Sean Hecker

Great. And very glad an A+ team at Wilmer is leading this one.

It’s “technical” but pretty easy to understand why the theory of jurisdiction is totally bogus.

Excellent Thread by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. Not “hyper-technical.” It goes to the heart of why this Court has forfeited the trust of the parts of the profession who know and care about how litigation is supposed to work.

Insha Rahman to Serve as Next President and Director of Vera… Contact: media@vera.org   NEW YORK, NY – March 3, 2026 – Vera Institute of Justice (“Vera”) and Vera Action announced today that Insha Rahman, a leading…

Genuinely thrilled that Insha Rahman is the next President and Director of the Vera Institute of Justice and Vera Action. As a board member and friend, I’ve seen firsthand her deep commitment to safety and justice. www.vera.org/newsroom/ins...

It’s becoming rather obscene.

Correct read.

of course

The Court has been sitting on this application for weeks and there are multiple opinions, including a dissent from Justice Kagan, signed by Justice Jackson, ripping the majority for again making new on the emergency docket.

Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff

Trump’s “directive to halt the use of a leading American A.I. company across the fed’l govt, combined with inflammatory rhetoric attacking that company, raises serious concerns about whether national security decisions are being driven by careful analysis or political considerations,” Warner said.

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt if they continue defying court orders in immigration cases.

"One way or another, ICE will comply." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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As expected, no ruling from the bench. The judge wants post-hearing briefs.

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The Trump DOJ’s Defense Of The Abrego Garcia Prosecution Only Works If You Squint Real Hard NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE–The Trump DOJ has spent the last several months constructing a...

My report from Nashville on the Abrego Garcia case, where the Trump DOJ tried to keep the spotlight narrowly focused on the work of one U.S. attorney but, as hard as it tried, couldn’t keep some uncomfortable facts from sneaking into the glare of its spotlight: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

As @chrisgeidner.bsky.social explains, this decision, rejecting GEO’s “derivative sovereign immunity” argument, is “a technical, but important, decision — especially as the Trump administration spends billions of dollars on immigration enforcement, with large sums going to contractors like GEO...”

Be more like The Guardian.

As ICE moves to massively expand immigration detention through the purchase of warehouses around the country, the best example of what these places might look like comes from Camp East Montana, which opened in August and now holds over 3,000 people per day in terrible conditions.

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211. Making Sense of the Tariffs Ruling Friday's 6-3 ruling reflects an emphatic repudiation of a specific claim of delegated statutory authority by the Trump administration. Folks should be wary about reading it as more—or less—than that.

"I think it’s wrong to celebrate the ruling as some kind of turning point in #SCOTUS's relationship with Trump, just as I think it’s wrong to denounce it as a cynical move by justices concerned primarily about the economy as opposed to about fidelity to neutral legal principles."

Me on tariffs:

More than 75,000 Post readers cancelled their subscriptions after the recent cuts. An even larger number bailed after Bezos killed the endorsement of Harris, but now the decline feels terminal. Bezos does not want a great paper with a conservative opinion page (like the Wall Street Journal). He seemingly barely wants a paper at all, treating one of the most important American media institutions like an embarrassing child from a previous marriage that no longer fits his lifestyle.

This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half.
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im not sure this is a thing you want a judge saying.

Maybe appoint qualified prosecutors and not loyalist hacks, in which case your appointees will be confirmed by the Senate and the courts won’t need to, lawfully, put in interim U.S. Attorneys. It’s not that complicated.

Trump Increases Global Tariff to 15% President Trump said he would increase to 15% from 10% a global tariff that will replace many of the duties ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.

This is a tantrum by a wannabe despot who really doesn’t like being told he can’t do what he wants.

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It is crucial that Democrats read such things as they consider DHS funding. It is an affront to the entire idea of America. Operating like the secret police of the worst totalitarian societies. Unless it completely changes, funding it is an abdication of their Constitutional duty.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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It’s grotesque.

The government needed 12 grand jurors to vote to indict, out of a grand jury that numbered somewhere between 16 and 23. They got ZERO.

As an expert in math, I'm here to tell you that zero is a very small number, in fact the smallest non-negative integer.

There is a central scheme to work around and defy courts and the rule of law.

This whole story needs to be seen to be believed. The level of grifting is off the charts…

Just an incredible story of hard work, ingenuity and talent. It’s like the American Dream.

He didn’t make a “mistake” because it was intentional, not accidental.