This reminds me at around the RNC 2024 where the media were unloading puff pieces of how Trump was a changed man after Butler, which was obviously not the case to anyone who has followed politics for more than 5 minutes.

Dan believes the Kagan school of thought of being an institutionalist and trying to convince the 'other side' with supposed FACTS and LOGIC will win them over. We have mountains of evidence they don't care but that won't stop Dan trying to kick the football that Alito, Thomas, et al are holding.

The infamous John Roberts 2-step

All the hallmarks of the John Roberts special: "EO doesn't violate the citizenship clause but doesn't comply with the statutory scheme under (Major questions, non-delegation, etc doctrines)"

One of the things that drives me nuts are when Republicans do the move of “I oppose [depraved/offensive thing here] because it personally affects me”. Former OH Senator Rob Portman did it when he favored SSM after finding out their kid was gay, after spending years of opposing the right.

He’s writing an all timer of a justification of the Smith dissent, I can feel it

He has CTE

Why did they take two weeks to end up just to simply grant the case?

Countless right leaning "academics" (using term loosely) have gotten turbocharged towards being Trump sycophants over the past decade, Blackman included

Wallet inspector line and they keep using it.

He believes this stuff despite all the evidence to the contrary. Liberal academics are one of the few groups of people giving unnecessary legitimacy to the conservative legal movement.

Ninth Circuit conservatives upset that Arizona’s ”show proof of citizenship in order to vote“ law remains blocked cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Davis has always been a rabid partisan. He doesn’t care because bottom line is who has the majority.

CA5 (2 Trump appointees in majority) cripples NLRB enforcement powers from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX, citing removal protections that federal labor law gives board members and agency judges likely violate the U.S. Constitution. app.box.com/s/8i6jrb1kcq...

Garnett posting as if he’s not projecting. The whole conservative legal movement has been built on deciding issues beyond the text, see e.g. the whole project against the administrative state turning on ‘I know it when I see it’ major questions doctrine that happens to mostly go against progressives

Rao submitting another SCOTUS audition

Man, the most slick thing Roberts did in CASA was assigning Barrett the opinion because her writing so effectively hoodwinks liberal law professors it's unreal. No other conservative can pull off this kind of heist where people like Bagley are out here DEFENDING this horrendous opinion.

@profjpc.bsky.social re: Bove nomination. Am I missing something or is he not the prototypical fedsoc nominee with a paper trial (e.g. Matey, Porter, Bibas)? Like he seems to be a “conservative” judge from the Burger era.

lol one of his ideas includes legalized assassinations of politicians who are against his racist policies 🤡

Just a horrendous NYT article where Kantor simplifies Barrett's disastrous votes to statistics of how often she voted with the conservatives, makes sense given she quotes the very misinformed Sarah Isgur. Kantor even tries to downplay her role vote in Dobbs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

CA11 upholds the felon-in-possession statute (Pryor-Rosenbaum, Abudu) on remand and judge Abudu concurs to join the list of judges critical of Bruen's sloppy results and favors means end/strict scrutiny. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

"Muscular use".

Cannot state how much I hate the New York Times.

Dave is like peak centrist voter (low key moron).

Nothing from this bill prevents Trump from simply levying identical tariffs after 60 days/Congressional disapproval lol

This recession that's coming is the most highly telegraphed recession in history, in that it became nearly certain the day Trump was elected.

Significant chance she’s Trump’s seventh circuit nominee.

How soon before we get someone introducing a bill to repeal First Step Act?

Walker dissents with a "Well technically" argument that is clearly written as an audition to succeed the next conservative on the Supreme Court.

This isn't a surprise. Compare Alito's views on disparate impact on housing discrimination (TX Dept of Housing -2015), voting rights (Brnovich - 2021) versus when there's a whiff of disparate impact that would help a group he views favorably (Coalition for TJ - 2024)

Would be deeply ironic if Thomas’ self vanity is too great to resign and dems end up taking control of senate after the midterms

I mean, they're going to face the wrath from their base by not putting up a fight against Trump, regardless of the CR vote.

Same dems that are selling trans people down the river would have absolutely sold out gay rights 20 years ago.

Fewer academics in the legal academy have demonstrated just how rotten to the core they are in the Trump era than Josh Blackman and it brings me great pleasure knowing he was fuming when he wrote this reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Sorry assholes