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Corporate Contributions to Super PACs Have Exploded, with Top Ten Contributions Reaching $178 Million in 2024 (Most from Crypto-Related Companies) electionlawblog.org?p=154802
👀 ICE deported two U.S. citizen children with their mother to Guatemala, even though she had apparently elected to leave them with their grandmother in Florida.
The govt is now arranging their return under court order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
“Haitians in the U.S. remain in limbo, and the conditions on the ground in Haiti are more dire than they even were in 2010, when they first received T.P.S.... Hundreds of thousands of people cannot safely return,”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
"The latest NBC News poll shows that 22% of registered voters nationally said they have a 'great deal' or 'quite a bit' of confidence in the high court. Another 40% said they had 'some' confidence, while 38% said they had 'very little' or 'no' confidence."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
"Most Americans are too busy for social media, too normal for politics, too rational to tweet."
www.axios.com/2026/03/11/a...
"If law and facts mean anything at all – anything! – then surely the Babara case is easy-peasy."
www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/birt...
"Justice Kavanaugh appeared to share Justice Jackson’s frustration with the emergency docket’s speed. And he said he too worries that emergency cases could involve short-circuiting the deliberations in lower courts.
'None of us enjoys this,' he said."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
"The lawsuit appears to be one of the first cases to accuse a major AI developer of engaging in the unauthorized practice of law through a consumer‑facing chatbot."
www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
"He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Fewer than 100 days out, host cities haven’t received promised funding, and fears about ICE’s presence are widespread"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Put simply... the charging decision is consistent with an administration that prioritizes targeting its enemies over equal protection under the law.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"More people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since October — 23 — than died in the whole prior fiscal year."
www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...
"While DHS is shut down, its immigration enforcement arms actually have the money to continue functioning as normal — those agencies received $170 billion for immigration enforcement under the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill,"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"For Republicans, the judiciary is no longer entitled to deference or respect. Reshaping courts in response to unwelcome rulings is now an acceptable move in Republican politics."
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
"White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair privately urged House Republicans on Tuesday to stop emphasizing 'mass deportations' and instead focus their messaging on removing violent criminals, according to sources in the closed-door briefing."
www.axios.com/2026/03/10/w...
Another conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Annette Ziegler, just announced she'll retire ahead of next year's elections.
Her announcement comes just weeks before conservatives are trying to defend a different open seat.
Liberals could emerge with a 6-1 majority by 2027.
BREAKING NEWS: MLS announced lifetime bans for former players Derrick Jones and Yaw Yeboah for betting on league matches.
An investigation found that the players “engaged in extensive gambling on soccer, including on their own teams, during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.”
"'All she was told was that there was some curious travel history, but they had no cause to detain her for those 30 hours,' Morrison said, adding that federal agents 'lied to' local law enforcement and elected officials by saying Naqvi was never detained."
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
“Bovino being gone and Noem being gone within six months of the start of Operation Midway Blitz really shows you how politically untenable it is to engage in that kind of operation in the United States... And that should give everybody a lot of hope.”
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
"Both Adamczyk and Harris support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act requiring proof of citizenship for people registering to vote in federal elections."
www.dailyherald.com/20260308/new...
“This disgusting s--- doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress,”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"[O]fficers repeatedly detained people under a reinterpretation of a 1996 law that states that anyone in the United States illegally “shall be detained” without bond, indefinitely, even when courts had ordered they be granted a bond hearing or set free"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“What is happening now is the administration is making new policy, but then insisting that the new policy take effect immediately before a challenge about its lawfulness is determined,”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency cases has created a “warped” process that effectively signaled the outcome of high-profile controversies prematurely. https://cnn.it/4ulLZz8
The federal government knew it wrongfully arrested Henry Cordova Jaya. They violated a court order for arrests, said they were seeking his release, and nevertheless sent him to Ecuador. Our story about Homeland Security using time and jail to abuse rights
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/09/c...
NEW: CPD officers made 267,240 undocumented traffic stops in 2025, an increase of nearly 27% as compared with the number of traffic stops officers made in 2024 but did not properly document for state officials, according to records obtained by me and @jaredrutecki.bsky.social for @wttw.bsky.social.
"The cops were lying to our faces... We were asking them, 'Hey, her location is here. We were in contact with her,' and they kept being like, 'I don't know what to tell you.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-n...
"It levels everything, technically and tactically. You put in the battle and fighting spirit and they were good at that - the crowd, the stadium, the event."
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...