Elie Mystal
Justice Correspondent at The Nation
Editor at Above the Law
Justice Correspondent: @thenation. Alfred Knobler Fellow: @typemediacenter Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort and Bad Law.
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5 days ago |
thenation.com | Elie Mystal |John Nichols
Obituary / May 9, 2025 David Souter Made the Supreme Court More Ideological by Refusing to Be an IdeologueDavid Souter (1939–2025) liked facts, and facts are anathema to movement conservatives. Ad Policy Supreme Court Justice David Souter. (Diana Walker / Getty Images) Former Supreme Court justice David Souter died on Friday morning at the age of 85. The Supreme Court did not issue a cause of death, reporting only that he died “peacefully” at his home in Concord, New Hampshire.
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1 week ago |
portside.org | Brad S. Karp |Elie Mystal
Trump’s Newest Executive Order “Unleashes” the Cops—and Flirts With Martial Law Published May 4, 2025 Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate the constitutional rights of those they’re allegedly here to “serve and protect” is one of the most difficult things to do in law. The police are protected by powerful, well-funded, and well-lawyered unions.
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2 weeks ago |
contrabandcamp.com | Michael Harriot |Wesley Lowery |Elie Mystal
Unleash (verb)1 To free from, as if from a leash. 2. To throw, shoot or set in motion forcefully. “Unleash.”When President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week called “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens,” the presidential proclamation did not make policing stronger in any measurable way. Instead, Trump’s directive essentially freed law enforcement from accountability, responsibility and even the law.
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2 weeks ago |
znetwork.org | Elie Mystal
Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate the constitutional rights of those they’re allegedly here to “serve and protect” is one of the most difficult things to do in law. The police are protected by powerful, well-funded, and well-lawyered unions. They are protected by the judicial doctrine of qualified immunity, which prevents them from being personally sued for monetary damages when they damage or destroy property or lives.
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2 weeks ago |
thenation.com | Brad S. Karp |Elie Mystal
Politics / April 30, 2025 Trump’s Newest Executive Order “Unleashes” the Cops—and Flirts With Martial LawThe new order effectively allows police to get away with murder. And that’s just the beginning. Ad Policy Donald Trump displays a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.
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Happy Mother's Day everybody
Here are my reflections on the career of Justice David Souter, who passed away this morning. He made the Republicans completely rethink their judicial nominations process, but Democrats never got the memo. :( My latest in @thenation https://t.co/Jb1UzjN7Ul
By the Europeans’ own “1/8th” rules, we have a Black Pope. :)