Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Constitution of the United States of America, Amendment I
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Justice Jackson’s dissent in Trump v. CASA, Inc.
In June 2025, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a scathing dissent in Trump v. CASA, Inc., a ruling that limited lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions against the executive branch. She warned that the majority’s decision would enable the President to disregard the law and erode constitutional safeguards against arbitrary power.
- The footnote: In a particularly forceful footnote, Jackson cited the work of Ernst Fraenkel, a German Jewish legal scholar who fled the Nazis in 1938. Fraenkel’s book, The Dual State, analyzed how the Nazi regime created two parallel legal systems—a “normative state” of constitutional rules and a “prerogative state” of unchecked executive power. By invoking this historical example, Jackson suggested that the Supreme Court was paving the way for a dangerous centralization of power that threatens the rule of law.
Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in Trump v. J.G.G.
Following Jackson’s example, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a fiery dissent in Trump v. J.G.G., a “shadow docket” case from September 2025 concerning immigration. The majority’s unsigned order allowed federal immigration agents to expand their stops and questioning of people who look Latino, speak Spanish, or appear to work low-wage jobs.
- The warning: Sotomayor, joined by Jackson and Justice Elena Kagan, fiercely criticized the ruling, describing it as “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket”. She warned that the decision gave federal agents a “green light” for racial profiling and that Americans should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who fits a certain profile.
See E Fraenkel, The Dual State, pp xiii, 3, 71 (1941) (describing the way in which the creation of a ‘Prerogative State’ where the Executive ‘exercises unlimited arbitrariness … unchecked by any legal guarantees’ is incompatible with the rule of law)
A philanthropist is a person or organization that promotes human welfare by donating time, money, experience, or other resources to charitable causes, often with the goal of improving society and alleviating social problems. The term, which comes from the Greek for “love of humanity“.
A philanthropist is a person or organization that promotes human welfare by donating time, money, experience, or other resources to charitable causes, often with the goal of improving society and alleviating social problems. The term, which comes from the Greek for “love of humanity”.
Here’s the natural history of enshittification:
1 First, platforms are good to their users.
2 Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
3 Next, they abuse those customers to claw back all the value for themselves – and become a giant pile of shit.
Kongjian Yu
‘Sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu among 4 killed in Brazil plane crash/
Trouble brewing: Maya people in Yucatán fear new Heineken plant’s thirst for water
Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines move towards full Free Movement.
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