You can only stare at the numbers so long before they start to feel fake. One hundred sixty-two federal judges threatened in the first fifteen days of May. Two hundred seventy-seven over six months. One-third of the entire federal bench, marked and stalked and harassed into silence or worse. These…
On May 9th, 2025, federal agents arrested Ras Baraka, the sitting mayor of Newark, New Jersey. They cuffed him outside Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility with a $1 billion contract tied to GEO Group, during what should have been a routine oversight visit. Let that settle in. A mayor.…
I spent most of the day pacing. Sometimes you get hit with a piece of news so wrong it feels like it lands in your chest instead of your head. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested this week. Two felony charges: obstruction of a U.S. agency and harboring an undocumented…