Carolyn Shapiro

Congress post-Myers cared about protecting some agency functions: “particularly adjudicatory functions— [they thought] there was no way that the businesses were going to buy into an [Art II] court that is politically controlled” You could make the same argument for grantmaking decisions too.

The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

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Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Exactly what @lioneltrolling.bsky.social says here. This is why the Omar search and investigation is such a big deal. open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

Good morning, I had a terrible time reading this over breakfast

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

I wasn't in a mood to be online on the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Shoah & just saw that ppl are big mad abt Mamdani's statement & that he went to an Oct 7 memorial, then a Palestinian restaurant. So fwiw: This American-Israeli Jew is grateful for & agrees with all of it.

I am not sure any lawyer involved with this can safely fulfill their ethical requirements of zealous representation? What happens when Stephen Miller calls the office every day? You know what Congress write a rider specifically designated the pre-existing counsel network.

Heartbreaking 💔 Children scream while masked ICE goons kidnap their families in broad daylight in Harrison, New Jersey.

Michael de Adder

Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.

"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR

Every single reporter working in Maine should be asking Susan Collins whether she will commit to voting against any Trump picked nominee to #SCOTUS if Alito retires during lame duck.

Absolutely

I am looking forward to this!

If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal

A lot to like in this thread, but as the mom of two sons (now young adults), this idea was very important to me in my parenting.

Every time I think I can’t be more appalled than I already am …

Then RFK

Vought and Hegseth should be first up for impeachment if Dems retake Congress.

ADA prosecutions and civil suits would be where I’d start and/but I was 10000% serious in saying this road map must be written, and by a serious collaboration of major people

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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very nice excerpt

Worth a read.

I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.

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My thoughts on the spurious constitutional theory that is eroding our polity: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/24/u...

I feel seen.

Remarkable and very important

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"

What happened to the Major Questions Doctrine? Seems to me that if Congress wanted to empower the Postal Service to regulate elections, it would have said so. How 'bout that, Sam and Clarence?

as Trump's DOJ sends more and more threat letters to state election administrators, I couldn't help thinking that this is, like most things, John Roberts's fault ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

I did not know/remember this man and his story. Remarkable and inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

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Co-sign.

I was in the shower listening to NPR when the first plane hit. They reported it as an accident involving a small place. I still had the radio on when they reported that the second plane hit, at which point, it was clear that it was no accident. I immediately turned on the TV.

It also shows how bankrupt and unprecedented (literally) SCOTUS’s evaluation of stay factors has been during Trump 2.

This is a super important brief that shows why any sane court would refuse to allow the USPS to implement Trump's executive order on mail-in balloting for the 2026 midterms.

An example in this article of the working homeless. In this case, it’s also about the ongoing impact of the South Shore building ICE/CBP raid last fall. chicago.suntimes.com/bearing-the-...