Andre Segura

Is calling the half of the country that opposes you "bad people" and vowing to use the military power of the state to crush them "doing politics the right way"? I mean, he is up there saying words, trying to persuade!

Members of Congress Sue Over Block of Oversight of Federal Immigration Detention Facilities - Democracy Forward

Our team is headed to court today to challenge the Trump-Vance admin’s attempts to block Members of Congress from checking on conditions at ICE detention facilities.

ICE cannot be allowed to operate in the dark.

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Xinis: It has been reported to the criminal court in TN that Mr. Abrego is being deported to Uganda because he exercised his right to trial as opposed to pleading guilty to criminal charges...In my view cannot do that, cannot condition relinquishment of constitutional rights in that regard.

“Seeking friendlier data”? Seriously, NYT?

To Supreme Court clerk from Ken Paxton office: precedent is clear that a "quo warranto" proceeding "can only be brought by the attorney general, a county attorney, or a district attorney." In re Dallas County, 697 S.W.3d 142, 152 (Tex. 2024) (orig. proceeding) (citation omitted). Further, the Constitution charges "the Attorney General" with the obligation "to represent the State in all suits and pleas in the Supreme Court of the State in which the State may be a party." Tex. Const. art. IV, § 22. A writ of quo warranto, moreover, "is the exclusive legal remedy afforded to the public by which it may protect itself against the usurpation or unlawful occupancy of a public office by an illegal occupancy." Hamman v. Hayes, 391 S.W.2d 73, 74 (Tex. App.—Beaumont 1965, writ ref'd) (citations omitted) (emphasis added). The Speaker of the House has issued arrest warrants for truant members of the Texas House who have absconded to other states in order to compel their attendance at the ongoing special session. See In re Abbott, 628 S.W.3d 288, 292-98 (Tex. 2021) (orig. proceeding). The Speaker has set a Friday, August 8 deadline for those absent members to return to the Capitol. If those absent members do not comply with the Speaker's deadline, the Attorney General intends to pursue all available judicial remedies, including those available through a quo warranto proceeding to declare the truant Legislators' offices vacant on grounds of abandonment. As a result, the Court Post Office Box 12548, Austin, Texas 78711-2548 • (512) 463-2100 • www.texasattorneygeneral.gov Page 2 should not dismiss the Governor's petition until the Speaker's Friday deadline passes and the Attorney General can be heard on these weighty issues.

Response from Abbott: I write briefly to clarify the Court's jurisdiction in this matter. The petition invoking this Court's original jurisdiction filed today by the Governor does not proceed under Chapter 66 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code, the provisions being discussed in In re Dallas County, 697 S.W.3d 142 (Tex. 2024). As this Court is aware, it has adjudicated on the merits writs of quo warranto in proceedings brought under this Court's original jurisdiction-independent of its appellate jurisdiction, the only head of jurisdiction that could possibly lie from proceedings under Chapter 66. See, e.g., State ex rel. Angelini v. Hardberger, 932 S.W.2d 489 (Tex. 1996); TEX. R. APP. PROC. 52.1. The Governor is not seeking to proceed under Chapter 66. As noted in the filing submitted today, the Governor seeks relief under Article V, Section 3 of the Texas Constitution and Section 22.002(a) of the Texas Government Code-as clearly expressed in the petition. See Emergency Pet. 1. As explained in the petition, at least 500 years of common law and more recent Texas Supreme Court precedent make clear that quo warranto proceedings may be initiated by relators other than the Attorney General. Id. at 13-15. As the Relator in this case, Governor Abbott continues to respectively request that this Court rule before House Democrats deny the Legislature a quorum for the third time. POST OFFICE BOX 12428 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78711 512-463-2000 (VOICE) DIAL 7-1-1 FOR RELAY SERVICES

I not sure that publicly fighting with your own Attorney General on the state Supreme Court docket is a winning litigation strategy but hey what do I know

What the Columbia Settlement Really Means

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

Academic with history of incendiary remarks to lead US Institute of Peace Darren Beattie once said on X that “competent white men must be in charge.”

that is one way to describe a white supremacist, politico!!!

Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local flood warning systems this year A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communicati...

After Texas failed to pass a bill to improve flood warning systems, a Kerr County lawmaker says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which aimed to establish a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And, indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that— and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.

Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Me literally holding up my water glass and saying “SALUD!”.

@carbajal.house.gov

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Bonus 155: The Six-Hour Settlement The U.S. Department of Justice and the Texas Attorney General's Office turned the legal system on its head on Wednesday—and all because the Texas Legislature refused to repeal a 24-year-old state law.

The Trump administration sued Texas yesterday in a single-judge division in a suit that took just over six hours to produce a final judgment blocking a Texas state law.

If that sounds fishy (and beneath the dignity of the federal courts) to you, it’s because it is.

Me in today’s bonus “One First”:

Trump’s EPA aims to roll back 30+ environmental rules.

AP’s analysis:
➡️ +25,000 deaths a year
➡️ +2.8B tons CO₂ by 2035
➡️ Billions in lost health benefits

The cost of reversing science-backed protections is deadly. Read the full AP story: buff.ly/WVyuJHU #SaveEPA

We're hiring!

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The Secretary of Homeland Security, ladies and gentlemen.

We asked an immigration attorney: What should you do if approached by ICE? We spoke with David Leopold, the past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and a practicing attorney in Ohio, about how to protect yourself if you are approached by ICE.

When @davidleopold.bsky.social talks, I listen. Read more 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

He is completely clueless about what he is doing.

Terminating #TPS for Venezuelans will send families to a country the U.S. tells its own citizens to avoid due to a

“high risk of wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure”

= Nation & World - The Seattle Times My Account ™ The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am | Updated Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am By DINO GRANDONI The Washington Post

typical corrupt science

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife's Flight to Avoid Newark Airport Would you let your family fly out of Newark?

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey... Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark."

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More on the USDA's decision to restore purged data sets and webpages in response to the farmers' lawsuit. knightcolumbia.org/content/usda...

Translation: white

Gas stoves nearly double children’s cancer risk, Stanford study finds Stanford study finds gas stoves emit benzene, nearly doubling cancer risk in children — especially in homes with poor ventilation.

We can now add cancer to the harms of gas stoves. Dem leadership that puts protecting children’s health over gas industry lobbying sorely needed. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline.

That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.

Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.