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The Arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka: A Dangerous Precedent
On May 9, 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, a private prison operated by GEO Group. Baraka attempted to join a congressional delegation’s tour to inspect conditions at the facility, which reopened under a controversial $1 billion, 15-year contract with ICE. Federal authorities claimed Baraka ignored warnings to leave, charging him with misdemeanor trespassing. Baraka, however, maintains he …
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Networks must be more cautious when reporting Trump’s so-called “deals.” His announcements often follow a familiar, deceptive pattern: declare a major breakthrough, only for the details to later reveal that nothing has actually changed. In the meantime, he gets the headlines he wants, the press amplifies the illusion, and the markets react based on fiction—not fact.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
"An incest exception requires a similar report within 140 days." WTF??? A kid who has been routinely abused by a relative is supposed to report it to the cops or a doctor? Even if they are brave enough to tell their parents (or parent if the other is doing the abusing) and even if the parent(s) then deny it could be happening? Uncle Harvey has been abusing a kid every single week for umpty years and the kid is supposed to report it EVERY SINGLE TIME on the off chance that THIS time a pregnancy …
It's interesting to me that if progressive judges vote to expand or maintain people's rights, they're activists. If they're reactionaries and vote to restrict or remove people's already protected rights, they're just interpreting the Constitution.
There is way more judicial activism on the part of these reactionaries than there is by progressives. This especially true when progressive judges are interpreting the language of the Constitution to expand rights to more classes who were barred, not shrink them.
Check out the following substack--it gives interesting figures about public opinion and Brown v the Board
Susan, thanks for sharing this. Thorough and thought provoking for sure. I still have to chew over that proposal some more but there is a lot to like in it, and if nothing else, it's a sound springboard to an eventual solution.
The problem I find for our case is not so much the politically ideological differences in legal interpretation. It's the introduction of an individual's personal religious interpretation or indoctrination to our bench. In many of the examples cited, whether the island nat…
It's that influence on the Court that worries me most, even though half my family was Catholic. But one must remember that Dobbs allowed states to pass abortion laws, but not to pass UNCONSTITUTIONAL abortion laws. The "life begins at conception" idea is a particular belief of a particular part of Christianity. Laws that incorporate it into their structure are denying the rights of those who don't share their beliefs. Other interpretations include "first breath" (a lot of Jews) and Viability (a…
Exactly this. I'm not Catholic but even if I was, or if the justices ruled in a restrictive way that happened to align with my own beliefs, someone injecting religion into interpreting secular laws isn't right. If I choose to live a certain way or follow a particular doctrine, I should be free to follow that, so long as I don't restrict anyone else or harm anyone else in doing so. If others choose not to live according to those same precepts, that is also their right and they shouldn't be force…
yup. See my comment on your own substack, the recent post about lies.
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Thanks Susan. I did see that and replied. You might see the reply in your activity folder on your own Substack profile. Appreciate your comment and you taking the time to read that piece.
ah. I took a nap and missed it. That's the way the world everywhere, not just Substack, seems to work now--take a day off and it takes two days to catch up on the stuff that hit the fan while you were away from the computer.
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