I'm going to continue posting to this site, but not engaging. It's just not worth the steady stream of toxicity and venom. I'll be much more active over where the sky is blue (stevevladeck), and, of course, through my newsletter ( https://t.co/1ui2DpY3Cq). Hope to see you there.

For today’s bonus “One First,” I wrote about the slow but steady evisceration of effective damages remedies against federal officers who violate our constitutional rights—and the disappearance of a critical deterrent against abusive governmental behavior: https://t.co/C9CVqSbuj5

The federal government does and should have the power to deploy troops domestically—even without local consent—*when the circumstances warrant it.* Me on why the real issue in Portland, Chicago, and elsewhere is the missing / contrived factual predicate: https://t.co/PL9uMFOPoK

With the new #SCOTUS term beginning today, this week’s “One First” looks at the final data on emergency applications from the October 2024 Term—one in which the justices set all kinds of records, most of which are unhealthy for the Court and the country: https://t.co/1KTplRSkpf

Lots of noise today from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military. Via "One First," me on the key early precedent that is *entirely* to the contrary: https://t.co/CPx7rtvoct

Here’s a really helpful @cnn.com video explaining what’s actually happening with emergency applications at #SCOTUS, and why they’ve become so controversial (with a cameo from me): https://t.co/1nGym5SBpK

Federal law doesn't recognize the concept of a "domestic terrorist organization." Via "One First," me on how that hasn't stopped President Trump from using the term to justify investigations of (and suppress) lots of constitutionally protected speech: https://t.co/8YXbylkuw0

The Roberts Court turns 20 today. For “One First,” I wrote about all of the ways in which the Chief Justice bears direct responsibility—for better or worse—for how much less popular and more divisive the Court is today than it was on September 29, 2005: https://t.co/YzQZm8cvv1

Monday's #SCOTUS ruling in Slaughter highlights the extent to which the justices have reconfigured the relationship between the "likelihood of success on the merits" and stare decisis—without ever deigning to explain why. Me in today's bonus "One First": https://t.co/3yaibIBmzx

Today’s “One First” looks at the status of the birthright citizenship cases—and their lessons for what we miss when we ignore cases in which Trump admin. is both losing and not seeking emergency/expedited relief. It turns out that those are the majority: https://t.co/hwhPrA3MBn

Last March, Justice Barrett argued that “administrative” stays should be rare and of very limited duration. As today’s bonus “One First” notes, in the 18 months since, they’ve only proliferated at #SCOTUS, and lower courts have continued to abuse them: https://t.co/weWgy1hbsY

After recapping an unusually busy week of #SCOTUS news, today’s “One First” reflects on the “Gold Clause Cases”—three 1935 rulings that were portrayed in apocalyptic terms at the time, but that, for various reasons, have largely receded from history: https://t.co/spdLEvgBFo

"If this is the kind of analysis that’s driving the justices’ votes in the other Trump-related cases, perhaps it really is understandable why the Court is so often declining to explain itself." Me on Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in the ICE raids case: https://t.co/nL3MtkOdBZ

"If this is the kind of analysis that’s driving the justices’ votes in the other Trump-related cases, perhaps it really is understandable why the Court is so often declining to explain itself." Me on Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in the ICE raids case: https://t.co/nL3MtkOdBZ

Justice Kavanaugh's attempt to re-brand how the Supreme Court handles emergency applications is belied by how the Supreme Court is actually handling emergency applications. That, and a bunch of other #SCOTUS news, in this week’s “One First”: https://t.co/RayTL0aNxI

Today's bonus "One First" critiques the increasingly noisy claim that legal constraints don't matter in the current moment—why it's belied by what's happening on the ground (and by what law can *do*); & why, in many respects, it's affirmatively dangerous: https://t.co/uMehexVaKY

#BREAKING: Fifth Circuit (Southwick & Ramirez, JJ.) holds that President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua is unlawful, and blocks AEA removals in the Northern District of Texas (over a lengthy dissent from Judge Oldham): https://t.co/0Hkgdz2Gvs

Me on the statute President Trump would rely upon to deploy un-federalized Texas National Guard troops to Illinois; why such a deployment without Illinois's consent *ought* to be unlawful; and the options Illinois will have for litigating that issue: https://t.co/SNcnf3U39V

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Judge Breyer has held that the Trump administration *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in/around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: https://t.co/nFSmuO0BrQ

Just posted the latest #SCOTUS update to TikTok: https://t.co/3SiDPCDXJ7