#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157199

Literally yesterday I published an article that includes the line: "Basically, the freedom to fire agency heads at will—and replace them with cronies or not at all—is the freedom to redirect or halt agencies’ work" ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

BREAKING: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission now has no commissioners after President Trump terminated two members and the agency’s remaining Republican commissioner resigned. The bipartisan agency was formed to help states administer accurate, secure elections.

What Would and Should Court Reform Look Like? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The problem with Elie's analysis is that he doesn't consider that the justices decide what cases they take up. These cases weren't chosen at random - they were selected to advance a rightwing agenda. Liberal justices aren't being reflexively political by resisting the Court's wild rightward swing.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has called for Congress to curtail birthright citizenship in wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Trump’s executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

JUST IN: A federal appeals court has upheld a district judge's order blocking the firing of CIA officials terminated without cause during implementation of Trump admin's anti-DEI initiative. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is appealing a federal district court’s decision to block implementation of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order in 23 blue states plus D.C. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

fear not! it was recorded! just go to www.youtube.com/live/U4zM7qk... and you can still check out me, @elienyc.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social , and @mikesacks.bsky.social talking about how much the Roberts Court sucks, AND how to take democracy back from our judicial overlords

I spoke with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about yesterday’s decision in the birthright citizenship case. That this was not a unanimous decision by the Court should mute any inclination to celebrate unreservedly.

OUR BIG TAKEAWAYS: - The Dems pressed Vought on the proposed OMB Rule - DeLauro critized the admin for trying to make federal grants pass a political loyalty test. Vought denied this characterization, but refused to commit that OMB would respect Congress's constitutional power of the purse. 🧵:

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

Congress has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with the Supreme Court. It can expand the membership of the court, and it can punish it in several ways too. We simply need to fill that Congress with a Democratic majority that has the will to use that power.

NEW: On the anniversary of Dobbs today, the Senate is taking action on multiple of Trump's anti-abortion judicial nominees. This morning, the Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Matthew Byrne. This afternoon, the Senate votes on Mike Hendershot. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/senate-rep...

Congress: prisons that want our money must consent to lawsuits if they violate incarcerated people's religious rights Prison: ok Prison guards: * forcibly shave a Rastafarian's locs, leaving him bald * Supreme Court: oh the guards didn't consent to be sued lol ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lando...

The Court's GOP justices love to talk a big game about defending people's religious rights but they really only care about *some people & *some religions A Black man in a Louisiana jail is not one of those people and Rastafarianism is not one of those religions ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lando...

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...

Rep. Shontel Brown, Cleveland City Council members, assorted leaders demand answers from FBI on raid of voter registration group www.clevescene.com/news/rep-sho...

We talk to Rachel Levinson-Waldman from @brennancenter.org about the Trump administration and current Congress weaponizing the government to attack nonprofits and punish speech and viewpoints they don’t like. Learn more about this concerning trend in our new episode!

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Of course the FTC filed the lawsuit against WPATH in the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth division. This will almost certainly end up before judge Reed O Connor. It's a joke that the federal government can openly judge and forum shop like this. www.ftc.gov/system/files...

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Ken Paxton’s own party impeached him. His own staff reported him to the FBI. Now his own defense attorney is endorsing our campaign. Those closest to Ken Paxton know he's unfit for office.

Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.

@democracydefendersfund.org & @democracydefendersaction.org continually expose corruption and successfully fight abuses of power by this administration & its cronies This letter is part of a larger pattern of baseless attacks on people and orgs who do that We won’t back down

The @splcenter.org is being targeted not because it’s dangerous, but because it’s an effective civil rights org. Today’s hearing is a distraction. 55 years of civil rights work will not be undone.

"The argument is not that they’re acting in the interests of the American people; it’s rather that the American people can’t do anything about it."

"In Alito’s jurisprudence, it is apparently just fine to rail abrasively against rulings in favor of same-sex couples and criminal defendants, but it is inexcusable to accurately describe the consequences of his own decisions." mmmhmm Alito is both a bigot and bitchmade thehill.com/opinion/judi...

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Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Yaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.

The Trump administration unveiled a new proposed rule that, if implemented, would forbid grant recipients from using federal funds to help Americans register to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump admin's gender and immigration related restrictions on USDA programs like SNAP and school lunch. Judge Myong Joun (Biden/MA) grants preliminary injunction in this multi-state suit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order:

"What we can say with a great deal of certainty is that NHS England is currently relying on terrible evidence to make decisions about trans healthcare."

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

with @mjsdc.bsky.social on the earthquake of yesterday's Alabama order.

I'll say this for the Supreme Court they're making it easier for me to convince people of the necessity and urgency of court reform

Hard to put into words (even for me) just how lawless & partisan this is. It is the Court (effectively) saying that, actually, unconstitutional intentional racial discrimination is A-OK; the equivalent of the Court's slush fund for insurrectionists - but a legal regime for white supremacists.

We all complain about headlines on here, so we should be ready to praise this one, which gets it exactly right (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

Today SCOTUS allowing Alabama to press ahead with the use of a map that erases a majority Black congressional district makes clear clear that this Court has unashamedly set its course to dismantle the 14th Amendment brick-by-brick. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

JUST IN: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin won't commit to abide by court orders. via @JAscholtes www.politico.com/live-updates...

The Wall Street Journal editorial board in January on the new acting Director of National Intelligence: Bill Pulte is "an especially eager toady" whose pursuit of Jerome Powell was "Lawfare for Dummies" and should be fired "before he can cause any more embarrassment." www.wsj.com/opinion/jero...

Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.

Republicans criticize Bill Pulte, Trump's pick for DNI: Senate Republican Leader John Thune: “We don’t need a weaponized DNI; we need professionals there.” Senator John Cornyn (R-TX): “I see no evidence of any qualifications for that job.”

One of the wildest things about Kavanaugh's now-notorious quote is that there was ample evidence *on the record before the court* that this was untrue, yet he stated it as an undisputed statement of fact. Did he bother to read the record before writing his opinion?

An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.