Kim Lane Scheppele
@kimlanelaw.bsky.social
Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
“No Kings: Vote Early" is coming on 17 October in Princeton!Sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings: Vote Early Princeton, NJ · No Kings
**We decide who represents us. We decide what comes next.** For more than a year, millions of people have come together to reject the idea that power belongs to kings, billionaires, or politicians wh...
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Here's a great guide to how to worry about the midterms - constructively. Yes, there are dangers - but we can overcome them. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-tal...
How to talk about threats to the midterms
A toolkit for conversations with stressed-out (or burned-out) people
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A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
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Wordle 1,938 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Luck still exists.
The US sanctions on the icc www.state.gov/releases/off...
Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court - United States Department of State
Under President Trump, the United States has acted decisively to defend U.S. sovereignty and U.S. citizens against the threat of the International Criminal Court (ICC). To date, the United States has...
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The Trump administration announced on Friday that it was imposing severe financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court, its latest effort to undermine the global body that seeks to prosecute those accused of war crimes, genocide and other murderous criminal acts.
Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions
U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.
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Here's yet another reason why Dem control of the Senate matters: www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...
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Once upon a time, the US was active in establishing the International Criminal Court . . . but now it is intent on destroying all global institutions that hold any of Trump's allies to account.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterdayThe Trump administration announced on Friday that it was imposing severe financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court, its latest effort to undermine the global body that seeks to prosecute those accused of war crimes, genocide and other murderous criminal acts.
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
Hey SCOTUS nerds, did we know summary reversals take six votes? I ask because the Court issued a summary reversal of an important Montana state supreme court decision trying to distinguish Citizens United, 5-4. That was 2012.
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
Trump is actually very transparent about what he wants to do to elections. Yet the legacy media discounts him. “I have to take him seriously because that’s my job,” Marc Elias says. They want you tired and tuned out. We help you stay in the fight. Support us: https://demdock.com/4yDtK9W
Featuring a cameo by @peoplesfabric.bsky.social
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d agoNEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
And that's the problem - at least a big part of it.
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Exactly: "The point is we can't not have big government. And that means we need legal theories and institutions ensuring that those powers advance the common good and aren't hijacked by authoritarians."
James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2w ago"The NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research on the planet, and its $47 billion budget is larger than that of the next 10 research funders combined." This underscores my big problem with Gorsuch's concurrence in Slaughter. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Washington Post confirms @propublica.org's reporting that the FBI shuttered a pay-to-play investigation into Susan Collins after Trump took over last year. #MEpolitics
Big fan of how Lina Khan answered @leahlitman.bsky.social's last question on the current episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social ... crooked.com/podcast/we-n...
We Need To Talk About Jurisdiction Stripping | Crooked Media
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A simple way to improve AI safety is to enforce the law. If Sam Altman knows that he will be treated like a drunk driver after an accident if his AI causes serious damage, he will be much more careful deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...
Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences
People need to face consequences for criminal negligence
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The new filing by the 3 media orgs re continued violation of J. Kelly's order: note this could result in Judge Kelly finding CIVIL contempt, which should not be subject to a Trump pardon, and its sole purpose is to coerce compliance with the ct order and can include daily mounting fines and jail.
Andrew Weissmann@weissmann.substack.com · 2w agoJudge Kelly basically says the government’s invocation of “national security” as a reason to ban the media is BS and not the true reason for the Trump media ban. Nor is national security furthered by the ban. Immediate reinstatement ordered.
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Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL
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This is one of the many consequences of the Trump administration’s war on the ICC: a two-year investigation meticulously documenting crimes may go to waste and, even worse, those perpetrators will continue with impunity when they may have faced justice. (6/7)
NEW: A new @hrcberkeley.bsky.social investigation found that in Mexico during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration (December 2018 to September 2024), 337 journalists and human rights defenders were killed—a number much higher than previously reported. (1/6)
