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Quinta Jurecic

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Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta. Signal: qjurecic.32

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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...
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A Survivor’s Education
A Kirkus Best Book of 2024  An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration request to revive third-country deportations and takes case onto merits docket for December oral argument
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Masterful gambit sir
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In what I believe is a first for my eyes, Trump withdraws his appeal fighting the payout of $5M in damages to E. Jean Carroll
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent, as usual, @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social piece today on where things stand electorally and, more importantly, why. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/whats-gone...
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What’s Gone Wrong For the GOP
And some speculation about why.
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Today, the ACLU and other immigrant rights' orgs filed a new lawsuit — NATHAN V. TRUMP — in federal court in D.C. challenging President Trump's new birthright citizenship executive order by asking a judge to declare it unlawful and prevent the admin from enforcing it.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Consider Glonzo as a structural phenomena,
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a few months ago Harmeet Dhillon had a very awkward exchange with Keeperman about this on their podcast. I do wonder if some of the cooler heads in MAGA understand how this vitriol against South Asians is manufacturing a wedge issue w/in their own coalition www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I found this a really compelling look at the moral injury sustained from both leaving and remaining in government service right now
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i must speak my truth: I also disliked Trust for basically the same reasons that the reviewer identifies here www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/b...
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Book Review: ‘Ply,’ by Hernan Diaz
“Ply,” by Hernan Diaz, is set in a dystopian future where the state has been dismantled and one company controls the energy supply.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...
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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's ousting @cnn.com from Air Force 1 was foreseeable, because a 2-1 panel of the DC Circuit let him do that to the AP, after it refused to switch to “Gulf of America” in its stylebook. But that was an “unpublished” stay order—not binding precedent. … 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/b...
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White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One (Gift Article)
CNN won’t be able to join President Trump on a Saturday trip to Tennessee. He had banned CNN and two other news outlets from the White House, but a court order on Thursday restored their access.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
Donald Trump’s attempt to ban reporters from the White House is “a preview of what to expect over Trump’s remaining time in office—especially if Democrats take control of one or both chambers of Congress,” @qjurecic.bsky.social argues.
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The Two-Year Temper Tantrum to Come
Trump’s recent kerfuffle with the press is a preview of his next era.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump’s hissy fit over White House press passes is a signal of what to expect during his lame -duck period: petty, self-defeating chaos
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The Two-Year Temper Tantrum to Come
Trump’s recent kerfuffle with the press is a preview of his next era.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's a scandal that Jack Smith's classified-documents report is still being withheld from the public, and today's filing from former FBI agents (see below) makes that even clearer. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump Was Indicted Under the Espionage Act. Why Can’t We Read the Report?
Its suppression is highly irregular and disturbing.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
dude has AI broken boolean search on google
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a society of senior law firm partners who never learned how to use the printer
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pretty obvious that Tucker Carlson's current play is to position himself as the leader of a new red-brown coalition united by antisemitic conspiracism.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Granting emergency request from plaintiffs, First Circuit makes clear that, consistent with its 9/18 ruling striking down DHS's 3d-country removal policy, Judge Murphy's order barring removals under that policy is *in effect* right now. DHS was claiming otherwise & would've removed more today.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Despite 1st Circuit's 9/18 ruling invalidating DHS's 3d-country removal policy, DHS claims the decision hasn't yet taken effect. Class counsel fears a flight will take class members to Burundi, Rwanda, & Central African Republic *tomorrow.* Asks 1st Cir for emergency action.
Plaintiffs-Appellants seek an emergency order clarifying that this
Court's September 18, 2026 decision is in effect as binding precedent and that this Court's March 16, 2026, stay "pending appeal" has been dissolved
now that the Court has issued its decision and judgment. In the alternative,
Plaintiffs-Appellants request the Court either issue an order lifting the
March 16, 2026 stay or issue the mandate. Emergency action is needed because Plaintiffs-Appellants have learned that Defendants-Appellees are proceeding with removing class members to third countries in Africa,
pursuant to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guidance which
this Court found unlawful and set aside, tomorrow. In response to an email
from class counsel, Defendants-Appellees' counsel confirmed in a 5:14 p.m.
email today that their position is that this Court's stay remains in effect until
the mandate is issued. Exhibit A. In addition, counsel for Defendants-
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is up there with the Washington post “let’s just humor him, what’s the worst that could happen” quote from November 2020 for “most revealing anonymous quotes of the Trump era”
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FT quote: "I feel liberated,' said a top banker. 'We can say retard and pussy without the fear of getting canceled ... its a new dawn.'"
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026
they were wishcasting. they thought "well, it's not exactly great that Trump won, but at least he is going to take the wokes down a peg or three. we are frankly eager for him to curb stomp MeToo, BLM, Gaza protestors, every union organizer, etc"
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it is Time
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026
The biggest challenge for the US political system is reforming itself so that it can work with regular alternation in party control without either party trying to murder the other party's voters with secret police outside the law or, more generally, ignoring our Constitution.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026
More generally, pundits who interpreted 2024 as a permanent public embrace of Trumpism were wrong. Anyone a major party nominates can win. Power will alternate between the parties. No party will win long-term supermajorities. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The suggestion that the White House grounds are not subject to DC building codes opens up all kinds of new YIMBY possibilities. Bulldoze the White House and build single staircase high rise apartments
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New polling! We can get so inured to the current political landscape that it's worth remembering that, while Trump was also unpopular in 2018, the economic backdrop looked *very* different www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
when the journalists have simply given up www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
The state Supreme Court ruling set off a series of confusing and sometimes contradictory court orders that left many county election officials and voters baffled.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(Through gritted teeth) fixing the Malcolm x park fountain
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/09/2026
That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It’s all Covid” thesis undefeated
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Nation That Set It Up So That This Regularly Happens
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecurity experts on this.
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Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.
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Celine Castronuovo @ccastronuovo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOJ’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights, a @bloomberglaw.com analysis found. With @suzannemonyak.bsky.social: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Civil Rights Recast Under Trump’s Vision of Justice Department
The Justice Department’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
it’s a nice, succinct demonstration of the problem with the rationalist style of reasoning: the world is complicated, people have agency, and things rarely work out exactly the way anyone intends
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2026
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to make mail-in voting more onerous—sparing election officials from pointless chaos, and voters from potentially widespread disenfranchisement, @qjurecic.bsky.social argues:
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The Supreme Court Recognizes the Danger of Trump’s Election Plan
A majority of justices decided not to make the coming election needlessly more chaotic than it already is.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These numbers from the latest @nytimes.com poll are just ... wow. D+8.5 on generic ballot, 7 point issue advantages on the economy and immigration (among other issues), and only 66% of *Republicans* say they want a congressional candidate who will support Trump nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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