#unconstitutional — Public Fediverse posts
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Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists
When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.”
Nick Turse, August 24 2026
Excerpt: "Under self-styled #WarSecretary #PeteHegseth, the U.S. military has mounted the most aggressive assault on #PressFreedom in memory, from an effort to outlaw 'unauthorized' questions from reporters to imposing unconstitutional restrictions on journalists’ access to the Pentagon. Hegseth has compared reporters to 'Pharisees,' who in the Bible call Jesus’s teachings into question, while the secretary’s minions regularly hurl insults at reporters. This is part of a broader war on press freedoms by the #TrumpAdministration, that includes demonizing #journalists; filing so-called strategic lawsuits against public participation, or #SLAPPs, to intimidate and silence criticism through expensive legal proceedings; and employing grand jury subpoenas and search warrants to intimidate reporters.
" 'Threatening journalists with placement on a #blacklist in retaliation for reporting the government doesn’t like is as #unconstitutional as it gets,' said Seth Stern, the director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation. 'This should put to rest the Pentagon’s prior claims that it’s anti-press policies — like its infamous requirement that reporters sign pledges to only print authorized information — are somehow content neutral.'
"Allee revealed the existence of the blacklist after this reporter was left on hold for more than two hours and complained about a long-standing lack of transparency by the command. In calls earlier that morning, Maj. Emma Thompson, #CENTCOM ’s media operations chief, repeatedly refused to answer questions about Iranian attacks on U.S. bases across the Middle East, disparate U.S. casualty counts, and medical evacuation flights: 'Nothing for you,' 'Don’t have anything for you,' 'No comment.' Thompson then hung up on this reporter mid-question.
#TheIntercept called back multiple times until Allee picked up the phone. 'They’re not going to answer your call if you just keep calling and calling,' he told this reporter."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pentagon-military-journalist-blacklist-press-media/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/uPwYW#USPol #Censorship #SiliencingDissent #SilencingThePress #NoComment #Orwellian #MinistryOfTruth #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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'Tower Dump' #Warrants Ruled #Unconstitutional
The Hill: A federal judge in #Mississippi ruled Wednesday that "tower dump" warrants are unconstitutional, declining to reverse a lower court decision refusing the government's request to obtain the search warrants in a series of violent crime investigations. A "tower dump" involves #cellphone companies providing law enforcement with access to the time and location data of all mobile devices connected to specific cell towers during a designated time window.
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‘Tower dump’ warrants ruled #unconstitutional
A "tower dump" involves #cellphone companies providing #lawenforcement with access to the time and location data of all mobile devices connected to a cell tower
"That is an unreasonable search under the #FourthAmendment," judge concluded
The order repeatedly referenced the Supreme Court's recent decision in Chatrie v United States, in which the majority held that #geofence #warrants require constitutional #privacy protections
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6013559-mississippi-judge-declares-towers-dumps-unconstitutional/ -
Someone please commit this idiot of ours to an institution where his potential to hurt the rest of the society is arrested. Stealing is wrong! Privateers are criminals. Shame on us for having elected this corrupt and supremely dumb piece of garbage to the Senate.
#stupid #idiot #republicans #senate #unconstitutional #antiAmerican #corrupt #liar #hacking #stealing #Utah #UtahPolitics #GOP #USPolitics #USPol
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Here comes the dirty tricks department of the traitorous GOP. All these MAGA scumbags ought to be locked up for the rest of their lives.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/dhs-secretary-vows-fines-even-172758998.html
#dirtytricks #illegal #DHS #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #antiAmerican #anticonstitutional #unconstitutional #USPolitics #USPol #government
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How many more summary executions by ICE thugs will we tolerate, USA? Time to prosecute these ICE goons to the fullest.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ice-involved-shooting-leaves-1-134005949.html
#ICE #thugs #immigration #execution #DHS #government #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP #unconstitutional #antiAmerican
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EFF to #SupremeCourt : Shut Down #Unconstitutional #Geofence Searches
Digital #Dragnets Violate #FourthAmendment , Brief Argues
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union ( #ACLU ), the ACLU of #Virginia, and the Center on #Privacy & Technology at #GeorgetownLaw filed a brief Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that invasive geofence #warrants are unconstitutional.
