As always

Cannot stress enough what is happening at SCOTUS right now, and all of the legislation and hyperbole and rigamarole that preceded it, is all in the service of ruining the lives of about twenty people, most of whom are children.

Glad to chat with @wired.com for this article:

Come work with us! It's a rare employment opportunity: show up, throw elbows for what you genuinely believe is right, and get paid for it.

I wrote this for @assignedmedia.org in 2024. I’m heartbroken it’s necessary. But I’m still holding on to what I shared then.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Today‘s SCOTUS cruelty might be the deciding factor for some families to make the big choice to move elsewhere for the sake of their kid. They need our support. translifeline.org/resource_cat...

The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.

I saw the gorgeous new mural dedicated to Wong Kim Ark in SF Chinatown today! He’s the Chinese American who sued the U.S. government in 1898 and established birthright citizenship for all babies born in the U.S. It’s a huge mural and I could not get it all in one shot.

this is exactly why equivocating about trans rights in pretty much any dimension should be disqualifying for Democratic candidates, because the "safe, reasonable" positions are fucking traps

First (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is the two transgender discrimination cases. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Kavanaugh *upholds* state bans on transgender athletes in public sports under *both* Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

5-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point.

Kavanaugh is openly inviting Congress to end birthright citizenship--something which he has just said that he does not believe is a Constitutional right--by legislation, and making it clear that if he is still around he'll uphold it. If they do, I would expect him to be with a majority which does.

Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.

NEW: The Supreme Court will decide whether Arizona (and potentially other states) may require proof of citizenship on state voter registration forms. A huge case, and I fear the outcome is predetermined. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Glad to chat with @wired.com for this article:

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

Wonder what the hyper-specific AI billboards in San Francisco, which are utterly cryptic to most viewers, would say if seen through the They Live glasses

Waiting for the Supreme Court to tell us what scraps of the Constitution we get to keep is such a degrading ritual

A few times a year we all gather around the computer to find out which of our constitutional rights we no longer have.

Major Fourth Amendment win. Geofence queries are searches violating a reasonable expectation of privacy and requiring a warrant. Huge implications that digital Is different for the Fourth Amendment. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court won't review the dismissal of Alan Dershowitz's defamation suit. Thomas, joined by Gorsuch, once again calls for the court to reconsider (and likely overrule) New York Times v. Sullivan, gutting First Amendment protections against libel suits. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Here’s what I wrote in November about these cases, assessing that the outcome could change America. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru... I’ll have much more on what Roberts did today after I get some time to read and write. This will be my focus at Law Dork today.

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

She's worried that "When executing steps two and three, law enforcement initially sought unbounded dataand account information from all 19 devices identified at step one." YES!!! THAT IS MY CONCERN. What happens AFTER the pool is created has been totally ignored, but is the most dangerous part!

The Chatrie opinion reads pretty differently from what one would have guessed from oral argument. I was expecting a narrow opinion on the constitutionality of the warrant, in the govt's favor; instead we have a broad opinion on the search question broadening Carpenter, very pro-privacy.

As bad as the six-justice conservative supermajority has been, the fact that the Supreme Court’s mail-in ballots case was only 5-4 underscores how much worse things can get. If Trump for whatever reason gets to replace a liberal justice in 2027 or 2028, there will be five votes for stuff like this.

Among the grants today are a big voting case and a potentially big parental rights case relating to gender-affirming care. RNC v. Mi Familia Vota cert pet: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... International Partners for Ethical Care v. Ferguson cert pet: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court grants six new cases for next term and, among other cases, denies Trump's appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict. The $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against Trump in Carroll's case stands.

BREAKING: States are allowed to count ballots mailed by Election Day but received after Election Day, Supreme Court rules. Barrett has the 5-4 opinion for the court, holding that federal law does NOT preempt the state laws. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts announces that all remaining Supreme Court opinions will be coming at 10a ET Tuesday. Birthright citizenship, the two trans sports bans, and coordinated party expenditure limits cases remain. Subscribe to Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

*Tap Tap* Is this thing on? I'm going to post for the second time ever, to respond to today's landmark Chatrie ruling from the Supreme Court.

From Caitlin Vogus and Aliya Bhatia for @freedom.press and @theintercept.com: "Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalists’ confidential sources."

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

Here is the "WARNING NOTICE" federal agents hand-delivered. "YOU MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW" It's the second of these notices I am aware of. If you've received one, please get in touch: fire.org/alarm

Song for the Day: Go West - Pet Shop Boys youtu.be/LNBjMRvOB5M?...

Loving up San Francisco for the trans march and my time at @framelinefestival.bsky.social Trans people are magic!

"Extremely standard anti-surveillance precautions are also listed among the core elements of the alleged conspiracy: collecting phones and smart watches before holding closed-door meetings, using the popular encrypted messaging app Signal, and otherwise 'practicing ‘operational security’ ..."

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

I hope this young man is having a great Pride weekend

I got to talk to @law360.bsky.social about how technology is exacerbating the age old problem of police using their authority and technology to stalk women and significant others and how it's enabled by an ecosystem of unaccountability and mass surveillance.

I just don’t feel like we talk enough on this website about “So I Married An Axe Murderer”

Stay classy San Francisco

Happy Pride from car-free Market Street

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

It’s hella foggy and cold in SF but the Trans March turned tf out as always and it was joyous to behold. Everybody is so beautiful. Highlights included someone with a megaphone pointing out the Flock camera in the Safeway parking lot and a spontaneous lip sync contest outside the pet food store.