Oliver is doing a murder

Remember in Trump v. United States when Roberts said presidents need immunity from prosecution for "official acts" bc otherwise the executive branch could "cannibalize itself" with each president "free to prosecute his predecessors" yet unable carry out his duties "for fear that he may be next"

I just don't think democracy is formally compatible with an apex court that views itself as unanswerable to its coordinate branches and which exercises its docket control so to hand down unreasoned judgments that reshape congressional elections in favor, consistently, of one party over the other.

slowly and then all at once but it’s not anathema anymore, they’re talking about it in the open now

The radio host said Hakeem Jeffries should "get [his] cotton-picking hands off of Virginia" And this Republican congressmember, Jen Kiggans, enthusiastically replied "That’s right. Ditto, yes, yes to that” Retire bitch

And this is why we melted ours the fuck down

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

it's v silly to me when people are like hmm let's see if Trump's judicial nominees are qualified as if 'Trump-nominated' and 'qualified' aren't mutually exclusive categories ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

Went from being like “this is stupid” to “as always, Karl Urban makes a good point”

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

The degree of political asymmetry on what judges/justices are up to these days, AND what politicians are doing to courts, is one of the most staggering aspects of our moment.

I can see Venus from my window tonight! I like when I can see another planet from this planet hehe

Republican partisans on the Supreme Court have gone from putting their thumb on the scale, as in the days of Bush v. Gore or even Citizens United, to setting their whole ass on it.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

"Supreme Court reform is the sine qua non of any progressive reform agenda. Without it, nothing else matters, because this court will use its power to strike down anything meaningful Democrats try to do." @paulwaldman.bsky.social / via @atrupar.com

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

Those who know, those who don’t know etc bsky.app/profile/anne...

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

I don't think we should see this *only* as Trump lashing out at sitting justices it's also a signal to judicial hopefuls: If I put you on a court, you owe me, and I expect you to repay that debt with your court rulings ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

Trump is only nominating people to federal judgeships who he knows will be loyal to him personally So if Trump wants somebody on the bench? You should know they ain't got no business being there! ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

aight I had more to say about this ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

Madiba Dennie always slaps. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

Supreme Court: the Voting Rights Act has gotta go because it's punishing states for perfectly acceptable partisan behavior as if they were being racist States: Partisan schmartisan, don't you see that Congress has knickgurs in leadership positions?? We gotta do something!

this 'counterproductive' point is one of the reasons why some local governments have been refusing to work with ICE--and why Trump has been losing lawsuits that aim to force those same govts to do so they are not obligated to do the federal govt’s dirty work! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

relatedly, “legal“ does not mean “morally justifiable.” We have many laws that are not morally justifiable.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Come work with us! Are you a *great* litigator with a love for teaching? We are launching a formal federal Indian law clinic--and are looking to hire a two-year clinical fellow to work with us and the great Professor Deborah Archer (also President of the ACLU). apply.interfolio.com/186544

there's a county in Alabama where Black people are literally getting sick because the government doesn't provide a working sewer system, and Trump's Justice Department is trying to keep it that way apparently Black people with indoor plumbing is "illegal DEI" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

managed to capture this great action shot (and my extreme amusement) during a family video call last night older sister was packing up her leftover spaghetti for today's lunch peep the lil bugger in the corner when her mama ever-so-briefly turned her back!

when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail, but this is why i consistently find haunting and spectrality to be an endlessly useful critical framework ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is not capitalism. It’s racism. Any Democrat running for office should be able to acknowledge that racism is real. If they’re not talking about racism they’re not worth voting for🤷🏾‍♀️ ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

hey i mighta been on to something: "The Court is not the sole legitimate arbiter of what the Constitution means. And any path to multiracial democracy will require asserting an alternative, inclusive constitutional vision and reforming the Court."

I talked to @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app about Republicans enthusiastically reviving Jim Crow for my newsletter

it's worth reflecting on the crisis in Lowndes County, Alabama, in light of the Supreme Court eviscerating the Voting Rights Act Black residents wouldn't be forced to live in filth if they had political influence and a government that responded to their needs ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

if you read the NYT piece out today about the Trump admin condemning Black people to live in raw sewage in the name of fighting "illegal DEI," please make sure you also read and share the piece I wrote about this over a year ago! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

It’s about time @nytimes.com covered this story. It was covered over a year ago by @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

btw I was able to go to the bathhouse today so my broken heart is mended 😊

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

'it's really OK for them to be loyal to the person that appointed them' should be all Democratic Senators need to hear from Trump to categorically oppose Trump's judicial nominees

I found this video again the other day when I was searching for a clip of this baby, who is now 9, playing 🎹 herself. She nags me to practice now, too. (I play a lot more again to try to model good habits lol) Happy Mother’s Day!

"upper middle class" bitch idk what you think that means but it does not mean "second home in manhattan"

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

here’s the thing about taxes like this, coming from someone who isn’t remotely close to “own a second home in NYC” but does very well compared to most people: they don’t matter you get a big tax bill, you go “ouch! that sucks!” you pay the tax bill your life changes in no material way, the end

Every year my husband takes my son to the thrift store and lets him pick whatever he thinks I need for Mother’s Day, which this year is a straw hat and book of sea shanties

From the Fort Worth Zoo (@fortworthzoo.bsky.social) FB & just in time for Mother's Day, freshly-hatched masked lapwing chicks (Vanellus miles). Native to Australia, NZ, NG, they're fierce parents, willing to charge/swoop at animals that threaten their babies.

background: this email is a response to my newsletter this weekend on the virginia supreme court decision, where i said it was wrong and democrats should ignore it.

I don't know if @aoc.bsky.social's told this story about orientation before, but I've never heard it