#scotus #privacyhttps://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-shut-down-unconstitutional-geofence-searches
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"What #CDU minister-president Schulze is calling for amounts to tying citizens’ allowance to compulsory labor—and thus to #forced #labor, which is #unconstitutional. Germany has seen that twice before: under #National-Socialism and in the GDR. Apparently, he wants to pick up where that left off."
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"What #CDU minister-president Schulze is calling for amounts to tying citizens’ allowance to compulsory labor—and thus to #forced #labor, which is #unconstitutional. Germany has seen that twice before: under #National-Socialism and in the GDR. Apparently, he wants to pick up where that left off."
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"What #CDU minister-president Schulze is calling for amounts to tying citizens’ allowance to compulsory labor—and thus to #forced #labor, which is #unconstitutional. Germany has seen that twice before: under #National-Socialism and in the GDR. Apparently, he wants to pick up where that left off."
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w74oq2nxtcdfvjf57q25laoy/post/3mededuzoxc2a -
"What #CDU minister-president Schulze is calling for amounts to tying citizens’ allowance to compulsory labor—and thus to #forced #labor, which is #unconstitutional. Germany has seen that twice before: under #National-Socialism and in the GDR. Apparently, he wants to pick up where that left off."
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w74oq2nxtcdfvjf57q25laoy/post/3mededuzoxc2a -
Sec. of State #ShennaBellows: #DOJ demand for #Minnesota #voter data shows #ICERaids tied to #elections
Lauren McCauley
Mon, January 26, 2026 at 9:02 AM ESTExcerpt: "Bellows, a Democrat running for governor, has twice rejected requests to provide the DOJ with sensitive voter data, including driver’s license numbers, partial social security numbers and full dates of birth, along with names of officials who handle the list’s maintenance, the number of ineligible voters the state identified due to noncitizenship and voter registration applications from specific time periods, among other information.
"The DOJ has argued the data is necessary to assess states’ compliance with the statewide voter registration list maintenance provisions of the #NationalVoterRegistrationAct.
"Maine is now among the states being sued by the federal government over its failure to comply.
"In a motion to dismiss filed last month, the state argued that the lawsuit should be discharged because the DOJ failed to support a valid legal case as to why it is justified to such information, and that its data requests violate federal privacy law.
"The motion also noted voter registration databases contain information about people’s choice of political party and in which elections they chose to vote, which are activities protected by the #FirstAmendment. Bellows and other secretaries of state have also raised concern about the federal government using voter records for citizenship probes.
"In a statement Sunday, Bellows said, '#Maine will never turn over our voter rolls as a ransom payment to get ICE to end its #unconstitutional assault on our state.
" 'Our founders designed a system where states and local governments, not the federal government, oversee elections to safeguard us from exactly this — a #tyrannical, #PowerHungry president trampling on our #ConstitutionalRights,' she wrote."
Full article:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sec-state-bellows-doj-demand-140210738.html#USPol #Elections #USElections #Elections2026 #TrumpSucks #Unconstitutional #VotingRights #StatesRights #VoterDisenfranchisement
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #VoterRegistration #VoterDisenfranchisement #ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #DefundICE #ICESucks #ICEOut -
#ShennaBellows says Trump's call for federal #elections takeover is blatantly #unconstitutional
#MainePublic | By Steve Mistler
Published February 3, 2026"Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's call for a federal takeover of elections is blatantly unconstitutional, but a threat that should be taken seriously given moves his administration has already made.
"Bellows, a Democrat who is also running for governor, says the president's comments on a right-wing podcast about commandeering elections in 15 unnamed states fit a troubling pattern. That includes an effort by the Department of Justice to obtain states' private voter data, which Bellows' office is fighting alongside Oregon in federal court.
"Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon also pushed back after receiving a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi suggesting the immigration surge there would end if officials complied with the DOJ, a request he described as 'apparent ransom.'
"Bellows said those moves, along with the FBI's recent raid of election offices in #FultonCounty #Georgia, suggest Trump is trying to preempt voter backlash to his policies in coming #elections.
" 'The president fears big losses in the 2026 and 2028 and is trying to set the stage for federal interference in our elections,' she said.
"Under the #Constitution, states govern American elections. But Trump has frequently made unsubstantiated claims that Democrats exploit the decentralized system to rig outcomes."
