Said it before and I'll say it again: A real problem with the legal profession's cultural norm of venerating the Supreme Court is that the legal profession never contemplated that there might someday be a justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh on it

really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

We did it for you Dick Cheney

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

MAMDANI: "We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great."

lol at everyone teaching first amendment law

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Senator Risch voted to keep Epstein’s files secret—ignoring survivors, deepening their pain, and protecting the powerful over justice. The public deserves the truth. His vote is reprehensible, and he must answer for why he's shielding Epstein and his network.

Yeah, I freely admit that I lacked the imagination to realize that the sharp, biting commentary of … Jimmy Kimmel … would lead to the moment that marked the end of the American experiment.

A timeline in which I have to rally behind Jimmy Kimmel. Dark times, indeed.

Congrats to Jimmy Kimmel for never bending the knee.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

In short: Happy Constitution Day!

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the Epstein Files are a distraction from the rollout of fascism, not the other way around. 🤷🏼‍♀️ We can take issue with more than one thing at a time. If fascism moves forward, we will never see the list. #idpol

Me: guys we gotta save public broadcasting from Trump Public Broadcasting: that Trump guy is on a roll go off king

Girl, why are you still saying “respectfully” when you’re dissenting from absolute horseshit like this

NEW: The Roberts court allows Trump's gutting of the Education Dep't in a lawless ruling. Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it." This afternoon, at Law Dork:

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

This is such an incredibly moving, important piece of work. It is something else to read an essay and know, as the words move from your brain to a deeper place within you, that it will be recognized with awards. That is not why Hanif Abdurraqib wrote this, but it is undoubtedly true.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

Being a life-tenured Supreme Court justice should mean you have to show your work

Justice Jackson’s criticism is spot-on, of course. But as Justice Sotomayor’s concurrence suggests, SCOTUS’s order looks like a negotiated compromise that leaves the district court room to block future RIFs and agency “restructuring.” So the damage is limited. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

i'm crying oh my god mamdanitimes.com

when this case dropped there were a bunch of legal commenters, liberals included, arguing that it wasn’t a big deal. this is our comprehensive explanation of why those people are stupid and wrong.

LOL. This is so great and such a perfect response to the absolute trash coming from elsewhere.

The best early-warning system for natural disasters is Ted Cruz leaving the country for vacation.

NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to send people subject to deportation to countries they have no connection with that are so dangerous the Trump administration advises Americans not to travel there. The case involves eight men the Trump regime wants to send to South Sudan.

Sotomayor: "Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."

My head is going to explode. ICE is recruiting by pitching travel as one of the key perks of the job. Like, travel *accompanying deportation flights.* Literally. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I think I became aware of Van Hollen when he actually went to CECOT to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Now I see him calling out the Islamophobia directed at Zohran Mamdani

BREAKING: The United States of America

BREAKING: The Supreme Court takes up cases over Idaho and West Virginia’s anti-trans sports bans for next term, along with three other cases.

Noah Feldman, legal academia's most incorrect professor, has a new essay praising the Court that just let Trump rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment for "keeping the Constitution alive," and I legit have no idea how any of his students are supposed to take him seriously www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t @monospace.com)

At least the Nazis had the good taste not to hand out Auschwitz swag.

When conservative justices start talking about the need to "protect the children," it's a pretty safe bet they're trying to take away someone's rights

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

once you've switched off your humanity enough to buy concentration camp merch, I'm really not sure how you could ever switch it back on.

"Six Supreme Court justices misread my children's book, the author says" Justice Sotomayor called out the conservative supermajority for botching the message of "Uncle Bobby's Wedding." So did its author, in an interview with All Rise News. www.allrisenews.com/p/sarah-bren...

Supreme Court decisions, especially ones like this, are complicated (and, frankly, scary). @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's coverage is incredibly helpful to everyone in these days

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

The defining feature of Sam Alito's jurisprudence is the notion that the most pernicious form of discrimination in America is "people not being respectful enough to bigots" ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...

Just like a woman in California has a right to an abortion twhile a woman in Missouri does not. That was the entire point of state’s rights. Some state have rights for their citizens and others do not.

More state mandated indoctrination in Idaho schools.