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To expand on this a little: one thing that playing fast and loose with the facts lets you do as a judge is lie about the legal principles you're using to decide cases

Had lunch with 2 Brazilian law profs few years ago who wanted to know about originalism b/c their Constitution was ratified in 1988, there are people alive who were there, and they thought it was INSANE to go ALL the way back to 1988 to figure out what it means because times change….

I am not a defamation lawyer, and I know that ppl generally overestimate the amount of discovery that becomes public. That said, given the major public interest in the underlying allegations, I can imagine a judge letting some juicy stuff see daylight.

A cool judge would have deadpanned that his hands are tied until The Hague rescinds the McRib’s arrest warrant

One time I was drunk at a bougie function, and standing in a circle of bougie people, and chatted with the Chief Justice of a state’a Supreme Court and Idr the context but I asked this man if he could do something to bring back the McRib and the look he gave me haunts me to this day.

“a pretty powerful rejoinder to those who have insisted that the Court’s internal debates in these [shadow docket] cases are rigorous and deeply substantive.”

one of the things that's going to need serious attention in woke 2 is corporate governance of publicly traded companies, and the duties of a board to the company and the company's shareholders and employees

Plainly telling his own staff “I will ignore the Constitution to enact revenge on my imagined enemies” sure seems to me like a valid basis for impeachment proceedings for a life-term judge in the highest court.

Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious

I'm pretty tuned into Democratic politics and I have never in my life heard anyone ever use the phrase "justice involved population." But thank you for now vouching for the existence of that phrase and letting Fox News do a thousand pieces about it.

i'm just gonna say that the career soldier/mercenary may turn out to be less of a solid antiwar/antiweapons vote than some people are projecting

Evidence that Roberts was influenced by “power industry” executives.

Just calling balls and strikes

John G. Roberts, Chief Justice of these United States, does with regularity, and in a manner inconsistent with the rule of law and unbecoming of his office, purport to decide cases according to rules which he knows he will not actually apply, generally and neutrally, to all cases within their logic

That's just half of it. The 2nd half is Roberts explicitly saying he's probably going to rule it illegal before reading any briefs or hearing oral arguments. He's just an extreme political hack. Also a bad lawyer. No serious lawyer would put something like that in writing.

Jfc I forgot about the Manafort connection.

important to balance equities when your baseball buddies might have to spend a few more hours in the office, not so important when a generation of federal employees might lose their livelihoods

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

This is legislating from the bench. Far more than any nonsensical charge of the Warren Court doing that. This is the U.S. Supreme Court, an unelected body, declaring the environmental policy for the nation. This is the self-declared umpire announcing a forfeit. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

There’s Trump-style corruption, which is all bullshit, bluster, bags of cash, and him daring you to stop him. And then there’s corruption of the John Roberts kind. It’s just as deliberate and destructive, but quieter, more genteel, like a cancer that grows in your bones rather than on your face.

People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars. "Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'" abc7.com/post/3-south...

Remarkable.

Agree that we need a large and capable Navy, although (pulls pin on discourse grenade) given how opposed amphibious landings seem both vanishingly rare and increasingly implausible I don’t know why we need a large Marine Corps.

Ross Douthat would have us believe this is a normal thing that happens every time a democratic incumbent leaves office

"It baffles me why women might struggle to feel comfortable around someone who supports a politician subject to a number of credible claims of sexual assault, including some already proven to the civil standard of proof".

Exactly one year ago today:

This is what happens when you put a massive logistics operation in the control of a manchild Sec Def who is only interested in things that go boom.

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

We are collectively less economically literate than William Jennings Bryan’s populist movement

We hear all the time about how Americans are struggling with debt and yet it’s rare to hear someone point out that inflation is generally good for debtors (probably because people don’t directly feel the impact of eroding debt in their day to day life)

We somehow decided the true sin of hypocrisy was not failing to live up to our best selves but refusing to embrace our worst.

How 3 Trump-appointed judges have prevented Judge Boasberg from probing top DHS & DOJ officials (including a now fourth Trump-appointed judge, Emil Bove) for possible criminal contempt for 363 days.

For decades, postal workers avoided even the appearance of being serial killers. David Berkowitz is taking a different approach.

Who got rebuked harder by Bishop Barron? Mamdani speaking about collectivism or Trump insulting the Pope and portraying himself as the literal Messiah?

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Again, glowing chad Trump doing superhuman things has been a staple of the imagery Trump era, it appears to be the robe that is doing it

In the Paraguayan league, Olimpia’s Sebastian Ferreira has his penalty saved but the clearance attempt goes off his face for a goal.

The next prez needs to turn the FTC and CFPB into the 1930s FBI. Go scorched earth on crypto, car dealers, supplements, Ticketmaster, big gambling, price gougers, etc.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Great video. All mayors want to show that the city is able to “do something.” Often this means performative policing, which means a lot of stop-and-frisk but no change in crime. Mamadani is taking a different path, placing emphasis on the public goods the city can should deliver.

It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

Juan Linz thought remains undefeated.

Is this the rarely seen “reverse milkshake duck”?

Still workshopping this but the main thing is that my toddler is definitely Napoleon

Pretty clear this is not a MAGA oppo hit on Eric Swalwell He has lost his campaign co-chairs: Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) has resigned from the campaign Adam Smith (CA-13) has "withdrawn" support Dem Senators Schiff & Gallego, & multiple orgs have withdrawn endorsements Pelosi: "drop out" He's done

Arguably Bill is more responsible than either of them for not leaving Loretta Lynch alone at the airport and kicking off the events that led to the Comey Debacle