"Along comes Justice Jackson, who is an expert on the reconstruction amendments, for example. And so if you want to do originalism and the 14th amendment, she's like, you know, I call you and I raise you one. Absolutely. Let's do it." Especially enjoyed the segment with @sifill.bsky.social

I treasure chances to talk w/the women of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. This time we focused on the consequential jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (beginning at min. 53:48) after a great segment w/ @skyeperryman.bsky.social of @democracyforward.org. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Happy birthday to the one and only Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social! A great day to subscribe to his indispensable substack One First: www.stevevladeck.com

Today, Judge Readler (CA6) explained in a concurrence that he used Chat GPT to help determine whether the phrase "monkey ass" was evidence of racial harassment for purposes of Title VII. It also cites Urban Dictionary. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

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tl;dr on the government’s brief in Callais (constitutionality of the voting rights act) seems to be “stare decisis is for suckers” cite: Dobbs. Amiright @leahlitman.bsky.social

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Sky Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org emphasized this same (powerful) point on this week's Strict Scrutiny @strictscrutiny.bsky.social: crooked.com/podcast/illu...

Quick @crooked.com YouTube rapid reaction video on SCOTUS allowing Trump to violate a law that Congress passed and the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional almost a century ago … 🤡 🤡 🤡 m.youtube.com/watch?v=nw8P...

Quick @crooked.com YouTube rapid reaction video on SCOTUS allowing Trump to violate a law that Congress passed and the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional almost a century ago … 🤡 🤡 🤡 m.youtube.com/watch?v=nw8P...

NEW: Skye Perryman @democracyforward.org joins to chat legal news & how the unitary executive theory has enabled the last 10+ nightmarish days (censorship, pretextual prosecutions, etc.) & more. Then Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social joins to talk ... Justice Jackson! crooked.com/podcast/illu...

This interview of @sifill.bsky.social by the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social team , @leahlitman.bsky.social , @kateshaw.bsky.social was fantastic and highly recommended!

All great, and the Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social interview about Justice Jackson was incredible! Thank you all!! 👏👏

Our CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joined @strictscrutiny.bsky.social to break down how we’re using the power of the courts to hold SCOTUS and the President accountable. When we fight, democracy wins.

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Tune in for my conversation with Skye Perryman @democracyforward.org on legal news and THEN listen to hear all 3 of us + Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social talk ... the great KBJ!!!

NEW: Skye Perryman @democracyforward.org joins to chat legal news & how the unitary executive theory has enabled the last 10+ nightmarish days (censorship, pretextual prosecutions, etc.) & more. Then Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social joins to talk ... Justice Jackson! crooked.com/podcast/illu...

Serendipitously, I finished @leahlitman.bsky.social fabulous book the same day I finished catching up on 6yrs of Strict Scrutiny podcasts. I highly recommend this read!

When Trump45 won the 2016 election, I turned to legal podcasts to understand what the president could and couldn’t do. It made me feel better that lawyers and others were guarding the rule of law. Even though T47 is not constrained by those people anymore, it’s still comforting to know the law.

SCOTUS continues going to great lengths to justify the Trump administration's often blatantly-unconstitutional actions.

I'm waiting for the first Democrat to use "They're coming for your porn" as a campaign slogan. Alternatively, "We're not coming for your guns, but they are definitely coming for your porn." I learned recently (from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social) that Project 2025 includes porn bans.

Great work as always this week from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. One thing that's easy to lose in the discussion of certain SCOTUS justice's book tours is that the very practice of justices entering into book deals while in office is questionable due to the conflicts of interest it creates.

The one upside of being out for this episode is that I get to listen to @leahlitman.bsky.social and @kateshaw.bsky.social chop it up with one of my @msnbc.com faves, @symonedsanders.bsky.social (co-host of @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social)! Worlds colliding and FOMO loading!

ICYMI: Kate & Leah go over the last week on the shadow docket (including racial profiling....) & what's been going on in the lower courts. THEN Symone Sanders Townsend @symonedsanders.bsky.social (MSNBC cohost) joins to talk about how SCOTUS helped implement Project 2025 crooked.com/podcast/how-...

