April 19 has been agreed upon as the next mass nationwide protest day.

 

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What the court said and did, analyzed in a way unlike much of what is being reported about the opinion on review of the lower court's order about a man kidnapped by authorities and sent to an El Savodorian hellhole.

 The item hangs together so no excerpt:

Trump’s Small Win, Huge Loss, On Alien Enemies Act

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It is suggested readers bookmark the link: https://blog.simplejustice.us/ 

That site late last month had good content about Trump's war on law firms over which he has a hardon in thinking he wants revenge, revenge and after that intimidation and revenge. Here and a follow-up here.

Also: https://blog.simplejustice.us/2025/04/01/tuesday-talk-trump-fatigue/#more-53669

UPDATE: It is always appreciated when a site links to an original document, in this case to the Court's per curiam opinion on which the site is commenting.  

FURTHER: How/why I came across the site is itself a story, one I might flesh out at some point, but not now.

FURTHER: See, also: EmptyWheel, here.

 

Back from the other side of the brink of species extinction.

 

Colossal Biosciences Resurrects Long-Extinct Dire Wolf

Next up are woolly mammoths, dodos, and Tasmanian wolves.

Ronald Bailey | 4.7.2025 5:00 PM

Note that "colossal" is not used as an editorial judgment, but part of a firm's name.

Sarcasm at the Volokh Conspiracy.

 

Next Up: Jenner and Block

Are you getting the message yet? Kiss the ring! And throw in some cash while you're at it. Or Our Leader will destroy you. Do not cross him - he has the entirety of the executive power of the United States at his disposal.

David Post | 3.26.2025 5:06 PM

Given that the VC is a blog that is heavily focused on the law and the legal profession in all of its various manifestations, I think it is incumbent upon us to at least pay a little bit of attention to the Trump Administration's continuing attacks on lawyers and judges, if only to ensure that our silence is not construed as capitulation.  So no, I'm not going to let it go - no one's forcing you to read anything I write.

Read all about it. Another voice amazed by lack of constraint and normalcy.

Reuters on TTT = Trump Trade Tariffs

 

Dimon warns on trade war after Wall Street CEOs met Lutnick on tariffs

By Nupur Anand and Pete Schroeder

April 7, 20251:50 PM CDTUpdated 3 hours ago

 

 

Trumptie Dumptie shat on us all,

The Trumptie new tariffs will spawn a great fall,

All Hegseth's soldires and all Elon's men,

Can't make our world's trade be shiny again. 

Something like that. Needs work, but something like that.

 

UPDATE: Tariffs are a flat tax on consumption, the poorest consumers will suffer the most. Elon and Bezos will not feel a thing.

 

Graduated income and wealth taxes would work much, much better.

 

But this is billionaire policy. Not little guy policy. The electlon's over and the red caps will not matter, saying as well as anything, MAKE MY CLASS WEALTHIER MEN.

 

No vowels in the abbreviation, but aside from that, such a cap would fit Trump, and he should wear it.

 The Hill:

DOJ asks Supreme Court to lift order to return wrongly deported man 

by Zach Schonfeld - 04/07/25 11:28 AM ET

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a judge’s ruling ordering the government to return a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the end of Monday. 

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who resides in Maryland, was removed despite an immigration judge’s 2019 ruling protecting him from being deported to the country. The administration has blamed it on an “administrative error.” 

Calling U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis’s Friday order to return Abrego Garcia “unprecedented relief,” the Justice Department (DOJ) said it can’t comply with the ruling and called for the high court’s emergency intervention. 

“And this order sets the United States up for failure,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote. 

“The United States cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations in advance, least of all when a court imposes an absurdly compressed, mandatory deadline that vastly complicates the give-and-take of foreign-relations negotiations. The United States does not control the sovereign nation of El Salvador, nor can it compel El Salvador to follow a federal judge’s bidding,” Sauer continued. 

By default, the administration’s request will go to Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles emergency appeals arising from the 4th Circuit. He could act on the application alone or refer it to the full court for a vote. 

That "cannot comply" is a sack of crap. Trump makes a phone call, the guy is sprung and they can fly down to El Salvador and pick him up. 

They are making things up, in effect saying, "An error. Sorry. Uncorrectalble."

If it was me sent there that way I would sure as fuck want it unwound - and justice would be on my side.

What SCOTUS does, different story. I'd expect they'd honor the lower court, and not step into a pile, over how this was done where citizens are at risk of "error" too.

If not, the Court is not worth a pinch of dirt.

 

 

More detail on Perkins Coie suing after Trump bullying. Suing against the bullying. Some fight. Some caved.