#USPol #Elections #USElections #Elections2026 #TrumpSucks #Unconstitutional #VotingRights #StatesRights #VoterDisenfranchisement
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The chief federal judge in Minnesota ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear in court on Friday
to explain why he should not be held in contempt
for violating court orders.The order by Judge Patrick J. Schiltz
— which he acknowledged was “an extraordinary step”
— adds to the administration’s legal fightswhile it also faces public and political pressure over the aggressive tactics of its agents,
who have shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in three weeks.Trump shook up the leadership of the Minnesota enforcement operation on Monday
by planning to pull its director of on-the-ground enforcement,
Gregory Bovino, according to two U.S. officials.That came after two days of outrage over the killing of Alex Pretti,
who was shot and killed by federal agents over the weekend.Trump said he was sending #Tom #Homan, his border czar,
to oversee the operations and that Mr. Homan would report directly to him.⭐️The order by Judge Schiltz, issued late Monday,
summons the ICE acting director
#Todd #Lyons to appear before him on Friday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for violating court orders arising from the Trump administration’s crackdown.“The court’s patience is at an end,” he wrote.
But the judge did give Mr. Lyons an out:
👉He said he would cancel the hearing if ICE quickly released an immigrant whom he said had been wrongly detained by agents.The crackdown has prompted a flood of legal challenges,
including from state and local officials
⚠️who asked another federal judge on Monday to declare that the surge of some 3,000 immigration agents had effectively become an #unconstitutional #occupation.The Trump administration also defended itself on Monday at a hearing over the state’s effort to investigate the death of Mr. Pretti.
The shooting of Mr. Pretti
— who was killed while being pinned down by agents, according to videos of the encounter
— sparked outage across the political spectrum,
including among some Republicans who have called for the Trump administration to change course.Trump met on Monday with #Kristi #Noem, the homeland security secretary, and #Corey #Lewandowski, her top aide, in the Oval Office for more than two hours,
according to two people briefed on the meeting.The president did not suggest in the meeting that Ms. Noem and Mr. Lewandowski were at risk of losing their jobs, those people said.
But it was another sign of Trump’s concern about the reaction to the killing of Mr. Pretti and the fatal shooting of another Minneapolis resident, Renee Good, by a federal agent on Jan. 7.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/27/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice-minnesota?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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What if the Big Law Firms Hadn’t Caved to Trump?
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#ACLU, #DemocracyDefendersAction, #NAACP, #LDF, #LULAC et al have also now filed a #ClassAction to hold #Trump's #BirthrightCitizenship order #unconstitutional nationwide.
https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/06/Barbara-complaint.pdf
#FuckSCOTUS #law #SCOTUS #NationwideInjunctions #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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About time all these #unconstitutional #EO were thrown out. The #orange #felon is #destroying the country. #impeach now!
#fascism #OpposeFascism #CriminalAdministration #traitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #SaveTheRepublic #defeatGOP #defendDemocracy #government #USPolitics #TransRights #lgbtq #rights
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-passport-policy-affecting-transgender-americans -
#FBI’s #Warrantless #Search #Ruled #Unconstitutional in a #Blow to #Government #Spying.
The #FBI trawled #NSA #records without a #warrant to #investigate a #man suspected of trying to join a #terror #group, #prosecutors #admit.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Technology
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/27/fbi-government-spying-surveillance-702-fisa/
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#DOD #policy on #transgender #surgery for #family of #servicemembers #ruled #unconstitutional
The #Pentagon violated the #constitutional #rights of two #transgender #women by denying them #healthinsurance #coverage for #genderaffirmationsurgery #recommended by their #doctors, according to a recent #ruling by a #federalcourt in #Maine.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MilitaryService #Healthcare #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-11-06/judge-rules-favor-transgender-surgery-15758542.html
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#DigitalID Isn't for Everybody, and That's Okay | #EFFector 36.13
we outline the #privacy protections needed for digital IDs, explain our call for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an #unconstitutional age verification law, and call out the harms of AI #monitoring software deployed in #schools.
#scotus #ageverification #ai #aimonitoringhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/digital-id-isnt-everybody-and-thats-okay-effector-3613
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These people want you to have as many kids as possible while trying to make it so that you can never #retire, afford #childCare, take leave from work, or so much as take a #sickDay. And this is what they want to impose on the whole of society.
