South Carolina House passes new 7-0 gerrymandered map at 12:30 am eliminating lone majority-Black and Democratic seat. Democracy once again literally dying in darkness. If Clyburn loses his seat a state that is 1/4 Black will no have Black US House reps www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

In simple terms, Trump is stealing $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars to hand out to himself, his cronies, his family, or even Jan. 6 insurrectionists convicted of assaulting police officers. This is truly unprecedented corruption, and American taxpayers will foot the bill. apnews.com/article/trum...

The Supreme Court should be an independent branch of government, but instead it's rubber stamping the President's authoritarian agenda. We need reform.

Day by day, we are watching the return of the Jim Crow South. We cannot be resigned to it. We must fight it.

Our immediate priority is to take back our Congressional majorities. But I'm also keeping an eye on the big picture: a democracy that reflects the will of the people. That means reforming SCOTUS by enforcing a code of conduct and expanding the Court to rebalance it.

🚨 @kamalaharris.com: Democrats must embrace bold reform. "Let’s invite ideas...about Supreme Court reform, including the notion of expanding the court...how do we push for statehood for Puerto Rico and DC, how are we thinking about the Electoral College.” www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...

🚨👀 @kamalaharris.com calls for expanding and rebalancing Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS "Let’s invite ideas, for example, that are about Supreme Court reform, including the notion of expanding the court." h/t @paulblumenthal.bsky.social

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

When Utah’s Supreme Court overturned Republican attempt to redistrict they responded by expanding their state Supreme Court. The assignment for @abigailspanberger.com & VA Dems couldn’t be more clear - expand VA’s Supreme Court (in addition to passing immediate legislation to redistrict anyway).

Politicians in robes. We need serious reforms to restore faith in our nation’s highest court, including term limits.

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

Georgia's supreme court elections are in just over two weeks. Voting rights were already a defining issue, and the Supreme Court’s ruling on the VRA has heightened the stakes.

Jeffries says everything is on the table legislatively to deal with the Supreme Court: In the new Congress, we’re going to have to do something about this Supreme Court, and let me be very clear: everything is on the table.

Everyone should be prepared for the current Supreme Court to strike down proportional representation bills (at the state or federal levels) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act with bans on partisan gerrymandering and new pre-clearance. You need a Supreme Court management strategy too.

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

We must break the supreme court

If Democrats do not immediately expand and rebalance the Supreme Court at their first opportunity, nothing else they do to rebuild democracy will survive and MAGA rule will remain entrenched.

Term limit the Supreme Court. Term limit the Supreme Court. Term limit the Supreme Court. Term limit the Supreme Court. Term limit the Supreme Court. Term limit the Supreme Court. Term limit the Supreme Court.

Callais is the last straw. We cannot protect or rebuild our democracy without structural reform to the Supreme Court, including term limits and expanding the Court under the next pro-democracy president. #ReformSCOTUS

Don't think I've ever seen @rickhasen.bsky.social this angry. "The Supreme Court itself has shown itself to be the enemy of democracy. [Democrats] have to consider reform of the Supreme Court itself, a conclusion I had been resisting until the court made this unavoidable." slate.com/news-and-pol...

NAACP President Derrick Johnson responds to the Supreme Court's decision to gut the Voting Rights Act:

Today, the Supreme Court eviscerated the Voting Rights Act -- the most important civil rights bill of the last century. Justice Kagan's dissent says the decision marks the "majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act," and "The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave."

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Is this guy even a lawyer? How is Trump nominating to be a judge with lifetime tenure??

Trump says Alito or Thomas should retire so he can put another MAGA justice on the Supreme Court: “It’d be nice to say, now I have somebody for 40 years.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/p...

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., responds: “As the President wages a war of choice with Iran, he’s now asking for the largest defense budget in history. Trump says we can’t afford child care or health care but wants to give a blank check to fund more military adventurism abroad.”

Punchbowl confirms what I suspected in a post last night. Thune reached a deal with Dems to fund DHS except for ICE and Trump rejected it. DONALD TRUMP is to blame for airport chaos - not Democrats.

The SAVE Act would require Americans to drive, fly, or even take a ferry to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Alaskan Senator Murkowski explains:

Trump's presidency is on life support. His approval rating is at an all-time low. Gas prices are soaring. He's waging an unpopular war of choice in Iran. His #1 priority — the SAVE Act — is floundering in Congress. The affordability crisis continues. And he's still hiding the Epstein files.

Are you in Wisconsin, and do you want to vote in the upcoming state supreme court race in 3 weeks? Your deadline to register to vote *online* is TODAY! Don't miss out. And learn about why the election matters: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

NEW: Confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to a new low, according to the latest NBC News polling. Details: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Exactly right: “We’re long past the point at which there are neutral legal principles that can be deployed to persuasively reconcile all of the Court’s behavior … It makes the Court at least look like what so many regularly accuse it of being: a font of partisan political power, and not much more.”

Tonight, in an unsigned order on its shadow docket, the Supreme Court stepped in to save a Republican congressional seat in New York. The Court is a tool of the Republican Party. It must be reformed (term limits, expansion, enforceable code of ethics, and more). #scotus

Saddam Hussein was a really bad guy too. He didn’t deserve to live. But his overthrow in April 2003 wasn’t the end of the Iraq War — only the beginning.

He’s lost his mind. Like Trump, Sen. Fetterman thinks war is a comic book — a fun story of good versus evil. But in real life, killing one bad guy can trigger a prolonged regional war, and geopolitical instability, that endangers American lives, kills thousands and turns millions into refugees.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

New poll: 65% support Supreme Court term limits and 39% support expanding the Court (only 32% oppose). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds... h/t @gelliottmorris.com

👀 pretty clear message coming from Americans about Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS for next leaders of Congress: +7 majority for Court expansion. Massive majority wants some kind of structural reform liken term limits. People are sick of GOP operatives in robes running this Court.

Alex Pretti. Renee Good. Has anyone been held accountable for their murders? Anyone?

How many lies is that? I can’t keep track.

Trump threatens us with a good time: "They'd like to pack the court. They want to put on 21 people. Pack the Supreme Court. Maybe they should do it. Maybe we would be better off if they did it."

Trump thought he could gerrymander his way to a House majority. But Virginians are fighting back. Election Day is April 21. Learn more: @fairelectionsva.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Republicans trying to sell new SAVE America Act as voter ID bill. It’s much worse. Requires proof of citizenship such as passport or birth certificate to register to vote which could disenfranchise millions & forces states to hand over voter rolls to Kristi Noem www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This absurdity was obvious even in 2016. Republicans blocked Obama from filling Scalia’s vacant seat. Even John McCain said they should refuse to fill it if Clinton won, effectively reverse court-packing. That same year, Republicans packed the state courts in Arizona and Georgia. Now it’s Utah too

Maryland state Sen. Arthur Ellis says he won’t participate in Senate votes to protest Senate President Bill Ferguson blocking the chamber from voting on Democrats’ new congressional map

Utah is the third state in the past decade where Republicans have packed their supreme court. Arizona and Georgia Rs did it in 2016 to secure right-wing majorities. North Carolina Rs tried it in 2018 to prevent the Dem court from overturning their gerrymanders, but voters rejected their power grab

Trump openly admitting FBI raid in Fulton County was a prelude to interfering with the midterms and attempting to seize control of state and local voting process