Lee Levine

NYT Editorial from before the 2024 election.

Trump at least did not hide his intentions

And The NYT in news pages and opinion pieces (separate teams) extensively documented this well before the election

As chair of the North American Committee of the International Press Institute, I speak for myself and for my colleagues in voicing outrage at the unjustified arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for the crime of covering a demonstration. This has been an outrageous abuse of media freedoms.

Don Lemon’s arrest highlights the urgent need for robust press protections, both in statute and via the Press Clause. At the end of 2024, I co-authored a report with Floyd Abrams, @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social, and others on empowering the Press Clause. Read it here: law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

This is my daily reminder to tell @washingtonpost.com to keep their hands off one of the best sports reporting and writing teams in the country.

The Holocaust Museum should be worrying about how what’s happening now could very well cause the next one. Instead they are spending their time getting offended at the very historical comparisons that might prevent it.

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, California mourns the six million Jewish lives brutally taken and the millions of others horrifically murdered by the Nazis.

We must tell the truth about this atrocity and fight antisemitism and all hatred — without exception.

Moderate Sen. Jacky Rosen urges Noem's impeachment as Dem fury grows over Minneapolis shooting Moderate Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that her “attempt to mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 3...

Finally.

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Bill Clinton: “Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.”

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

I've covered federal and state courts for more than a decade, and even I have been shocked by the North Carolina Supreme Court's conduct since Trump-aligned extremists took it over. This article gives you a taste of the corruption. Justice Earls must keep her seat. www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Saving the North Carolina Supreme Court from the current MAGA majority—which is dead-set on ending free and fair elections in the state—starts with Justice Earls holding onto her seat in November. Very glad @billycorriher.bsky.social is getting her incredible story out there now.

This is a really important project. The voters of North Carolina deserve to learn Justice Earls' extraordinary story in advance of her reelection contest this fall. Her victory in November will be key to saving the NC Supreme Court from the grips of a corrupt and ultra-partisan MAGA majority.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.

Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation.

It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.

Floyd Abrams: "The Enduring Legacy of Buckley v. Valeo" #ELB With the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Buckley v. Valeo coming next week, the Institute for Free Speech is running an online symposium on the legacy of the case. Here’s leading F...

Floyd Abrams: “The Enduring Legacy of Buckley v. Valeo” electionlawblog.org?p=153927

I truly don't see how ICE's continued existence is compatible with law and order. Even if one cares only about law and order and the rule of law and nothing else, abolishing ICE should be a no brainer.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update: Tommy Brennan on Trump's ICE Deployments in Minnesota - SNL

While it made it as far as dress rehearsal, Tommy Brennan's Weekend Update desk bit on Trump's ICE deployments in his home state of Minnesota did not make it to SNL broadcast.

But they've made it available anyway. And you should watch it.

Last week "abolish ice" was the moderate position

I'd say the moderate position today is probably Nuremberg

Opinion | By Raiding a Reporter’s Home, Is the F.B.I. Is Weaponizing National Security? Knowing what the government is up to is essential for democracy to work.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The FBI raid on the home of a Washington Post reporter on Wednesday took the Trump administration’s attacks on press freedoms to a troubling new level,” writes the lawyer David Schulz.

Opinion | By Raiding a Reporter’s Home, Is the F.B.I. Weaponizing National Security?

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

This is a must read by the great Dave Schulz!

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

What Ed said

Seems like a good time to repost this.

Kavanaugh in a concurring opinion in the near future:

"Moreover, as for searches of citizens' homes, the entry into the home in those circumstances is typically brief. Those citizens may promptly go about enjoying their home after making clear to the immigration officers that they are citizens."

Courage is grace under pressure.

How can you miss it? Isn't it clear? How can you let it slip out of gear? How did you ever get there from here?

The view from @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

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