if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

We might be stuck with precedent we ourselves established, and could you imagine a Democrat with this power?

Is illegally moving a bunch of money around to pay the troops good for Trump’s brand? Probably. Will it keep the government shut down even longer? Almost certainly.

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

I want to thank the reporters (writers, camera people, everyone involved) who are doing their best to keep the public informed.

Yes. Also banned by the same order (1(h)): "Using force, such as pulling or shoving a person to the ground, tackling, or body slamming an individual who poses no immediate threat of physical harm to others, unless necessary and proportional to effectuate an apprehension and arrest"

Presidents and governors shouldn't be able to deploy National Guard troops from one state to another if that state's governor objects. That is common sense, and yet Republicans just blocked my amendment to stop this blatant abuse of power. Another shameful abdication of duty.

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

Warren: "Knock 15 million people off their coverage, drive up the cost for everyone else, close rural hospitals -- that's the Republican plan, because you know what the real heart of it was? They gave away a trillion dollars to the billionaires. That was the part that matters to them."

They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism. Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness.  I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Anyone who votes to end birthright citizenship as it is understood now, in defiance of clear law and the tradition they claim to value? They are voting to create a permanent underclass of rightness, stateless people in the United States. They are voting to bring back slavery.

But the question of whether we can MacGyver around the constitutional framework we have to make them less relevant is different from the question of whether they need to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

If they let this go, in service to this tyrannical fascist and the horrible fascism that is gripping this nation, they are saying that all of the high and mighty solutions they proclaim we have do not exist, so long as they are in charge.

Every time SCOTUS has taken a right away, they've spoken all high and mighty about well, pass laws, or well, amend the Constitution. We fucking did that.

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.

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When people say dems should oppose abortion it is because they oppose abortion, not because of any polls.this isn't even new, it has been true everywhere dems have any chance of winning for decades. Some people get more socially conservative as they age and pretend it is polls or science or whatever

Fuck this bullshit. @chrisgeidner.bsky.social has been on the frontline for our community for a very long time. He’s also been on the SCOTUS beat as a whole for a very long time.

can't stop thinking of how little kids died in chapel, praying on the first day of fall term, but somehow Charlie Kirk--a man who accepted school shootings as the guarantor of unconstrained gun access--is the martyr. may God have mercy on the innocent; Charlie Kirk was not of them.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

This is fucking insane

And he is arguing this point (in this piece, arguing it with, jfc, fellow politics-doer Ben Shapiro) as if anyone in the GOP is remotely invested in this kind of detente. They aren't. They want to hurt us. Period. And his contribution is to wring his hands about how WE are contributing to division.>

Klein earnestly believes we all have to learn to live together even if we "believe different things." For him, it's ONLY about belief and opinion. He is not in a category in which his reproductive rights would be abridged, his marriage would be nullified, his accomplishments dismissed as "DEI." >

/5 But if I am willing to go anywhere and tell anyone that black people don't deserve to be where they are, that Jews are funding the destruction of America, and that gay people should be stoned, does that make me a hero? Seems like a low bar.

Right now they’re calling Democrats domestic terrorists without evidence. That is a bigger fucking threat to this so-called democratic experiment than another fucking shooting, a thing we have waved off for my entire adult life.

You also need to say this shit when people get fired for mentioning their personal gender or get roughed up for looking at ICE the wrong way. Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

RFK Jr. would be nothing without the "MAHA Moms": privileged women who believe they understand health care better than doctors. On "Standing Room Only," I explore their motivations. Are they well-meaning idiots? Or are they complicit in RFK's evil? youtu.be/zEfOfxBivls?...

I mean, I’m not sure you should make fun of cultural or religious dietary restrictions if you are literally afraid of salsa.

My law firm is currently litigating 52 voting and election cases in 23 states. This includes the Ohio case we filed on Friday night and the redistricting case challenging Texas' new congressional map. I am thankful for our clients willing to wage these fights. They, not the lawyers, are the heroes.

This is a truly bad order for several reasons. It more aggressively holds lower courts to unreasoned shadow docket decisions in later cases with post hoc explanations. It also goes further down the path of Barrett’s awful opinion for the court in the “universal injunctions” CASA case.

Congressional Republicans have decided corruption is legal *for this one guy,* the media has decided that 34 felony convictions don't matter *for this one guy*, honestly historians are going to be fucking BAFFLED by how any of this happened

If you find yourself arguing that human beings shouldn't be provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste, you are the 1000% the baddies. The lawyers making this argument for the government should be shunned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If there’s anything Vichy about this, it was baked into the fact that you’ve never given us statehood.

On the 5th Amendment issue, note that we won a similar lawsuit years ago about the Tucson Sector Border Patrol. Detention conditions lawsuits for civil immigration detention are 5th Amendment due process, not 8th Amendment (no criminal punishment). www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/litigation/c...

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

I’m a little down in the dumps right now. I need a video of Alan Dershowitz trying to buy some baklava from a lesbian

one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims

Our @lizdye.bsky.social is back with another @legaleagle.tv video, this one breaking down Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on Trump's creepy "birthday gift" to Jeffrey Epstein. Or as Liz calls him, the Pervert Who Has Everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg7y...

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