Benjamin Wilson
@bjohnwilson.bsky.social
First Amendment, due process, property, and other nice things.
I'd love to know how much Denny Hoskins has cost taxpayers in litigation expenses (so far) www.kmbc.com/article/miss...
Missouri congressional map opponents sue Secretary of State over rejected referendum
A lawsuit asks a judge to overturn Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' rejection of a referendum challenging the state's new congressional map.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
muellershewrote.com
🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri blocks anti-gerrymander referendum from November ballot in attempt to silence voters
Voter advocates are expected to immediately challenge the move and ask the courts to ensure that Missouri voters have the final say on the map.
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JUST IN: Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected an effort to put a GOP-leaning congressional map on the November ballot. The expected move from the Republican official Tuesday sets up a court battle that could have massive implications for Missouri’s 2026 election cycle.
Hoskins rejects Missouri congressional redistricting map referendum, setting up court fight
The GOP Secretary of State’s decision was expected. Proponents of placing the GOP-leaning map up for a statewide vote will go to court to put a vote on the plan on the November ballot.
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Okay, this is even MORE nuts than I could have expected: Hoskins refuses to certify @peoplenotpolsmo.bsky.social referendum petition not because of insufficient signatures but because he now believes all referendum petitions violate the Missouri Constitution 🤡 www.komu.com/news/state/m...
Missouri secretary of state refuses to certify redistricting referendum
The Missouri secretary of state says he believes a measure to force a statewide vote on the state's new congressional map is unconstitutional.
komu.com
Redistricting mayhem resumes at 4:00 today www.sos.mo.gov/default.aspx...
MEDIA ADVISORY – PRESS CONFERENCE – on Missouri FIRST Map
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The Democrats' midterm ad practically writes itself.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
“The reason we’re having a measles outbreak is because of the Covid lockdowns, because people didn’t — children during that period did not get vaccinated.” It’s a day that ends in Y, so RFK Jr. is lying again. The antivax movement and his incompetence are why we have an ongoing measles outbreak.
RFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health
In a heated interview with Dana Bash, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attacked Anthony Fauci and the media.
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The Fountainhead - Brad Karp is the embodiment of Peter Keating www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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The US National Debt has now crossed $40 trillion dollars. That's an increase of nearly $4 trillion since Trump took office. Remember those campaign promises about cutting spending? Remember how DOGE gutted education, highways, health care, and other areas? So, where is all that money going?
The unitary executive
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: DOJ now says it was was snookered by Interior Department into indicting Olympian David Hearn when officials "clearly" knew of multitude of issues w/reflecting pool renovation by Trump's 'pool guy.' @USAttyPirro drops the case. More via @eperezibarguen www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Sounds like Trump has the same crack negotiators working on Hamas he has dealing with Iran.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d agoTrump: "Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas." Hamas: "We didn’t say disarmament, we didn’t say handing over the weapons." www.wsj.com/world/middle...
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit has rejected ICE's unprecedented mass detention policy — the 5th striaght appellate loss for the Trump administration and perhaps the most significant, covering California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington, among others. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
There it is. Todd Blanche's Senate committee vote is postponed.
Heartbreaking news that didn’t have to happen at all. Appreciate that STLPR refers to them as an “Overland couple” and not some dismissive term you’d see on conservative media as if they didn’t have local roots.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
I'm just glad Article I isn't alive to see this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Q: There's a report that the US has taken in $13b from Venezuela. Where is that money going? T: Even more Q: But where is it going? T: We've paid for that war many times over Q: Where is the money going? T: Running the country Q: No, the money US is taking in -- T: Running the country
"The Trump administration’s deadly military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats have not reduced the amount of cocaine entering the United States..." This is my shocked face. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.
The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.
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Orwellian. An ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He had lived peacefully in this country for 35 years. The Trump regime then lied, claiming drugs were in his vehicle at the time he was killed. There were no drugs. They are murdering migrants - and trying to murder the truth.
A clarifying piece about the damage Trump's tariffs are causing and the foolishness of granting so much discretion in these statutes to the executive.
Ilya Somin@ilyasomin.bsky.social · last wk.Economist David Hebert shows Trump's tariffs damage US reputation/credibility with trading partners. In this post, I outline steps courts and Congress could take to mitigate this problem: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
