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Full time Philly civil rights & law enforcement accountability (lawyer at krlawphila.com || board president of @npapjustice.bsky.social), part time running and soccer.

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Federal Judges Are Slowly Realizing They Can Treat Trump Like Anyone Else This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

This is a great write-up. And, from a practitioner's perspective, the kind of conduct DOJ lawyers have gotten away with to date is massively beyond what would get a private lawyer fined or locked up.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/federal...

10.03.2026 17:15 👍 44 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2
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He Almost Died From A Burst Appendix. A For-Profit Jail Medical Provider Dismissed It As Heartburn. A new lawsuit in York County, Pennsylvania, highlights a pattern of allegations of medical neglect by for-profit correctional healthcare company PrimeCare.

"[G]uessing games."

"One nurse told Cunningham he had heartburn. Another said he had a stomach virus." "He had appendicitis."

"[Y]ou incarcerate us, and then you just say, 'Okay, he's a criminal, he doesn't matter, he can die.'"
#Pennsylvania #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

08.03.2026 21:04 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1

Every Democratic Senator voted for this guy.

08.03.2026 19:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is an excellent point by Murphy

You want to support the troops?

Then don’t give Donald Trump the money he needs to send them to die in an illegal war that he started to cover up his connection to Epstein

08.03.2026 18:59 👍 1289 🔁 442 💬 49 📌 11
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

08.03.2026 18:37 👍 5600 🔁 1981 💬 125 📌 82
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 👍 9299 🔁 6070 💬 608 📌 1540

It's wild how there are at least 20-30 people in the Trump administration who are each,, somehow, the most contemptible person you've ever seen in your life. Just an M.C. Escher staircase of loathsomeness.

07.03.2026 02:33 👍 419 🔁 61 💬 7 📌 1
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Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

The parallels with the Fugitive Slave Act regime just keep multiplying

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

03.03.2026 19:47 👍 35 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
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'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

The First Amendment protects our rights to protest and record federal agents performing their duties in public view. Revoking someone’s Global Entry status in retaliation for that activity is unconstitutional.

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

04.03.2026 17:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is quite the order. Worth reading in its entirety.

02.03.2026 18:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

28.02.2026 12:54 👍 4898 🔁 1610 💬 15 📌 47

The perfect example: The Democrat pols (like Pa.'s Shapiro, Fetterman) out there opposing warehouse concentration camps because of water and sewage issues and not because THEY ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS

27.02.2026 13:45 👍 221 🔁 52 💬 15 📌 4

The "Other Authorities" section of the TOA is fantastic. "Hey, check out all of these things that WE wrote."

26.02.2026 21:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Came here to post exactly this. And I don't think either of us is joking.

25.02.2026 22:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I saw that headline and decided to get up from my desk and go for a walk.

20.02.2026 22:46 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How Autocrats Use Courts to Destroy Democracy
How Autocrats Use Courts to Destroy Democracy YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny

It's a great result in the tariffs case, but let's get ahead of the "SCOTUS is great now!" takes that we're bound to hear. This interview on "autocratic legalism" is a helpful explainer.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOp-...

20.02.2026 15:31 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, and also a killer podcast host.

20.02.2026 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Left, my story about how the right wing ex-Honduran president was given special treatment after he was pardoned for drug trafficking - and had his ICE detainer dropped.

Right, a story about a man who spent 43 yrs in prison for a wrongful conviction & was deported once his convicted was overturned

20.02.2026 14:16 👍 479 🔁 206 💬 5 📌 5

I'm skeptical about Bivens. BUT every trans person incarcerated in the BOP should file an FTCA admin claim -- straightforward medical malpractice for violation of the community standard of care.

20.02.2026 02:24 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

18.02.2026 13:17 👍 1959 🔁 851 💬 35 📌 30

Video of Jesse Jackson crying at the Grant Park celebration on election night 2008 is a core memory of that time period for me.

17.02.2026 16:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

16.02.2026 18:24 👍 5892 🔁 1864 💬 81 📌 136

Would it be better for people to say “this was a bad policy at the time and we knew it, but we thought we had to do it to keep power/to ward off even worse policy/etc.”?

(I personally would find it refreshing.)

15.02.2026 16:36 👍 44 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

13.02.2026 00:24 👍 2139 🔁 654 💬 19 📌 11
It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to
plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14
At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of
success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14 At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.

"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

13.02.2026 00:14 👍 3595 🔁 1112 💬 25 📌 63
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BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

13.02.2026 00:00 👍 8135 🔁 2978 💬 125 📌 130

Trump admin loves this guy & helping to position him to take Charlie Kirk’s place as youth role model.

Effing “Breeding Gulags.”
I guess Fuentes includes all menopausal or post menopausal women as “the bad ones”
As I’ve worked since I was 14, I’m not terribly excited by a second career in mining.

12.02.2026 17:28 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 1
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

12.02.2026 17:22 👍 19628 🔁 7838 💬 217 📌 294