RFK Jr. is a dangerous and completely unqualified choice to be our nation’s highest health official. That’s why I voted against his nomination today – I urge all of my Senate colleagues to do the same.

I wouldn’t let RFK Jr. give me a band aid, let alone run American health care.⁣ ⁣ I’m a no.⁣

JUST IN: All National Archives employees get email informing them that their ultimate boss, Archivist Colleen Shogan, has been fired by President Donald Trump politico.com/news/2025/02/0…

Today I will be holding a citizen meeting in West Hartford to talk about what I'm doing and what people can do to fight back against Trump's seizure of government for the billionaire class. 1/ Unfortunately, we've maxed out the space, so here's a 🧵 on what you can do.

Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk’s Team nytimes.com/2025/02/07/nyr…

UPDATE:

Who would have thought Trump's shock-and-awe campaign would be laid low by the Paperwork Reduction Act, but there you have it. Judge John Bates, a GWBush appointee, blocks takedown of disease info from CDC website. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

I’m deeply alarmed by the risks posed by Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be Director of National Intelligence.⁣ ⁣ I’ll be speaking on the Senate floor soon to explain more. Tune in.

$300 million worth of medications are sitting on pallets about to expire thanks to Trump's effort to gut foreign aid. These drugs would've prevented people from going blind from a preventable tropical disease—Donald Trump would rather waste them in an East African warehouse.

For the sake of our children, doctors, researchers, and the health of every American, I voted no today on the confirmation of RFK Jr. to HHS Secretary.

America’s secretary of state has issued an “emergency humanitarian waiver” to exempt life-saving aid from Donald Trump’s freeze on all foreign assistance. But that has so far proved meaningless, say aid workers in multiple countries econ.st/42XQ1CC

The president is testing the limits of executive power in countless ways. But the best example of this fight over state sovereignty and the particulars of American federalism comes from local sanctuary policies and the backlash against them econ.st/3X3eoL8

"Supreme Court’s 1-17 decision upholding the [TikTok ban] initially appeared to signal the end of TikTok's presence in America. Yet what followed was a remarkable sequence of events that has effectively nullified the law." Alan Rozenshtein lawfaremedia.org/article/the-ti…

Fact Checker on Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine: In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points, by Glenn Kessler washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Grateful for this review of #DemandTheImpossible by Rodger Citron for Los Angeles Review of Books: “As Robert L. Tsai argues persuasively…capital punishment is an affront to equality in every way.” bit.ly/434MRgl

From the review:

Citron astutely observes that I tell three interlocking stories. The first is that of the career of Stephen Bright, advocate for the poor and condemned. Southern Center for Human Rights W. W. Norton & Company WME Books

Southern Center for Human Rights W. W. Norton & Company WME Books The second story is that of the rise of war on crime politics and the eventual reckoning over the effects of mass incarceration

Southern Center for Human Rights W. W. Norton & Company WME Books The third story is about the effects of such constitutional politics on the rule of law. These procedural obstacles, expanded prosecutorial discretion, and parsimonious notions of equality and fairness continue to trip up the poor, racial minorities, and intellectually disabled.

"As Robert L. Tsai argues persuasively in 'Demand the Impossible,' capital punishment is an affront to equality in every way." Rodger Citron reviews Robert L. Tsai's "Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All." lareviewofbooks.org/article/legal-…