Mark Noel

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

anyway, it turns out that like half the people talking about this are talking about gavin newsom, who is never going to be president, and i am confident enough about this that i simply refuse to offer an opinion about whether i'd vote for him if i had to — i won't have to

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act is an election power grab that could block millions of eligible voters.

Let’s be clear: we’ve already seen U.S. citizens detained by ICE despite having proof of citizenship. Now we’re supposed to trust this same government to police paperwork at the ballot box? tinyurl.com/yhwj7b77

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

@acyn.bsky.social

Judge Dana Douglas, about Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan:

"The majority seems to be unable to imagine what it might mean to be detained ... [and] to require the services of a federal habeas corpus lawyer to show that one ... deserves to see the outside of a detention center again."

With Trump once again blaming Black cities for "voter fraud," it's worth revisiting our piece about why this is a playbook as old as the nation --- and how it makes these accusations more believable to Whites:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Everything is awful but if you subscribe to Law Dork, you already understand how out-of-line tonight's Fifth Circuit ruling is. www.lawdork.com

2017 NYT op-ed by Samuel Moyn: Trump Isn’t a Threat to Our Democracy. Hysteria Is.

Since Donald Trump’s election, the United States has been gripped by tyrannophobia. Conspiracies against democracy are everywhere; truth is under siege; totalitarianism is making a comeback; “resistance” is the last refuge of citizens. Tyrannophobia, the belief that the overwhelmingly important political issue is the threat to our liberal freedoms and institutions, has always been a powerful force in the United States. As history has shown, however, its tendency to redirect our attention from underlying social and economic problems has often been the real source of danger. It is easier to believe that democracy is under siege than to

He is super duper smart. His credentials are dizzying. Maybe he’s a wonderful person, I have no idea.

But the genius Yale Law professor who put his reputation behind this is not someone whose judgment anyone should rely on ever again.

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

Prosecutors stunned as ICE lets suspect in $100m jewelry heist leave US Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, charged with stalking armored truck in 2022, allowed to self-deport to South America

What a disgrace.

ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial.

This is the result of Stephen Miller’s chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.

As Citizens United, Shelby County, Trump v US, Noem vs Vasquez Perdomo & a bunch of other cases have shown, the core requirement for being a conservative judge is the inability to imagine that things that will obviously happen as a result of your decisions could possibly happen

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Big congrats to the Trump admin for walking themselves into an order that they declare, under oath, what actions they have been taking to mobilize ICE in Springfield, Ohio and South Florida. Whoops.

The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of ex- treme hypotheticals about a future where the President “feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” Post, at 18 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.); see post, at 26, 29–30; post, at 8–9, 10, 12, 16, 20–21 (opinion of JACKSON, J.).

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

Team USA, Vance Booed in Frosty Reception at Italy’s Winter Olympics With the U.S. vice president in attendance, local fans at the Milan Cortina Opening Ceremony made their frustration with America heard on Friday By Joshua Robinson and Marcus Walker Feb. 6, 2026 5:06 pm ET 46 Flag-bearer Erin Jackson leads the U.S. contingent in the athletes parade during the Opening Ceremony. Flag-bearer Erin Jackson leads the U.S. contingent in the athletes parade during the Opening Ceremony. Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters MILAN—In a gleefully kitschy Opening Ceremony that featured ancient Romans, dancing espresso pots and a number by Mariah Carey, Italy threw open its arms to welcome the entire world to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Well, nearly the entire world. Copyright ©2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Continue reading your article with a WSJ subscription Subscribe Now Videos

HOLD UP. This headline from the @wsj.com is dead wrong - No one at the actual opening ceremonies thinks the US team was being booed. Come on! The CBC broadcasters & people in the stadium are all crystal clear that JD VANCE WAS BEING BOOED, not the team.

Query: why are all "split-second actions" they take violent and wrong?

#BREAKING A federal judge in Indiana has found that immigration authorities are unlawfully detaining the Chicago man acquitted of the alleged Greg Bovino murder plot.

He must either be released or be given a bond hearing by Wednesday.

I'm a regular nostra damoose

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

Last night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.

reminder

At its most benign, this failure is an unforced error of preventable dimension. At its worst, this is unjustifiable intransigence, where retention of Petitioner’s belongings is tantamount to imposition of an additional and illegal condition the immigration judge didn’t and hasn’t imposed. Cf. id. (“Respondents may not impose additional conditions after an IJ has ordered release on a bond and set conditions of release, as here.”). And certainly it’s a violation of an order from this Court. See ECF No. 13 at 5 (“Respondents SHALL NOT subject Petitioner to conditions of release that are inconsistent with the exact terms as set by the Immigration Judge after the bond hearing.”)

Judge Charlotte Sweeney of Colorado gives the government three hours to return property they stole from a man being released from immigration detention -- including all his IDs.

ICE detained a man without a bond hearing. A federal judge ordered a hearing.

ICE released the man but made him wear a GPS monitor. A federal judge said remove the monitor.

ICE removed the monitor but kept his stuff. A federal judge said give back his stuff
www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/02/06/f...

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Vindictive motherfuckers.

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

Discovering the U.S.A. in 1492 was quite a trick, since it didn't exist until July 4th, 1776