If the Court arbitrarily strikes down this key part of the fourteenth amendment, I think Americans lose any moral obligation to show any allegiance to the laws enforced by a fundamentally lawless regime

Yes, there is no valid argument against birthright citizenship, it’s there in plain language, and executive orders from President’s cannot change the law. For some reason, this clip from ”Bridge of Spies” comes to mind every few days, under this administration youtu.be/D2gLGW9w8Hk?...

never more tempted to abuse my platform than when someone sends me some insanely racist comment using their official, government name email address.

At the end of the show he looks at the camera and tells us exactly what kind of asshole he is. It was already not subtle by then but some people needed it spelled out for them.

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

The tell that this entire debate is bullshit is that if birthright citizenship were thrown out, the only possible fix to restore it would be to ratify an amendment with the exact language as the current 14th Amendment.

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A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.

Maontaining the pretense or regular order when it comes to DOJ is just stupid at this point. John Roberts should be standing up and leading the judiciary, defending it from this lawlessness. Instead he's encouraging it.

Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.

I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated

You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.” All how you choose to frame it.

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

The details are gross both aesthetically and morally, but Nuzzi played a consequential role in the ending of a sitting president’s re-election bid. Even if you don’t include her role in RFK then getting DHHS, that alone is worth discussing

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter

Hey Rich Dudes! You can give away your money and help…never mind. I see you’re busy with important stuff.

lol the ACIP committee let Aaron Siri speak for some 90 minutes and cut off CDC experts and scientists off after two minutes (sometime yelling at them to shut them up). Incredible stuff.

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Virginia's Democratic Senate leader Louise Lucas answers SCOTUS' biased Texas gerrymander with her own promise: '10-1.' Virginia is currently 6-6. www.rawstory.com/texas-suprem...

If only Bill Cassidy knew someone in the federal legislature who could do something about it

i am going to be equally honest, the USPS accounts for less than a single percentage point of federal spending despite being one of the most complex and sophisticated logistical agencies in the world, this is a crank hobby horse

I think FIFA might be corrupt.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.

we don't talk enough about Trump's pardon of Eddie Gallagher. Which, despite everything, is still one of the vilest things he's done.

I used to have to teach the NSS: What's in it, what it means, how it was produced. In this administration, documents mean nothing. Our national policy is whatever stray voltage is crossing Donald Trump's brain pan at any given moment. The NSS and other such documents are meaningless.

The top priority listed in this document is “Ending Mass Migration.” Hard to highlight a single passage here—this entire page is a pretty explicit defense of using the state as a means of enforcing white supremacy.

This document could have been 14 words long and nothing would have been lost.

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

The Republican Supreme Court justices believe that facts have a liberal bias

Texas clearly did a racial gerrymander, which is illegal. A district court found that Texas did a racial gerrymander, rejecting the new map because it is illegal. But the Supreme Court reversed it. Because? Must assume the gerrymanderers were acting in good faith (despite the evidence otherwise).

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this really isn’t an exaggeration

It is simply impossible to believe on this record that this would have been the lineup (or a stay issued at all) if the district court had found a racial gerrymander in a large blue state.

Kagan says, "Today’s order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right." @courthousenews.bsky.social Story here: www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Mark Warner: "I hope it would remind folks that J6 was an ugly, awful day, and this administration and president basically pardoned all the perpetrators. It's that kind of picking and choosing of facts from this crowd that makes me a little bit crazy."

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

HUGE: In a letter to Congress, more than 140 solar companies detail how the Trump permitting freeze on renewables is worse than imagined and hitting copious projects on private lands They’re asking Congress to intervene and say “bipartisan permitting reform” won’t help without forcing Trump’s hand

Kamlager-Dove: We also know that DHS has a habit of taking people to hospitals under false names so they cannot be located. This prevents their family members and lawyers from getting to them. And so we want to know: is this what also happened to Vicente?

Hegseth stonewalled IG, refusing 1) to provide his phone for IG to probe other uses of Signal; 2) to sit for interview w/ IG. We only know about Yemeni Signal chat b/ Waltz added Goldberg to it by mistake. The scale and scope of Hegseth's security breaches still remain unknown even after IG report.

It really feels like prediction markets aren’t gambling platforms as much as they are coordinated influence operations

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream