My new office is in Stuart Hall and I chuckle to myself every time I see this.
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Thomas Frampton
Law prof at GW Law, sometimes lawyer, full-time Ruth wrangler. Speaking as private citizen, outside official job duties, on matters of political/social/other concern. Stuff I write: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1785600
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A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...
Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.ICE arrested Beata Siemionkowicz, a Poland native and green card holder of more than two decades, last year while she was gardening in her daughter’s backyard in Des Plaines.www.chicagotribune.com
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This is amazing. A single 77 guy staging a protest against Flock cameras. It reveals the depth of people’s frustration with growing networks of self surveillance. And yet reveals three deep misunderstandings of the challenges ahead. 1/5 www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-ye...
A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against St. Pete’s Flock camerasCarl Gunn in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 25, 2026. Photo by Valerie Smith. Carl Gunn, 77, was concerned for his privacy when he spotted a camerawww.cltampa.com
For the real sickos, it's here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The 'Voting Rights Act of 1867': The Constitutionality of Federal Regulation of Suffrage During ReconstructionAs part of the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to representation in the House and Senate, Congress required those states to grant broad, rapapers.ssrn.comLaw profs doing bad things for democracy have gotten (and should get) attention recently. But a brief shout-out to Prof. @jackchin.bsky.social: He wrote a law review article flagging this issue 20 years ago; some brilliant attorneys eventually read it and litigated it . . . and won.
BoltsA federal judge has ordered Virginia to restore the voting rights of thousands of people who were illegally barred from voting under the 1870 Virginia Readmission Act, the law that readmitted Virginia into the United States.
Imagine going to the WHCA dinner tonight honoring the dude secretly subpoenaing your mom’s phone records and lying to federal magistrates about it.
Anna BowerWith respect to the statement that the investigation was "not public," AUSA Kevin Sullivan admitted that was "not correct." The judge also asked why DOJ failed to inform the magistrate that the subpoena involved reporters. Sullivan said that was an "oversight." bsky.app/profile/anna...
There are literally thousands of National Guardsmen standing around DC street corners today doing nothing but choking on this air.
Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦just as an example, here's a story from 2025 about some of the mutual aid exchanges between Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota via the Great Lakes Forest Fire Compact. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
The unitary executive giveth; the unitary executive taketh away.
Chris GeidnerBREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Chief Justice Roberts made clear for a 5-4 Court in Trump v. Hawaii (2018) that absolutely nothing Trump said or did would “support an inference of religious hostility” against Muslims (in a legally cognizable sense). Straight line from there to here.
Aaron RuparThis is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.