Personally, if I were filing a lawsuit to stop South Carolina Republicans from breaking up the state's only majority-Black district under the guise of "partisan politics," I would put Rep. Ralph Norman's "this district is WAY too Black for Republicans to win!" quote in the very first paragraph

NEWS: CAL RALEIGH BASE HIT (single to right-center)

An extremely courageous person who meant a lot to so many people.

Dems are still favored to win the House. But we can't ignore or downplay how Republicans essentially won 10 seats IN A WEEK through gerrymandering, lawsuits, and judicial rulings. This isn't the kind of democracy we should be comfortable with. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

I have a theory

We need a new phrase other than "they are saying the quiet part out loud" because it doesn't really capture just how enthusiastic Republicans are about keeping Black people out of elected office

i think this is good. he and other wealthy folk should keep talking about seattle, new york, and taxes. regular people love it. it definitely isn’t polarizing everyone further against them. and howard is a great face for this - beloved in seattle, really invested in the community and its prosperity

Hard to imagine a better illustration of the mendacious logic of Sam Alito's opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act than this South Carolina congressman explicitly arguing that Jim Clyburn's district isn't "conservative" enough because, uh, 47 percent of its residents are Black

I will vote for any politician in 2028 who promises to bring back Cal Raleigh hitting dingers again

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

I understand that there is probably a blog post that could be written about Neal Katyal's "I love AI" TED Talk and the howling conservative outrage over it, but writing that blog post would require me to (1) watch a Neal Katyal TED Talk and (2) read 5000 written by Josh Blackman, so,

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“Hey Ya!”, “Mr. Brightside,” and “Yeah!” are on the podium in some order. Honorable mention to “Umbrella,” “The Middle,” and “Party In The USA.” “All The Small Things” is close, but probably belongs more to elder Gen Xers. Next question.

The devil is not giving Cal Raleigh ANY type of grace period on the deal they made last season, huh

When I was in law school, working for the Justice Department was this prestige career that students dreamed about having someday. Now, Trump has so thoroughly poisoned its reputation that it’s dangling $25K to get people to *consider* jobs that literally thousands of lawyers would have killed for.

A very funny thing keeps happening whenever Kalshi lawyers try to explain with a straight face why the company's sports "event contracts" are not TECHNICALLY sports "bets," which is that judges are either visibly baffled, openly scornful, or both.

Nice diluted margins y’all just handed us, sure would be a shame if anything happened to them

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

"The insights of intersectionality and critical race theory may seem obvious or quaint 40 years on. But Crenshaw’s new memoir, Backtalker, shows how when it comes to race and gender in American society, what’s old is new again."

Well, no wonder Sam Alito was so sympathetic towards him

What's notable to me about the Alito-Jackson spat on Monday is how little Alito's opinion bothers with anything resembling legal analysis. He doesn't respond to Jackson, in any meaningful sense. It's just an angry blog post about how she really ought to be more respectful to him.

This book is, in my view, already in the canon of books—along with Evicted, Nickel and Dimed, and There Are No Children Here—that will change how you think about poverty, and our elected officials’ failures to help those caught in it. Thrilled for Brian, and for everyone who’s about to read it.

the thing about the frog-in-boiling-water allegory is that in real life the frogs in that experiment had their brains removed; frogs with intact brains quickly jumped out of the hot water. which actually makes it somehow more illustrative of people who write or are persuaded by 3-3-3 court pieces

URGENT: There is now a bill pending in the North Carolina legislature to designate "Raise Up" by Petey Pablo as the state's official hip-hop song www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/202...

Unreal stuff, here. One of the best and most harrowing magazine stories I've read. Strongest possible recommendation with all the obvious caveats re: you wanting to read something like this.

When two male Princeston students got married in the university chapel in 1997, Trump's Second Circuit nominee, Matthew Schwartz, wrote a column blasting the "gay movement" for pushing its "misconeived notion of equal rights," and for inflicting "emotional harm on "God-fearing Princetonians"

Neil Gorsuch is coming out with a children's book about the Declaration of Independence, and so far he's made promo appearances at National Review, Reason, and Fox News (twice, Fox News Sunday and Fox & Friends)

I know it’s early, but I think the conservative legal movement’s Serious Intellectual starting a tweet with “Let’s be real” and then arguing that the Supreme Court actually decided the presidential immunity case so it could protect *Joe Biden* is the funniest shit I will read all week

Pretty apparent from reading anything she’s ever written that Jan Crawford’s primary source inside the Supreme Court is San Alito

Getting asked to leave the zoo after I tried to get a LET THEM KISS chant going in the bear exhibit

you and me both my brother

Callais is probably the clearest example of why the norm that places the individual justices' decisions above public scrutiny needs to end. These guys said racism was over then every red southern state immediately rushed to disenfranchise voters. Alito and Roberts should be hounded by journalists.

Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

When I finished the opinion on Wednesday I vaguely felt like I’d read it before, and then figured out that I had, when Alito wrote the majority in Brnovich, which was ALSO about Section 2, and Kagan in dissent called Alito’s opinion a “law-free zone” with “random statutory words” sprinkled in

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Pretty interesting that the conservative pundits who were all over the media praising the Supreme Court for "standing up for the rule of law" with the Trump tariffs decision are suddenly REAL quiet about the Court murdering the Voting Rights Act

When the Supreme Court decided Shelby County in 2013, Republican states were implementing aggressive voter suppression laws within *hours*. They are moving even faster this time. Louisiana has already suspended its primary so that the GOP can draw Black people out of electoral existence.

Gotta admit I read the headline at first as "Andrew Yang" and thought, hang on, I may have misjudged the man

Generations of law students have spent three years getting indoctrinated with the message that the Supreme Court just "interprets statutes" and doesn't "do politics," meanwhile the real-life Supreme Court is just six Republican lawyers deciding that the law is whatever they think is best

Thought-provoking analysis here from the finest legal mind the transphobic blogosphere has to offer

So, let's be clear about what just happened at the Supreme Court: slate.com/podcasts/wha...

hey we’ve done this thread a couple times before but: if you’re mad and sad and scared about today and you haven’t read Carry Me Home it’s probably time you read Carry Me Home bookshop.org/p/books/carr...

Haha (so fucking angry I can barely see straight 👍)

From the conclusion of my @slate.com piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I'm not much for predictions but I'm betting this decision, more than any other except maybe the presidential immunity nonsense, will end up being the end of this particular iteration of the Supreme Court. Going mask-off removes any remaining institutional armor that protected them.

it is not judicial activism when it is going after what scalia called a “racial entitlement.” you know, voting rights.

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

I am pleading with whoever is writing subheds at the New York Times to recognize that it is possible for the Supreme Court to simultaneously "uphold" and "gut" a law, and that the former is not in any sense a rebuttal to the latter