Uh huh

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Regardless of the ultimate outcome as far as the decided legality - this has been the playbook of the RW for a long time. Even if it is nothing more than a delay tactic, it's one that can be used. Until such a time as the law is declared void, go arrest someone for it publicly. Give them pause.

🎯: “The Roberts court has spent the last 20 years dismantling liberal democracy. … Its rulings have paved the way for the first [U.S.] quasi-dictatorship. … Congress should add as many justices to the Supreme Court as it takes to produce a bench that believes in basic American values once more.”

Humphrey's Executor has been on the chopping block for a while. But I'd watch your wallet with Question 2, folks.

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

Now at 13 days of a Roberts' single-justice administrative stay, with 8 days until the appropriations expire. (Technically, a court might be able to order the government to spend the money after that expiration date, but that's a whole new and different legal issue.)

To go meta for a moment, when Dems default to kitchen-table politics, they look for ways to make themselves seem empathetic and magnanimous. But in the moment the most important thing is accountability. www.offmessage.net/p/meme-ify-t...

Definitely feeling my age on this one. I know all or almost all the lyrics to all the songs in the top two rows; none of the songs in the bottom two. (Separately, I suspect that there would be different results for different subgroups- by race, region, etc.)

Timeline cleanse

I also describe three avenues for states to dissent to federal mandates and preemption here - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It turns out that states have a surprising number of options. See statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/202...

Trump Administration to link trade deficits and mail-in voting to autism.

As that paragraph makes clear, the ruling goes farther than immunity over communications with DOJ: The president, according to John Roberts, is absolutely immune even if he orders sham investigations against his political enemies. He could literally wreck people’s lives with impunity, unrestrained.

It also ignores the substantial difference in accountability b/t 1st and 2d-term presidents. And b/t Congress and (especially) 2d-term presidents. So Roberts ignores how the 22d Am changed the accountability structure.

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Reminder that in the Trump immunity ruling, the Supreme Court ruled specifically that the president has total immunity when it comes to his communications with Justice Department officials:

ask yourself this: if they're willing to order the murder of the crews and passengers of small vessels navigating in the Caribbean with no due process or apparently even evidence, and then proudly publicize their deeds, what does that suggest about what they are prepared to do at home

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

This.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Direct evidence of the President pressuring his AG to prosecute his enemies.

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Now at 11 days, with only 10 days left until the appropriations expire.

To recap, conservatives built an entire category of legal theory dedicated to the grammar-derived reading of precise text, only to take power and abandon written law altogether.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

I wrote about this (second item) last week, and I’m cannot believe that — 10 days later — Roberts’s impoundment case “administrative” stay remains in effect. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-rej...

Just catching up on this. Has Laura Ingraham already been fired by Fox News, or is that coming tomorrow?

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

I also obtained a Trump administration memo stating that the cost of shutting down USAID is $6.4 billion over 2 years. That sum could save more than 1 million children's lives; instead, it is being spent to to shut down programs that save lives. Help spread the word. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders." We're about to find out whether that's true.

i do like that The Mouse failed to foresee liberals voting with their wallets almost a full year into a boycott that is bleeding Target dry as we speak

Thank you, CVS! Got my COVID and flu shots from you today!

A letter from an emmy award-winning journalist who's been detained by ICE for 2+ months just went up via @bittersouth.bsky.social. He's in the US lawfully. "The government asserted that Guevara posed a danger to the community because of his reporting." bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

He resigned. This is weak, we needed better here. MAKE THEM FIRE YOU IF THEY DEMAND YOU DO SOMETHING ILLEGAL abcnews.go.com/US/us-attorn...

WTF

Put another way, and maybe for another purpose, name names.

And *this* is why "The View" didn't mention Jimmy Kimmel being forced out in violation of the First Amendment, even though it was the biggest news of the day. The hosts' paychecks will always come before informing you.

In Global Health Council, Roberts *alone* has had the district court injunction on hold under a single-Justice administrative stay. That stay may be allowing Trump to effectively retroactively veto congressional appropriations that expire on 9/30.

I wrote about Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, and the First Amendment for @msnbc.com.

I felt pretty darn good about this press release on Iger and Disney. indivisible.org/statements/i...

Excellent thread and op-ed by my colleague!