Congress has the power to fix the shadow docket and establish other reforms that would bring greater accountability and democratic legitimacy to the Court, such as Supreme Court term limits. bit.ly/4sZ1wCR

The US government is basically acting like a robber killing hostages

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

Sotomayor said sorry. Thomas didn’t. That, plus the remarks' substance, shows us two visions of SCOTUS: "a court that would work for America: tough-minded, passionate and willing to admit error" versus "the court we have: smug, unapologetic and gleefully divisive.”

See you all at the Correspondents’ Dinner!

“When Democrats’ own voters complain about their party in their own words, the complaint is not that Democrats are too liberal or “weak and woke”, it’s that they’re not fighting hard enough, particularly against Donald Trump.”

VIRGINIA VOTES YES!!! The constitutional amendment passes. Democrats could now hold 10 of 11 congressional seats. Texas started this fight. Virginia just answered. LFG!

However! You can not under any circumstances draw any of the obvious conclusions from the fact that he's contradicting himself--ie, that's he's dumb as a rock, deluded, trapped in a bubble of sycophants, increasingly senile, fending off narcissistic injury, etc. Obvious conclusions are "subjective."

In my view, John Roberts's most impressive PR accomplishment is persuading an entire generation of Supreme Court commentators that he is anything other than a Republican politician who uses legalese to implement policies that Republican voters want

enjoy hearing from the secretary today!

US “guarantees” are worthless.

Ya think?

The comments are funny too.

However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

It’s so embarrassing. The highest level of one-third of the federal government spikes a groundbreaking climate policy with no explanation, and now we learn that even behind the scenes, not one single member deigned to think about the real world when deciding the case. Get out my face forever.

Yeah - time and again people have merely asked the court to maintain the status quo while the court decides the merits of an issue. And the court has decided time and again that the greater damage would not be to allow Trump to dismantle your government before they rule on its illegality. It’s nuts

"Trump and the people surrounding him have long pushed for a theocracy, an explicitly Christian nation. These folks are completely fine and happy when religious leaders weigh in … as long as they agree with what Trump is doing. But that’s not religion. It’s a cult."

The way he is drawing that bow is so weird and wrong. He even has the archery glove to protect the three middle fingers and then doesn’t use them. There must be almost zero tension on the bowstring.

This is how every Trump appointee should be questioned.

MAGA Christianity in a nutshell: a simulacrum of faith, dressing up violent fantasies with false piety and outright blasphemy.

⚠️ SWALWELL TO RESIGN

Best summary yet of how I see Trump's Truth Social posts: Trump Escalates Feud With Unclear Adversary By Posting AI Video Of Self Fucking Basketball — theonion.com/trump-escala...

Fun fact: 90% of the world's population lives within 40 degrees of the equator & never experiences a "dunkelflaute" or anything similar.

I don't think my day can recover from "I thought it was me as a doctor." Let's call it a wrap.

This is the future liberals want

This vulgar monument to egocentrism. It looks like Godzilla shat third-rate Vegas casino architecture.

I can get, haha, kind of unhinged about this. But "centrism" is as blind an ideology as any party membership can be. Fetishizing "neither left nor right" means you look past what might be genuinely good solutions just because they're associated with one or the other. This is pundit brain shit.

I have never met a "logical centrist." There is nothing logical about "centrism," at all: It's just finding the "moderate" position and claiming it *bc it's centrist/moderate.* What's logical about that? In what way does that forward best practices in policy or do the most for people's lives?

This should be the #1 issue in every congressional contest.

Yeah, that’s not gonna work. The only way you can make a claim against the federal government is by a procedure allowed by the federal government.

And that is in turn a reminder that the proper remedy for the current situation is the one that existed prior to the 25th Amendment—impeachment and removal. This isn't a 25th Amendment crisis. It's an Article II crisis.

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

Hey Dems, if you want to reach young men, maybe tell them that, if they allow Republicans to keep Congress, there's a non-zero chance they will die losing a war that Trump started for no reason. Everybody knows now that is a very real possibility, and you need show them where you stand on it.

Bravo to Pope Leo, for denouncing Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s ‘whole civilization.’ We need those with moral authority to speak out against our president’s abuses of power.

The proposed rule that would allow the Attorney General to block state disciplinary investigations of DOJ lawyers got more than 1 million public comments, almost all of them negative as far as I could tell. That's amazing.

Wrong. Under Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.13, a lawyer for an organization (like the USA) has ethical duties to the organization that override duties to the officers of the organization.

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now. No way. It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.

The BBC asked Karoline Leavitt to clarify the White House stance on use of nukes. Her 100% absolutely reassuring response: “The Iranian regime has until 8PM Eastern Time to meet the moment and make a deal with the United States. Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do."

As Trump threatens genocide and Republicans stand silent, a reminder:

The post to which I responded was deleted but this is still true. Any terroristic bombing of civilians should be followed by immediate impeachment and removal.

to be clear, the civilization that will die tonight if Trump tries to annihilate Iran will be that of the United States, the one he has always degraded most relentlessly and most successfully

Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum — theonion.com/trump-warns-...

Yes.

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

Cops arrested a Black pastor watering flowers The Alabama Supreme Court’s response? Giving bad cops *more* power to arrest good neighbors ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

There is some stuff that Trump does that is unconstitutional and/or illegal for complex reasons that lawyers and judges have to hash out in court. And then there is stuff that is just like, “Uh, the NCAA is not part of the government, why is he giving it instructions, what is he talking about”