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NEW: A sharp warning in an ordinary news release: "President Trump’s Justice Department.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi has made clear since day one her view that DOJ's lawyers are "his lawyers." On Thursday, DOJ went further, claiming it's "Trump's Justice Department."
Today, at Law Dork:
NEW: Texas amended its constitution in 2025 to establish parents' fundamental right to make decisions about a child’s upbringing. Texas justices recently suggested this could invalidate state child abuse laws. Here's what to know about the oral argument. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
This draft is now up on SSRN... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
comments welcome!
CONGRESS’S POWER OF INQUIRY IN IMPEACHMENT Jonathan David Shaub The nature and scope of Congress’s constitutional power of inquiry in impeachment has rarely been discussed and never been satisfactorily analyzed. Impeachment is both increasingly salient and singularly important, particularly after Trump v. United States. Indeed, impeachment may now be the sole remaining mechanism for investigating presidential misconduct, but recent executive branch doctrines—established during the first Trump administration and largely affirmed during the Biden administration—severely limit congressional authority to investigative for purposes of impeachment. This paper proposes a constitutional framework that balances the exceptional power the two Houses of Congress wield in the exercise of their respective impeachment authorities with the need to retain the solemnity of impeachment investigation and protect its role in holding presidents and other executive branch officials accountable. This framework recognizes that the invocation of impeachment authority is a distinct, nondelegable authority that functions as a judicial power separate from legislative. Once this power has been invoked, generalized executive privilege doctrines used in oversight, and related prophylactic protections for that privilege, are inapplicable. Instead, distinct, specific objections to disclosure should be adjudicated by the two Houses respectively pursuant to established procedures, with the presumption that the congressional bodies need access to all pertinent information, even if the information needs to be protected from public disclosure. Moreover, each House should establish procedural protections unique to impeachment, including due process protections for accused officials and witnesses. Finally, a comprehensive framework that empowers the House and Senate to exercise fully their respective authorities to investigate for purposes of impeachment inquiries and trials necessitates a mechanis…
v/excited to share that my article, Congress's Power of Inquiry in Impeachment, is forthcoming in the Virgina Law Review. Abstract below. Full draft up soon (SSRN... throws hands in the air)... happy to share the draft, though, and would love comments ...
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low.
At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless:
“An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.”
(Published April 2025)
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
The Wall Street Journal & . Follow ... X WSJ 14h • 0 Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president's sons, are backing a new drone company that is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon and fill a hole left by the administration's ban on new Chinese drones in the U.S. https://on.wsj.com/4uyhkoO Powerus, a drone roll-up company based in West Palm Beach, Fla., is merging with a publicly traded golf-course holding company backed by the Trumps, Powerus executives said. The reverse merger will result in Powerus, which was formed last year, trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the coming months. The deal brings deeper involvement by the Trump family into a multibillion-dollar sector that has new opportunities for growth following changes imposed by the Trump administration. Those include the Pentagon's emphasis on large-scale, rapid adoption of small drones, and a national ban on new models of the Chinese drones that have for more than a decade dominated the consumer and commercial markets. EXCLUSIVE Nord Lor Finan LTS NasdaqListe Nasa.
What is there even to say anymore?
“Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president's sons, are backing a new drone company that is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon and fill a hole left by the administration's ban on new Chinese drones in the U.S.”
not particularly news to anyone, but it's still amazing & scandalous how people (or esp the supreme court, privileging donors over the public interest) think a democracy can survive with this level of oligarchic distortion (assuming against evidence that they want it to survive)
"An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood" w Chip Carter is officially online (& forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev.)! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... We scour 19th cen. dictionaries & the context in which the 14A was ratified to discover the original public & legal meaning of "person" in 1868.
Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be.
The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
Absolutely chilling story
LAW STUDENTS & RECENT GRADS: Interested in a state supreme court clerkship? Join us on March 19 at 3pm ET for a virtual event where you can hear from justices across the country about the application process and what it's like to clerk. Register below! www.brennancenter.org/events/what-...
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
Google tells Supreme Court geofence warrants are unconstitutional. No court would authorize a physical search of hundreds of people or places, yet geofence warrants sometimes do so by design,” Google’s brief argued.
therecord.media/google-urges...
DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.
Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.
What stage of the apocalypse is this?
polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
Proud to announce the opening of the Emmet Bondurant Center for Constitutional Law, Practice & Democracy. With @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @andrewwillinger.bsky.social, and Neil Kinkopf, we’ll fight for the rule of law and democracy as Emmet has done for over 60 years.
news.gsu.edu/2026/02/26/n...
This list was created by journalist Char Adams, the author of Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore.
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The judges in WV have seen enough.
They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
Announcement of another death in an ICE concentration camp.
Another person has died in ICE custody. A person with health problems held for a year WITHOUT CARE.
To see just two of the stories of judges at work today alone, here is my report at Law Dork on Judge Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, and Judge Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee, and their notable orders from Thursday.
The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.
He spent a year in jail for this.
Great news! Congrats!
Oh look Kansas is making headlines again.
TL/DR: There’s a years long history behind that letter re: drivers licenses being revoked for trans folks.
Including litigation (that the attorney general LOST). Which was why he urged the legislature to intro SB 244 and rush it thru in a gut and go.
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...