Benjamin Wilson

I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

Cathy Kuhlmeier, John Tinker, and James Libresco discuss their experiences with censorship in their high schools #FirstAmendment open.spotify.com/episode/0pD3...

More than 500 U.S. citizens have reportedly been detained by ICE — and that's just what we know about. Trump's attacks on immigrants are an attack on us all. This is proof that no one is safe from Trump's mass deportation machine. https://bit.ly/4jH0TNh

Nate Silver is showing my race as the most competitive in the United States today. We have steadily grown our race and now we are 8 days away. Would love your help to take us across the finish line.

The Ninth Circuit Court dismissed a DOJ appeal seeking to block California from counting mail-in ballots from a list of 20,000 people the department alleges are not citizens. In a court filing, California said the DOJ's allegations relied on "suspect data."

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Derek Muller, not one for hyperbole, on DOJ's frivolous Alaska lawsuit, whose legal argument he calls "one of the worst I've ever seen." electionlawblog.org/2026/citing-...

Sam Alito: Nothing overtly racial about these statements!

One year ago today, prosecutors in Chicago secured the "Broadview Six" indictment, a case held up by the Justice Department as a righteous defense of the "rule of law." Fast forward 12 months, it's about something much different. "It's been quite a year." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/23/b...

Two years later, DOJ still fighting over whether Trump's blanket pardon for Jan. 6 defendants inadvertently swept in other egregious crimes committed by Jan. 6 defendants. Kelley was convicted by a jury of conspiring to murder his investigators. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko recalls witnessing the aftermath of Russian attacks on civilians trying to flee. “Half-burnt bodies lying on the asphalt” beside the wreckage of their cars. “Something that you would expect to see in horror movies, but it's absolutely reality.”

Well well well. Supreme Court refuses to grant administration's request to deny gender-transition medical treatments for transgender inmates at federal prisons Unsigned per curiam w/ 2 dissents saying they wd grant the emergency request. 3 guesses as to the 2 dissenters, & the first 2 don't count!

Driving to work this morning on I-44, I saw a guy on an overpass waving a flag with a "Where is Ann Wagner" sign 😀

I would hope post-Trump there would be momentum for a bipartisan constitutional amendment for pardon reform. Such an obvious leak that needs to be plugged.

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

Yeah, the problem with the tweet *wasn’t* that it violated “CBS News standards.”

No Kings protest in St. Peters, Missouri today. It’s really encouraging to see such enthusiasm from people of all ages.

This man knows how to throw down

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

TikTok v. Garland is all over this opinion in very worrying ways. I wrote about the dangers of the decision and why it should be treated as anticanonical: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Instead, lower courts are applying it for all it's worth.

A captivating interview with US District Judge Patrick Schiltz about his unique career path, professional ethics, and the court's response to the tidal wave of emergency litigation in Minnesota podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

If there had been some federal agency to run elections staffed by presidential appointees we would be cooked right now.

I wonder of Ann Wagner has the same condition?! @fpwellman.bsky.social

Wow 🔥

Indisputable

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Trump administration to stop DHS's pro-Trump propaganda ads immediately, including ordering the canceling of ads set to run as soon as this evening. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-does-n...

I cannot grasp how this kind of recklessness is possible in the first place, but even less that it's *still happening* after everything we've seen from DHS and ICE. The complete lack of congressional oversight probably helps.

Seeking indictment on felony charges of Being Mean to Daddy.

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty is pursuing state convictions against ICE agent Gregory Morgan Jr., who is accused of pointing his gun at two drivers during Operation Metro Surge.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Our home planet sure is pretty. Earth, from Artemis II.

Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Attys for Olympian & exonerated Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn write 25-page letter to Inspector Generals of DOJ and Dept of Interior seeking investigation of circumstances of Hearn's arrest, detention & indictment. ... 1/2 www.democracydefendersfund.org/wp-content/u...

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

This was amazing the first time and Katie has added more fellow artists for this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it and I hope you will join us if you are in the St. Louis metro region.

Rev. Vidal Rivas is ready to become the temporary guardian of 31 kids if ICE detains their parents.​ ‌ As the Trump admin rips families apart, our neighbors are stepping up to protect one another—extraordinary acts of love that our government should've never made necessary. https://bit.ly/4iIOVT3

Classic. I might just call Schmitt's office and play this snippet.

In what I believe is a first for my eyes, Trump withdraws his appeal fighting the payout of $5M in damages to E. Jean Carroll

The two Eric Schmitts on display this week sandwich a report by Axios that he is seen as a top prospect to be JD Vance’s running mate if Vance seeks the presidency in 2028. #moleg #mogov

No amount of social media posturing by Missouri Republicans can disguise the reality that true election integrity starts with following the law, not crying foul when the nation’s highest court calls your bluff. LINK ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

The latest in a series of articles previewing my upcoming book, "Great and Dangerous Offences: The Case for (and Against) Impeaching Trump a Third Time" {gift article} slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.