Here's my print feature piece in @thenation.com about the rise of AI-justice. Judges are already relying on AI, more than you probably think, and with some countries *replacing* human judges with bots, we will soon have to ask: Would you rather Justice Alito or Justice Mech-Hitler?

! 9th Circuit panel grants injunction blocking California's No Vigilantes Act/No Secret Police Act on Supremacy Grounds-interfering with federal government functions: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Loser

As the conservatives freak out over VA, a reminder: BEFORE the 2022 midterms, federal courts found that multiple once-covered-by-the-VRA states likely illegally diluted Black votes. But because of Purcell, these illegal maps were used that fall. So miss me with the pearl clutching.

We need Democrats to pledge that they will be every bit as ruthless as Republicans fear we will be. This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in history. If we don't hold people accountable—with real, serious consequences—it will only be worse next time.

A law designed to shield patients from expensive medical bills has resulted in doctors getting huge arbitration awards from insurers, who in turn offset those new expenses by…increasing patients’ premiums.

KBJ all the way

ITMFA

It’s wonderful to see a billionaire racist disinformation campaign backfire so strongly. ✊🏾🗳️

Far from straying from “true ideology,” the Roberts Majority is pursuing its own antidemocratic agenda to perpetuate Republican power beyond Trump’s own time in office. It sides with Trump when his own empowerment and the issues he creates serve that agenda, and divides absent ideological consensus.

As in: Dems are doing this so we can have an overall representative House that leads the way to finally banning this garbage and preserve that fair representation without regard to which side it benefits in the future. Republicans are doing this to stay in power regardless of the people’s will.

Gorsuch’s booster and benefactor

Our fire burns hotter

Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas enacted their laws to challenge SCOTUS’s controlling 10 Commandments precedents, and it’s a safe bet the Roberts majority will take up this issue if asked.

CA5, 9-8, upholds TX’s law requiring 10 Commandments in public schools despite a 1980 SCOTUS precedent saying it’s unconstitional. MAGA Majority says SCOTUS abrogated that precedent a couple years ago. Dems and Normie Republicans in dissent say nope. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CA11 rejects 2nd Amendment challenge to federal law banning machine guns. Unanimous, bipartisan panel (GWB/Trump/Biden) storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2026/04/...

CA6 rejects constitutional challenge to the federal ban on home distilling, forcing split with CA5 and all but guaranteeing SCOTUS review. GWB/GHWB judges in majority reach the merits, Biden judge in dissent says challenger didn’t have standing. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

The leaked memos confirm what we all knew: Big Oil effectively has the conservative Justices on retainer. This casts a disturbing pall over future cases affecting oil industry interests, including, most notably, Suncor.

Thiefs

JUST IN: Judge Amit Mehta (Obama/DC) opens door to deposition of Trump in #Jan6 civil lawsuits. Discovery against Trump on merits of cases could begin in May. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Don’t sleep on Kash Patel’s @theatlantic.com lawsuit as another right-wing attempt to get SCOTUS to overturn NYT v. Sullivan.

Two federal appeals courts within a week of each other tell Spirit and Frontier they gotta remit security fees they kept from passengers who didn’t end up traveling CA10: www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f... CA11: storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2026/04/...

CA7 allows Indiana to exclude student IDs from acceptable forms of voter identification at the polls. Trump/Trump/Biden panel invokes Purcell principle, says lower court order blocking the exclusion came too close to the election. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

We have to prosecute them.

Theft

Leon!

SCOTUS makes a gun case about not guns www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

We murdered three more people in boats today

Sir Patrick Moore’s Monocle

This is some next level Mike Mulligan stuff

Bob Ross to the rescue

... and when this is all over, there will be people who will say we need to move on. The federal government will need detrumpification and it needs to be merciless.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Iron rule of professional wrestling: When there’s a Spanish announcer’s table, somebody’s going through it

The Inflation Reduction Act was the single most aggressive investment in rural America since the New Deal. Direct investment, high wage jobs, energy security, you name it. It was all there. Too bad it happened 200 years ago and all the records of it are lost forever.

Every day, my anti-Chadha coalition gets just a little bit stronger …

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

In light of today's NYT story about striking Obama's final climate regulation I would like to observe that some talked about the idiotic decision to go on Bill Mahar and brag that SCOTUS doesn't matter bc the power plants had to comply while the previous case was being litigated when it happened.

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.

Scalia’s last vote

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

We have a serious problem with appellate courts not having district courts' backs on things like fact-intensive injunctions. The Trump administration literally lied about the need for ballroom construction, and the appeals court is saying we like to be lied to.

Every time this court makes a horrible decision and punts to Congress, it does so understanding that this is simply meant to fool people like Isgur. They know Congress won’t act. And when Congress is clear, this court doesn’t care. See the VRA.