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@chonabo.bsky.social
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Husband, Father, Activist, Relief Worker, Mountaineer, Public Policy Junkie, and an OB with a fascination of the law!

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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 4h
More like a Star Chamber hearing!
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Trump Announces White House Inquiry Into Fed Governor Lisa Cook
President Trump said the White House would investigate unsubstantiated claims that Lisa D. Cook committed mortgage fraud and hold a hearing next month.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
Moving jobs overseas or hiring foreign workers is capitalism. Policing children's bodies is fascism. State-run sports programs that prohibit minority participation is fascism.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The balance of harms is now so contorted by #SCOTUS that they are normalizing #torture, #refoulment, #detention, #rendition and #death
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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cough…John Roberts did this…cough
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans correctly deduced that having Trump campaign in Maine for Susan Collins was a terrible idea given how unpopular he is here but then they inexplicably sent Vance twice, who may be even less popular. Who’s next, Stephen Miller in Portland?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
the Court “cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we are consistently greenlighting harmful acts” i continue to think putting KBJ on the Court may be Biden's best decision, no other justice is doin it like her www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Justice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket ‘Potentially Corrosive’
Hours after fielding the Trump administration’s latest emergency application, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a speech urging the Supreme Court to rethink such requests.
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Overton moves the #Overton window!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
SANDERS: Trump claims we pay lowest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Wow! Is he telling the truth? OVERTON: There has been immense progress- S: Do we pay lowest prices like POTUS said? You just told us you're gonna stand up to him O: We have seen- S: Is it true? O: *more dissembling*
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Campaign Legal Center and ACLU have filed an amici brief this morning, so we do have something new on the docket to look at: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES .......................................................................................... ii
INTERESTS OF AMICI CURIAE................................................................................. 1
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT ....................................................................................... 3
ARGUMENT .................................................................................................................. 6
I. The Eighth Circuit has in essence ordered the district court to disobey this
Court’s stay order. ......................................................................................... 6
II. Neither the single federal district judge nor the Eighth Circuit have
jurisdiction to enjoin use of a congressional map on constitutional
grounds. .......................................................................................................... 9
III. Purcell bars the injunction. ......................................................................... 15
IV. Federal law bars the injunction. ................................................................. 16
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................. 19
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ICE mobile detention vans, what could go wrong!?!?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Friday night at @politicsandprose.bsky.social in D.C. we had a great convo with @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social about their remarkable new book Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Govt By the People.
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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
. 1/2 "The United States is ranked 64th out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, marking the nation's lowest ranking ever. The US remains in the index's "problematic" category." One of the poorest in the west. . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three journalists sue Pentagon after being fired from military news outlet
Three employees of Stars and Stripes, a government-funded news service, allege they were fired after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our new Gulag Archipelago! #concentrationcamps #prisons #torture #abuse A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportations
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportations
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman's loved ones have also set up this website to help you send letters to your representatives demanding they get involved in the fight for the his release. findahmedsoliman.org
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Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool
Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
AFAIK this is the first time the second man's name has been released. Birhane an Eritrean national who I know Ahmed was friends with. It's a little hard to see, but in the video of Sept. 5 incident, he's the man in a white shirt in the revolving doorway. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...
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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International
On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)
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Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Blanche’s Political Activity Breaks an Ethical Norm Going Back to Watergate The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Blanche’s Political Activity Breaks an Ethical Norm Going Back to Watergate (Gift Article)
The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department.
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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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‘I fear for his safety’: Nicaraguan journalist persecuted by Ortega faces deportation from US
ICE arrested Luis Galeano despite his active asylum application. Two Republican congressmembers from Florida spoke out against his removal, saying the government must ‘distinguish between a criminal a...
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm shocked, but not surprised! #Courts
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's difficult to fathom that any human who made it out of elementary school could actually be this dumb, but here we are. And see how smug he looks? He actually thinks he's smarter than everyone who can't comprehend his brilliant logic.
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Representative Val Hoyle @repvalhoyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a win for the Constitution, but the fight isn't over. We need to protect and expand access to vote-by-mail, and I have a bill to do just that.
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Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration Plan to Screen Mail-In Ballots
The Trump administration had asked the justices to allow a new Postal Service plan to screen ballots just weeks before the midterm elections.
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desert-lover.bsky.social @desert-lover.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a cruel world we are living in because of one awful human being-Trump.
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In the shadow of other great civil libertarians, @radleybalko.bsky.social speaks truth to power! (gift link)
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Regardless of where you stand on other issues, the most important issue on the ballot in November is electing a Congress that fulfills its constitutional responsibility to check a lawless president. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Our Military Needs Congress to Do Its Job
54 Days to the Midterms
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
UPDATE ON BIG BEND: The pause on Trump’s border construction inside Big Bend National Park has been extended through September 30. That means no bulldozing, no clearing vegetation, no cutting new roads, and no moving earth or dirt in the affected areas while the legal fight continues.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
why would any agency abide an injunction knowing there is a decent chance the supreme court will lift it because the president is a special birthday boy? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Old enough to remember when IRS scrutiny of brand new non-profits for the Tea Party was a huge scandal.
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Does that mean, in theory, that the #Regime could tear down the #arm of the Statue of Liberty, #Washington Monument, #Lincoln Memorial, #Jefferson Memorial, #MLK Memorial, and the #Kennedy Center, all without so much as a whimper from #Congress #SCOTUS and #Preservationists
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US supreme court allows Trump to keep building $400m White House ballroom
Justices’ 5-4 ruling permits Trump administration appeal to block lower court order halting above-ground work
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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
dolly parton new yorker cover
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I remember how devastating it was that the #Taliban regime destroyed the Bamiyan Valley carved #Buddhas Now it seems our own #Regime is bent on destroying Big Bend and its riches for the unnecessary border wall!.
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Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’
The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wild that we're still having a conversation about the radicalism of Democrats
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Joan ❌👑 @still4dems.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please sign a petition to stop construction of a wall in Big Bend National Park. It’s not necessary! Thanks! c.org/kH87qrzLPB
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Sign the Petition
Stop the construction of the "smart" wall in the Big Bend Sector, Big Bend National Park
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/08/2026
We published this piece a month ago, and there are STILL new reports of cops using Flock cameras to stalk people...
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Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people
Advocates say it’s too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump approval at 33% Hitler share of vote: 33% Coincidence?
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Saying our goodbyes to Percy our geriatric tabby rescue, lived a full life you’ll be missed. 😥
Reclining tabby on stairs,
Chin hanging over.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/06/2026
Just in time for the fourteenth consecutive Most Important Election of Our Lifetime™, @ginnyhogan.bsky.social and @shadesofgreaves.bsky.social’s Obey in Advance: How to Survive (and Thrive) Under Authoritarianism. Coming to you from McSweeney’s books this fall. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/obe...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Absolute bullshit.
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Jöhn @chonabo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#SSDD dictatorships never quit.
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