Chris Kaiser

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

“At first glance, Skrmetti and Chiles seem logically inconsistent: Medical uncertainty confers authority here, yet restricts it there. There is, though, an internal consistency: For the Supreme Court, right-wing reactionaries should always win.” There it is, courtesy of @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

For the lay audience, a “workability issue” is when the Constitution restrains government agents in a way that they’d prefer it didn’t. 🌠

BREAKING: Judge Ellis says that "it appears that the plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success" on their claim that DHS has violated plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment and First Amendment rights.

In addition to the standing ruling, this is the key aspect of deciding whether to enter a TRO here.

Great to see Chicago news outlets and press orgs stand up against ICE's violent and unconstitutional rampage against journalists and protesters.

As justices confront harassment, death threats and an assassination attempt, Barrett declares "I'm not afraid" In an interview with CBS News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of the Supreme Court's emergency orders in the Trump cases, "This isn't the final decision."

As you read this puff piece about how brave and steadfast Amy Coney Barrett is, keep in mind that the house of South Carolina circuit court judge Diane Goodstein exploded over the weekend and some of her family members barely escaped with their lives. She had recently ruled against the admin.

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

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Just because it’s cringe, incompetent, and unpopular doesn’t mean this is any less of an open civil conflict on the part of united states federal government. American chauvinism, a refusal to extend basic comparative analysis as we have for countless nations in the global south, cannot hide this.

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

We have to consider that a part of the elite reluctance to speak out against Trump is because they’re getting death threats from people they know are serious on a pretty consistent basis

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I think that it is impossible to make such a state without an ideological emphasis on altruistic sacrifice. there is no such thing in Trumpism

Time for a thread of all the things that Stephen Miller and his band of morons are doing to make enemies of state/local authorities.

Let's start things off with some spice for the CPD.

I think the Jimmy Kimmel stuff is going to go down as the mountain where the attempted consolidation completely failed. And it's because it wasn't even trying to disappear someone, wasn't even trying to put someone in jail, it was just trying to use the levers of capitalism to go after jokes.

Forming an Opposition Media Bloc in the Network Era Media is a crucial tool for building solidarity among opposition to authoritarian rule.

Thirded. Their capacity is orthogonal to whether or not there fascist. The reason to keep “peacocking” as Tom put it is that that’s one way to actively prevent suppression of public opposition www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

“The main function of the compact is to replace such provisions of law with “the deal”—that is, a piece of paper, signed by the university, that purports to entitle the Department of Justice, on the basis of its own “finding,” to take away all of these “benefits.””

The specific provision is section 2 of the Calling Forth Act of 1792:

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For more background on the judicial review provision, and on how President Washington expressly relied upon it in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, see:

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These people have been saying openly for a while that they don’t believe in the constitutional order of checks and balances among coequal branches.

They don’t believe in the constitutional order and want to destroy it, they want a dictatorship, they are saying this pretty plainly.

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

every day i read something new that makes me want to walk into the sea www.levernews.com/bankificatio...

Not long ago people protesting police violence were castigated viciously for damaging “trust in the police.”

These guys having fun, proudly living out fantasies of terrorizing kids & their moms, are doing more to ruin law enforcement’s reputation than all the police abolitionists combined.

Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs; ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction; ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive; ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025. SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

DOJ fires 2 key prosecutors in eastern Virginia amid turmoil in office that charged Comey The Justice Department has fired two of the highest-level prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia, two sources told CBS News, just days after President Trump ousted the U.S. attorney there.

Firing experienced prosecutors in the most important district for national security cases to get political revenge again illustrates Trump sacrifices core US interests for personal goals.

Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.

the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...

How established parties reduce other parties’ electoral support: the strategy of parroting the pariah In every democracy, established political parties are challenged by other parties. Established parties react in various ways to other parties’ presence. A key hypothesis in the relevant literature ...

The Takaichi win in specific but also the whole LDP presidential election in general is likely to put wind in the sails of Sanseitō, which has seen its economic and law-and-order messaging on immigration become a focal point. We can expect more parroting ultimately benefiting the far right

Apple removes Ice tracking apps after pressure from Trump administration Company removed IceBlock and similar immigration agent alert apps from its App Store, citing ‘safety risks’

Big Tech serving as a handmaiden to fascism

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important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

They folded the big First Amendment violations in with a bunch of other stuff, including things that are totally unobjectionable and that universities are already doing, in order to make the overall document read as reasonable to someone who doesn't know the ins and outs of it. Don't be that person.