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  1. She added that the #USPS rule “clashes with #Congress’s statutory scheme, & is #unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s #elections clause powers but also that power left to the #states.”

    #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #ElectionInterference #VotingRights #Constitution #ElectionLaw #midterms #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

  2. 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:
    theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pe

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/uPwYW

    #USPol #Censorship #SiliencingDissent #SilencingThePress #NoComment #Orwellian #MinistryOfTruth #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  3. The case would be one of the most significant dealing with #religion in #PublicSchools since an ideologically divided #SCOTUS ruled in 2022 that a former public high school football coach’s on-field prayers were protected under the #FirstAmendment’s right to #FreeSpeech.
    In the current case, the [ultra-conservative] US Court of Appeals for the #5thCircuit in New Orleans upheld the #Texas #law on a 9-8 vote, overturning a lower-court ruling that found the measure #unconstitutional.

    #Constitution

  4. @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.

  5. #Police credit the #tech as an important crime-fighting innovation that helps locate missing people & track suspects in violent crimes. But critics say it amounts to #unconstitutional warrantless #MassSurveillance. Dozens of cities & agencies have nixed their relationships with #Flock amid concerns that the data can be accessed for #immigration enforcement or in unauthorized tracking, after a flurry of examples surfaced of #LawEnforcement officers misusing the tech for personal searches.

    #law

  6. '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.
    #towerdump #privacy #4thamendment

    yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/0

  7. ‘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
    thehill.com/regulation/court-b

  8. Which is nothing more than #censorship. If just the use of the word #Antifa can point trouble in your direction, then it is absolutely #Unconstitutional and we already know that. So fuck #Trump and fuck #AI companies that have no spine! So says #MissKittyOfAntifa. 🗽🗽🗽

  9. 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.

    ksl.com/article/51599090/mike-

    #stupid #idiot #republicans #senate #unconstitutional #antiAmerican #corrupt #liar #hacking #stealing #Utah #UtahPolitics #GOP #USPolitics #USPol

  10. #NYT reports, #TraitorTrump's postal service has proposed blocking mail in ballots from states that refuse to turn over private voter data to the government. (So much for Secret Ballots.) 🤬

    #Unconstitutional #DisasterPresidency

    nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/poli

  11. 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 #privacy

    eff.org/press/releases/eff-sup

  12. 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

  13. "This argument is absurd!" - filled w/ dozens of exclamation marks, this federal judgement hammers the administration. I work at this law firm, so it's great to hear; the DOJ hasn't appealed in their similar losses (I've a friend at Perkins Coie, who also won), so things look good for us.
    #WilmerHale #PerkinsCoie #unconstitutional #executive #order #injunction #law #firm #fight #win #unlike #SkaddenArps or #PaulWeiss #diversity #equity & #inclusion #DEI #DOJ #PamBondi news.bloomberglaw.com/business

  14. The unions had asked the court to block #Trump’s dismantlement of the #aid agency, calling it “#unconstitutional & #illegal” & saying it had “generated a global #HumanitarianCrisis” & threatened American strategic interests.

    “Not a single one of defendants’ actions to dismantle #USAID were taken pursuant to congressional authorization,” the lawsuit said. “And pursuant to federal #statute, #Congress is the only entity that may lawfully dismantle the agency.”

    #law #nationalism #TrumpCoup

  15. @taco @stephanie

    I've been so disgusted by the language police and the English restrictions for years. I'm about ready to say "If Quebecers cannot obtain government services in English on demand, then the federal government won't offer them in French either".

    I was born in Quebec, and I probably couldn't get an English "permit".

    #PapersPlease #LanguagePolice #unconstitutional

  16. #US. #District #Judge #ThomasParker, a #Trump #appointee, #ruled the #dragban “is an #unconstitutional #restriction on #speech.”

    The District Attorney wrote in a three-page “#notice” addressed to #BlountPride organizers and distributed to local #law #enforcement, “however if sufficient #evidence is presented to this office that the #unconstitutional #criminal #statutes have been #violated, our office will ethically and justly prosecute these cases in the interest of justice.”

  17. On Tuesday, #Johnson & #Johnson became the latest drugmaker to take the Biden administration to federal court in an attempt to put a #halt to the #drug #pricing #program. Three other drug companies — #Merck, #Bristol #Myers #Squibb and #Astellas #Pharma — have filed their own lawsuits, as have the industry’s main trade group and the U.S. #Chamber of #Commerce.

    The suits make similar and overlapping claims that the drug pricing provisions are #unconstitutional. They are scattered in federal courts around the country — a tactic that experts say gives the industry a better chance of obtaining #conflicting #rulings that will put the legal challenges on a fast track to a business-friendly #Supreme #Court.

    nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/poli