Carolyn Shapiro
@cshaplaw.bsky.social
Law prof at Chicago-Kent College of Law; co-director of CK Institute on the Supreme Court; Of Counsel, Schnapper-Casteras, PLLC; former IL Solicitor General.
Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · yesterdayJUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
Exactly what @lioneltrolling.bsky.social says here. This is why the Omar search and investigation is such a big deal. open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
What’s at Stake in the Omar Case
Trump’s Attack on Omar is an Attack on America
open.substack.com
Good morning, I had a terrible time reading this over breakfast
Alfie Kohn@alfiekohn.bsky.social · last wk.Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
nytimes.com
I wasn't in a mood to be online on the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Shoah & just saw that ppl are big mad abt Mamdani's statement & that he went to an Oct 7 memorial, then a Palestinian restaurant. So fwiw: This American-Israeli Jew is grateful for & agrees with all of it.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago
“Many of us have been separated from our families,” reads the letter, which was signed by 45 detained immigrants, as dozens joined in to stage the hunger strike. “We have missed births, funerals, years of our lives while sitting behind fences without having committed any crime.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 2w ago📍 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀: A group of people detained inside a privately run ICE jail in Georgia have launched a mass hunger strike this week to protest against their prolonged detention and the facility’s conditions, according to advocates and family members. #AbuseofPowerWatch
I am not sure any lawyer involved with this can safely fulfill their ethical requirements of zealous representation? What happens when Stephen Miller calls the office every day? You know what Congress write a rider specifically designated the pre-existing counsel network.
Samantha Michaels@samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother blow for unaccompanied immigrant minors. Now the Trump administration is taking over their legal representation. Yes, the same administration that is trying to deport them will also be the ones in charge of their defense. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Heartbreaking 💔 Children scream while masked ICE goons kidnap their families in broad daylight in Harrison, New Jersey.
I had a little bit of difficulty writing this because the question "should a higher court overrule a lower court's administrative stay in a way that lets the appellee kill the appellant while the lower court is still reading the briefs" felt like a silly question. And yet.
Balls & Strikes@ballsandstrikes.org · 2w ago"If the Court will not treat capital cases with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so."
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...
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"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR
🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 3w agoFDR v. Stephen Miller
Every single reporter working in Maine should be asking Susan Collins whether she will commit to voting against any Trump picked nominee to #SCOTUS if Alito retires during lame duck.
Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
politico.com
Please show me the statutory or constitutional authority that this man holds to do anything that he is actually doing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoRuss Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"
The Trump administration issued updated guidance on the rollout of a new rule that could shape the future of higher education in the United States — leaving critics dismayed about the potential ramifications. www.rawstory.com/trump-educat...
'I'm speechless, my God!' Dismay as Trump admin rolls out 'worthy' student rule
The Trump administration issued updated guidance on the rollout of a new rule that could shape the future of higher education in the United States — leaving critics dismayed about the potential ramifi...
rawstory.com
I am looking forward to this!
Daphna Renan@daphnarenan.bsky.social · 3w agoIf you're in Chicago, join me on 10/4 for a conversation about Supremacy -- @nikobowie.bsky.social and my new book -- with @petersagal.bsky.social and Don Verrilli at the Chicago Humanities Festival! Two of the greats, and I can't wait to discuss with them the case against ultimate judicial rule.
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3w ago#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
A lot to like in this thread, but as the mom of two sons (now young adults), this idea was very important to me in my parenting.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 3w agoAnd the last one I’ll mention is for mothers to set boundaries in their own relationships with their sons. The way he treats you is a model for how he treats all other women. If you succumb to the social pressure to make every sacrifice for him, he will expect the same of other women too.
Every time I think I can’t be more appalled than I already am …
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoabsolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
Vought and Hegseth should be first up for impeachment if Dems retake Congress.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w agoVought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
ADA prosecutions and civil suits would be where I’d start and/but I was 10000% serious in saying this road map must be written, and by a serious collaboration of major people
Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The Bulwark community has raised more than $100,000 for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, which is helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs. If you’re able, please consider donating.
The Bulwark Community Stands With Springfield
Over the past year, we’ve been telling you about what is happening to Springfield’s Haitian community, and about the extraordinary people there who have stepped up to help their friends and neighbors through an incredibly difficult time. Now we’re asking the Bulwark community to step up with them. We’re raising money for the Haitian Support Center, which is on the ground in Springfield helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs.
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I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
