Is It Bad to Have 'Low Levels of Constitutional Compliance'? Eric Adams's NYPD goon squad is not following the law, and other links to start your day.

Surprise, surprise: Unlawful searches remain common in the NYPD, according to the latest report from its federally appointed independent monitor.

If you wanted to declare liberal protestors = antifa = terrorist and use federal armed force against them, Joe Kent is a guy you'd pick to run your National Counterterrorism Center

The demonstration streams out of the park, down an alley of police barricades on First Avenue to the NYU Langone complex.

NYU Langone hospital is bowing to gender fascism by cancelling youth gender-affirming care appointments. New Yorkers won’t stand for it!

Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social speaking at today's USAID protest: "This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like."

If Musk gets away with leading the charge to close USAID by executive action and cut funding, it won't stop there. They will go through the budget and zero out programs and polices they disagree with across the government. Congress becomes inert and useless. Game over democracy. Line in the sand.

Back to school today.

We are witnessing a system-wide, and utterly predictable, failure from the media and opposition party to convey what is happening. Chuck Schumer is talking about eggs.

The fact that the Very Serious Constitution Defenders are demanding we all comply with illegal executive orders that are the legal equivalent of scribbling slurs on construction paper with crayons says all you need to know about the kind of authority they actually believe should control the country.

Eric Adams is a disgrace to New York.

Some collegues wrote this NYC-specific guide for attorneys during Trump 1.0. Some of it might be outdated at this point but I think it’s a good overview.

To be clear—noncitizens absolutely have a First Amendment right to protest. I’m just talking about the more practical risk analysis.

the perhaps frustrating but standard response to questions about noncitizens protesting is “talk to an immigration attorney about your individual circumstances.” The risk analysis varies greatly based on the nature of the protest and the details of immigration status.

A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism says her 62,000-member Facebook group is influencing NYU policy.

A true witch hunt.

In Tense Call, Governors Push Schumer to Fight Harder Against Trump On a call with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, six Democratic governors pushed him to slow down the confirmation of President Trump’s nominees and to do more to block his agenda.

Keep it up. He should not know peace until he gets his act together or resigns leadership. archive.is/Rv504

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

wow. a girl can’t even go for a one hour therapy session anymore without losing some rights, huh?

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

The 12 Democrats who joined Republicans to pass the Laken Riley Act:
Catherine Cortez Masto—NV
John Fetterman—PA
Ruben Gallego—AZ
Maggie Hassan—NH
Mark Kelly—AZ
Jon Ossoff—GA
Gary Peters—MI
Jackie Rosen—NV
Jeanne Shaheen—NH
Elissa Slotkin—MI
Mark Warner—VA
Raphael Warnock—GA

the news that Leonard Peltier is finally going to be released is a really important reminder that among all the awful, there’s also hope and goodness.

keep seeking that hope and goodness out, connect with it, and use it as fuel to keep pushing forward.

we all still hold a lot of power for good.

Imagine the ADL statement if an Oberlin sophomore did this.

The ADL is actively harming the fight against antisemitism. Cravenly. Knowingly. And has been for a long time. But this is a clear new low. bsky.app/profile/ahjo...

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Congrats Ravi—relief after a long and hard fight.

100%. This isn't just about TikTok.

Cuts to Parks and 3K, More Cops on the Subway And more news for your Friday.

reading Hell Gate's morning newsletter re: all the cops and National Guard on the subway, with more cops to come—and thinking about how easy it is for them to arrest someone for not paying—and how that "theft" could fall under Laken Riley—it's like Adams and Hochul are pre-staging mass deportations

A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...

Inside the State Dept., senior political appointees repeatedly disregarded their own experts on Israel's human rights violations.

These officials cracked down on leaks by threatening criminal investigations and classifying material critical of Israel.

New, @propublica.org

467 days. None of us will ever be the same. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be.

On the ceasefire — shared on IG by @lsarsour.bsky.social

Again, we've spent my entire life listening to people sell "run government like a business" as reasonable, almost obvious advice. Meanwhile, the people running businesses....

Bondi not willing to say Trump lost 2020 election; only that Biden is the President.