In case you missed it yesterday, the US Justice Department and Transportation Department are now Donald Trump's.

A sharp warning in an ordinary news release: "President Trump’s Justice Department"

https://www.lawdork.com/p/news-release-trump-justice-department

Attorney General Pam Bondi has made clear since day one her view that DOJ's lawyers are "his lawyers." On Thursday, DOJ went further, claiming it's "Trump's Justice Department."

#Trump #USA #DOJ #DOT #Bondi #law #LawDork #news #PR #Republicans

Yesterday, I posted a description of (and link to, to prevent @kenwhite.bsky.social from getting stabby) Justice William G. Young's remarkable ruling in the case regarding the US maladministration's efforts to curb-stomp the first amendment, at least as it applies to non-citizens.

If you didn't want to read it, or even the final dozen pages that are so worthwhile, Chris Geidner ("Law Dork") has a post about it today which I couldn't improve upon if I tried. Do read that.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-william-youngs-ruling-against

In any case, Judge Young, a spry 85 years young, is hitting three times as hard as the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post combined - with one hand tied behind his back, because he has to observe the necessities of writing while in his post within the judicial branch. He has earned a place in the honour rolls with this ruling, if he hadn't already done so before.

#USPol #WilliamYoung #WilliamGYoung #BillYoung #judge #justice #LawDork #ChrisGeidner #duty #honor #honour #stabby #CurbStomp #FirstAmendment #USA

Via #Lawdork Aug 30, 2025

A fed judge on Fri allowed Trump admin & aligned #Oklahoma official 2 use his court 2 subvert #democracy through sham lawsuit manufactured 2 get rid of state law they don’t like w/o needing 2 go through trouble of actually repealing the law

Heading in2 holiday wknd, US District Judge #RonaldWhite approved a “consent judgment” 2 strike down 2-decade old Oklahoma law that allowed certain undocumented individuals 2 get in-state #tuition 4 college

https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-ronald-white-oks-doj-oklahoma-sham-lawsuit

#SCOTUS majority supports #DJT admin efforts for Kristi Noem and friends to deport people they don't like from US soil to random countries with no notice.

Damning dissent issued by some robed gals in DC that no one will read...

https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-scotus-allows-trump-admin (via Chris Geidner / #LawDork)

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgeidner/p/fifth-circuit-election-eve-warning?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=mwg1j

#LawDork
#ChrisGeidner
#umanRightsForALL

The emptiness of #JDVance

“The New York Times’s reporting on Vance’s long friendship with and conversations with a #Transgender law school classmate — and now-former friend — is a reminder of how #Trump poisons all who come within his orbit but also a stark sign of just how eager #Vance was to drink Trump’s hemlock.

Because it is the path, Vance has become an extremely anti-#LGBTQ politician.

In his first year in the United States #Senate, Vance introduced a bill to ban #GenderAffirming medical care…” and passports

#lawdork #ChristianNationalism #fascism
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-emptiness-of-jd-vance

A treat of a read from @chrisgeidner #LawDork #Alito #Recuse #Resign #MarthAnnAlito #SCOTUS

"Here’s a list of demeaning quotes from Alito’s letter responding to Sens. Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse’s letter from last week calling on his recusal:

“As I have stated publicly, I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention.” Alito, who served in the military, wants you to believe that he did not notice an upside-down flag flying in front of his home.

“As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.” Come off it.

“My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.” Is he describing a landlord-tenant relationship, or his family? Beyond that, this was a Supreme Court justice in January 2021, as the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was being discussed, impeachment was being pursued, and fences were being erected, but this man decided not to push whether there was an upside-down flag flying in front of his home? This honestly is as distressing an admission to me as anything Alito has said throughout this scandal. (Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern dig down on an aspect of this, Alito’s one-woman feminism.)"

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgeidner/p/sam-alito-believes-you-and-perhaps?selection=ecb85548-b56c-46ae-9d25-b3d4c73f5d34&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web

Sam Alito believes you — and, perhaps, his colleagues — are stupid

“This moment needs to be:

a) seared into the minds of voters, as it is indicative of how unbound and reckless the Republican/conservative majority is, and

b) thrown right back in the faces of Supreme Court justices whenever they speak admonishingly about how bad it is that the public disdains and mistrusts them.

#SamAlito #supremecourt #lawdork
https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-believes-you-and-perhaps

OMG Have you read this whole scene?!?!?

“On Jan. 20, 2021 — the day of Biden's inauguration, which the Alitos did not attend - Barnes went to their home to follow up on the tip about the flag. He encountered the couple coming out of the house. Martha-Ann Alito was visibly upset by his presence, demanding that he "get off my
property." As he described the information he was seeking, she yelled, "It's an
international signal of distress!" Alito intervened and directed his wife into a car parked in their driveway, where they had been headed on their way out of the neighborhood. The justice denied the flag was hung upside down as a political protest, saying it stemmed from a neighborhood dispute and
indicating that his wife had raised it. Martha-Ann Alito then got out of the car and shouted in apparent reference to the neighbors: "Ask them what they did!" She said yard signs about the couple had been placed in the neighborhood. After getting back in the car, she exited again and then brought out from their
residence a novelty flag, the type that would typically decorate a garden.
She hoisted it up the flagpole. "There! Is that better?" she yelled.”

#RecuseAlito #Alito #MarthaAnnAlito #LawDork

https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web