Tom Jawetz

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Tied Tunnel Funds to Renaming Airport and Train Station for Trump

Maybe get the money now.

Erase him from all public spaces later. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

People might be surprised to learn Public Health Service officers cannot be sued under Bivens for violating the constitutional rights of immigration detainees.

Terrible precedent: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

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All the Things Named for Trump, and How Long Other Presidents Had to Wait

It’s great a list is being kept, because one of the 10-15 executive orders signed on Day 1 of the next administration should call immediately rename all of these things.

No more signing pens; the next POTUS should hand out crowbars and chisels to remove the letters.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

In the last week we’ve learned that @secdef.govpeeps.us personally gave the order that led to the commission of a war crime and @secnoem.govpeeps.us personally ordered that flights to CECOT continue in defiance of a court order.

AI image of Trump at the top of the Lincoln Memorial driving golf balls into the Reflecting Pool.

What’s to stop Trump from replacing the seated sculpture of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial with a statue of himself and then installing a golf tee at the top of the steps so he can drive balls into the Reflecting Pool?

Our refugee admissions program is almost singularly focused on bringing in white South Africans.

They’re not being coded. The quiet part is being yelled loudly.

Here’s an AI-generated image DHS just tweeted out alongside their posting for this new “Homeland Defender” position.

The white supremacist iconography mirrors the policy preferences of the administration. Years ago Trump said he preferred immigrants from countries like Denmark, Switzerland, Norway.

Homeland Defender (Immigration Services Officer) Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud.<br> <br> This entry-level role <b>requires</b> <b>no college degr...

www.usajobs.gov/job/847039500

New USCIS job posting for a Homeland Defender that says “Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America’s frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud.”

How can we defend our culture against the white supremacists that have infiltrated our government?

More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C. Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Outstanding line of questioning by Rep. Neguse about a terrible provision in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.

Here’s Erwin Chemerinsky’s analysis of the language: www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

A Terrible Idea Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

This provision of the budget bill made it through the House.

It undercuts federal courts' ability to enforce contempt orders.

Read Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s sharp analysis.

www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

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Great explainer by Erwin Chemerinsky about a dangerous provision that House Republicans are trying to sneak into their budget reconciliation bill.

A direct attack on judicial independence and the rule of law.

Excellent breakdown of two emergency stay requests pending at SCOTUS with huge implications.

New Estimates of the Number of United States Citizen and Legal Permanent Resident Children Who May Lose Eligibility for the Child Tax Credit - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) This fact sheet provides new estimates of the number of American citizen and legal permanent resident children who could lose eligibility for the federal Child Tax Credit if proposals currently consid...

House Republican plan would harm 4.5 million U.S. citizen children by stripping away their access to the Child Tax Credit if either of their parents file taxes w/o an SSN: cmsny.org/publications...

Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man A federal immigration judge has dismissed the case against a New Bedford man whose dramatic detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents was c

Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man whose car window was smashed by agents in viral video last month turnto10.com/news/local/j...

under the gop proposal, married parents can’t claim the child tax credit if one of them isn’t a citizen. literally punishing children while creating a monetary incentive to get divorced. ghoulish shit.

And yet the Department's spokesperson calls it "a successful operation." You can't make this stuff up... www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

Oh, there are now apparently *multiple deportations of U.S. citizen children in current cancer treatment*, one in Texas and one in Louisiana. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts A College spokesperson said that the President “does not believe that signing open form letters like this one is an effective way to defend Dartmouth’s mission.”&nbsp;

1999 Dartmouth grad here.

Wish I could say I was surprised...

www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...

Deportation to CECOT: Punishment Without Charge or Trial Sending migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison raises grave constitutional concerns under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

Very compelling new piece by @ahilantoolong.bsky.social arguing that while courts have long said deportation isn't a "punishment," condemnation to CECOT clearly is.

That matters for constitutional purposes. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/110679/depor...

Great read.

Some notes on this morning’s remarkable emergency stay order granted by SCOTUS, stopping Trump Adm from summarily removing Venezuelans under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. SCOTUS acted while the NDTexas & 5th Circuit courts dragged their feet. Thread:
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So now we find out how directly and undeniably complicit in enforced disappearance and torture some Supreme Court justices want to be. Good times.

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This is the same lawyer who may face criminal contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case and who led the Abrego Garcia and Gitmo cases.

I’m guessing he likes his celebrity more than his law license.

He also appears to be arguing ALL of these cases because no career DOJ attorney would dare.

Not the first time a county has illegally imprisoned a U.S. citizen on an ICE detainer request.

As in those cases, the county is likely to pay out a chunk of $$$ for violating this guy’s constitutional rights.