ICYMI: We announced we're doing a live show at Crooked Con in Washington, DC! Get tickets for the November conference here: www.crookedcon.com

On my library’s lucky day shelf: Leah Litman’s “Lawless” next to “Never Flinch” by Stephen King. Note the drawing of Lady Justice. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social

@leahlitman.bsky.social activated me like a sleeper cell while also unlocking a core memory

Omg. The 4th Circuit clips around 50:00. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Superb episode as always.

So much going on in this great episode, but something that jumped out at me was Kavanaugh citing common sense, which is ridiculous but also kind of amazing because it's the best originalism he's ever done. John Marshall's go-to move was appealing to "common sense" that was anything but!

NEW EPISODE: Kate & Leah go over the last week on the shadow docket & what's been going on in the lower courts. THEN Symone Sanders Townsend @symonedsanders.bsky.social, cohost of @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social, joins to talk about how SCOTUS helped implement Project 2025 crooked.com/podcast/how-...

NEW EPISODE: Kate & Leah go over the last week on the shadow docket & what's been going on in the lower courts. THEN Symone Sanders Townsend @symonedsanders.bsky.social, cohost of @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social, joins to talk about how SCOTUS helped implement Project 2025 crooked.com/podcast/how-...

👏👏👏 Great episode

ICYMI: We announced we're doing a live show at Crooked Con in Washington, DC! Get tickets for the November conference here: www.crookedcon.com

A quick Strict Scrutiny @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Crooked Media @crooked.com rapid response YouTube video to today's SCOTUS BS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZ_...

This is the guy the Supreme Court continues to grant an ever-expanding set of powers to. Just today that included: Firing an FTC commissioner in violation of federal law (preemptively overruling Humphrey's Executor) & racial profiling in immigration raids. (Before there was immunity & more....)

As I’m listening to the 9/8 @strictscrutiny.bsky.social podcast on my walk, talking about how messed up and bonkers the Supreme Court decisions have been, these headlines came across my notifications. Ugh 😔 I had (another) moment of deep sadness about what is happening to our country.

No one's ever compared me to Andy Cohen before

Great to have the girls back together to go over the last two weeks of ... $hit since we were off last week!👯‍♀️

SCOTUS says racial profiling is constitutional, at least when Trump admin does it during roving, aggressive, astonishing immigration enforcement in LA -- where a district court found fed officers were arresting Brown people for ... speaking Spanish. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

SCOTUS now ~officially~ allows the Trump admin and the Court to overrule centuries old cases on the shadow docket. Apparently "irreparable harm" entitling the gov't to a stay now means "The Trump admin can't preemptively by fiat overrule cases it & we don't like."

them (to me): you're being WAY too harsh on the Republican appointed justices on the Supreme Court! The Republican appointed justices on the Supreme Court (to the country & the law):

(it's a listicle)

NEW: It's been a busy few weeks for the lower courts (vis a vis Article II & the people running Article III). We chat a lot of news - and then discuss Prof. Justin Driver's new book The Fall of Affirmative Action with him. Check it out! crooked.com/podcast/the-...

There is so much more to say! @leahlitman.bsky.social, @kateshaw.bsky.social, and I go deep on this issue in this week's @strictscrutiny.bsky.social episode... out tomorrow! Check it out!

The Supreme Court is “basically ratifying what this administration keeps saying: that these judges are lawless, that they are out of control, that they are rogue” @profmmurray.bsky.social describing the effect SCOTUS is having when it keeps overturning lower court rulings with little explanation.

Good for Justice Breyer: Justice Breyer defends the judge that Gorsuch & Kavanaugh accused of defying SCOTUS www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

I talked to Jon Favreau @jonfavs.bsky.social on PSA @podsaveamerica.crooked.com about Trump’s losing streak in the (lower) federal courts and those same courts pushing back on SCOTUS’s BS: crooked.com/podcast/trum...

I have been avoiding Ezra Klein's podcast, because he's such a credulous moron, but I had to turn in today to hear Kate Shaw. she's brilliant, somehow managing to point out the truth without slipping into hysteria. I'd like to see her on SCOTUS someday. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

Ouch SCOTUS