Demolition Man Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 10/25/2025 · 52m

Here's @joycewhitevance.bsky.social with an update on DOJ norms being shattered, and a much-needed word of tempered Hopium that No Kings is the path through
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Amy Coney Barrett says that the court has not issued their last ruling on these shadow docket cases. Let’s hope that’s correct. They gave ICE and DHS the benefit of the doubt. They shouldn’t have. #KavanaughStops

Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese Leader Who Gave War Apology, Dies at 101

Apologizing for the crimes of the government, crimes that he himself played no part in, became the signature legacy of his life: RIP #TomiichiMurayama
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A Surprisingly Endearing True-Crime Movie Roofman stays grounded by highlighting life’s mundane thrills.

The new film “Roofman" transforms an absurd tale of a criminal on the run into an intimate character study, grounded by highlighting life’s mundane thrills, Shirley Li writes:

Feds just making up laws on the spot to try to scare people from reporting on their activity.

In his first major teaching document, Pope Leo XIV addressed "all Christians" worldwide to care for the poor and people on the margins, echoing calls from his predecessor on the importance of social justice. https://to.pbs.org/4h06dIm

#SisterJean gave so much of herself to Loyola for so many years. She is famous for cheering on our basketball team, but she supported all of our students. She would take an impromptu meeting with any student and was their fierce advocate. We will surely feel her absence. What a gem.

How to Use Your Phone to Make Life Better Here are a few useful and surprising ways you can use your phone. Plus: how to stay off it.

Here are a few useful and surprising ways you can use your phone. Plus: how to stay off it.

Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.

before and after hegseth's directive

Much of this story covers Cook Co. prosecutors' unwillingness to systematically examine the many similar coercion allegations against Det. Brian Forberg & partners.

Of the 24 known people charged or convicted in cases involving a coercion allegation against Forberg et al, every single one is Black

Just a post to applaud our very competent IL Governor who has been a leader in criminal Justice reform in the state and who inspires me with his insistence that we not remain silent in the face of an authoritarian takeover of our city. Go JB! @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look' The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

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Finally got around to reading Danielle Sered book “Until We Reckon” which presents a strong and inspiring argument for this. People who have committed crimes have so often also experienced victimization.

NEWS: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury, just days after Trump demanded the DOJ prosecute him “now” and fired the prosecutor who refused to bring the case

Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist An online database compiled by Turning Point USA, affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, identifies nearly 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors."

A Northwestern prof has gotten death threats for speaking out against hate speech. A soc prof who studies social stratification is condemned for "racial ideology." These attacks on academia are not new, but they've taken a disturbing turn. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Cook County Officials Decry ‘Deceptive’ ICE Tactics as Immigration Operations Continue County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and others on Wednesday said the tactics employed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have undermined the have left families “torn apart.”

Cook County officials are calling out federal immigration agents for their “deceptive” tactics amid an increase in detentions and arrests carried out by masked, plain-clothes officers. news.wttw.com/2025/09/17/c...

The Shadow Docket An instant New York Times bestseller: An acclaimed legal scholar’s “important” (New York Times) and “fascinating” (Economist) exposé of how the ...

For folks who are wondering just how long #SCOTUS has had the power to behave the way it’s behaving on emergency applications (mostly since 1925), and whether the Court’s recent behavior is meaningfully different from, say, prior to 2015 (it sure is), you might find my book at least somewhat useful:

While unconstitutional and un American, this ruling is not unexpected. SCOTUS has long legitimized racial profiling to determine reasonable suspicion.

Perhaps. But I also have hope that Chicago could be a model for peaceful nonviolent resistance that achieves its goals. From the times: Chicago Could Be a Powder Keg www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in

Cause Chicago is not gonna be a cakewalk. And his people know it.

When Trump’s troops descend on Chicago, I’m gonna tell them that this is a delicious beverage that pairs well with a hot dog and ketchup. #MalortSpritz

Looks like it’s time to practice our duet of Space Oddity with my old man.

YouTube video by AmericanRhetoric.com Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism

Justice Scalia on what makes American government exceptional: Our Constitution separates powers to "prevent the centralization of power in one person, or one party." In other countries, where power is centralized in one person, "the game is over" for rights.
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Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Felony Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C.

When Trumped up charges meet jury nullification: failure to indict protesters in DC and LA
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Notable also that disinformation around the implementation of this law, for example that its passage would lead to anarchy in the streets, has proven demonstrably false.

Our Center for Criminal Justice here at Loyola has been studying the impact of the end of cash bail here in IL. Despite what the President says, the reform has not increased crime in Chicago. See loyolaccj.org/pretrial-fairness-act