 Bloomberg law, not paywalled per my browser settings:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/law-firms-back-perkins-coie-in-lawsuit-fighting-trump  --- the report

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/PERKINSCOIELLPvUSDEPARTMENTOFJUSTICEetalDocketNo125cv00716DDCMar1/4?doc_id=X3UOB6EAOJ9T5RC5BLC7JI8P68  --- the documents

See also, 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/opinion/law-firms-must-stand-up-trumps-attacks/  --- not paywalled??

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/law-professors-legal-groups-back-perkins-coie-lawsuit-over-trump-order-2025-04-03/ 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/504-law-firms-sign-amicus-040025710.html

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5233200-law-firms-judges-trump-executive-order-perkins-coie/ 

And there is even now a Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeting_law_firms_and_lawyers_under_the_second_Trump_administration

The Wiki item, in part -

On March 12, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked part of the order against Perkins Coie.^[2][21] In reviewing the case, Howell "cited the First Amendment in temporarily blocking the portion of the order limiting their attorneys’ access to federal buildings and requiring government contractors to disclose if they do business with the firm."^[4] Howell said that the order likely violated several constitutional amendments and "casts a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession".^[22] Howell, an appointee of former president Barack Obama, stated that like the Queen of Hearts, Trump's statements are entertaining to read about but “cannot be the reality we are living” under the law.^[4] Howell stated: "I am sure many in the legal profession are watching in horror about what Perkins Coie is going through here." ^[2] The Department of Justice attempted to have Howell removed from the case, alleging that she is "insufficiently impartial", but the motion was denied.^[23] Jenner & Block and WilmerHale have also filed suit.^[24]

This is a judge who could hand Trump his ass, so clearly they want to bounce her.

Behind a subscription wall, but lead paragraphs tell enough of a story - A story of how MSM burried "Hands Off" numbers.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/07/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-hands-off-protest-coverage/ 

The subscription wall, if toggled off, yields:

Outraged readers found Hands Off! protest coverage paper-thin

Updated April 7, 2025, 1 hour ago

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[Photo caption] Police estimated that as many as 30,000 protesters attended the Hands Off! rally in Boston on April 5, and organizers put the number at nearly 100,000. Crowds heard speakers at City Hall Plaza after a march down Tremont Street from Boston Common. Hundreds of thousands of other people demonstrated across the country.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Huge march should have been prominent on front page

After attending the April 5 “Hands Off!” protest in Boston — huge, historic, and peaceful — I eagerly opened the paper on Sunday to read about it. But where was the coverage? Not on the front page where it belonged, but buried on Page A11 (“Across US, protesters tee off against Trump and Musk: Hands Off! rallies draw thousands”) and then on the front of the Metro section (“Boston Hands Off! rally draws 30k”). What a disappointment!

Wouldn’t it have made a better — and more important — front-page story next to “Voters weigh in on Trump agenda” than a headline about a DOGE staffer?

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Fair use, that teaser. See, also: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/07/millions-of-americans-disappeared-thanks-to-us-media/ 

EmptyWheel properly gives the Boston letters theme a nationwide airing of wilful arrogant neglect without cause.

Buried coverage, if any, is a great shame on MSM for intentional neglect.

IT WAS BIG NEWS - BIG BIG BIG NEWS

 

Turnout for Hands Off - Mn Capitol grounds, St. Paul, MN

https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/05/hands-off-rally-draws-thousands-to-minnesota-capitol-to-protest-trump/

UPDATE: The problem with Hand's Off? It is a defensive effort. Reactive not proactive. It says only, keep what we have that has worked well for decades.

We need to press an improved agenda, not merely saving the best of a flawed status quo. But with chaos and grief being Trump's agenda, and his getting more votes, the short term goal is to stop the people's bleeding. Long term, make it the oligarchs who bleed. 

Make it better for everybody by making Elon give a little, millionaires in Congress having to give a little. 

Otherwise known as justice for all. Not all to the oligarchs. 

Spread the wealth. See how there is more than enough, if merely used wisely.

Noteworthy.

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/senators-introduce-bill-require-congressional-160702152.html

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-cantwell-introduce-bill-to-restore-congress-constitutional-role-in-trade 

https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-cantwell-and-grassley-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-reassert-congressional-trade-role

https://www.bennet.senate.gov/2025/04/04/bennet-cantwell-grassley-bipartisan-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-reassert-congressional-trade-role/ 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senators-propose-congress-over-tariff-175226558.html

It's a life preserver of a bill. In case the fan really loads up, tariff-wise.

