Reposted by Ari SavitzkyBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026JD Vance is heading to the US and is ready to offer his assistance to any candidates back home. 36972130 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkySteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans. 6083332245 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example. 158147513540 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers) 1124129698 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyAndy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 30/09/2025AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 421657524 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 21/08/2025A federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its election map used in voting for state supreme court justices after finding the current one dilutes the power of Black voters in violation of a landmark federal voting rights law @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/47E9muJ 02413 0
Ari Savitzky @arisavitzky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Couldn't be more proud of this historic win!abcnews.go.comMississippi Supreme Court map violates Voting Rights Act, judge rulesA federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its Supreme Court electoral map, after finding the map dilutes the power of Black voters 010 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow. 154102934883 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 30/06/2025if young voters turned out like they did for Zohran Mamdani for every race, the Democratic Party would never lose an election again so naturally, establishment Dems are…smearing him and refusing to endorse? 1084073824 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Although Zohran would with a plurality without RCV, I think the candidate collaboration that RCV encouraged helped him do so well. It both underscored his positive message and elevated many voices talking about why NOT to vote for Cuomo. 1374879 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2025WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday. 304101444287 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyACLU @aclu.org · 11/05/2025Rümeysa Öztürk speaks after her release from ICE detention and return to Massachusetts. We'll keep pushing for freedom and justice for Rümeysa and other scholars like her who've been targeted for exercising their First Amendment rights. 452411547 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyMelissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 03/05/2025That’s a hell of an introductory paragraph. 14687197 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyACLU @aclu.org · 26/04/2025ACLU affiliates brought over a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration's unlawful termination of student visas across the country — and now the administration seems to be reversing course. The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.usatoday.comTrump administration reverses controversial termination of student visasThe Trump administration restored visa registrations for foreign students after setting off a desperate scramble by abruptly terminating them. 13836170 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025This is exceptionally well reported: in case after case Trump has surrendered long time US interests to favor Russia and gained nothing in return. When you put it all together it a staggering surrender. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...nytimes.comHow Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions (Gift Article)Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves. 9825041068 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."nytimes.comMahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour. 132151644714 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyHayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 21/04/2025The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal. 1126644866 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/20253/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions. 108180924866 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkySteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful. 12585405313728 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyJed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days. 491237766529 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkySeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Someone should make a film about a mad king, say in the late 18th century, whose arbitrary rule and foolish decision-making inspired people in one of his colonies to create a political system in which power would be distributed more widely so as to avoid the harms of such mercurial policy making. 512632484 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 05/04/2025We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks. 162110143377 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyMarty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Dear Paul, Weiss/Skadden/Wilkie/Milbank: Please note the quality of the legal argument in support of the Executive Orders that prompted you to capitulate to extortion (and note the absence of *any* Civil Division or other litigating division attorneys). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 4392109 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyN. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025These guys think they're spewing cutting-edge posthumanist theory and it's all just the corniest, shittiest science fiction that actual writers wouldn't waste a minute on. 1224429759 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/03/2025UPDATE: A third law firm—WilmerHale—has filed suit over Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms. WilmerHale is repped by well-known Supreme Court litigator Paul Clement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 35998180 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyVerfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 26/03/2025"Stopping Autocratic Legalism in America – Before It Is Too Late" SCOTT CUMMINGS (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on the autocratic playbook behind targeting law firms, the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding, and why it's time for lawyers to take action now. verfassungsblog.de/stopping-aut... 212192 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Trump and MAGA's absurd handling of Signalgate aptly demonstrates why authoritarian populism that shapes everything around the leader's infallibility often delivers bad outcomes. On the pod, @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social is brilliant on this idea. Don't miss this one: newrepublic.com/article/1932...newrepublic.comTrump Privately Seethes at Text Fiasco as Hegseth’s New Spin ImplodesAs Trump reportedly grows “frustrated” over his team’s failure to manage media coverage of the war text scandal, a shrewd observer of the right explains how all this reveals the deeper failings of MAG... 57789206 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...) 8578192028 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Why @runforsomething.net is currently recruiting candidates *everywhere* - anywhere is winnable right now, because the GOP’s bullshit is not popular. 117536 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkySam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Amazing deep dive into how Trump and Musk are destroying Social Security. Horrible. Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comLong waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking downA flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge. 41843312 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyNicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 22/03/2025lawyers were key players in limiting the first trump administration and safeguarding the 2020 election, which is why they’re under attack now. this is why the capitulation by paul weiss was so dangerous to all of us, even non-lawyers. the entire profession has to stand against this now. 9560113 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comWe’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.The Trump admin said a soccer player had a gang tattoo. It’s a tattoo of Real Madrid’s logo. 10344101721 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025A completely serious question. When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country. cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others 1532306461 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyMaya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...nytimes.comMusk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching JudgesAmid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration. 26540641514 0
Reposted by Ari Savitzkyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/03/2025a popular victory imbues you with the sovereign authority of the people and gives you unbounded power to do whatever you want IS a system of government it's just not the one we have in THIS country. 903016387 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand 12778411841 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed. 235610329623747 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyFederal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 19/02/2025📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com 544325569262 0
Ari Savitzky @arisavitzky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025foreignaffairs.comThe Path to American AuthoritarianismWhat comes after democratic breakdown. 010 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress. 45694961792 0
Reposted by Ari SavitzkyMelissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one. 18084402186 0
Reposted by Ari Savitzkyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people! 1026233938 0
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For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
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![“No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this lawsuit targeting a prominent law firm with adverse actions to be executed by all Executive branch agencies but, in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who
penned the phrase: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HENRY VI, PART 2, act 4, sc. 2, l. 75. When Shakespeare’s character, a rebel leader intent on becoming king, see id. l. 74, hears this suggestion, he promptly incorporates this tactic as part of
his plan to assume power, leading in the same scene to the rebel leader demanding “[a]way with him,” referring to an educated clerk, who “can make obligations and write court hand,” id. l. 90, 106. Eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the
path to more power. See Walters v. Nat’l Ass’n of Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305, 371 n.24 (1985) (Stevens, J., dissenting) (explaining the import of the same Shakespearean statement to be
“that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government”).”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vfxwzj5evrymhf43uyl5iht4/bafkreifakyqatqie5xlxqhu2kzmn55d7szyiqcejbidmblreaeftpq6su4)
