Supreme Court Upholds Temporal Gerrymander That Would Cost Democrats 1932 Election https://theonion.com/supreme-court-upholds-temporal-gerrymander-that-would-cost-democrats-1932-election/

Wait, so did Roberts announce that like the janitor, Eustice Pam Salito, was retiring or some shit?

You have to study the opinion carefully, but the Supreme Court yesterday in Cook held that the @cpsc.gov social-media staff has "for cause" removal protections.

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

The flurry of rulings against the president this week indicates that — at least for now — the courts are holding firm against the Trump administration’s multi-pronged campaign to suppress the vote ahead of the November midterm elections.

It's kind of wild that the Trump retribution agenda's biggest success so far is prosecuting a Republican who was one of Trump's own advisers.

In other words, “Look at all the crazy shit we’re getting away with right now.”

“Conservative figures with close ties to the president may be using their connections to push the Trump administration to take drastic measures to interfere in November’s elections,” @mattdcohen.bsky.social writes

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Steiner’s admission conflicted with a separate rule the Postal Service adopted under his watch last year. That rule explicitly said USPS “does not administer elections, establish the rules or deadlines that govern elections, or determine whether or how election jurisdictions utilize the mail.”

literally watergate

Great redistricting look-back (eulogy?) by @jenrice.bsky.social that everyone should read. “Partisan redistricting is here to stay. Protections against racial gerrymanders are gone. And the law appears to explicitly work for Republicans and against Democrats,” she writes.

The president is openly boasting about using the Justice Department to influence election outcomes. "Had I not made that call, Steve Hilton would right now be watching the election from home," he said.

Exactly one month after a judge dismissed the Trump DOJ's human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a vindictive prosecution, the department says it will appeal to the Sixth Circuit.

The DOJ's losses today, as seen by DD's photo selections:

Beginning to understand how he bankrupted multiple casinos.

The plan? Give the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism over $300 billion to reopen a strait that was never closed before your unconstitutional war.

The U.S.-Iran agreement really feels like something from Nathan For You.

Deliberately shooting yourself in the foot does indeed add "a slight bit of intrigue" to any situation.

The Minnesota conspiracy case against ICE watchers, like the Broadview Six case, is going to be yet another test of how judges handle a habitually deceitful Justice Department

The memo about habeas corpus is a totally anodyne textbook summary of the history, with only the most cursory allusion to any current relevance or question. But conveying an accurate gloss on the wikipedia article would be enough to count as internal opposition because it does state basic facts.

I want to know what the procedure is at DOJ where someone ghost writes a Trumpian introduction and then the rest of the brief sounds like a normal DOJ brief. Here, they got only Civil Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate to sign.

Meanwhile, at the Texas GOP convention

Personally think the grass did this on its own.

The "8" of "8647" was already somewhat visible by 1pm Wednesday, per the EarthCam on the National Mall. By 8am Thursday, the "8" was clear and the "6" was taking shape. Around 11:30am today, crews arrived to clear it. Now the "6" is mostly gone, but "8" remains. www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/washi...

""Behind the scenes, Justice Department and other Trump-administration officials have quietly assured allies that plans for some form of payout remain on track."

once again the criminal justice system remains the single most robust institution in the country when it comes to handling this administration’s abuses

Since Trump took office, there has not been a single arrest of a "paid protestor," or indeed a single piece of evidence that paid protestors exist. It remains something that Trump admin officials routinely claim to be investigating but have so far utterly failed to prove is more than a fantasy.

James Talarico spending the summer clogging every artery in his body to prove he’s not vegan reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry has to eat mutton to impress his carnivore girlfriend. I hope Talarico is putting most of the sausage into his napkin.

How does Phil only have 500 subscribers on YouTube? He's one of the good ones, doing investigative work no one else is! Strongly encourage you to check out his work and follow him, here and on YouTube.

Trump has lied about states that count slow. States that count fast. States that have little mail. States that are all mail. He invented reasons why Cruz didn’t beat him in Iowa, made up false claims about people being into New Hampshire—none of which were about a slow count.

Many people are asking questions about the President's use of the DOJ to punish his enemies that are answered by the huge banner of the President's menacing mug hanging over the entrance of the DOJ.

Trump is ordering Pulte to shred ODNI as acting director.

I think about this every day. Cannot believe they are still deployed in DC. It was insane from the start and it's still insane.

On June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court told Alabama to draw an equitable congressional map. Alabama flatly refused. Yesterday, SCOTUS validated Alabama's decision. "States can just ignore SCOTUS rulings hoping the Court will change its mind" is a pretty odd position for a court of law to endorse.

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

1. POTUS sues the IRS that he also controls. 2. The DOJ (not the IRS) settles the lawsuit. 3. The agreement is signed by an unconfirmed Acting AG. 4. And by an unconfirmed IRS "CEO", which is literally a made up position. 5. The IRS has no confirmed Chief Counsel. This is a cartoon agreement.

Trump admits that his original intent was to shovel cash from the US Treasury into his own pocket.

I mean, really. Why WOULDN'T you be on Xitter to have terrorists demand your taxes after you call them out for being snowflakes.

I think I feel phantom limbs but for civic virtue

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Our government claims it can’t afford to feed hungry kids or provide healthcare, yet no one will bat an eye at watching $150M literally burn in the sky

Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

So is the war over or not