If the fan really loads up badly, worldwide, from this Trump idiocy, there's already a Congressional process started, in the Senate, and in the House if it looks like the tariff stuff is a load of garbage, a failure, the Republicans can abandon the sinking ship, in hope of survival.

If they are smart enough. That's one hell of a big IF. Don't bet on it.

Tariffs are upon us and we will find out how bad the outcome. Saturday protests were a start, but voting against Republicans in 2026 is the remedy. Absent that, same old .

 The headline is the story. The HAND'S OFF protest effort will be tested via an ongoing turnout.

A growing turnout is best. A vote is the only thing that will quell the billionaires, and then, getting votes >> politicians with guts to fight is not assured in the two party universe.

Anoka County, MN, where I live had its Hands Off turnout, and the strongest thing was drivers passing and honking their solidarity.

But if you don't get out the vote you don't get reform. Simple, but people stowing thier MAGA caps do vote, so people otherwise inclined need to counter them each and every time, each and every chance, fair weather or foul, by mail or in person.

Vote the raacals out, or live under their meanness. Simple. Do it. Again and again.

And force your party to reform its ties to the same people who run the Republicans, or wish you had. It's not easy. It's not always effective. But it is all you have.

 

The case against New York Mayor Adams is dismissed - with prejudice.

 Opinion. EmptyWheel analysis and commentary.

Rather than trying to explain what the case is about Crabgrass refers readers to the first few pages of the opinion.

In effect, Pam Bondi's DOJ wanted to tie a string to the Mayor, to keep him in a place where, to do well and not be bomed he'd have to embrace and follow administration immigration policy, in his city. 

Consider the classic image of the organ grinder having a string tied to the dancing monkey, to assure it keeps dancing to the tune, rather than going away on its own path. There is that feeling of impropriety to how the Bondi DOJ does things.

 

Two old guys, and current events.

 https://www.youtube.com/embed/633Y9mcxN-s

In order to galvanize together his Billionaire base and his Christian Nationalist base, Trump signs executive order to compel a camel to fit through the eye of a needle.

 

image source

 While admitting its much like getting to Mars, Elon says, "We need it. We really, really, really need it. Trump listened. We got the order signed, so it's all over but the shouting."

 Hegseth to make it a DOD priority. Not just a priority actually, but a crusade.

"If I can get the ocean to tilt, I can do this too."

With his getting Palintir into the project, and his main man in Idaho, the best hearts and minds are on it, Hegseth says. Have faith. "We're aiming to be engineering a camel downward; from the size of a Tesla to the size of a dust spec, and going to the finish line from there. Of late, we're down to mouse size, but our most recent lab instantiation met with a house cat and we're starting over from there."

So, if you miss or pass over the video, you may be more confused by this post than otherwise.  Not saying you should watch it, just that you might.

Alternatively, try this.  It's sounder than crypto. Buy in. Enjoy mixing with best/brightest. Ask: Where would DOGE be without Palintir as a trailblazer? Guess.

 

  

Elon bought a lemon with million dollar checks.

 https://www.fox9.com/news/democratic-backed-susan-crawford-wins-wisconsin-supreme-court-seat-cementing-liberal-majority

 

The Brief

• • Susan Crawford, a Democratic-backed candidate, won the Wisconsin Supreme Court race against Republican-backed Brad Schimel, ensuring a liberal majority for at least three more years.
  • The election was marked by record-breaking spending and high turnout, with Crawford supported by figures like Barack Obama and George Soros, while Schimel was endorsed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
  • Elon Musk played a significant role by funding Schimel's campaign and personally distributing $1 million checks to voters, highlighting the national political stakes of the race.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court defeated a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, cementing a liberal majority for at least three more years.

Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect union power and abortion rights and to oppose voter ID, defeated Republican-backed Brad Schimel in a race that broke records for spending, was on pace to be the highest-turnout Wisconsin Supreme Court election ever and became a proxy fight for the nation’s political battles.

Trump, Musk and other Republicans lined up behind Schimel, a former state attorney general. Democrats including former President Barack Obama and billionaire megadonor George Soros backed Crawford.

The first major election in the country since November was seen as a litmus test of how voters feel about Trump’s first months back in office and the role played by Musk, [...who] traveled to Wisconsin on Sunday to make a pitch for Schimel and personally hand out to [sic] $1 million checks to voters.

Crawford embraced the backing of Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights advocates, running ads that highlighted Schimel’s opposition to the procedure. She also attacked Schimel for his ties to Musk and Republicans, referring to Musk as "Elon Schimel" during a debate.

Young and right minded. Yes!

