky.social)

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/