One of the incidentally most notable aspects of today’s marijuana moves: Acting A.G. Todd Blanche relied extensively on Dr. Rachel Levine’s recommendation and report from during Biden administration. www.lawdork.com/p/another-st...

Now which IJs will volunteer to get fired for properly terminating their cases?

Part of how they got into this mess is because at the beginning of this cycle seemingly the entire political world (including more than a few Democrats) eyeballed the map and assumed the GOP would have an unassailable advantage in any drawn out fight. Of course they were unprepared for pushback.

This means there’s no serious investigation but he can’t say that

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

One thing I’ll add here: for all the issues of the Democratic Party I think people should realize how far we’ve come over the past 20 years on this stuff. The idea of democrats retaliating against the 2003 Texas redistricting was unfathomable.

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?

This is just not true! Some of it is Warren Burger’s fault! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

the next Mario Kart is set to receive realtime updates so that Nintendo can account for current gas prices and adjust gameplay accordingly

“a pretty weak +12 overperformance”

We should have never doubted this man

I said this before and I will say it again: if you have a disputed status, do not fly at all, the Mobile Fortify database used by ICE and CPB, is built on the pre-existing TSA database. And if I were the Democrats: I would refuse to appropriate DHS through regular order until 2028.

Hear the strange but true story about my grandfather falling onto the tracks at Park Street station and touching the third rail. (But thanks to his wooden leg, he wasn't electrocuted. The crazy story of his “lucky leg” appeared in newspapers across the country.)

A federal judge slapped a $250 fine on a DOJ attorney for repeatedly missing deadlines in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not trying to dunk on anyone but I think a lot of Americans would be shocked at the number of people who will simply never be able naturalize under current law, no matter how long they live here.

Attack of the Clones if Obi-Wan and Anakin had stayed together

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

They can't say "Trump just tweeted out something and expected it to manifest in reality without any understanding how it or whether it could do so" because then they'd have to acknowledge this is how he conducts 100% of policymaking

I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump

New interoffice memo that has no legal weight just dropped. I’ve seen ppl say “OLC held that POTUS can …” No. OLC memos are not court holdings. They’re White House lawyers saying what they THINK (or want) the law to be. If my lawyer says “sure, you can do X,” does that make it the law? No

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

how do you prepare for this case not expecting Gorsuch to ask an Indian law question

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

Gorsuch appears to be pretty skeptical of Sauer’s argument. I wish I could fully convey the disdain with which he said “Roman law sources” when describing the govt’s citations.

I think you could make the case that recent politicization has been to its benefit, though

Excellent Bouie piece on the birthright case. Especially how it points out that every academic backing Trump has either explicitly rejected Trump’s take in the past or somehow written extensively on the 14A without raising it (and implicitly rejecting it)… and have no new evidence now. Gift link:

I’m kind of half-convinced that even in the best-case scenario where it’s 9-0 against the government we’ll get a concurrence from one or two conservatives suggesting that maybe Congress could adjust the scope of “jurisdiction thereof”

"The trial court is where the actual stuff happens to the litigants" is a vital point for anyone trying to follow & understand US law. SCOTUS resolves a question of law but isn't the end of the story Ernesto Miranda was still convicted Evan Miller took 9 years to get resentenced & got LWOP again

Fun fact: If you ever find yourself thinking, "wow there sure are a lot of federal court rulings today," the odds are decent that the day is March 31 or September 30 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/re...

Extremely Cambridge-brained (derogatory)

Go on…

When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril

What if the line on the far left was always load bearing on every theory we have about Teflon Don?

The position of the administration, as I understand it, is that the accused killer should be immediately removed to his home country, where he presumably won't ever be prosecuted for the killing.

Ron DeSantis 1) Picked the state senator from this seat to be his LG, 2) Almost immediately had a massive falling out with him, 3) Had to be sued to hold a special election for this seat, and 4) Lost it anyway

this is part of how trump always gets away with it, because his behavior is so atypical and abhorrent, he short-circuits people into making side arguments that try to explain his behavior rather than just saying that he's a fucking asshole piece of shit

Well maybe the next time she kills a whole family they’ll consider taking it away for good.

My office fought to resume this project and now 400,000 homes will be powered by its 62 turbines. When I said I wouldn't let Trump stop Massachusetts from hitting our climate goals and lowering costs- I meant it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

my concern with people fixating on individual cases like this is that they're imputing specific malice when the real situation is far worse. this IJ denies 96% of all asylum claims. he didn't say "fuck Liam Ramos," he said "fuck all immigrants"

So Susan Collins keeps voting for the war huh. Probably won’t come up again

Nobody pretends not to understand that screaming "down with the Taliban!" or "end Islamist oppression!" at random Muslim-looking people on the street is anything but a form of harassment, regardless of whether you agree with the theoretical political objectives.

it's cool when a legal thing happens because lawyers will quote a transcript with HOLY SHIT THE JUDGE BODIED HIM and the transcript will be like "there appear to be irregularities in counsel's filing"

Same as it ever was

There’s so much going on just in the opening paragraph of this opinion www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

I’m not sure I entirely agree with this, but we will definitely read/hear versions of “love him or hate him, you can’t deny he shook up the status quo” until the heat death of the universe.