Andrew Weissmann

@weissmann.substack.com

My new book Liar’s Kingdom can be ordered here: https://linktr.ee/LiarsKingdomBook; NYU Law; MSNOW legal analyst & podcast cohost "Main Justice »; Substack "Behind The Headlines" https://weissmann.substack.com Offering legal analysis & opinion

BREAKING on MS NOW: The scheduled meeting between John Cornyn and Todd Blanche has just been called off after Cornyn said Blanche didn't have the proposals on the slush fund he demanded.

Charitable giving platforms should not become agents of the Trump administration’s campaign against civil rights organizations, write @democracyforward.org's Regan Rush and Megan Marks, and Just Security's @dschulkin.bsky.social (Dani Schulkin). The indictment against @splcenter.org explains why.

If Federal Courts Don’t Trust Trump’s DOJ, Should Civil Rights Funders?

After suspending donations to SPLC, major charitable giving platforms must question whether it is prudent to defer to a DOJ that courts no longer trust.

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Murray: "He has told us over 40 times now that a deal is near and the war will be over soon. But now he's asking for $70 billion more and for us to just trust him it'll work out."

WSJ: Frank Bisignano — Trump's CEO of the IRS and commissioner of the Social Security Administration — snooped on rival executives when he was co-chief operating officer of JPMorgan Chase over a decade ago, using his authority over the security department to access internal emails.

The Man Who Runs the IRS Spied on Colleagues When He Worked at JPMorgan

Frank Bisignano directed staff to use software to snoop in email of rivals and surveil work of employees; Bisignano, who also heads Social Security, denied he ever spied on co-workers.

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This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”

Eric Segall@espinsegall.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. The 14th Amend. is not colorblind. It never was.” Me? No a judge www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Sadly, it's time to re-up this Q&A by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, me & @rgoodlaw.bsky.social on targeting & the #Iran war. To be clear it is never lawful to: - target civilians or civilian infrastructure as such - target "dual use" infrastructure to "send a message," punish, or coerce the other side

Expert Q&A: A Targeting Primer on the Iran War

Leading legal experts Q&A analyzes how the law of armed conflict applies to United States, Israeli, Iranian strikes - focusing on targeting rules and civilian protections.

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