This order rightly affirms that ICE cannot continue subjecting people to dehumanizing, abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza. We’ll continue to hold the Trump administration accountable and fight to end ICE’s cruel, unconstitutional detention conditions across New York.

ACLU@aclu.org · 2w ago

BREAKING: A judge ruled that ICE must improve the inhumane conditions at the immigration detention center at 26 Federal Plaza. This is good news. Our fight isn't over until every abusive detention facility is shut down for good.

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.

“What ICE is doing right now is an injustice against Hispanic people, to the point that it doesn’t matter if you’re Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Puerto Rican,” said Pedro Rojas, a plaintiff in our case. “Once they hear you speaking Spanish, they’re discriminating against you and mistreating you.”

Cato, NY ICE Raid Violated Workers’ Rights: NYCLU Lawsuit

Federal agents arrested at least 57 workers. Many were denied opportunities to talk to lawyers or their families before agents rushed them to out-of-state detention facilities as far away as Louisiana...

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BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for its unjustified, military-style raid at a factory in Cato, NY. Federal immigration agents ripped workers from their families, violated their rights, and called immigrants animals.

Cato, NY ICE Raid Violated Workers’ Rights: NYCLU Lawsuit

Federal agents arrested at least 57 workers. Many were denied opportunities to talk to lawyers or their families before agents rushed them to out-of-state detention facilities as far away as Louisiana...

nyclu.org

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

OGUGUA ANUNOBY

I think this is what NYC must have felt like during the events seen in the documentary Ghostbusters

Incredible answer from KAT about not being nervous before game one but having a calmness that he felt came from his Mom

If you are wondering what it looks like when a Court majority goes full YOLO. .. Any Roberts’ claims of restraint and judicial minimalism have been reversed in these last few terms, with more to come.

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters (Now Updated with Analysis–This is a Significant and Very Bad Ruling) electionlawblog.org?p=156541

Thinking about him

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

Absolute Jim Crow fucking horseshit.

Steven Mazie@stevenmazie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of Alabama Republicans’ bid to use what the lower court decided was an unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered map in the 2026 congressional election

JOB ALERT: The ACLU's State Supreme Court Initiative is seeking a paralegal. IMHO this is an amazing opportunty to work on cutting-edge constitutional cases and appeals in state courts across the country. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Careers at ACLU

Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.

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3Ls and Recent Law Grads: Do you like state constitutional law? Appellate advocacy? Impact litigation? Apply for a sponsorship opportunity to work with the ACLU's State Supreme Court Initiative as a Legal Fellow! www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Careers at ACLU

Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.

aclu.org

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

Trump has losses coming at SCOTUS. Those should not distract from the broader story: the relentlessness w/ which the six-justice conservative majority is advancing its long-standing ambitions. My preview of the final month of the Supreme Court's term @economist.com www.economist.com/united-state...

How the Supreme Court both checks and empowers Donald Trump

It blocks his most blatantly illegal acts, but helps him in other ways

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One of the best antidotes to political anxiety is action. We are not helpless and there is energy in community and empathetic acts. Let’s take heart and take action. #mustread www.ms.now/opinion/poli...

Opinion | Political anxiety is rising. Here’s how to cope.

Finding balance in a world on fire.

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The endless gymnastic quest to turn every foul into a shooting foul

*This* is to my mind the most problematic aspect of Callais. The mix of race and politics, esp. in the deep South, is complex and is perhaps the defining issue of American political history. The enforcement provisions of the 14th and 15th Ams recognize this by specifically empowering Congress. (6/7)

What is new is using this same logic to defeat statutory claims of *racial vote dilution.* Unlike racial gerrymandering, racial vote dilution is (1) a group-based harm and (2) requires an actual effect on group members' voting opportunity. (4/7)

This is what America looks like when it fails to protect its progress: fierce backlash, partisan retrenchment, brass knuckle tactics. Please read and share my op ed about the catastrophic consequences of the Callais decision and the critical need to mobilize. www.ms.now/opinion/supr...

Opinion | I argued to SCOTUS for Louisiana’s Black voters. Here's what I'm telling them now.

Janai S. Nelson: I warned the Supreme Court what the South would do

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Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully. A landmark reform by former Governor Phil Murphy in January will make the jury pool in New Jersey more representative of the state.

In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions - Bolts

New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.

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Here’s how the six-justice majority explained what amounts to an aboutface from Allen v. Milligan three years ago. (Note: there is no explanation.)

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

I know this isn't a quick fix, particularly in Virginia, but remember: SCOTUS probably isn't riding to the rescue. Rights and liberties increasingly depend on state courts. You can help: *Clerk in state courts! *Practice in state courts! *Try to become a state court judge!

Pam Karlan is right (and so is Rick Hasen by agreeing with her). It’ll take a political movement on par with the one that caused the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to yield the changes we need to achieve a fair and equitable multi-racial democracy.

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pam Karlan’s Dire (and Accurate) Views on What Callais Means for American Democracy electionlawblog.org?p=155990

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There would be absolutely nothing preventing the Republican Party from actually competing in DC and Puerto Rico for the support of the median voter, other than a total unwillingness to adopt policy positions anywhere near those of the median voter. And again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Sen. Ron Johnson: "Democrats want to turn America into a one party nation. They'll turn DC and Puerto Rico into states. They'll nationalize our elections -- automatic registration, mail in balloting. So we need to stop them."