I truly hate SCOTUS decision day and finding out which of your rights you get to keep until the next Right Wing lawsuit threatens it.

Just finished Alito's dissent in the mail-in voting case and... it's so stupid. Even for him. THERE'S NO LEGAL ARGUMENT. It just rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "choice." It's not surprising that the man who overturned Roe doesn't understand what the word choice means, but Jesus.

I think overturning Humphrey’s Executor - during a DONALD TRUMP ADMINISTRATION - is best understood as a collateral attack on government itself. They want to destroy the administrative state, but can’t directly, so instead they’re going to let a chimpanzee drive the car and just see what happens

Thank you Stephen Miller for logging on to make sure everyone knows you're behind this racist effort. Shame on you, the President, and your klan of bigoted henchmen. America has always, and will continue to be, a nation of immigrants long after you and your cronies are gone.

You have to admit, fighting a full-blown war in the Middle East, but only when markets are closed, is a real innovation in the history of warfare

a big flag that says “SHAME” on it but just to fly when the Supreme Court issues rulings

There's nothing to even say about this. Obvious bad faith that makes a farce of the law. If someone said white people were "poisoning the blood of the nation" or called them "filthy and dirty," the court's conservatives would immediately recognize the racial dimensions. It's unserious trolling.

I can't even be snarky about the absolute bloodbath today at SCOTUS. Full on white supremacist bigotry.

Genuinely, we need Congress to enact a Private Right of Action act that says individuals damaged by a violation of some individual right created by Congress can, as a default, sue for both injunctive relief and damages, which shall be awarded against any violator if proven

My favorite journey as an attorney has been going from an institutionalist with deep respect for SCOTUS to now holding nothing but contempt for it.

I promise you if a Catholic had been forced to, I don't know, be nice to a gay inmate, the Republicans would have let him sue the entire state.

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

We knew that the JCPOA had worked to give us intel, slow their enrichment and stitch European and regional allies together against a shared foe. We knew that Pompeo’s “shock and awe” undid that success. We knew a country of 70 million people cannot be moved by bombs alone.

But it didn’t matter. Because Trump has a weird fetish for violence. Hegseth has a 12 year old’s impulse control in a fireworks store. Rubio was born without a spine, the better to slither his nose up into otherwise impossible-to-reach places.

Why didn’t we send Joy Behar then?

This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.

Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Won’t Have ‘Tolls’ but It Will Have ‘Fees’ lol www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/w...

Damnatio Memoriae Trumpi! It turns out this necessary task didn’t have to wait until January 20, 2029. It began at the Kennedy Center today.

For Jesus, sin is often a failure to bother to love. As I mentioned in the podcast with Hasan Minhaj, this insight is from the moral theologian James Keenan, SJ.

Right - media talks their way around it but THERE IS NO STRATEGY. It’s Trump waking up every day and applying his little pea brain to a problem he is incapable of understanding, much less solving. He always arrives at one of three solutions his pea brain likes. He rotates between them randomly.

Van Hollen to Marco Rubio: "This is your first public hearing since President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launched an illegal war against Iran. Netanyahu said he's been waiting 40 years to do this...he finally found a president who was both stupid and reckless enough to join him."

I’m proud of the work I did as an AUSA, and I say this with complete sincerity: if you’re an AUSA, and a decent person, who cares about your oath, get out. Get out now without destroying your reputation. A DoJ run to Trumpist specifications is corrupt and incompetent. The stink will stick on you.

Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

Holy balls, this opinion: "As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors . . . will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary. DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case." (via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s depressing how things that were seen as KKK-level racism when I was in college are mundane government policies and Supreme Court decisions today.

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

I can't think of any way you get an indictment on "8647" without lying to the grand jury about the law.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

Brutal.

Trump was elected to wipe the trauma of the first black president from American history, a task which included scrapping the nuclear deal that had the US in a much better strategic position than before this needless, unconstitutional war of choice against Iran

Wait so a deadline extension just means… the war, which is currently ongoing, continues? And what is “a deal”? Why does our idiot press insist on using these idiot terms? This isn’t a contract negotiation! Use terms like “ceasefire” and “armistice” and “war” and “hostilities” you absolute morons

Impeach Trump.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

Federal prosecutors in L.A. have lost every assault on a federal officer case they’ve brought to trial against immigration protesters.

/5 To expand on Point Four: the enemies of democracy and freedom are not just hacks like Wurman and Barnett, it’s also the people who demand that we treat Wurman and Barnett as good-faith commentators because they talk in law review articles or NYT editorials. Call evil evil.

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito fairly and accurately represent the values and character of the people who put them there and who continue to support them.

We are ruled by morons and it makes me want to light my law degree on fire

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

I think you can make a case Hegseth is Trump’s worst and most impeachable appointee: -used military secrets to make stock bets -interfered directly in military discipline for political purposes -racist discrimination against non-white, non-male soldiers -actively and intentionally antagonizes allies

In Minnesota, we stand tall with our neighbors in the face of hatred.

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

Love this energy from a law school prof to counter the absolute batshit nonsense coming from too many other professors who should know better. Proving again NIU has the best law school in the country. In 40k terms NIU produces the lawyer equivalent of Garviel Loken.

I notice that ‘straight’ news reporters and White House correspondents are all posting Trump’s ‘I’m glad he’s dead’ reaction to Mueller’s death with just a ‘here is the president’s response’. Very few acknowledgements of how insane and inappropriate it is for the president to respond like this.

WTAF Florida, go fuck yourself.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

They’ve solved the problem of mission creep, by not having a coherent mission at all

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now