Jason P. Steed
was @5thCircAppeals at The Bad Place • former English prof & practicing appellate lawyer, now Assist Prof @ UToledo Law • he/him • all the disclaimers
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedWyden was doing the same “hey, over here!” routine about the §215 bulk phone program long before anyone heard the name Edward Snowden.
- This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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- In October, @dgraham.bsky.social explored how the president could interfere—and already was interfering—with the midterm elections. Since then, the reasons for worry have become more urgent, he writes in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/LxUqVgcw
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedI'm keynoting the Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review symposium Friday. Apparently there's a livestream, so FYI, I will be pulling no punches about the nature of the Trump regime or the abuse of history by certain law professors. ("Be there, will be wild") law.ua.edu/programs/sym...
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedIn less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedStriking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)
- Vast camps are central to Trumpism. Stephen Miller has long been very excited about them. Backlash is another sign that opposition to Trump/Miller runs deeper than revulsion at ICE. There's real resistance to the whole ideological project of mass deportations. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedThe U.S. Justice Department has removed a government lawyer from an assignment in Minnesota after she told a federal judge "this job sucks" and immigration authorities had failed to comply with court orders, according to a source familiar with the move.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedMy article "Immigration is Not Invasion" now under submission to law reviews. Everything you ever wanted to know about invasion, but were afraid to ask! Also, it got coveted "highly recommended" rating from @lsolum.bsky.social at his Legal Theory blog: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- 👀 "Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics" techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedNobody should be helping this government do things, is the thing.
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
- When you believe in constitutional originalism so hard that you mean the constitution BEFORE the Fourth Amendment was added.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedThis is just a guess, but maybe the rise in dramatic prose from district court judges is partly due to a growing belief among those judges that it's pointless to try to persuade SCOTUS and they must therefore focus on other potential audiences.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedDHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedRadley Balko: The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the US for 20 yrs. He had one misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedI was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedICE has been bad since it was created, but it's clearly worse than it's ever been. I talked to @radleybalko.bsky.social about how we got here for my newsletter
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedImportant @washingtonpost.com story by F Siddiqui, N Tiku, E Dwoskin: How Musk *intentionally* made Xitter into porn-generating machine. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... When I make my weekly check there, stunned that legit orgs still use site dominated by porn, Nazis, bots, MAGA, lies.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedYes. Poll after poll says Independents, who now make up 1/3 of the electorate, can recognize fascism. And they really hate it.
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedFor all 2 of you who cannot wait for my book to be out, the online version was published last Tuesday. But you need an institutional subscription to Oxford Academic to access it. For everyone else, paperback/hardback/ebook are available either March 10 or 24 (websites showing multiple pub dates).
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- Reposted by Jason P. Steedvery fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedRepublicans are fond of invoking the US's founding and the framers of the Constitution. But their veneration is particularly rich right now: Of all the abuses England heaped on the colonies, nothing angered them more than the Crown’s deployment of soldiers on city streets, especially in Boston.
- Need some marchers in Springfield stat.
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedSince I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding: www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...
- These are concentration camps. #fascism
- NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... W/ @sooophie.bsky.social
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- We shouldn’t lose sight of how surreal it is to live in a world where this sentence not only exists but actually might be read by many as a show of fortitude.
- We are the generation that grew up on the nation’s rising right-wing movement — Religious Red Dawn Reaganism — it’s disappointing but not surprising that we’re the idiots still following that trajectory to its fascist finale.
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedMore impact from my investigation with @shaw.al: Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing our reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in investments when he shut down crypto investigations. www.propublica.org/article/todd...
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedOssoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedIn Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedIf only there were a constitutional amendment designed for the situation where your president has gone completely bat shit insane 😡 abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedSo what can be done about Trump's potential interference with the 2026 midterms? As I write @slate.com:
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedHard to pick just one devastating stat from this survey but holy shit
- Pew has Trump's approval at 37%. And: "Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans." www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedFederal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedREAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Jason P. SteedThere is something very, very odd about a society that is simultaneously more thoroughly and constantly saturated in media than any human group has been during the entire history of our species... but also finds it puzzling why studying art & literature might be worthwhile.
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Jason P. SteedToday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.
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- Reposted by Jason P. SteedLast week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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