In its second and final season, Netflix’s Mo continues to ease heartbreak with humor as Mo Najjar (Mohammed Amer, the show’s co-creator) grapples with the ramifications of inadvertently entering Mexico while seeking asylum in the United States. Loosely based on Amer’s life—his Palestinian family fled Israeli occupation for Kuwait, then had to leave Kuwait dur Read More […]
New York state Sen. Patricia Fahy (D–Albany) has introduced a bill to strip Tesla Motors of its permits for in-person sales in the state over CEO Elon Musk’s actions in the Trump administration. “The bottom line is, Tesla has lost their right to promote these when they’re part of an administration that wa Read More […]
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, led by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (NA)  Tonight, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump Administration must “facilitate” the return of Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom it had illegally deported to brutal imprisonment in El Salvador’s awful CECOT prison (despite his never having been convicted […]
Another day, another shadow docket compromise. This evening, the Court issued a short three paragraph per curiam opinion in Noem v. Garcia. In short, the Court found that that the District Court could not order the Executive Branch to negotiate the return of Garcia, but instead could only require the government “facilitate” Garcia’s return. This outcome […]
(NA) When Donald Trump paused many of his awful “Liberation Day” tariffs yesterday, there was some understandable relief. Some even seem to assume the tariff crisis is over. For example, Democratic Senate Leader Charles Schumer, posted on Bluesky that “History will remember April 9, 2025 as America’s actual liberation day—the day that President Trump backed […]
This evening the Supreme Court effectively denied the Trump Administration’s request that it vacate a district court order demanding that the federal government effectuate the return of Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador. This is consistent with last week’s opinions in Trump v. J.G.G. in which all nine justices indicated that the […]
Today the Utah Supreme Court agreed with my argument that a defendant cannot compel a rape victim to testify at a “rape shield” hearing. Instead, the defendant must establish (if he can) the admissibility of prior sexual history evidence in other ways, such as a proffer of anticipated testimony and legal argument. The Court’s ruling […]
A transgender woman was arrested last month for refusing to leave the women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol. Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old college student, said she acted intentionally to challenge Florida’s antitrans bathroom law.  Passed in 2023, the Safety in Private Spaces Act criminalizes an individual for refusing to leave a restroom or changing […]
When economic anxiety strikes, protectionist politicians reach for the same dusty playbook: Slap tariffs on imports, invoke the national interest, and promise that “local industries” will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the markets the government just torched. The approach sounds pragmatic—even patriotic—but in practice, especially in the Middle East, it has been […]