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

USDJ DuBose of Rhode Island—is referring AUSA Kevin Bolan for disciplinary proceedings for his DHS clients' "decision to withhold highly relevant information and their lack of candor to this court." DHS maligned DuBose for releasing noncitizen, but had not told her of his murder warrant.

Terrific opportunity for those who want to • subpoena pediatric records of minors prescribed gender dysphoria drugs • send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to • help detain noncitizens without bond even if they’ve worked here productively for yrs & have no arrest records

The lead plaintiff in the case that destroyed the Voting Rights Act has a history of promoting false election conspiracies and anti-voting policies, and was at the Stop the Steal protest at the U.S. Capitol. Major exclusive from @mattdcohen.bsky.social @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

42,000 Louisianians voted absentee before Gov. Landry suspended US House primaries #lalege #lagov

It is pretty striking to see the speed with which the Court wants to implement this rule — as opposed to the delay it exhibited in other pressing cases in the recent past, like Texas’s abortion ban or the Trump immunity decision.

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court just fast-tracked its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — clearing the way for Louisiana to gerrymander its congressional map mid-election after previously warning courts not to change rules close to elections.

There will be zero black Republicans in the House in the next Congress (the handful now are all either retiring or running for some other office).

Todd Blanche took his wide-eyed civil servant act to Meet the Press. You can tell the Comey prosecution is legit by the size of his flag pin. www.lawandchaospod.com/p/todd-blanc...

Trump implies that elections should be canceled after the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

This segment is almost certainly going to be used as evidence in support of tossing out this case.

everything is so stupid and so embarrassing, exhibit #192847492

We don’t talk enough about how weird—just weird!—it is that so many GOP and admin officials spend so much time just standing around the Oval watching Trump do stuff. All of these people have jobs! Sometimes important ones! But just being the awkward backdrop of the Mad King’s rantings matters more.

The FEC has now gone a year without a quorum. 🎂

NEW: At an annual meeting of a key federal election administration agency, election officials in attendance agreed that U.S. elections, while already safe and secure, could be all the more so improved. But to do so, they said they need more money. And lots of it.

For @democracydocket.com, I'm at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's annual board of advisors meeting. It should be about voting standards. But we're starting off with an idiosyncratic, ideological debate about the *advisory* board's by-laws, driven by right-winger Hans von Spakovsky...

you are creating a culture of violence against us by accurately reporting on the culture of violence we're gleefully inflicting on others

“If the election turns on a few jurisdictions, states or counties where there are disputed races, then we’d be more likely to see attempts at subversion,” said Richard Hasen, an election‑law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#BREAKING: Governor DeSantis releases proposed Florida congressional map to Fox News. More below. The map is now being promoted and circulated by his staff around digital media. www.foxnews.com/politi…

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

the problem is that MAGA was already using this rhetoric when they saw someone use "latinx"

After Trump said the WHCD shooting was more proof of the need for the White House ballroom, DOJ doubled down in a rather dystopian way, stating that Trump "will no longer need to venture beyond the safety of the White House perimeter" for big gatherings if it's built. www.lawdork.com/p/doj-ballro...

Seriously, everyone with a hot take about the shooting needs to cool it. We have no clue what happened yet. None.

⚠️ Following a decision from the North Carolina election board, voters could be forced to prove their citizenship this November. “For many North Carolinians, the new challenges will be just the latest obstacle that Republicans have erected at the polls,” writes @billycorriher.bsky.social.

They think you're stupid.

All things considered, we’ll be lucky to end Trump’s term without Mizelle in a federal appellate judgeship

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me: 1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate? 2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes A former Trump campaign lawyer, Joe diGenova, is said to be planning to split time between Miami and Fort Pierce, where a grand jury overseen by a Trump-favored judge sits. w/ Alan Feuer www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

ACTUAL MALICE STANDARD IS NOW WHAT SOME WOULD CALL A LEGAL LAYUP

For the past few months now, every day or two my health insurance provider has sent me an email saying I have “unused benefits for weight loss.” It’s starting to feel like an insult.

Fascinating. This is, at least, the second gathering of state election officials this year that Heather Honey was scheduled to address but bailed. She was supposed to address secretaries of state back in January: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

At a U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) meeting on Thursday, EAC Commissioner Donald Palmer said that Heather Honey, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official and a leading election conspiracy theorist, was supposed to address state election officials but had a scheduling conflict.

The one in which @ericcolumbus.bsky.social takes up the “Hey, Ed!” mantle bsky.app/profile/anna...

📄NEW: A new lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to turn over records on its contacts with election deniers. This follows reporting by Democracy Docket that uncovered growing partisan activity inside the agency.

TAX DAY PRO TIP if you're filing by mail: Do not rely on a mailbox or a letter carrier today for filing your return on time. Go inside a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter. Otherwise, your tax return may not get an April 15 postmark date and the IRS may apply penalties

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

"Paging Sen. Thom Tillis. Paging Sen. Thom Tillis..."

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Remember the countless articles about how Kamala Harris was an ineffective VP. Can anyone recall a room this empty for her when she was in office and not campaigning?

NEW: In 2020, as President Trump tried to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — barely. A @propublica.org investigation found that, ahead of the midterms, Trump has systematically demolished those guardrails. 🧵

"In one conversation with advisers in the dining room next to the Oval Office last year, Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he left office, some of the people said."

If you read one thing today, please make it this deeply reported piece from @jimsaksa.com about how the SAVE America Act will disenfranchise voters in "the most difficult place in the United States to conduct elections."

this is 100% the thing a bad sci-fi movie superimposes onto DC to let you know that the government is now evil