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  1. @MatthewNewell @ChrisMayLA6 The #Strait of #Hormuz wasn't "constructed" by anyone, other than God (or Allah), & its #seizure by the #US would be #illegal under #international law (the #UN Charter) & #unconstitutional in terms of the US #Constitution.

  2. 🚦👨‍⚖️ Florida judge declares red-light cameras #unconstitutional, causing mass hysteria among ticket-issuing robots everywhere. Meanwhile, the article is so disordered that it seems like it was hit by a red-light runner itself. 😜📰
    cbs12.com/news/local/florida-n #FloridaJudge #RedLightCameras #TicketHysteria #LegalNews #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 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 EST

    Excerpt: "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:
    yahoo.com/news/articles/sec-st

    #USPol #Elections #USElections #Elections2026 #TrumpSucks #Unconstitutional #VotingRights #StatesRights #VoterDisenfranchisement
    #Authoritarianism #Fascism #VoterRegistration #VoterDisenfranchisement #ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #DefundICE #ICESucks #ICEOut

  4. #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."

    Source:
    mainepublic.org/politics/2026-

    #USPol #Elections #USElections #Elections2026 #TrumpSucks #Unconstitutional #VotingRights #StatesRights #VoterDisenfranchisement
    #Authoritarianism #Fascism #VoterRegistration #VoterDisenfranchisement

  5. 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 fights

    while 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.

    nytimes.com/live/2026/01/27/us

  6. a couple of pathological liars claim that gov't doesn't have money to pay civil servants so they need to be fired by peeps with no authority, no expertise, and no experience in the field.

    meanwhile these pathological liars claim that gov't has enough money to give $$$ Trillions to billionaire aristocrats.

    #Dodgy #Coup #USPolitics #uspol #MikeJohnson #HouseOfReps #Illegal #Unconstitutional #Firings #Clowns #buffoons #doge #elon #musk #elonmusk #Tesla #FascistTakeover #DEI #USAID #Liars

  7. a couple of pathological liars claim that gov't doesn't have money to pay civil servants so they need to be fired by peeps with no authority, no expertise, and no experience in the field.

    meanwhile these pathological liars claim that gov't has enough money to give $$$ Trillions to billionaire aristocrats.

    #Dodgy #Coup #USPolitics #uspol #MikeJohnson #HouseOfReps #Illegal #Unconstitutional #Firings #Clowns #buffoons #doge #elon #musk #elonmusk #Tesla #FascistTakeover #DEI #USAID #Liars

  8. Mike Johnson will not act unless the people force him to act.

    So we all have to tell our obnoxious uncles to call Johnson and demand that he start the process to remove the lawless dictator from the executive branch.

    #Dodgy #Coup #USPolitics #uspol #MikeJohnson #HouseOfReps #Illegal #Unconstitutional #Firings #Clowns #buffoons #doge #elon #musk #elonmusk #Tesla #FascistTakeover #DEI #impeachment #media #socialmedia #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #USAID #Liars #HouseOfRepresentatives

  9. Mike Johnson will not act unless the people force him to act.

    So we all have to tell our obnoxious uncles to call Johnson and demand that he start the process to remove the lawless dictator from the executive branch.

    #Dodgy #Coup #USPolitics #uspol #MikeJohnson #HouseOfReps #Illegal #Unconstitutional #Firings #Clowns #buffoons #doge #elon #musk #elonmusk #Tesla #FascistTakeover #DEI #impeachment #media #socialmedia #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #USAID #Liars #HouseOfRepresentatives

  10. Vile Right Wing Morons were happy to fuck over the rest of the country and the world in general, but then get surprised when their extremely stupid choices also fuck over their own families.

    I have Zero Sympathy for these shitheads.

    #Dodgy #Coup #USPolitics #uspol #MikeJohnson #HouseOfReps #Illegal #Unconstitutional #Firings #Clowns #buffoons #doge #elon #musk #elonmusk #Tesla #FascistTakeover #DEI #Racism #journalism #media #socialmedia #WhiteSupremacy #USAID #Liars #HouseOfRepresentatives

  11. Vile Right Wing Morons were happy to fuck over the rest of the country and the world in general, but then get surprised when their extremely stupid choices also fuck over their own families.

    I have Zero Sympathy for these shitheads.

    #Dodgy #Coup #USPolitics #uspol #MikeJohnson #HouseOfReps #Illegal #Unconstitutional #Firings #Clowns #buffoons #doge #elon #musk #elonmusk #Tesla #FascistTakeover #DEI #Racism #journalism #media #socialmedia #WhiteSupremacy #USAID #Liars #HouseOfRepresentatives

  12. Judges not impressed by #Amazon, #SpaceX's attempt to have #US National Labor Relations Board (#NLRB) declared #unconstitutional
    Both companies took to #FifthCircuit #CourtofAppeals to argue NLRB violates separation of powers.
    "constitutionality of the NLRB (and some other federal administrative agencies) was settled decades ago," Polden told us in February. "I think that the likelihood that a credible federal appellate court would take the claim seriously is very remote"
    theregister.com/2024/11/18/app

  13. In a major decision federal #FifthCircuit #CourtofAppeals held that #geofence #warrants are “categorically prohibited by the #FourthAmendment.”
    Court determined under Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Carpenter v. United States, individuals have reasonable expectation of #privacy in #location data implicated by #geofencewarrants.
    Second, court found that even though investigators seek warrants for geofence location data, these searches are inherently #unconstitutional.
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/fede