#MattWalsh #rightWingExtremism #ChristianNationalism #Christofascists #ChristianLies #religionOfHate #EndOfDemocracy #unconstitutional #GOPfascists #RepublicansAreTheProblem #HarrisWalz2024 #Kamala2024 #VoteBlue
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In their own words, #Project2025 would MANDATE a ‘biblically based’ family, and do away with rules that "disadvantage white people" in the job market.
Project 2025 is unquestionably a #racist, #homophobic, #Christofascist agenda that is shockingly #unconstitutional, and wildly out-of-step with the vast majority of Americans. But there's a real chance it will be imposed if #Trump is allowed to step foot back in the #WhiteHouse.
#religionOfHate #ChristianNationalism
https://www.audacy.com/knxnews/news/national/project-2025-would-mandate-a-biblically-based-family
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#Unconstitutional #Legislation #punishing #freespeech in #support of #Palestine has been introduced across #TheSouth.
#Georgia, #Florida, #Tennessee, and #Texas have all introduced #Fascist #Censorship #bills that conflate pro-#Palestine #support with #terrorism
— The phrase, “Free speech for me, none for thee, ” comes to mind.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
https://prismreports.org/2024/08/07/laws-punishing-pro-palestine-free-speech-south/
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#Court in #Japan #allows #trans #woman to #officially #change #gender without #compulsory #surgery.
The #HiroshimaHighCourt #ruled Wednesday that the current #requirement is possibly #unconstitutional, a step #LGBTQ #groups are calling a mixed #victory.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Asia #Japan #Transitioning #LegalTransition
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/japan-court-transgender-gender-change-surgery-rcna161533
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#Judge #strikesdown #Florida’s #restrictions on #transgender #care for #minors and #adults.
The law restricting #transition-#related #care for #minors is #unconstitutional, a #judge #ruled, and was #motivated by #antitrans #bias
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#Senate #Republicans are making #fools of themselves. Seems as though they’re just fine w/ doing that too. #Pathetic.
Senate Dismisses 1st of 2 #Impeachment Charges Against #Mayorkas
Now wasting more time going through the same painful process again.
Democrats moved as quickly as possible—despite #GOP #obstruction & #delay tactics— to dismiss the #unconstitutional article of impeachment accusing the #DHS sec of refusing to enforce #immigration #law.
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Trader Joe’s Attorney Argues National Labor Relations Board Is ‘Unconstitutional’. | A lawyer for the union says the company is aligning itself with right-wing ideologues who want to destroy the regulatory state.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trader-joes-attorney-nlrb-unconstitutional_n_65b41e7ae4b014b873b11cc2
#TraderJoesAttorney #NationalLaborRelationsBoard #Unconstitutional #RegulatoryState #RightWingIdeologues #UnionLawyer #Politics #News
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Judge rejects DeSantis-drawn congressional map as unconstitutional
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4184784-judge-rejects-desantis-drawn-congressional-map/
#DesantisMap #Unconstitutional #CongressionalMap #JudgeRejects #Florida #DeSantis #Politics #News
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#US #AppealsCourt #blocks #Idaho’s #transgender #studentathlete #ban.
#Unconstitutional #Republican measure attempted to ban #trans #Athletes from participating in #female #sports #teams at #publicschools in the #state, from #primary #school through #college
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Idaho #Education #HigherEducation #Courts #Rulings #Conservatives #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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Ron #DeSantis is preparing to #murder #innocent #civilians under the guise of enforcing the law against suspected #drug #traffickers. He intends to pretend that domestic #lawEnforcement should operate under the same rules of engagement as the #military in active #war zones. He wants law enforcement to essentially #execute anyone they suspect of #trafficking #drugs. This is #illegal. This is #unconstitutional. It cannot be allowed.
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@GottaLaff All this goes back to the #ReligiousFreedomRestorationAct which is blatantly #unconstitutional, a #law cannot modify the #constitution which still directly #prohibits the #establishment of #religion which is exactly what happened after the #RFRA was passed.
It also violates #LGBTQ People's right to #EqualProtection You cannot allow any group to discriminate under law targeting any american citizen.
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Kila Posey, a Mary Lin Elementary School parent, requested a specific teacher for her daughter in July 2021, but she said principal SHARYN BRISCOE told her the class was not one of the two second-grade classes designated for Black students, and her contract for an after-school program she runs was not renewed after she complained about segregated classes,
#BrownVBoardOfEducation #racism #racialSegregation #discrimination #unconstitutional #whiteSupremacy #PublicSchool