NEWS --> Now that Pete Hegseth fired another top general, Rep Adam Smith tells me that if Dems take House, the Armed Services Committee will seek testimony from people pushed out by Hegseth. Dems will also probe why Hegseth stalled promotion of black/female officers: newrepublic.com/article/2086...

Just watched Ohtani and Betts hit homers with my own eyes

Trump is highly unlikely to prevail in the birthright citizenship case. Since we can’t trust the justices to properly read the Fourteenth Amendment, I’m still nervous about the final opinion(s):

Found a whole new reason to hate tariffs tonight: A rare baseball card I’ve been hunting for years is finally on eBay but the Canadian seller won’t ship to the United States.

Jamie on Jeopardy! this week

no way of knowing whether Cecilia Wang did this intentionally, but the argument she presented yesterday was strikingly similar to counsel for Wong Kim Ark. counsel for WKA: birthright citizenship is already the law, don’t adopt some new weird theory. Wang: follow WKA, not whatever “domicile” is

“Why didn’t anyone step in and stop me? I mean, $182 million for Blake Snell? I don’t even know who that is!”

I don’t know if he’s discussed it today, but Raskin did share his thoughts on future oversight for Trump Cabinet officials with me in our March issue: newrepublic.com/article/2073...

Bondi was the worst AG in American history. More authoritarian than Palmer. More corrupt than Mitchell. More incompetent and obsequious than any of Trump’s first term AGs. A failure on every conceivable level.

I hate to say it but Jen Shah is providing a public service here

“[Trump] has discussed firing Bondi, according to four people familiar with the conversations, and replacing her with Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

Hard to imagine a pope more well-suited for this historical moment than an American from Chicago’s South Side who spent decades ministering in Latin America.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

unlike education, health care, child care or parental leave which is woke bull shit

I think some people misunderstood this exchange with Gorsuch. Under current law, Native Americans are NOT birthright citizens under the 14th A. They get it through a 1924 law. Gorsuch asked if the gov's argument was true, wouldn't they get citizenship under the 14th A, and the SG said probably yes.

I didn’t clock this in real time, but it’s telling that Alito kept saying “father” here (instead of “mother” or “parents”) to make it sound scarier despite the, uh, biological hurdles.

On today’s oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara:

It’s over. There didn’t appear to be five votes for the Trump admin position on birthright citizenship. Gorsuch, Barrett, and the three liberals are strongly against it. Roberts was deeply skeptical, as was Kavanaugh to a lesser extent.

Sounds like President Trump left the oral argument at the end of Solicitor General Sauer's presentation.

Most plausible reason they took it.

Imagine spending the first few weeks of your child’s life suing the Social Security Administration so your baby won’t be deported.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

here's the clip of Gorsuch on "Roman law sources"

In consecutive answers, Sauer told Gorsuch the 1940 and 1952 statutes don't codify Wong Kim Ark because they use the same words as 14A. Then he told Kavanaugh the 14A's *different* language from the 1866 CRA means the same thing. See if you can spot the inconsistency, kids!

Gorsuch: “Do you think Native Americans today are birthright citizens under your test?” Cue the KILL BILL sirens. (Sauer said yes, provisionally, but that “I have to think that through.”)

Sauer is now raising his voice at the justices for emphasis. First to Kagan, now to Gorsuch.

Roberts: “It’s a new world, but it’s the same Constitution.”

It’s still early and we’ve only heard one side, but Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett don’t seem to be buying Sauer’s case. Barrett said outright that the admin’s slavery-only reading is “not textual.”

Gorsuch appears to be pretty skeptical of Sauer’s argument. I wish I could fully convey the disdain with which he said “Roman law sources” when describing the govt’s citations.

Honestly the justices (particularly Justice Sotomayor) sound ... somewhat taken aback that they're even hearing this case. And ... same? Also - you didn't have to! You could have just issued a summary op saying "See the Fourteenth Amendment"! Even last year in the nationwide inujunction case!

An enraging read ahead of today’s oral arguments.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Hell yeah man, go for it. They’ll love that.

“Many on campus drew parallels between the government’s approach and methods deployed in Nazi Germany.”

“He is not, however, the owner!” “unless and until Congress blesses this project through statutory authorization, construction has to stop!" U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, a known user of !!!, blocks White House ballroom action:

FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.

I feel genuinely awful for the Noem kids.

Or, at least, strong odds that he received the *initial* assignment in Callais. It's at least possible that he could lose/could have lost it; indeed, we're pretty sure this happened two terms ago in Gonzalez v. Trevino. But as if anyone needs further ominous signs about what's coming in Callais...

SCOTUS sides 8-1 with a therapist who argued Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy violated the First Amendment: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"I witnessed lethality. ... This is the American warrior unleashed," Hegseth says after visiting the war zone. This is more fun than a video game for him.

hungary is certainly a model for the american right in the sense that it is a prime example of people who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven

the way the american right slobbers over this absolute loser is something else

Ohtani is saving his hits for when he’s in DC this weekend. Very considerate of him for me, personally.

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

Goodell finally managed to get playoff teams on Hard Knocks. He’s at the height of his power.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

There are at least three things here that would be unconstitutional in the United States, which is saying something.

Dub Gleed