Paul Gowder

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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RFK Jr has 'unreviewable' authority to reshape vaccine policy, DOJ lawyer tells judge A lawyer for the Trump administration told a judge on Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such broad authority over vaccine policy that he could even ​scrap re...

Um… does anyone know the relevant statutory framework for HHS here? Because this claim seems, shall we say, extravagant? Like, does the APA’s arbitrary and capricious standard apply to these decisions? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

“This proved frustrating for Justice Sam Alito, whose commitment to originalism waned when confronted with the prospect of not prosecuting a brown man.“ @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app telling it like it is, as always.

Opinion | Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Finally This is a chance to reboot deportations in more targeted fashion.

Omg even the WSJ editorial board Is happy to see the back of Noem. Has there ever been a bigger failure as a cabinet member?

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Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

Oh dear oh dear

Oh dear

It seems profoundly unlikely that this could be a D pickup, but OTOH this could be a blue tsunami year

Someone alert the South Dakota SPCA! #JusticeForCricket

This is amazing; am watching on C-SPAN3. If she had a staff member who liked her, that person would've walked up to her 15 minutes ago to whisper in her ear to get out of there.

But no one is protecting her. Any one of these attendees can break the news to her on live tv.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

Oh dear.

Never heard of Markwayne Mullin until today, but a member of the Cherokee nation in charge of ICE has an opportunity to do something really funny...

Your lips to gods ears

On the one hand, let us pray. On the other, it would not surprise me at all if he replaced her with Miller, who would be infinitely worse

Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.

Voters of Tennessee, can you please get rid of this disgusting bigot??

Same abuse of intuitions and grievances about fairness that drive the whole trans women in sports panic

As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.

But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.

See also Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina

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one of the small indignities I resent about living in this timeline is the Trump administration slowly turning me into a 10th amendment guy, I should be able to categorically hate "states' rights" arguments in peace!

This turns out exactly how everyone except the dummy who decided to do something idiotic and then agree to an interview with Chotiner knows it will turn out

As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents.

Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:

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Some results from last night:

-A pro-ICE NC Dem lawmaker lost her primary by nearly 50 points
-Dems flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Arkansas
-Dem turnout eclipsed GOP turnout in four newly-gerrymandered TX House seats

Trump's midterm reckoning has begun.

Big Jordan v. City of New London energy here

except of course the privilege of practicing before a state's courts is quite different from being subject to criminal or civil sanctions!

28 U.S. Code § 530B - Ethical standards for attorneys for the Government

After OLC issued that opinion, and arguably in response to it, Congress passed a statute saying federal attorneys are subject to state bar requirements, which you would think would settle the issue, but somehow doesn't.

State Bar Disciplinary Rules as Applied to Federal Government Attorneys

I don't think this is really a new argument from DOJ, though; here's an OLC opinion from 1985 basically saying state bar rules could be implicitly inconsistent with federal requirements and Supremacy Clause would override them. @gowder.io