Leon Botstein next 🤞🏻🙏🏻

NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each.

Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy.

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Let’s go.

Ron Johnson is the most mentally incompetent member of Congress. That is quite an accomplishment, given how competitive the category is.

Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe? In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week’s big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement. Also, the anti-trans mob’s latest target: tight clothing.

So @elienyc.bsky.social and @strictscrutiny.bsky.social have speculated that Alito may retire soon. I agree. Elie lays out the case here—it'd be odd to release a memoir in October if he's (a) still serving and (b) unable to promote it because he's hearing arguments. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

YouTube video by NowThis Impact Political Argument Ends in Tragedy

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This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.

Sure, child sex trafficking is bad.

But did you know the Dow is doing well?

Bad Bunny with a love letter to immigrants, America, & Puerto Rico! Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens! Thank you Bad Bunny for using your platform to call out hate & saying ICE out at the Grammy Awards! Proud of our state CA hosting Super Bowl LX & Green Day which was formed in San Francisco East Bay!

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

@jaketapper.bsky.social imagine if you'd written about these women and the miscarriage of Justice that transpired because of people like Alex Acosta, Alan Dershowitz, and Donald Trump instead of writing about Joe Biden. Wouldn't that have been a sight?

If only someone who was on a major network with a worldwide audience could actually stand up for these women and make people accountable. Idk maybe like a journalist or something? Im sure you'll tell us in your next book.

“Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy."
@sanders.senate.gov

Posting these pictures of an actual person, Steven Cheung White House comms director, for no particular reason with no commentary. Curious what you think

Well, she has been an accomplice to a very twisted child-sex-trafficking ring, hasn’t she?! 👇

Sick fucking TRUNT! 😎✨

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

In fairness, he’s no more racist than the guy who was president before Biden.

Donald Trump is a racist.

Worth noting that this response actually concedes that what Pritzker said is true.

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Finally, a red line for Tim Scott.

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

A picture of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and their two daughters. Barack is wearing a tuxedo. It is nighttime in the background. Everybody is smiling. Michelle Obama’s dress is navy with some red and yellow. Her daughters are wearing one dress that is cream and gold, and the other dress is violet and blue. Michelle and one daughter have a strapless dress. The other daughter has a sleeveless dress.

The Obamas.
Michelle and Barack, all class.
A respectable first family. 🇺🇸

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

Read it all please.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS.

Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.

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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

ICE acts just like the fascist Gestapo and the Trump regime acts just like the racist Ku Klux Klan, but PLEASE don't be rude enough to notice or mention the similarities. It hurts their delicate, white supremacist feelings.
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For Success at the Polls, Dems Look to the Pews Can candidates of the cloth help the party close the ‘God gap’?

Faith the size of a mustard seed might not make landslide elections or congressional majorities. But it might help Democrats get there.

/6 This is fundamental to being a lawyer. If it’s intolerable don‘t be a lawyer.

However, I am EXTREMELY sympathetic to Le being forced into a terrible position with no ethical supervision while genuinely concerned about the lives of the people her client is trying to destroy.