California Dreaming - I trust Katie Porter to bring it on, Harris to be vapid and empty of policy ideas and ideals, and Republicans to run Steve Garvery. The run to replace Governor Gavin.

NBC has a report with a Porter campaign ad saying she's not an empty vessel.

Here,  with this video URL if you, like Chauncey Gardner, prefer to watch. 

Porter is well known nationally, and in California as a former U.S. House member who rolled the dice for the Feinstein Senate seat but ending up as third in the primary behind Schiff and Garvey. With top to going to the general election.

Garvey, for Christsakes, good baseball player, short on cause to be taken seriously as a politician, but there to squeeze out Porter.

 Schiff not unhappy about it turning out that way.

So Guv race. Expect Harris - Hollywood Harris, to expect it as hers, because.

Crabgrass is 100% behind the Porter candidacy at this point.

Show me something better. You don't have it, so Porter's the one.

Wikipedia page. 

From that NBC page:

“If Vice President Harris were to choose to run, I am certain that that would have a near field-clearing effect on the Democratic side,” Porter told The Orange County Register late last year. 

Harris, also a former California senator and state attorney general, will decide whether to run for governor by the end of the summer, according to a source familiar with her planning. Harris is also weighing a possible presidential run in 2028, and the source said she is “keeping all options open.”

The people of California need a Governor, not a dilettante who took a loss head on, and down ticket, to Dondald J. Trump and the red cappers. 

So -- Please Kamala, give it up. You blew it big time and there are reasons. 

For Governor Kamala -- You're the second best candidate, between you and Porter. 

Plain, simple, and true. Clyburn has no real say, in California.

_______________UPDATE_______________

https://katieporter.com/

https://katieporter.com/2025/03/consumer-protection-attorney-and-former-congresswoman-katie-porter-launches-campaign-for-california-governor/

 

 

"Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage"

 Guardian -

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’

 

Beneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation in immigration enforcement lies something of a conundrum: how to fill the essential jobs of the scores of immigrant workers targeted for deportation.

The answer, according to Florida lawmakers, is the state’s schoolchildren, who as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts without a break – even on school nights.

A bill that progressed this week through the Republican-dominated state senate seeks to remove numerous existing protections for teenage workers, and allow them, in the Florida governor’s words, to step into the shoes of immigrants who supply Florida’s tourism and agriculture industries with “dirt cheap labor”.

“What’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? That’s how it used to be when I was growing up,” DeSantis said at an immigration forum with Donald Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, in Sarasota last week.

“Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be [doing] all this stuff.”

Unsurprisingly, the proposal has alarmed immigration advocates and watchdog groups concerned about child labor abuses and exploitation.

They point out that there is nothing “part-time” in the language of the companion senate and house bills currently before lawmakers, which instead will permit unlimited working hours without breaks for 14- and 15-year-olds who are schooled at home or online, and allow employers to require 16- and 17-year-olds to work for more than six days in a row.

Florida. Alternatively, they could use convict labor. If too few convicts, that can be fixed, Florida style.

What's a politician's Town Hall event, without a town, or a hall? One answer, Planned Bullshit. Or Fear of facing the people.

 

scardey cat

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/house-republicans-doge-town-halls/81417000007/

title:

House Republicans advised to stop holding in-person town halls after DOGE complaints

https://apnews.com/article/town-halls-musk-doge-trump-gop-749d91ea516284057e4c7bcb1615527e

title: 

Speaker Johnson tells GOP lawmakers to skip town halls after an onslaught of protests

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5175061-house-republicans-town-halls-protests/

title: 

House Republicans advised to avoid in-person town halls amid protests

*****

As in be gutless, don't face the people in a real town, at a real hall.

Why this focus? My district's Rep. Tom Emmer says he'll do a town hall - But ---

His latest email, hitting the inbox three hours ago, one day's notice. This [images omitted] -

Dear Friend, 

As we’ve said for years, Congress is a customer service business. As we continue our work in Washington, D.C., we have announced a telephone town hall to give you an update on our work, hear your input and answer your questions.

The telephone town hall is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 2nd at 5:30 pm. Many of you will receive a call inviting you to participate, but in case you don’t, to join the event call 833-425-1492. Being transparent and accessible to our constituents is always a top priority and we hope you are able join us for this event.

Sincerely, 

 

 

Sincerely, but what's sincere about it? It's phony to the core. It's an insult.

No town. No hall. Why bother?

To stage a controlled phone-based propaganda fling?

For gulls, to gull them further?  BFD

Sorry Tom. NO GUTS. NO GLORY. 

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