In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.

BREAKING NYT: A New York City panel just voted to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments — fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises and handing the mayor a major policy win six months into his tenure.

Yoda to centrist Democrats: "That is why you fail."

It's genuinely hard to take a "moment to take a step back and cautiously assess the latest Supreme Court decisions" within a broader context when it's clear that the larger context itself is fundamentally decimating the Constitution and spinning us into the abyss.

Do we now call Monsanto the "Kavanaugh Go" (Spray Roundup)" ?

This extremist Supreme Court just gave Trump the green light to block asylum seekers at the border and end TPS protections for Haitians & Syrians. People fleeing danger deserve compassion, not cruelty. We must reform and expand the Court immediately. www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/p...

The predictable culmination of Trump and friends' "they're eating the pets" campaign: the conservative Supreme Court refuses to intervene in the Trump admin's effort to strip the TPS status of Haitian (and other) immigrants, and somehow (absurdly) declares the illegal policy change isn't racist.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.

I speak to Haitians, both in Haiti and the U.S. on nearly a daily basis. SCOTUS decision repealing TPS for Haitians is heartless and so misinformed. Things have never been worse there, violence and starvation. So,so depressing.

It is difficult to read the Supreme Court's opinions over the last week and not see the general trend toward accretion of Court power. Interpretive philosophies like originalism give way to "plain text" readings (by judges) and historical "standards," without any specific guidelines. /1

This pretty much captures the current state of play of Supreme Court adjudication and US politics.

With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

Thomas taking us back to the formalism of EC Knight (1895).

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Wolford v. Lopez. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Alito (who has the next two rulings after this) strikes down Hawaii’s law prohibiting licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying unauthorized handguns on private property open to the public:

25 years ago, a Michigan district court embraced a bizarre theory about the limits on Congress's power under the Spending Clause—one that was quickly repudiated. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court's six Republican appointees quietly revived it while making it harder to enforce an array of federal rights:

Here's the link to Judge Casper's memorandum and order in State of California v. Trump barring the administration from implementing the proof of citizenship requirement www.bloomberglaw.com/public/deskt...

A federal judge bars President Trump from implementing a proof of citizenship requirement to vote.

Democrats will not succeed if they focus more on attacking progressives than challenging GOP candidates and policies that hurt working families and undermine democracy.

So @darializaforny.bsky.social is a PhD candidate in Sociology at CUNY. For the sociologists and Congress-watchers: would she be the first-ever soc PhD candidate in Congress? Are there currently any other ABD congressfolk? And: will her committee understand that this could extend her timeline?

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

KBJ's dissent: "The court reduces some of Congress’s greatest legislative achievements—federal laws that secure civil rights, environmental stability, healthcare, and more—to nothing more than the wheelings-and-dealings of an especially wealthy private party." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Jackson's dissent highlights the barbarity of LDOC's treatment of Landor in violation of his constitutional rights even as he brought a copy of the Ware decision.

Third (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Landor. For the usual 6-3 majority (noting a theme, here?), Justice Gorsuch makes it *much* harder for plaintiffs to sue under any federal statute enacted under the Spending Clause. Another quietly *major* ruling: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

First (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Cisco. For the usual 6-3 majority, Barrett effectively guts the Alien Tort Statute and forecloses aiding-and-abetting liability under the Torture Victims Protection Act. A really big (and bad) ruling for accountability for human rights abuses:

Here's the link to the decision in League of Women Voters v. DHS storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM USING REVAMPED IMMIGRATION DATABASE FOR VOTER ROLL CHECKS

Breaking: Starmer resigns as PM and Labour Party leader, Burnham poised to be next PM www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

Egypt defeats New Zealand 3-1, winning first World Cup match in nation's history

Salah scores, Egypt now leads New Zealand 2-1

Easily one of the best matches of the Cup

Cabo Verde has been impressive

Breaking: Iran holds Belgium to draw

BREAKING: Iran closing Strait of Hormuz over Israeli attacks on Lebanon

"Lewis George's victory signals a break with a quarter-century of centrist governance in Washington, and it puts her in the vanguard of democratic socialists who have ascended in urban politics over the last year.... abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

Progressive and Democratic Socialist Janeese Lewis George poised to win DC mayor's race. www.axios.com/local/washin...

Hungarian lawmakers today passed a constitutional amendment that would ban Viktor Orbán from returning to power.

At this point, waiting for the moment when "fertilizer shortage" and "food shortage" become central campaign issues in 2026

Florida Supreme Court green lights state partisan gerrymander that violates state constitutional provision barring partisan gerrymandering www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

Florida voters amended their constitution in 2010 to explicitly ban partisan and racial gerrymandering, and FL’s Supreme Court overturned the GOP’s congressional gerrymander in 2015. But Ron DeSantis has stacked the court since then, and his appointees have let the GOP get away with it this decade

Much of the debate in Saba comes down to the use of legislative history. Barrett's majority opinion rejects it. KBJ's principal dissent embraces it. Kagan, below, tries to split the difference (but still dissents). www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"More than 333,000 Missourians lost Medicaid coverage from January 2025 through February 2026, with nearly 92% dropped because of paperwork issues — not because the state determined they no longer qualified." This is *before* complex work requirements are in place.

Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."

Great article on Post Modern Times, the now donation only Minneapolis restaurant that offers food to customers even if they cannot pay. Imagine a nation and world where this became the norm www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/d...

Raman overtakes Pratt in LA Mayor's race.

"In an order throwing out the breach-of-contract case, the judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier, wrote.. the Kennedy Center failed to prove..Chuck Redd, a jazz musician and. host of the institution’s holiday program, had signed a contract to perform as he had in years past." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

Raman now only trails Pratt by less than 7,500 votes, still about 194k votes to count.