Week 22
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I was thinking about changing the format of my weekly summaries before yesterday afternoon. It seemed to me that we have more continuing stories, rather than the three categories I’ve been using.
But.
My real life has been becoming more demanding, and I have computer outages ahead, one of them next week.
The big story this week, up until yesterday, was ICE’s raids on farm workers, nannies, and construction workers. A masked force that kidnaps people with no legal basis they are willing to share is a danger to all of us. There was some pushback – the Dodgers refused to let the masked goons operate in their parking lot, and numerous individuals have posted video and otherwise resisted the attacks. Brad Lander, a candidate for Mayor of New York, accompanied people to court and was roughed up by the goons. The new Bishop of San Diego also made an appearance in court and scared off the goons as long as he was there. Heather Cox Richardson has a good summary.
Also, Mahmoud Khalil was released on bail.
A Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be placed in classrooms was struck down.
And then, of course, the American attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. I’ll try to do a separate post on this, and Farley has a couple up. Started with the dumbest foreign policy mistake of Trump’s first term – taking the US out of the JCPOA – and followed up by something even dumber. After Trump’s claim of total obliteration of the sites, his “Mission Accomplished” moment, we are now hearing that, um no, less than that. It’s going to take some time to evaluate the overhead photos and other intelligence, but it looks like this is playing out the way some of us have worried about for a long time. Israel strikes some of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, then begs the US to finish the job that it can’t. Infrastructure persists, Iran decides that yes, now it will build a nuclear weapon. And we have the more immediate retaliation to come.
Follow the court-watchers for the details of the lawsuits, now up to 285, including 12 closed. Chris Geidner (LawDork, Bluesky), Roger Parloff (Lawfare, Bluesky), and the Just Security tracker.
As usual, keep it to things that have actually happened, not hypotheticals. What is actually happening is bad enough.
Caring for yourself and loved ones is resistance too. Post your pets.
186 more weeks to go. What are you doing?
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