buster skeetin

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Lawyer. Midwesterner. Cheapskate replies ≠ engagement with you personally he/him

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

slate.com

"In two of those instances, masked immigration officers entered private construction sites without a warrant and allegedly began detaining workers based only on their apparent ethnicity. Venegas' third detention occurred after his lawsuit was filed." Prison for all ICE agents

Judge blocks warrantless ICE construction site raids after agents in Alabama arrested a U.S. citizen 3 times

An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen was detained and handcuffed three times despite having a valid REAL ID.

reason.com

Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks

Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.

newrepublic.com