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Senators have introduced a bill that would expand Title 18 of US Code to specifically include federal immigration officers. It would make doxxing a federal officer with the intent to obstruct criminal or immigration enforcement a felony with fines...

Using the map, Texas could add up to 5 more seats in the House of Representatives. Justice Kagan wrote the dissent. The unsigned order says that Texas is “likely to succeed on the merits of its claim,” and that the lower court “failed to honor the...

The Alabama prison system is so broken and cruel, we have to change it! Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice is doing great work, and they have an excellent series called "Taking A Life." Reporter Beth Shelburne just added a note to her...

On August 1st, Act 399 went into effect in Louisiana and so the ACLU has filed a lawsuit because it violates the 1st and 14th Amendments. The law amended Louisiana’s obstruction of justice statute to threaten imprisonment with hard labor and...

With ICE/CBP's new crackdown on Afghan immigrants in northern California, now is a good time to have a portal to report their misconduct. Please share this link with folks in California!

Phil Wilson has posted a thought-provoking article on The Resistance and where we go next. We have to reach the critical threshold of 11 million people (experts say it takes 3.5% of the population to overthrow an oppressive regime) and I don't...

When Trump issued an Executive Order that banned burning or desecrating the US flag, many people noticed the irony of him pardoning all of the January 6th insurrectionists who soiled the Capitol and assaulted police officers using flags on poles,...

After the No Kings protests, many communities across the country created their own Indivisible groups that organizes events at the local level. I'm a member of our local group in Montgomery, and it has lots of really amazing activists in it. I...

Dave Zirin has written an excellent article challenging the big lies being told by the government. I agree with him, the National Guard is not protecting a damn thing during these deployments. Under the Posse Comitatus Act, they aren't legally...

On Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will consider 19 “kids safety” bills ranging from requiring online IDs to complete censorship for kids under a certain age. Everyone wants to keep kids safe, but these bills always do more harm...

At Friday's private conference, the Supreme Court discussed the case challenging birthright citizenship. All of the lower courts have upheld the 14th Amendment and rejected the Trump administration's re-definition of it. I'm wanting to see SCOTUS...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has published the November intelligence report of far-right activity. Some highlights are Alabama's Tommy Tuberville and how members of the far-right groups are talking about joining ICE. Here's the full report.

There's a new blog by Chris Geidner that everyone should read. I highly recommend subscribing (free or paid) to his LawDork newsletter because he's the absolute best at covering the courts, the death penalty, and other important topics. This latest...

We can still learn lessons from the horrific events of 1938. I like this opinion piece that says: "The Holocaust showed us the devastating consequences when too many remain bystanders in the face of hate. Each of us has the power — and the...

As well as trying to “memory hole” the violent January 6th insurrection, Trump has been “auditing” all of our museums and removing exhibits that document our nation's history of slavery and segregation. At the visitors center at the Netherlands...

Their leader Stewart Rhodes was serving an 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy until Trump pardoned him. Now, Rhodes is reactivating his militia in the hopes that Trump will put them into action to go after immigrants. This group was already...

This comparison of SCOTUS to the Reichsgericht is accurate. Our judicial crisis has led to an autocratic Potemkin Democracy, and I'm not sure how we're going to fix it. If you take a look back at the Supreme Court's actions both in Trump's first...

The New York Times Editorial Board has an Autocracy Tracker article about how there are twelve categories of an autocracy, and Trump has completed all twelve. We're quickly losing our rights and our democracy is at stake. The NYT is behind a...

Our First Amendment is the most sacred to me, because those freedoms are what allow us to keep all of the others from being taken away. Unfortunately, the courts and Trump have been ripping up the First Amendment in too many cases to name. We are in...