The brief argues that Halligan’s appointment violated our system of checks and balances as well as federal statutes governing U.S. attorney appointments. @chkbal.bsky.social
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BREAKING >> States United has filed an amicus brief on behalf of conservative and libertarian legal experts urging the court to affirm a ruling that the Trump admin unlawfully installed Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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9/9: This may seem hypertechnical, but it underscores the broader point I made in "One First" about *both* of the Court's grants of emergency relief last night—that the Republican appointees' impatience is leading them to run over settled legal constraints to reach the merits in these cases.
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“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Bad Bunny transformed Levi's Stadium into a vibrant homage to Puerto Rico during the Super Bowl halftime show, delivering a high-energy journey through the island's culture complete with a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga and a tribute from reggaeton pioneer Daddy Yankee reut.rs/4kodymT
our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters
and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
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Educators in Minnesota on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop federal agents from conducting immigration enforcement near schools and bus stops.
Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Gut-wrenching photo.
A 51-year-old man shot Saturday by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows.
Witnesses say they begged ICE agents not to detain Minnesota 5-year-old after father's arrest www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”
Police Chief Brian O'Hara says they believe the victim was a "lawful gun owner" with no law enforcement record outside of traffic tickets. Says federal agents did not provide them with a "public safety statement" regarding the shooting.
Frey: I'm done being told that our local elected officials are solely responsible for turning down the temperature. Yesterday we saw 15,000 people peacefully protesting in the streets, speaking out, standing up for their neighbors. Not a single broken window, not a single injury.
Mayor Jacob Frey: "How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? "
Greg Rosen led the team of lawyers and paralegals who prosecuted the Jan 6 Capitol rioters. Remembering how "our democracy was attacked is essential," he writes on Substack. "Five years later, it might be one of the most important things left to do."
Shocked, shocked to learn this administration is shutting down effective public programs and forcing us to go through regulatory rentiers instead. Crony capitalism 2.0.
Automakers urge Trump not to impose tariffs on factory robots, machinery reut.rs/4o3Q5s7
Gold inches down as dollar firms, focus on US inflation data reut.rs/47DQJXi
Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.
Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
The changing face of the ninth circuit really on display in all the senior judges who joined the dissent
These videos of shocked and shattered people contenting with what their healthcare costs would be without the subsidy are moving and enraging www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMHHSVFb/
Even if the Trump administration pledged tomorrow to stop strangling the goose that lays the golden eggs (the American higher education system, which has been the envy of the world since the mid-20th century), the reverberations of the damage they have already done will be felt for decades.
....and shall treat UVA as eligible for grants, funding, contracts, and awards on the same basis as other universities, and no less favorable than hose available to any other university (highlighted text)
Second and more important, read Paragraph 8.
The gov't agrees, for now (until it sours on UVA and cancels the agreement), to "treat UVA as eligible for grants, funding, contracts, and awards on the same basis as other universities, and no less favorable than hose available to any other university"
So, all that is terrible. Where's my glimmer of hope?
In two places.
First, what's not here. Compared to Columbia or Brown, UVA is paying nothing. $0. That's small progress, but I think it's progress: the government's demands in its campaign against universities seem to be shrinking, not growing.
2. Does the Constitution require that “whole number of persons in each state” be used to apportion Congressional seats? Yes, this text is found in the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2. 13. Can noncitizens be excluded from Census counts for the purposes of apportioning Congressional seats? The Census Bureau’s important work, including the Decennial Census, focuses on providing high-quality data for a range of users and purposes. If confirmed, my focus will be on supporting the Census Bureau’s commitment to the accuracy and integrity of this data.
NEW: Joyce Meyer, President Trump’s nominee for the next commerce undersecretary to oversee the Census Bureau, avoids directly answering whether non-US citizens can be excluded from what 14th Amendment says must include "whole number of persons in each state"
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