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Said it before and I'll say it again: I do not think a legal profession that venerates the Supreme Court has a clear way of dealing with a Supreme Court justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh. This is the jurisprudential equivalent of him writing his name at the top in crayon with the "E" backwards.

the thing that many are thinking and few are saying.

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

He's declared war on blue cities. The only outstanding question is how those cities will respond.

I can't take any "fascism experts" seriously who spent the past 2 decades ragging on abolitionists who said plainly that fascism was both already embedded in the criminal punishment system AND that criminalization is the fuel for fascism.

Thinking back to a particularly gruesome massacre in Central America that I helped investigate.

It was perpetrated by one of that country’s most elite, selective military units against its own people—men, women, and children.

The law is what separates a military worthy of respect & a death squad.

I feel the story of murdered North Korean civilians isn’t getting the major response from the Democrats it should be getting

But what do I know, apparently the Soviets caused the Manhattan Project

After Defendants’ unlawful attempt to remove unaccompanied children originally hailing from Guatemala was stopped by a temporary restraining order that was litigated over a holiday weekend, the Court set a briefing schedule on Plaintiffs’ pending Motion to Certify Class (ECF No. 6). Under that schedule, Defendants’ opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion is due on September 5, 2025. On September 4, at 3:53 pm, counsel for Defendants contacted Plaintiffs’ counsel by email requesting consent to a one-day extension of time. In response, Plaintiffs’ counsel stated that “We are inclined to consent to your extension request, premised on a commensurate extension for the replies to preserve our allotted time. We have become concerned, however, about reports that the administration may be planning events mirroring those of last weekend but targeting other unaccompanied children. We are hoping to avoid the necessity of another quick-turn weekend TRO. We believe the briefing schedule would, at minimum, need to be adjusted were such events to unfold. We request that you confirm that your clients do not plan to imminently seek to deport or repatriate unaccompanied children, of other-than Guatemalan

nationality, in the custody of ORR during the pendency of the weekend. With that modest agreement in place, we will agree to your request.” Defendants refused to consent to that modest request. Plaintiffs then requested that Defendants include the following statement in their motion seeking the extension for the Court’s awareness: “In response to concerns that the government may imminently seek to remove unaccompanied children of other nationalities, Plaintiffs asked the government to agree that it will not seek to effectuate removals of such children over the course of the coming weekend, because any such actions would necessitate renewed TRO briefing. The government refused that request, and Plaintiffs are unable to consent to the requested extension in light of the possibility of further emergency proceedings this weekend.” Defendants also refused to include Plaintiffs’ statement. The email correspondence is attached in full as Exhibit A. As a result, Plaintiffs file this opposition to Defendants’ motion for the extension in order to advise the Court of the basis for Plaintiffs’ objection. Should Defendants once again attempt to remove unaccompanied minors in violation of law and without due process, Plaintiffs plan to seek immediate additional relief. Dated: September 4, 2025 Respectfully submitted, Efren Olivares Hilda Bonilla (D.C. Bar No. 90023968) Lynn Damiano Pearson* Kevin Siegel* NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER

NEW: The Trump admin may be planning to remove more unaccompanied noncitizen children from the US this weekend, this time from a different country, after its stalled attempt to remove Guatemalan children, says the National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump will sign an executive order tomorrow (Friday) to rename the Department of Defense back to its historic title, the Department of War, Fox reports. Pete Hegseth will also be referred to as the Secretary of War.

Just in time for Venezuela.

“An FSB-trained Russian official helped [Jeffrey Epstein] handle a blackmail threat in return for advice on circumventing sanctions.”

Intriguing information from Russian oligarch-in-exile @khodorkovsky.com that invites more questions, like how and when Epstein and Belyakov first became acquainted.

Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.

Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

But white men have increased employment numbers at almost exactly the same number that Black women were forced out of employment so things are going fine for the only Americans that are actually people to them

Trump’s move to send National Guard to Chicago reads as retribution for Illinois protecting Texas lawmakers. This is personalist rule. Federal force becomes a punishment tool, shrinking state sovereignty & turning public safety into a venue for executive vengeance.

Violating the posse comitatus act is a felony by the way. Hegseth has criminal liability here. Trump doesn't thanks to the Supreme Court. Not like anyone will actually prosecute them anyways.

Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: "This is why we have process. This is why we have courts."

Then she says that she also took the opportunity to look at the provision that Ensign cited.

"I'm pretty skeptical that it gives the government the authority to do what you are claiming it does," she says.

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is underway.

I'm live posting for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow updates in the thread quoted below 🧵⬇️

MINUTE ORDER: The Court received notification that putative class members are in the process of being removed from the United States. The hearing previously set for August 31, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. in Courtroom 14 has been rescheduled to August 31, 2025, at 12:30 p.m. in Courtroom 14 before Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan. Zoom information will be emailed to the parties. Signed by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan on 8/31/2025. (Icak) (Entered: 08/31/2025)

DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala.

Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, that's pretty weird, right? I wonder how many days he'll go without being in public until an intrepid journalist asks why. Might even be a book in it. Do you know anyone?

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history.

According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

Florida may lose $218M on empty 'Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdown Florida could be on the hook for the $218 million cost of converting an airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center that may soon be empty of detainees.

A lot of politically connected vendors literally made hundreds of millions of dollars off taxpayers through no bid contracts in just two months of Alligator Alcatraz operating. Waste, fraud, and abuse.

FUCK this guy

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims

Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley

The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aimsIn a letter sent to Smithsonian secretary, Lonnie G Bunch III, on 12 August, the Trump administration...

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