very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

Somehow in the midst of this insane mafia boss rant he at least is lucid enough to recognize that he’s going to lose the citizenship case. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

It'll be fun to see how partisan they can be on this one

Maybe start with the top

author of famed sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus blamed for creation of Torment Nexus

You really know you're not getting a gate anytime soon at Ohare when you see this outside your window

Reminds me of something I wrote recently in the Canadian context. Ever-more relevant with each passing day. albertalawreview.com/index.php/AL...

If it WERE possible to create intelligence by feeding giant piles of text into a linear algebra woodchipper (it's not) the decision to use, as a corpus, "the internet" would be frankly insane

What follows, morally, from the fairly unquestionable at this point fact that we don't live in a democracy? At a minimum, any argument from legitimate authority for an obligation to obey the laws goes out the window. Also hard to see how ordinary Americans bear culpability for Trump's crimes.

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

For your collective amusement, the relevant parts of the mass e-mail I just sent to my seminar students, featuring the grim recognition that Outlook is such garbage that there’s a real risk I can’t find papers submitted over e-mail, plus the silver lining that at least lawyers will get paid.

Time to frantically download seminar papers

wasn’t particularly worried before. now… i’m a little worried!

You're laughing but universities only say "Canvas, provided by Instructure" when they're in real distress

Well, i *was* gonna grade seminar papers... www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/u...

The DOJ is now a grift store for Trump's friends and supporters.

Random small town drama that just scrolled across my feed: apparently the police department of some town in Georgia criticized the mayor for having his wife work as city clerk, so the mayor dissolved the whole department? 😂 that's one way to get to abolition www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ma...

Sarah Fitzpatrick has just earned her place in the pantheon of journalists you do NOT fuck with, up there with Woodward and Chotiner

Random shoutout to @gowder.io for working with Cambridge University Press to make his book "The Rule of Law in the Real World," available for free in PDF form. Not only does that make scholarship more accessible, it lets me annotate and highlight it in Zotero. Thanks!

In case anyone was still wondering whether these people are all blatant gutter racists

<stifled guffaw emoji>

Golly gee willikers, maybe like the law firms, universities, etc. that didn’t fight back ought to have listened to those of us who pointed out that all of this bullshit was patently illegal on first amendment, due process, and frequently statutory grounds???

Well this is unfathomably horrifying. The private predators have joined the public ones. abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

What the fuckkkkkkkk? www.wsj.com/business/dea... How does Gamestop have money? Last anyone heard of it, it was a penny stock on a doomed business that Reddit weirdos were gambling with. Did they sell a shitcoin to the Reddit weirdos or something?

Trump’s racism is increasingly overt

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Oh what a surprise, it's the 5th circuit. (Also, does anyone have any idea what the underlying theory was? One would think the supremacy clause would handle mailing FDA-approved drugs...)

Can and must

My statement on the end of the old InfoWars, and the imminent beginning of a much better one.

It seems like a problem that Trump's "evidence" for directing his Justice Department to prosecute one of his enemies literally comes from the movies newrepublic.com/article/2097...

Some other people whom Trump has called "low IQ"

Medicare:Medicaid::Tornado Watch:Tornado Warning (I'll take pairs of things that really need more descriptive names to distinguish them for 500 Alex)

automated slapp machine

So Thiel and his cronies basically are setting up a bounty system to harass journalists who publish stories they disagree with. and of course it involves using AI to somehow judge the truth of stories because ✨magic✨. Every billionaire is a policy failure X100000 techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/c...

From the conclusion of my @slate.com piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Democrats have to have a plan to disempower the Supreme Court. That plan has to be radical. And they have to mean it.

Important to know how much the Voting Rights Act affects things like the number of black & brown people in Congress and state legislatures But I want to reemphasize the (more important to me) point that Black political power produced Black economic power.

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

Hah on the other hand sort of great for dissidents I guess. Just get a Trump passport and a red hat and then when CBP tries to harass you at the border you can prove you're loyal to the dictator

Imagining a federal government-Spirit merger. "Sorry Marine, did you want bullets for your rifle? That'll be $149.99"

Wurman, Barnett, and the rest of the clown car frantically trying to come up with a kind of originalism that calls itself "original public meaning" but defines public to only include ex-confederates

King Charles: I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the East Wing. I'm sorry to say that we British of course made our own small attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814.

Watts v. US (1969). No need even for an oral argument.

Will be interested to see the motion to dismiss. Really should read, Counterman v Colorado, enough said.

wait what the fuck? some U.S. attorney/trumpist hack seriously got an indictment against Comey for the "86 47" post? There is seriously nothing left of the DOJ. After Trump is out of office (MEMO TO TODD BLANCHE: BY LAWFUL AND PEACEFUL MEANS ONLY) I don't know how we get it back, if possible

Oh I didn't know this article, but after giving it a read... yeah. www.jstor.org/stable/20081...