NEW: The Supreme Court won't block a civil contempt order against the journalist Catherine Herridge for refusing to identify the source of a leak. Only Kavanaugh notes his dissent. Herridge will be fined $800 a day until she complies.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks DOJ from requesting or receiving patient information about those who have received gender-affirming medical care as minors at Packard Children's Hospital (Stanford). The is the second order blocking these grand jury subpoenas: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-trans-...

Politicians of both parties are lying about WVa v. BPJ. We tell the real story of the 11-year-old girl who just wanted to run cross-country on a team with open enrollment & the six right-wing justices who said she couldn't. with @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-con...

The next time there's a terrorist attack in the U.S., one of the causes may be Kash Patel's diversion of hundreds of FBI intelligence officials to help Trump harass people who counted votes in Georgia in 2020.

Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

Kavanaugh really, really wants people to think that trans sports bans and his decision upholding them are strictly about sports None of that is true! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/west-...

This is, not incidentally, the story of pretty much every social movement you can think of in the US. The law doesn't save, but it can ameliorate harm, and it can create space for transformative social change even if when it doesn't effectuate it.

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

Oct. 2018: I filed a FOIA request with @state-department.bsky.social seeking records regarding then-Ambassador Richard Grenell hosting ex-Rep Mark Foley at the ambassador's residence in Germany. Today—almost eight years later: State Dept. says it's still in process. #FOIA

No, Donald Trump cannot use the mailman to steal your ballot! @lizdye.bsky.social explains why in the latest for @legaleagle.tv www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyI...

BREAKING: A second federal judge blocks the U.S. Postal Service's proposed rules responding to President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan found USPS' proposal violates a 2021 settlement agreement requiring “timely” delivery of mail for national elections

These pasty wankers are out here trying to incite a riot in Baltimore

Power outage when I'm on deadline? Thanks, Obama!

New: DHS had promised four states the ability to use SAVE tool to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, in a settlement. Now that new SAVE functions are shut down, those states say DHS is violating the settlement. Judge asked DHS to respond by tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Anti-abortion lawyer Jonathan Mitchell dropped a blockbuster lawsuit against a California doctor that was a vehicle to resuscitate the 19th-century Comstock Act as an abortion ban and to challenge telemedicine "shield" laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Excited to publish with the @bloomberglaw.com Insights team about the path ahead for regulated entities after Slaughter, together with colleagues from my Communications practice. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

"No longer retains vitality." Stare decisis is cool, bro, but have you tried VIBES? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Today’s show breaks down YESTERDAY’S decisions at the Supreme Court, especially Trump v Slaughter, which will drastically unmake our government unless we act. There’s also plenty of laughs, Doofus of the Day & a subscriber bonus! With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

It was never just about sports. It sure as hell was never about protecting women. It’s about trying to erase trans people, which will never happen, and it’s also about restricting bodily autonomy.

I came within an inch of being sent to the suicide-riddled conversion camp depicted in "Boy Erased," and I'm a decade younger than Buttigieg. It is insanely obtuse to invoke him being honest about the very common story of experiencing this sentiment as if it proves he's not gay enough to count.

JUST IN: DOJ has lost for the 10th straight time in an effort to obtain states' voter rolls. This defeat is courtesty of Judge Joseph LaPlante, a George W. Bush appointee in New Hampshire. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The NRA and its charitable foundation are suing each other in multiple courts. Maybe they really can *both* lose! www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-nra-is...

🚨BREAKING: Justice Thomas REJECTS Roy Moore's last ditch effort to stop the mandate from issuing in his 11th Circuit defamation lawsuit defeat. He has been suing Senate Majority PAC over an advertisement in his failed Senate race for years. Proud of my law firm's defense of the 1st Amendment.

Trump v. Slaughter most assuredly does not do this. Civil service protections, which are being fiercely litigated in the Federal Circuit and in the case of Maureen Comey, depend on United States v. Perkins, which John Roberts didn’t touch but certainly will in due course.

The DOJ has tapped two prosecutors with gang and terrorism experience to implement NSPM-7. One is a former right-wing blogger. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

There are many decisions that are wrong, sometimes egregiously, as to a particular policy issue. But Slaughter belongs next to Trump v. United States as doing deep violence to the constitutional structure itself, profoundly incompatible with the very idea of power being subject to the rule of law.

