Anthony Sanders
Center for Judicial Engagement @IJ. Host of the Short Circuit podcast. Read my book "Baby Ninth Amendments"! press.umich.edu//12676756 Opinions = mine.
- Holy founding era constitutionalism, this looks AMAZING. Anyone into originalism, state constitutions, or just the early Republic generally should check it out!
- Reposted by Anthony Sanders‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- Reposted by Anthony Sanders#WITAOD IS SO BACK, BABY!!!
- NEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
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- Reposted by Anthony SandersMy New One at Slate: “I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.” electionlawblog.org?p=154119
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- Reposted by Anthony SandersThe number of detainees getting put on ICE flights at MSP has been relatively low the last few days. I believe this is not on account of ICE pulling back - they still outnumber local police in many towns - but on account of vulnerable people staying home, observer pressure, and lawyer organization.
- Converse 1983s FTW!
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- Reposted by Anthony SandersJudge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
- There's so much about so many states in here. Check it out!
- I am pleased to share my latest draft, "State Constitutions as Engines of Criminal Procedure Innovation." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Yeah, all those Somalis who work at my local Walmart. Totally, the staff parking lot is full of Mercedes.
- Trump: "Minnesota is a mess. There's something in the water up there. I won the 3 three times but I got no credit for it. It's a rigged state. Really rigged badly w/ the Somalians, and the Somalians & the theft. We gotta get 'em out, most of them. 92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."
- Reposted by Anthony Sanders3d Cir. holds that habeas corpus petitions challenging immigration detention are "civil actions," so prevailing noncitizens may be entitled to attorneys' fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act. Gonna be a loooooooooot of these. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...
- This phraseology reminds me of history writing in the manner of "it is said by some that, as a baby, Oliver Cromwell was kidnapped by a monkey."
- If you're a lawyer currently thinking of applying for a DOJ job you need to: 1: Write down your "red lines." Such as, assist with cases to seize ballot boxes or mail-in ballots, incarcerate peaceful protestors, etc. 2: Don't apply. A job where you need to do Step 1 is a bad job.
- Reposted by Anthony SandersImportant new piece in @theunpopulist.net "Congress and our courts have made it virtually impossible for Americans to hold federal officials and agencies legally responsible for harms they cause through negligence or abuse of power."
- Reposted by Anthony Sanderssome Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
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- I laughed. I was about to say that if it went the other way the middle box would say "the state must seize the means of production" but that's pretty much what the Administration's policy is anyway.
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- In the run up to our conference on April 10, I'll be blogging about some of the declarations of rights that the new states adopted in 1776. First, an overall backgrounder on what these declarations were and where they came from. #1776AndAllThat. ij.org/cje-post/the...
- The full schedule for “The Other Declarations of 1776” is up! Sponsored by @ij.org & @georgemasonu.bsky.social 's Liberty & Law Center it explores the Declarations of Rights new states proclaimed in that fateful year. It’s on April 10, 2026 in Arlington, VA. Register today! #1776AndAllThat 1/
- Reposted by Anthony Sanders"in theater". "Draw down". Hard to blame people for calling it a military occupation when leaders describe it that way. It's your own damn country, act like it.
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- Vibe on Scholastica tonight be a bit like
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- This looks like a great internship for college students into both classical liberalism and classics of literature. (Especially if you want to read J.S. Mill, it appears.) substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Reposted by Anthony SandersJust a quick note about Bovino being moved and the other aesthetic politicoplasty the Trump administration is undertaking: Don't be fooled. Don't get all Susan Collins-y about it. Trump hasn't learned his lesson. He never will.
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- I can't tell if this is for her uneducated audience or if that describes her.
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- Reposted by Anthony SandersStanding with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- This is excellent and hugely helpful in understanding what's up with ICE. I learned a lot.
- Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
- "Despite some online speculation, there is as yet no evidence that Pretti’s gun was fired."
- Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence. He never reached for his gun. Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up. He was disarmed before he was shot. The first shot came from an agent firing at him. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by Anthony SandersICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
- "Don't worry, the second term can't be much worse than the first."
- Going on in 10 minutes.
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. After Trump is gone, one of things I’m going to remember is the cowardice of the people who knew better but went along. - Reposted by Anthony SandersPretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
- Including all Republic officials in MN. I haven't seen a single one publicly ask for ICE to leave. Privately they all hate this. It's total dereliction of duty.
- Reposted by Anthony SandersWe advocates of a robust individual right to bear arms worked for decades to get the law to recognize carry rights. There was never any intended asterisk about how the feds could gun you down on the street for carrying.
- Reposted by Anthony SandersALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
- Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never: Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
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- This decision needs to reignite a conversation about how many puns an opinion can take. Examples include: the plaintiffs below “struck out on all claims:” on appeal they wish to “overturn several calls:” labeling the facts section “The Pre-Game Report:” and the conclusion “Checking the Final Score.”
- Can't wait to read this!
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- High school students are making these & handing them out at my kid's school, which is right by St. Paul.
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- This, by @yeargain.bsky.social, looks super interesting and, better yet, incredibly useful. It's the kind of 50-state-constitutions survey that we at IJ often say "you know, that would be a really helpful article if only someone would write it."
- Very interesting forthcoming article on state constitutional equivalents to the 4th Amendment, and how state courts do and don't interpret them, from Quinn Yeargain. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #N
- Reposted by Anthony SandersI’ve criticized Ilan for not doing source criticism. Now, he’s endorsing the Trump Administration’s bad historical methods. Not only are they just throwing random people’s opinions at the wall— long after the ratification of the 14th Amendment— but they’re citing white supremicist segregationists!
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