You can land in contempt of court for violating a court order. There's an argument for treating the violation of the Epstein Transparency Act as the violation of an order. It's not a statute with general application. Only the DOJ can violate it.

Defying a subpoena is one thing that can land you in contempt of court, but it's not the only thing. There's reason to think that might have a parallel in Congress. In what I think is the earliest case on the subject, Anderson v. Dunn, there doesn't appear to have been any subpoena at all.

So... it's not entirely clear to me that inherent contempt requires that there be a subpoena issued and then flouted. In practical terms, that is what Members will likely insist on as grounds for their vote. But I'm not convinced it's actually necessary. Maybe a good idea, but not a requirement.

How are you going to know which horse they gave the hammer to?

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Broader lessons should be learned from the centrist establishment's mistaken belief they could maintain popular support for Israel by allying themselves with the right and wagging their fingers at the left.

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

The reason we’re at a pivotal moment in America is because most people don’t know how to answer this question: “How do you know when you’re really no longer living in a democracy?” hartmannreport.com/p/the-day-am...

Decent start, now also explain how you're going to break up the TV-station conglomerates that gave Carr the leverage

Not dumbest, laziest and completely lacking ambition beyond in-house careerism.

A politician welcoming the feds of any stripe into our cities is the same as welcoming ICE. There is no other way to put it. Very disappointing words to hear in the face of this invasion

Damning review in Motor Trend of the Tesla Model Y from their long-term reviewer: "There’s so much I dislike about the Model Y that I don’t even need to consider the fraught sociopolitical aspects of modern Tesla ownership..." www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023...

A new paper by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin has found that countries where men take on more of the household labor and child care — in other words, those who buck traditionalism’s standards of the provider husband and homemaker wife — have higher fertility rates.

I was just writing some notes about this for myself. There are two basic approaches: 1) Break the power of the court, or 2) capture its power from the radical right. Capture is technically easiest: just expand with a Dem president to appoint 5-7 new justices. Straightforward, but yes, arms race.

Breaking its power means changing how it operates. "Circuit-izing" the court by expanding it & having it hear cases on randomly selected panels weakens it by dividing it internally. Adding members randomly from the circuits also; so does reforming the cert power to abolish the shadow docket.

Harry and Louise sitting at their kitchen table killed Hillarycare in 1993 (back when anyone knew what this means) and elderly Dem electeds have thought ever since that it was the table that was the silver bullet and can't stop trying to recreate it. Sheer gerontocratic cargo cult all the way down.

Those comments about 'Popeye's doesnt fit in our community" are a lot more ominous when you know Evanston has a large black population basically centered around the location of the proposed store and that it already is littered with fast food restaurants. data.census.gov/profile/Evan...

Third: The text of the Constitution promises that appointment to the federal judiciary is for “good behavior,” which is a term with a commonly accepted meaning at the time that can be redefined. Moreover, it says being a federal judge is a good behavior gig—not the circuit or role.

I’m just saying that we could absolutely make 18 year terms for SCOTUS justices by rotating them off of the court and onto another circuit.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state. 2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Religion aside: Cooper is also a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA), a tradition that openly ordains LGBTQ folks. Also among their number is Rep. Sarah McBride who, in addition to being the first openly trans person elected to Congress, is an ordained PC(USA) elder.

I know it's not as heroic as not bothering to try to run the clock out on NPR/PBS cuts because you have a flight to catch, but what would the opportunity costs of trying to hound Trump from office even be?

guess who was the head of the party www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The Democratic Party has much more capacity to discipline the mainstream media than the mainstream media has to discipline the Democratic Party; they just refuse to use this leverage because it is more important to them to have the media’s assistance in their shared goal of disciplining the left.

this post reminded me, masked vigilantes were such a scourge that Congress made it a felony to "go in disguise upon the public highway" for the purpose of interfering with the free exercise of constitutional rights in the Enforcement Act of 1870

Idk if this law is still on the books, but if it is, Dems could promise to enforce it the moment they have power again and significantly change the incentive structure faced by ICE agents

"75 Democrats broke ranks to join Republicans voting for a House resolution, which expressed gratitude for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other law enforcement officers." www.newsweek.com/democrats-ic...

It is not the job of a good message to say what is popular. It is the job of a good message to make popular what we need said.

Yesterday I had to red pill a friend with a reliably liberal voting record about trusting the NY Times. It’s another reminder how much of an outlier liberals who understand the NY Times being a problem is.

Here’s the thing: I think a genuinely adversarial stance would actually draw a bigger audience. Call me crazy. I think there’s an appetite for it, and not for this bland crap that focuses on settling scores with out of office democrats

This is what the DC consultants don't want us to do at all costs - have a human reaction to these psychos. We're missing this energy, and this energy is good.

The firms that capitulated to Trump are facing a nightmare that will last longer than their reprieve. My @nytimes column. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

When Dems use the Race Class Gender Narrative, they have an easy to use, repeatable formula: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bqP...

Kansas and Nebraska have been galloping toward the Democrats the last 25 years but no one has noticed because Ds started in such a massive hole in the first place.

“So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom theonion.com/gavin-n...

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

This is so important. So many of us are freaking out all the time - my neighbor says his shrink told him 80% of her patients are bringing up anxiety about the ongoing catastrophe - but so few top Dems seem to reflect our urgency, fear and anger.

Framing foreign election stories in blatantly untrue ways to make Trump look better obviously makes no journalistic sense unless… as @mtsw.bsky.social says …

NYT: We found a technicality - anti-Trump Australian landslide DOES NOT COUNT he's still the Birthday Boy. The Conservatives did not lose in the first round (they still got fewer votes in the first round pmn the way to losing parliamentary seats 2-1).

NYT: Queer that some say Australian Conservative meltdown is Trump’s fault, he wasn’t mentioned. Trump’s Campaign Manager: I ran the Conservative campaign. Labor: Trump Trump Trump Australian Media: OMG does every word in this campaign have to be “Trump Bad?” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...

This is really good… …and of course men *are* in “crisis” and have been since the 19th century, that “crisis” being the declining relative economic value of upper body strength and declining child mortality, making it less economically valuable for women to make childbirth the work of their lives.

Not loving that J. Quincy’s arguments in the Amistad case are so freaking relevant.

The.JQA.Renaissance.Is.Finally.Happening.