Steve K 🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈

Most political cartoons are terrible but the Richard Scarry homage works.

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BREAKING ORIGINALISM NEWS: Lawyers for Rasha Alawieh, the Brown University MD deported over Hezbollah-related photos on her phone, mount Appointments Clause challenge to ICE officers' powers. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

We reach these conclusions with great reluctance and dismay and even greater restraint - only after another exhaustive analysis of another extensive record under well-developed legal standards, as Supreme Court precedent in these very cases instructs. We do not intrude lightly into a process ordinarily and properly reserved for the Alabama Legislature, but forty years' worth of Supreme Court case law and forty years' worth of statutory instructions from Congress compel this result in this case. We emphasize that we remain deeply disturbed that the State purposefully enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the required remedy for the vote dilution that we clearly found. We also emphasize our concern about the State's assertion that in response to any injunction we may issue, it is free to repeat its checkmate move. We are troubled by the State's view that even if we enter judgment for the Plaintiffs after a full trial, the State remains free to make the same checkmate move yet again - and again, and again, and again.

We reject in the strongest possible terms the State's attempt to finish its intentional decision to dilute minority votes with a veneer of regular legislative process. On the rare occasion that federal law directs federal courts to intrude in a process ordinarily reserved for state politics, there is nothing customary or appropriate about a state legislature's deliberate decision to ignore, evade, and strategically frustrate requirements spelled out in a court order. This is not the first time the Alabama Legislature has purposefully refused to satisfy a federal court order about redistricting even after the Supreme Court affirmed that order. See generally Sims v. Baggett, 247 F. Supp. 96 (M.D. Ala. 1965) (three-judge court: Rives, Thomas, and Johnson, JJ.) (per curiam). We hope it will be the last time.

To be clear, this is a panel with two Trump appointees — Judges Manasco and Moorer — and one senior circuit judge, Judge Marcus, who was appointed to the district court by Reagan and appeals court by Clinton.

This is their striking, big-picture takeaway:

That is 9.18182 Scaramuccis

Kash Patel & Pam Bondi’s attacks on Judge Dugan aren’t just reckless—they may violate DOJ media rules

We @sddfund.bsky.social & @publiccitizen.bsky.social are calling for an investigation - TN

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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

White House threatens to veto Senate measure nixing Trump’s global tariffs The Senate is expected to force a vote this week on the resolution.

We’re expecting a Senate vote later this week on a bipartisan resolution that could block Trump’s tariffs. Tell your senators to draw the line on executive overreach and end Trump’s bogus emergency.

Democrats: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

GOP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

The American tourism industry is sooooooo screwed.

During WWII, my family—American citizens—was imprisoned without due process under the Alien Enemies Act for their Japanese ancestry.

Now Trump has been using that same law to send people to a foreign prison in El Salvador.

The constitutional crisis is here. I won’t stay silent.

We used to spend $800 - 1200 a month from our business. Now we spend less than $50 with the balance moving to Costco.

Reporters need to press DHS/ICE about their policies and practices around arrests.

They need to ask about their internal protocols for identification and arrests.

Recall that DOJ has recently prosecuted people for impersonating their agents. Several people are serving long sentences for doing so.

This administration is a sieve. National security catastrophe across the board. 1/2

Check your kids’ devices to make sure they’re not in a Signal chat with Pete Hegseth. Talk to them about the dangers of sharing national security secrets online.

The Wealthy In This Country Would Poison Us For The Sake Of Profit!!!

Thank you Senator for demonstrating so brilliantly that Democrats and the people are NOT POWERLESS, even though we have a minority in both houses!

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Hope summer is like this!

This is terrifying:

You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure.

Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join: Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive's robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision.

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

well i am sure this administration will take strong action to make sure food safety is a top priority going forwa…
hold on i am getting an update

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Judge Finds Cause to Hold Trump Admin In Contempt Over Alien Enemies Act Removals Read more here.

Read more about the judge's ruling: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I know who the terrorists are in America right now.

‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont

US Citizen attorneys are being detained at the border and their phones are being searched with no regard for attorney-client privilege. This must stop.

Bring Abrego Garcia Home and Stop Trump’s Plan to Traffic Civilians to a Foreign Gulag ⭑ 5 Calls On April 14th, during an Oval Office meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, both Bukele and Trump made it clear that they will not make any …

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Sheraton Puerto Vallarta Still Hates Gay Weddings, Caught Red-Handed The Sheraton Puerto Vallarta is continuing to discriminate against gay couples looking to plan a wedding at the resort. Be warned!

The Sheraton Buganvillas in Puerto Vallarta discriminates against LGBTQ weddings -- what will Marriott do? #sheraton #bonvoy #marriott #discrimination #anti-gay

Trump allies launch a bid to take control of a powerful Washington legal group Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother, Bradley Bondi, and a top deputy to Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., are vying for leadership roles at the D.C. Bar Association.

If you are a member of the DC Bar, elections are underway. Here is some information on the candidates for the two top roles: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru... #DCBar #DCLaw