ICE is doing this now. They get information from TSA on who is going to be at what airports, and at which dates and times. That lets ICE make their arrest quotas with relatively low effort on their end.

If you have any kind of not completely regular immigration status, I would urge you to avoid domestic air travel in the United States right now.

People have been arrested at airports for overstayed visas, when they filed an adjustment of status on time, and the application has just been sitting at USCIS for several years.

So basically, Elon Musk was never the official Administrator of DOGE. It was this different woman that no one has heard of or seen.

On paper Elon Musk was only ever a “Special Government Employee”. This is an advisory or consultant type position that normally comes with no salary. It allows the politicians and political appointees to bring in their old friends from outside government, so they can talk to them. And meanwhile the friends get badges and credentials and email accounts so they can function in the office. But the bottom line is that SGE only ever has advisory power; no real power.

So that’s why Musk is not named on a lot of these suits. Anna Bower spent a lot of time trying to figure it out.

Here’s the plan for how the SAVE Act is intended to work:

1. SAVE Act requires voter ID, but it actually requires a photo ID that says “US citizen” on the ID.
2. For most people, the only identity documents that do that are passport books and passport cards.
3. Bad news: By and large, Americans don’t have passports. Passport adoption is really low compared to Europe.
4. Suddenly a bunch of Americans have to apply for passports to vote. Many will have trouble gathering the required documents, including birth certificates and marriage licenses (for name changes). Many won’t get it done in time.
5. What a disaster! So many people can’t vote!
6. But wait! SAVE Act comes in with a solution! States can be exempted from the ID bullshit.
7. But there’s a catch! To get the exemption, your state must have been turning over its voter rolls to the feds, quarterly, since July, 2025.
8. If your state, like every, uh, blue state, hasn’t been doing that… Well, I guess it just sucks to suck. There’s no way to become compliant now, and the SAVE Act hasn’t even been enacted yet.

Which is really strange, because the voter rolls are public information in every state of the Union. You can just buy them, and many political action groups do.

Technically, the war was “off” during that time, to avoid busting the 60 day limit without explicit Congressional authorization. We’re now in a completely new “second war,” by the way. So the 60 day clock has obviously restarted, duh.

Anyhow, those casualties couldn’t possibly have been war casualties, because we were dodging the war status for legal reasons.

You might beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.

The money should be held by the court in an appeal bond. Hopefully she doesn’t have to try to extract it from Trump directly.

The vote was 5-4 for the proposition that the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship.

The vote was 6-3 that a regular federal law guarantees the same right.

Kavanaugh is the switcher. He voted against the Constitution and for the federal law. This is crazy because the relevant text in the law is a copy paste job from the Constitution. It’s the same text. Kavanaugh’s position is that the same words mean two different things in two different places, because the federal law was enacted at a different time than the constitutional amendment.

Meanwhile, Gorsuch voted against birthright citizenship both times, but in his opinion he’s pretty clear that children born to parents who are domiciled in the US are citizens by birthright. Domicile means you are staying in the US long term and intend to remain. But you don’t need legal immigration status to have domicile. So that’s not really a Trump-friendly position if you dig into it.

Edit: I meant to reply to the other comment, but I messed that up.

Something, something about “deep-rooted history and tradition” that protects the federal reserve and not any other Congressionally-created independent commission.

Never mind that the “history and tradition” of central banks in the United States is that two previous banks failed before the federal reserve, and the first one was considered by many founding fathers to be unconstitutional.

Basically, it’s a made-up argument that makes no sense. And all done to protect Justice Robert’s stock portfolio from Trump’s fiscal mismanagement.

Misleading headline: The Court didn’t actually say that a warrant was required for these geofence searches.

What the court actually said: a request for geofenced location data addressed to a service provider is actually a search that could require a warrant. These requests are not just subpoenas for business records.

The supreme court sent the case back down to the circuit court to determine whether a warrant was specifically required in this case.

When it comes to searches, a warrant is usually required, but there are a number of complicated exceptions for “reasonable” searches where no warrant is needed.

A veto proof majority is also good enough to pass a discharge petition.

Yep. This is why Trump is dicking with the post office, which is federal.

Also, if only red states abstain from the elections, then only their representatives and senators will be bogged down in lawsuits. Not a great way to retain control of the chambers.

New York Times reported that no sounds of power tools were heard, and it appeared that the lettering was simply removed by hand.

No, I’m quoting the Constitution because it means something to me, and maybe to you as well. I’m not talking to them.

“They” will only accomplish their goals when enough regular people go along with it. Conversely, the Constitution will continue to have meaning as long as enough regular people are still invested. Despite some serious cracks and strains, it is holding up so far. I hope it continues to do so.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

• Constitution. Article III, section 3.

The legislature is changing the law to eliminate the entire public office before the election winner can be sworn in.

The political dynamics are that the state legislature is controlled by the (largely white) Republican party, while the electorate of Orleans Parish tilts to the Democratic party, largely on the support of black citizens.

This amendment to state law only affects the structure of elected offices in Orleans Parish, and not any other part of Louisiana.

I can’t wait for him to answer questions under oath in a video deposition regarding his tabs at the Poodle Room that were produced in discovery.

The types of visas that are available and the rules for them are set by laws passed by Congress. Trump doesn’t have the power to just unilaterally create a new visa category. So if you look at the fine print, this is actually some other already existing category that allows the president to admit individuals at discretion, and the fee is just a donation to the US Treasury. That’s also why it’s not racking up a bunch of court challenges.

Curiously enough, SPLC was known to pass tips they learned from their spying ops to the FBI until Kash Patel shut that down recently.

More than an investigation, there’s now a criminal indictment that alleges that SPLC, Inc. defrauded their donors when they paid undercover informants to infiltrate racist and extremist groups. The theory of the case is that SPLC was actually assisting and aiding these racist groups, contrary to SPLC’s public positions, by doing things like paying membership dues on behalf of their undercover informants.

There are also money laundering charges on the basis that SPLC deliberately misstated the purpose of funds when they were transferring money over to the undercover infiltration side of the operation. Because, maybe, you know, they were trying to be under cover about it.