It’s a great interview.

Two of these things are impossible with the existing Supreme Court.

The Congressional Black Caucus PAC and Clyburn endorsing Haley Stevens is the latest illustration that many prominent Black Dem politicians are more invested in defending the center-left/establishment wing of the party than any other cause. Remember that Clyburn endorsed Cuomo in NYC last year.

I’ve lived in Beijing too. They don’t have elections.

Ossoff: "Tonight I heard a failed president desperately casting out for excuses to meddle in the upcoming election if he can, or to discredit the result when he loses decisively as I expect he will"

Dang, 220 million voter files stolen by China starting in 2020? Who was president back then, it sounds like he must have sucked ass

The Streisand Effect goes bicoastal.

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

Important paper from @stevevladeck.bsky.social exploring how SCOTUS is steadily undermining the authority of the judiciary as a whole by treating federal district court rulings as provisional findings that can be whimsically swept adide. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Come work at the @fordschool.bsky.social at U Michigan. We are recruiting for a scholar studying democracy, its functioning and threats, broadly considered. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Air quality right now giving flashbacks to my India trip over the 2025 holidays...

Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

A great result in an important case. I helped file an amicus supporting KFAI on behalf of the Integrity Institute; grateful to have helped in a small way, perhaps, on this critical issue.

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

My first follow-up would be “If you’re willing to say that to an NYT reporter what are you saying to those with no social or political power at all?” But then again I’ve never been on the best beat ever.

My new @washulawreview.bsky.social article Ex Parte Young Redux argues that sovereign immunity shouldn't preclude injunctions against states themselves when states themselves block other paths to judicial relief for unconstitutional actions. Final @ssrn.bsky.social 🔗⬇️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I rewatched Lindsey Graham's screaming meltdown during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings for this, and man, there's no way to overstate how vile Kavanaugh is throughout. Sneering, combative, contemptuous of the idea that anyone would hold him accountable. A Republican hack to his core.

nothing says just how destigmatized and normalized gambling has become like this stat: American adults are more likely to place a bet than read a book

Feel like this is a pattern in public comments now. Overwhelming public opposition, but Trump administration will move ahead anyway (See also, Schedule F). This does not mean public comments are not important - far from it, it creates a case for overturning the rules in court.

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

I saw this last night in our local indie and even as a single gay man I found it engaging (as well as funny and exceedingly well-acted and directed). Congrats to Olivia Wilde for breaking out of Director Jail with a home run.

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

I am tired. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

Lol “complicated”. Why is this a two byline story? It would take about twenty seconds to come up with the reasons! 1. Because of the things he said. 2. Because of the things he did. 3. Because of the values he stood for.

As a native Michigander whose parents and brother are still there, the uninformed perspectives of outsiders have been baffling. Neera Tanden on the NYer Political Scene spent 20 minutes advocating for Stevens over El-Sayed but never once mentioned Gaza — unsurprising but absurd.

“And my immediate reaction, on reading the story that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale—with its $44 billion endowment—does not.” yaledailynews.com/articles/alu...

I’ll write more later, but this is the defining Lindsey Graham moment for me. Screaming into a mic to defend a Republican Supreme Court nominee against allegations of sexual assault, all in the hopes that Mister Trump would watch on TV and tweet something nice about him. That’s Graham’s legacy.

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people don’t have to rush to say, “Please be polite!”

FIFA will do anything for Argentina.

She's just like me

The anxiety over what AI has done for final exams in law school has prompted a lot of policy discussions, although not as much about the baseline pedagogy of legal education and assessment practices.

The speed running has gone from Redemption to American colonialism

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.

Friday news: dumped

As I just told Jay, truly the most unhinged newsletter in recent memory. Why aren’t you subscribed?

Haruki Murakami, Lydia Davis, Sigrid Nuñez, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna

For @ballsandstrikes.org, I covered SCOTUS' latest attack on our tattered campaign finance system in last week's NRSC v. FEC. It's all thanks to the First Amendment & some longstanding precedents that we need to overturn. We'll only get there with court reform. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/end-c...

Update on NYT v. OpenAI. NYT asked judge to sanction OpenAI for not turning over training data sets and ChatGPT outputs that have been requested in discovery: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t... OpenAI has previously expressed privacy concerns around NYT requests: openai.com/new-york-tim...

New from me and @protectdemocracy.org colleague Katie Schwartzmann this morning: how the administration will turn the propaganda tactics DHS has developed on the midterms. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-admini...

BREAKING: At 9:53p, the Second Circuit, via Judge Eunice Lee, denies Trump's request for an immediate administrative stay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Always special to get to write and think with Jocelyn! Our piece on the Part IV Problem - and an invitation for folks to step outside the confines of convention. Not every paper needs “proposed solutions”. And not every proposed solution matches the scale and depth of critiques offered.

BREAKING: University professors (AAUP) represented by NAACP LDF and Lambda Legal, with Davis Wright Tremaine, file a federal lawsuit challenging censorship at the Texas Tech University System under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court won't stop Texas from enforcing its age-verification and parental-consent mandate regarding mobile app downloads (Texas Senate Bill 2420) during litigation. There were no noted dissents.

It's always about standing.