Three attorneys general to watch: Maine AG Aaron Frey, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and California AG Rob Bonta

January 13, 2026 - Oral arguments re trans participation in sports @SCOTUS

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

@hilakeren.bsky.social analyses the US v Skrmetti case which marks a significant & devastating departure from the constitutional principle of equal protection. Read more on the judicial sleight of hand leading to wrong interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/deep-denial-...

I am very grateful for the invitation and publication by the Oxford Human Rights Hub. This is not normal and should not be normalized. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/deep-denial-...

This is a horrifying and alarming firing, yet more evidence, as I have written repeatedly, that the Washington Post no longer serves the community in its name.

My Bloomberg Law insight on how the administration censors California, trying to erase any mention of gender identity and trans students from sex education, and does so while emboldened by SCOTUS' recent decisions. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

I am so sorry, but this is how bad it is, and writing about it as it happens is one way to resist, so I did (while citing @mjsdc.bsky.social). This is constitutional rights for me and not for thee! slate.com/news-and-pol...

Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:

THURSDAY: @heightenedscrutinydoc.com Q&A screening. Join @samfeder.bsky.social at @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social in Pleasantville, NY! 🎟️: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/heig... #heightenedscrutiny

1. State AGs have sued Trump for intimidating providers from providing trans care. Meanwhile, institutions are dropping trans people left and right out of fear of Trump. Suing Trump isn't enough. State AGs MUST enforce equality laws against cowardly orgs. Subscribe to support my journalism.

New baby paper submitted! Download it, please. "Constitutional Opportunism" tells how the Supreme Court takes an active part in the conservative attack on LGBTQ people. Hope student editors see the urgency because we have conversion therapy and participation in sports on the docket for next term.

JUST IN: A judge has certified a nationwide class aimed at blocking the effects of Trump's birthright citizenship order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill! Huge news!

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

Last night, I was at a special screening of Heightened Scrutiny - a new documentary about @chasestrangio.bsky.social and the fight for access to gender-affirming care. I laughed, cried, got mad at the media, and was inspired to continue fighting. The movie is a MUST! and Chase Strangio is a hero.

I wrote about how US v Skrmetti is devastating and wrong, but there are two other ways in which bans on gender-affirming care are unconstitutional, which are still challenged in courts. news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

The Supreme Court just ruled against trans rights. Join us outside the court for an emergency rally at 3:00 pm today to show we won't be silenced.

Read the dissents first because there's no way that trans liberation won't happen at some point. Just not today, sadly. And when it does happen, all these transphobic bellends will pretend they were always for trans rights. I'm disgusted.

What a dishonest "decision" (#Skrmetti). One day, no one will believe it was written. Until then, many will suffer terribly. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Beyond devastating. The cruelty and idiocy of this ban is mind-numbing. So many brave men and women, serving their country honorably in uniform, purged from the ranks because of the president's vile, unvarnished bigotry. My heart breaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

LA showed up today!

I love you Seattle. #abolishice #nokings

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

BREAKING AND BIG:

“I just absolutely refused to even countenance the idea that there was nothing that could be done for my kid.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/skrmet...

If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.

Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age. We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.

It means he’s a Republican.

My soundtrack for Paris is @leahlitman.bsky.social new book! Can't wait...

In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Good news from Montana--a state court has struck down a gender affirming care ban, calling the ban what it is: an ideological attack on transgender people. Many state constitutions offer more protection against gender discrimination than the federal one. www.aclumontana.org/sites/defaul...

The one big thing behind the Supreme Court's radical right turn.

A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.

2/2: "Such institutions may be destined to pass away. But it is the duty of the Court to be last, not first, to give them up."

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Just finished a discussion with worried medical students. The assault on doctors' integrity that is wielded to defeat gender-affirming care threatens their future. I hope the medical organizations that published this opposition are going to fight back and help the next generation of doctors.

Just terrifying and immoral

@kateshaw.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social

1. In a new leaked memo, Pam Bondi is directing the DOJ to go after trans care providers under "anti-FGM" laws. She also has directed the investigation of HRT manufacturers. She calls transgender people "infectious." The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

this is just horrifying

@strictscrutiny.bsky.social made my day. Between the government insisting on dude process, and the appointment of an embryo from Idaho to the judiciary, I almost forgot how scary this is. Thank you, wonderful ladies of justice @leahlitman.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social

Today’s “One First” takes a (very) deep dive into Justice Alito’s Saturday night dissent in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemy Act case—and how it attempts to invent a series of procedural objections to the majority’s intervention that … simply don’t exist: www.stevevladeck.com/p/145-justic...

NEW: We discuss the ongoing Alien Enemies Act litigation; the prospect of SCOTUS review in birthright citizenship cases; & preview what SCOTUS is up to this week. (Spoiler: It's not looking great.) @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social crooked.com/podcast/is-t...

In the 10 days since this was last before the 4th Cir, the govt's conduct has pushed Judge Wilkinson from seeing this case as "complex" to one that "is not hard at all." His 4/7 concurrence on the left, and today's opinion on the right: bsky.app/profile/chri...