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lawdork.com is a personal blog at lawdork.com about politics. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and ignominy of Todd Blanche”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link lawdork.com for legal news and analysis on Supreme Court rulings, immigration detention and press stories. Most links are bare or cited as sources, with one comment telling readers to read the SPLC indictment post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and ignominy of Todd Blanche3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-22
What Hacker News says?
This is completely unconstitutional. The journalist author fails the reader not explaining how the First Amendment works, or quoting a law expert who does. > "The guidance is likely to raise due process and privacy concerns in light of the Trump administration's recent attempts to deport pro-Palestinian students. The attempts have faced legal challenges." By "faced legal challenges" they should write they were ruled…
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on “US memo to colleges proposes terms on ideology, foreign enrollment for fed funds”Submitted State agrees the only witness cannot be believed, court to force execution as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI'm just going to leave this here: https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washingt...
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on “Washington Post CEO tried to kill story about himself. It wasn't the first time”Submitted DOGE sought access to Congress's watchdog as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYou mean these journalists? https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washingt... Here is the thing, if you're going to break news, break all of it. The WAPO fucks up on the regular and prints retractions frequently. So it's not like breaking this and maybe having to retract was going to be some major loss on their part.
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on “Washington Post CEO tried to kill story about himself. It wasn't the first time”Submitted Unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTwo judges on the 5th overturned what ~150 other judges have found, including some extremely right wing Trump-appointed ones. Just shambolic. https://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-immigration-detentio...
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on “Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months”Submitted The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and ignominy of Todd Blanche as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRead it. https://www.lawdork.com/p/splc-indictment-united-klans-of-am...
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on “Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering”Submitted In striking down net-neutrality rule, Sixth Circuit asserts judicial supremacy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.lawdork.com/p/splc-indictment-united-klans-of-am...
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on “Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering”Submitted All of this refugee case's filings should be online as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTFA explains why the Supreme Court's decision is yet another new phenomenon. Related context from Chris Geidner [1] (wherein he also examines the April 27th oral arguments in the Chatrie v. United States, the geofencing case): > This hopefully will put an end to Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s ridiculous Fox News defense of the shadow docket in October 2025, where she insisted that “in none of these cases have we finall…
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on “The Revealing Summary Reversal in LULAC”Submitted The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that tells the reality of America today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What a federal lawyer's comments tell us about the Trump admin as a story · 1 points
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