Julian Sanchez

Stephen Miller has turned rabid. It’s reaching a point where the judiciary and police force really have to step up and protect the citizens from constitutional abuse and misuse of the military. Unregulated, politically motivated ICE is the tip of a very broad weapon once military are involved.

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

The government’s theory appears to be that if you collect a bunch of such accounts in one place, suddenly this constitutes a threat and loses its protected status. It’s completely incoherent.

This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.

There are like a dozen videos this bad or worse per week now. This stuff is insane.

DOJ Demands Removal Of ICEBlock App; Why Are The ‘Free Speech Warriors’ Suddenly So Quiet? For years now, the MAGA crowd has been absolutely convinced that the Biden administration engaged in the most egregious censorship campaign in American history. They’ve waved around the Murth…

"When faced with actual, explicit, documented government censorship—the kind they’ve been breathlessly warning about for years—they have nothing to say. Because this censorship serves their agenda, targets their enemies, and advances their political goals." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/d...

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

This is part of a long-running and very tedious trend of right-wing influencers pretending not to know what words mean, because they’re confident their intended audience genuinely doesn’t know.

Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.

Was there some intermediate layer of discourse I missed out on or is the administration just straight-up saying that featuring a Puerto Rican performer is an insult to everything they stand for?

Cri de coeur time:

I hate that astrology is apparently now mainstream enough that I’m supposed to understand a reference to Taylor Swift as “that ever-striving Sagittarius” without further explanation in the second graf of a review.

Not only is this all made up but it’s not even useful!

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119 How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that various limits on our remedial power independently require us to reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. •It is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied "administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159 F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue" because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to "consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary, without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S. Code. The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for further consideration consistent with this decision.

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These are guys with screaming anger management issues who would undoubtedly have wound up in prison themselves sooner or later if they had not found a career that provides them an excuse to rough people up.

This guy not wearing a mask makes him the bravest ICE agent and yet is still, like all of them, a pathetic bullying coward. Look at him grab Fuentes, who’s literally just standing there. Look at the hatred in his dumb face.

I was thinking most recently of this one, but there's hardly a shortage. bsky.app/profile/eric...

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Hegseth writes "narco-terrorist" because someone begged him to use "terrorist" to fit with their new claim these are enemy combatants, but he's not very bright, so his description makes clear they just murdered more civilians because they thought a boat was carrying drugs.

That's a crime.

This really must be an insane time to be a law professor trying to explain to students how the Supreme Court is supposed to work. Most of them have to be about a week from a full Frank Grimes breakdown. "Look at me! I'm John Roberts! I don't need hearings or reasoned opinions!"

I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly mis- judges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the sta- bility our Government has promised them. Because, re- spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.

KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
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“Currently, Massachusetts sends $4,846 more per capita to the federal government than it gets back. New Jersey and Washington are in the same position...Meanwhile, red states pocket $1.24 for every dollar they send to Washington. Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy.”

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

Conservative influencer Nick Sortor among those arrested after fights break out at Portland ICE facility Sortor posted Friday morning about his arrest on social media, telling PPB to "lawyer up." The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his arrest.

Pam Bondi intervenes to protect right-wing influencers arrested for obstruction by Portland Police after they interfered with police operations. Bondi views them as a sort of auxiliary, akin to the Sturmabteilung. www.kgw.com/article/news...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

The Supreme Court Is Creating a King A recent ruling takes a hammer to our constitutional order and empowers Trump above all else—including Congress.

"Faced with a choice between long-standing practice and black-letter federal law on one hand and Trump’s vague and abstract policy suggestions on the other, the Supreme Court essentially chose the most lawless path available to it."

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They Radicalized Themselves And we can pinpoint when it happened.

All Trump loyalists get a libidinal thrill watching him piss on the Constitution, but I wrote about the subset who feel exposed by their obvious hypocrisy, and so pretend it's all a regrettable consequence of Barack Obama radicalizing them. www.offmessage.net/p/they-radic...

Live your life so you don’t get nationally famous because you make your living hanging out at the hospital, looking for immigrants to arrest.

Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

Yes. Tourists also have to follow American law.