By "originalist" the Inquisition Six mean "It's original with us, we make it up as we go."

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Is this like Nixon wandering the halls of the White House pissed to the gills during his final weeks, talking to the paintings?

There are two founding fathers who seemed to understand that abortion was essential to the exercise of our unalienable rights. https://bit.ly/4eDih2U

What the ten gallon fuck is *this*???

There were 2 major defeats of the Confederacy and its pro-slavery rebellion. One was on the battlefield. The other is called the "Reconstruction Amendments", 13, 14 & 15, passed to undo the Confederacy's power. The 6 Supes are Neo-Confederates working to reverse those Reconstruction Amendments.

When someone tells you they stage coups, believe them the 1st time The president who thinks everything besides suppressing millions of votes is a “big yawn” is showing us his plan to steal the November election The time for stopping this is now. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

The only argument anyone needs: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." That four SCOTUS justices failed this open book test is an abomination.

Called it.

MAGAs can't afford to live in or near the D.C. area, that's why they aren't there.

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

If someone doesn't like your research grant, the US government may soon be able to help them sue you. www.science.org/content/arti...

Here's Harold Meyerson on the birthright citizenship ruling: "This has been a week when the Court’s right-wing majority seemed bent on giving double standards a bad name." prospect.org/2026/06/30/s...

Trump v. Barbera shows just how radical the Roberts Court and the modern conservative legal movement are www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/trum...

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court just helped J.D. Vance create Citizens United 2.0 In the text of today’s ruling, the court insists that the alleged strength of already weakened anti-corruption laws justifies a ruling that now creates a new conduit for billionaires to buy elections.

it was 5-4 on what should be the most dog-brained fucking easy question in history, i wouldn’t be popping the champagne personally

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

2/3 ‼️👀 Clarence had a lot to say — in a 91-page (!) dissent. 🤦🏽 Shorter Thomas: "I got mine. Pull up that damn ladder." Clarence is a "made" self-loathing black man, tap dancing others' rights away for a bag 💰, RV & cigar. (Stephen Miller would scrap it all & re-enslave blacks in a heartbeat)...

Cool that James Madison envisioned everyone having a rocket launcher but the authors of the 14th amendment explicitly stating their intentions doesn't count for some reason.

"Arguably the most depraved president in American history, Andrew Jackson..invented what came to be called the “Spoils System.”...If you wanted a job in the federal government, or a favorable ruling, all you had to do was give a big enough gift to President Jackson, or pledge your loyalty to him..."

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) says that during a briefing w/Rubio & "envoy" Steve Witkoff she had a heated exchange in which she pressed them w/Qs about Trump’s Iran MOU. ❗Pigs 👉 Witkoff called her "smart-assed" & "stupid." Dean says her mic was cut off. No one else's was. 📺 youtu.be/k9IICbv8RkM?...

He's a fucking nazi, y'all, but you just won't see it. It can't happen here so it's not happening here.

Mamdani just showed up at Penn Station, wristbands in hand, helping World Cup fans find their trains like it was nothing. Panama vs England, MetLife bound, and the mayor was just out there in the crowd. No big deal. Very big deal.

It took two members of the House and the regional leader of the biggest Catholic charity to release the nun kidnapped by ICE on her way to church.

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"Until leftists collectively try to use judicial and then violent means to overturn an election that they clearly lost, as MAGA Republicans did in 2020, I don’t want to hear any bullshit false equivalences between leftists and MAGA conservatives."

Sotomayor's dissent warns about this. The majority doesn't admit it now. But Slaughter may be the beginning of the end for a merit-based civil service. Do we want qualified people inspecting our food and making complex decisions about medical care, science, etc...? Or ppl who passed a loyalty test?

February 10: Trump purchases up to $5 million in shares of Axon Enterprises, which manufactures 90% of all tasers February 24: ICE opens a $220 million contract for tasers, requesting specifications that mirror Axon's top taser models

As the nation prepares to mark the 250th anniversary of our independence from a king, the Supreme Court and our current president are doing everything possible to resurrect a king in America. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-end-of-independent-agencies

Shorter Roberts Court: Congress is now the "Suggestive Branch," rather than the Legislative Branch.

This is excellent as usual. If you don’t see this, open your eyes.

Steve notes that Justice Alito's paragraph is "very-lightly-cited." He doesn't note that the opinion to which it refers contains no authority whatsoever. In fact, the Sixth Circuit in Arizona v. Biden started with its own jurisdiction — the thing Justice Alito is avoiding.

"You can’t praise competition without criticizing monopoly. Monopoly kills competition—period, end of story." Although I would add that every mention of "fairness" in this letter also discredits it because the moderates do *nothing* to level the economic playing field in this country.

Let's go S.Carolina Vote for Nancy Lacore💥

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

Random reminder that the GOP's tax cuts for their billionaire donors ballooned the deficit, so they're blaming the problem on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — while making cuts to programs that millions of Americans rely on. It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

You really have to admire Antifa’s artistic skill. With nothing but box cutters, they somehow managed to perfectly recreate the intricate look of poorly applied paint peeling off concrete that had concentrated peroxide dumped all over it. Incredible craftsmanship.

bari weiss is the elizabeth holmes of media

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Every time somebody like Obama or Biden wins, they take their own victory as proof enough that The Country Has Turned A Corner, that The Fever Has Passed, and it's Time To Work Together With Our Republican Friends In Unity again, and it's a goddamn disaster b/c no, none of that has happened.

Both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and I believe in a politics of solidarity that refuses to compromise on anyone's dignity or humanity. New Yorkers are fed up with the failures of the status quo. They made that known loud & clear at the ballot box this week.

you know sometimes i don't like having an active imagination

“The court’s statutory ruling weren’t bad enough, it then proceeds to make a mockery of racial animus in the constitutional part of this decision“ slate.com/news-and-pol...

SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett has 2 Black Haitian kids who she adopted. Today she ruled to expel 700K Haitians who were here legally. Proximity to white supremacy is not protection from white supremacy. And proximity to Black and brown people is not exemption from being a fascist and racist.

In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.

THEY'RE YOUR CONSTITUENTS you halfbrained backbirth!