@lawofruby.bsky.social stays out here doing the thang

More SCOTUS opinions incoming at 10

Lord, I see what you're doing for other nations. Look our way too.

Judge Aileen Cannon vying for a top spot on Trump's SCOTUS short list www.ms.now/deadline-whi...

The tariffs ruling revealed that half of the court’s GOP appointees are willing to back up Trump, even when it requires them to abandon their conservative principles. Their dissent in the ruling goes beyond judiciary hubris: It’s high court hypocrisy. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/23/o...

Can't WAIT to see which justices show up to the State of the Union address Tuesday 🍿

Start with the first two grafs of Gorsuch's concurrence. Then read the main opinion. You're welcome. TLDR: Trump lost. For the legal nerds: The major questions doctrine took a hit, but still lives: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Big day for Epstein news - and a good time to register for tonight's @bigtentusa.bsky.social virtual deep dive into the Epstein case with COURIER Newsroom’s @camaron.bsky.social and @ninaburleigh.bsky.social, moderated by me. 🎟️ bigtentusa.org/event/the-ep... #EpsteinCase #Democracy

Paging Peter Morgan: We need a whole nother season or two of The Crown 🍿

If anyone says they know when the SCOTUS tariffs ruling is coming this is their source

“Humans — not AI — control every step.” They clearly need better fact checkers because that’s clearly false. Most importantly, we living breathing journalists more than ever. This is horrifying. This is not helping reporters. It’s tying their hands.

News: SCOTUS announces new filing rules to help identify conflicts of interest with the justices and assist with recusals @courthousenews.bsky.social

Reupping as the Geneva talks are underway because apparently this is an evergreen post

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This questioning is very good. More of this from lawmakers, please

Name a song your parents used to play when you were a kid, then you became mortified at the thought of why they played it, but it still slaps today open.spotify.com/track/53m3Uk...

That Bondi can smile after refusing to face the survivors of Epstein’s crimes tells you everything you need to know

Perfecto. Gracias Bad Bunny

If you've accepted and condoned the federal government hunting and kidnapping Black and Brown men, women and children for the last year, miss me with your outrage over a social media video

These snowcrete slabs falling off roofs are no joke! Be safe out there DC

This outdated insistence that journalists should not be human beings who address injustices but rather mere stenographers on the scene is wild. And as you note: it bears no resemblance to how journalists have always worked. See also Mary Ann Shadd Cary, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, you, me…

????!???!!! Is this for real??

Maybe we should stop asking people who don't know what country Puerto Rico is in their opinions on who is American enough to do what

A reminder that Louisiana’s congressional map was purposely drawn to protect Mike Johnson’s House seat, because the Supreme Court declared that partisan gerrymanders are non-reviewable by courts. Of course he supports anti-democratic vote rigging - what’s what keeps him in his job.

I just told Snickers that I’m not one of her little friends and why has this dog turned me into my mother?

What’s your favorite protest song? 🎸 Share in the comments! We love Kimberly’s ReSIStance Protest Songs playlist @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social The #SistersInLaw share their favorites on this week’s episode: www.politicon.com/podcast-epis... open.spotify.com/playlist/1Eu...

It’s a bad week for great comedic actors. RIP, Lamont. www.bet.com/article/naxh...

Ok, 2026 is officially a wrap for me. I cannot process this. At. All.

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.

This month alone has been nonstop assault on the rule of law of this nation and the rights of the people in it

There is not enough coconut oil or shea butter on earth to get me thru this

How. Is. It. Still. Only. January?!

Here’s the debut episode of #SistersSidebar, our #SistersInLaw midweek update to answer more of your questions. Look for it every Wednesday, along with our regular episodes on Saturdays. www.politicon.com/podcast-epis...

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Someone should play the video of Fátima Lucas Henrique’s screams as she was kidnapped by federal agents on the way to her early morning nursing shift to Sen Susan Collins wherever she shows her face. This is happening to Mainers on her watch. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...

In videos posted on social media, one employee can be heard saying: “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.” The agent responds, “If you touch me, I’ll grab you.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The next time someone asks me “what’s it like in DC these days?” I’m just going to send them this

One thing being on this platform has taught me is how much academics love to fight. I don't mean debate, I mean go at each other like they're on a Bravo show. It's fascinating. I'd totally watch the Real Professors of Bluesky. 🍿

Reminder that in Egbert v. Boule the Supreme Court specifically said that Border Patrol agents cannot be sued for violating someone's constitutional rights. My deep dive from 2023: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

What will end ICE’s terroristic regime for good? Recognizing and rejecting its core white nationalism that has been a part of the American fabric for over 400 years. Some of us have never had the privilege to look away and ignore it. Now none of us do. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/o...

Ta-Nehisi Coates lays bare in brilliant prose the original sin of the Department of Homeland Security. It is right there in its name. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

How about reproach, rebuke and remove lawmakers who act out of political calculation rather than a sense of moral duty to protect the dignity, the humanity and the lives of the American people?

With so much chaos in the news, #SistersInLaw podcast is launching a new midweek episode called #SistersSidebar, where we will answer more of your questions. The first episode drops this Wednesday. Keep those questions coming!

Horrible. The fact that this is happening as Bezos and his bride are gallivanting at Paris Couture Week right now in outfits what could fund a reporter’s yearly salary makes this all the more infuriating.

Here's what's wrong with comparing ICE's terror to the Third Reich: the white nationalism at its core is uniquely American. And ending it requires all of us—white folks too— to let go of the lies about American exceptionalism that we’ve been fed. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/o...

It was never about protecting Second Amendment rights. It has always been about deciding who should have guns and who should not.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

“I’m not sure the court will readily adopt a firing-via-Truth Social rule for for-cause removals of independent boards,” @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social writes. Read #TheGavel:

#SCOTUS is likely to do the right thing in the Lisa Cook case. But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:

Ok, who else on here felt a little PTS when Kavanaugh said "what goes around comes around"? 🫠