It is honestly kind of funny that the group called itself “TrackAIPAC” and it quite literally doesn’t track AIPAC, it selectively tracks broader pro-Israel-ish spending Such a “you had one job” fail

President AOC will just have to install an entire FCC to shut down Fox News, which will short circuit SCOTUS' brain, and then demand a revote. Yes, the legal beliefs of most of these clowns is horrible. But they've been made far more horrible by a quarter century picking in Fox News propaganda.

1/ Justice Barrett is SO close to getting it... and yet so far. She dissents in Trump v. Cook, in which SCOTUS invented an imaginary "central bank" exception for the Federal Reserve to its overall rule that Trump can fire anyone he wants, period. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Fifth Circuit opinion was one of the dumbest things I've ever read. The fact that it was reversed by *just* a 5-4 majority is breathtaking.

JUST IN: NYT v Sullivan escapes unscathed at #SCOTUS as justices deny review of dismissal of law prof Alan Dershowitz's libel suit v. CNN. Justice Thomas joined by Gorsuch again complain that Sullivan standard is made up, but can't get votes for cert. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

NEW: The Supreme Court will decide whether Arizona (and potentially other states) may require proof of citizenship on state voter registration forms. A huge case, and I fear the outcome is predetermined. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Dear everyone who cares about USPS handling of election mail or its Proposed Rule to refuse to deliver mail to/from anyone not on its list: I filed a petition to the Postal Regulatory Commission, prc.arkcase.com/portal/filin..., in 2 parts. If you care, please SHARE & PARTICIPATE. Info below. 1/15

SCOOP: Conservative law professor John Yoo signs on to advise federal prosecutor Joe diGenova on his so-called 'grand conspiracy' investigation into whether Trump opponents broke law by ginning up Russia-related probes in 2016 & after. w/@kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

Here's the article about Tulsi Gabbard that CIA Renee wrote and wants you to read 😊. Lotta antivax nutjobs on X are very mad about it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Pro tip: secondary market purchases on the exchange are not an effective means of bribery; bribery being the only reason to buy into the president’s company, the value proposition is just not there.

Slavery is freedom, etc

Today on the pod: —Reflecting Pool arrests —SPLC vindictive prosecution —Trump wants the mailman to steal your ballot — and SCOTUS (ughhhh) with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I'd put Colassal Biosciences somewhere in between Greenwater Services and Four Seasons Total Landscaping on a scale of trustworthiness and competence. Trump always finds the worst goddamn people.

I'm picking up my neighbor from his colonoscopy in a bit and I think we should establish this as something any Gen Xer can ask or offer to another Gen Xer in a casual and chill way.

NEW: National Guard assigned to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool were instructed starting last week to detain anyone even *touching* the water and turn them over to Park Police for arrest, per people familiar @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

Our COVID prison class action is drawing to a close. We filed in 2020 and reached a settlement after six years of hard work. Still far to go, but it’s a big win. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Marcy is the best at what she does, bar none @emptywheel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviF...

UPDATE: My underdog won! Yay!

BREAKING: 6th Circuit rules, 2-1, that Trump DOJ lacked authority to demand entire MI voter file from secretary of state. Maj: Cole (Clinton)/Mathis (Biden). Dissent: Nalbandian (Trump). Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

"The election fraud myth undergirds two vital Republican projects: undermining faith in elections generally, and building support for 'solutions' that will wind up disenfranchising millions of people, most of whom vote for Democrats." — @lizdye.bsky.social

New in PN: Trump's disenfranchisement machine is besieging the courts "So far, courts have managed to head off this plan for mass disenfranchisement. But MAGA is fighting tooth and nail to attack the right to vote by wrenching control of elections away from the states. Every single battle matters."

It's a damn shame Democrats can't get hunky sexpots like, uh, Ken Paxton and Mike Collins on our ticket. Ladies, control yourselves!

1/ Today is primary day in Maryland (and elsewhere), and even as our political system is... shall we say, under a lot of stress, there's so much that makes me feel good about today. First off are the poll workers, mostly volunteers. It's always been a thankless job people do out of civic pride...