A person!

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

WOW. A lawyer told @miamiherald.com that a Florida Highway Patrol agent told her that they are calling Border Patrol to investigate anyone who "appears Hispanic" that they pull over.

That is direct evidence of racial profiling — said over the phone to a lawyer! They aren't even hiding it!

one way you can tell he’s lying is that the story was sold with a hard news headline as opposed to the poncy “From Kampala to Queens, Mamdani navigates a complex identity” feature hed it would have gotten if it was actually about the decisions “people with overlapping identities wrestle with”

The core problem to me isn't the sourcing so much as newsworthiness. Does it reveal any wrongdoing? Lying? Receiving a benefit he did not earn? Does it have any baring on his qualifications for mayor? Fill a notable gap in his biography? It's all insinuation and implication

The story itself still entirely depends on a falsehood, which the Times despite itself now documents is false: it claims that Mamdani was "[a]sked to identify his race" on the form, but the image of the actual form reads "ETHNICITY/RACE INFORMATION"

I don't think "divorced guy" is widely enough recognized as a political affiliation

Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani? And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th

For anyone who wants to read a critique of the Times piece, here is a gift link donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

Personally I am using the phrase "Everglades Detention Camp," which I think is a good middle ground.

Note that apparently Florida has declared that "Alligator Alcatraz" is the *official* name of the facility, which is clearly designed to force media orgs to call it that.

Wow. Please, PLEASE watch this two-minute video.

In which Lisa Murkowski, in a self-pitying way, admits to being everything that is wrong with the politics of this moment.

The key question: What are states doing to protect their people from a hostile government? Are they prepared for how much harder that will be when the president has a $45 billion private army?

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

NEW: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

A @propublica.org analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

I also completely agree with this assessment of lawyers giving themselves too much power to direct the messaging of repro movement. (AND progressive mvmnts in gen. rely too much on polling to direct messaging rather than to inform us about gaps in understanding and what we need to do more of)

I’m a big proponent of the possibility in losing forward. Litigation is an important tool, even if it cannot deliver a win, but to lose effectively, you have to work with organizers, media, and policy folks in a coordinated campaign. We (lawyers) are often very bad at that collaborative work.

I think part of the key here, having thought about this a lot in repro, is to stop forcing the movement to follow the framing most likely to win with the courts rather than the framing most likely to actually be politically effective/preserve the right.

one factor in Mamdani's appeal is "what if I had an elected official who didn't hate my guts?"

People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.

Lisa Murkowski can get bent but so can all 49 other hateful idiots that voted for this bill. This legislation is so heinous & will be so damaging. The fact that it garnered so many votes is a disgrace, and should embarrass the Republican Party (and Dems that have failed to effectively counter them)

In other words, voters who chose someone other than Mamdani and Cuomo as their first preference went for Mamdani over Cuomo by almost 2:1.

Speaking to nonlawyers: never let a legal pundit tell you a SCOTUS case isn't a big deal because it's written around a wonky technical issue.

The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected.

If it looks big and serious, it is.

White womanhood is coded as innocent. Motherhood as benevolent, esp. toward children.

You cannot divorce her white motherhood from the work this decision is doing to make America untenable for undocumented black & brown folks.

Surely this mother of black children could never be racist, etc etc

Listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social question why Barrett was assigned CASA & I’m stunned no one suggested it is precisely *because* she is a mother (of non-White children!). White supremacy has a long history of using white womanhood and motherhood in particular to do its dirty work.

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

🚨In its fourth decision, the Supreme Court holds that parents who object to LGBTQ books in the classroom have a First Amendment right to "opt out" their children from seeing those books. Alito writes for the 6-3 majority, with all three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.

- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.

- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.