I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

Dems once again choosing Respect For Process over victory.

With the Corrupt Supreme Court, It’s Calvinball All the Way Down talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/with-...

John Roberts has spent more than four decades trying to destroy the Voting Rights Act and the Callais decision and its disastrous aftermath shows how nakedly political and partisan the Roberts Court has always been www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

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.

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In his opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, Justice Alito cited misleading data to claim the racial turnout gap has closed. In fact, it has “exploded” over the last 15 years — thanks to the Supreme Court, says @kevintmorris.bsky.social.

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

6/Congress has every right to reassert the meanin of its statutory language.This is not a statute, the Supreme Court held to be facially unconstitutional, or a set of doctrinal concepts built on a reading of the Constitution: it is a interpretation of a statutory text that a deliberate misreading.

1/@nikobowie.bsky.social and Daphna Renan, up with an important tools to constrain the Supreme Court: (a) stripping them of jurisdiction to hear Voting Rights Act cases; (b) requiring a change to the Voting Rights Act to have 2/3 concurrence; and (c) expanding the size of the Court.

Folks, these are the stakes. Black Americans spent a century fighting and dying for the VRA. It is no more. It falls to all of us to pick the work back up, and carry on. Lament. Rage. Cry. Scream. I've done all these and more this week. But it will take our demanding it for it to happen

But as of April 29, 2026, there is no federal statute in the United States of America that can stop racially discriminatory voting laws from going into effect, or can be used to litigate against them once on the books.

Yes. The text of the 14th and 15th Amendments explicitly gives the power to decide how to enforce these amendments to Congress. The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to enforce the Reconstruction amendments. By undoing the work of the movement, you are undoing the results of the Civil War.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

We're headed toward a Congress where like 40 states send a single-party delegation, indistinguishable from just electing everyone at large and a population-based replica of the Senate. Thank you, John Roberts, for ushering in this nonsense era.

once again the unbelievable arrogance of roberts et al is going to genuinely destructive effects on the entire country

Tennessee is going into a special session next week, with the GOP planning to eliminate the majority-Black district anchored on Memphis. wpln.org/post/tenness...

Black voter participation soared right after the VRA passed in 1965. But not until 1992, after Congress strengthened the VRA to require majority-minority districts, did we start getting closer to proportional Black representation in Congress. Because Black votes finally counted more in the South.

This tax season I had to speak to the IRS a few times, and each time I thanked them and reminded them of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's famous quote: "I like paying taxes. With it, I buy civilization."

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

Reform the Court doesn’t go far enough. Reform Congress for proportional representation. Reform the Presidency to get a popular election. Use this moment to dream big.

"You can only challenge the racial gerrymander if you preserve the partisan gerrymander that was the reason for the racial gerrymander" is tortured logic befitting Redemption or Jim Crow. The court effectively deemed the VRA and the 15th Amendment unconstitutional while pretending they didn't

Alito: blacks are turning out at high rates so it must be constitutional to rig elections via gerrymandering to deprive them of representation - otherwise they'd have political power!

1/People always ask me: when the Supreme Court creates bad law what do you do? Well, we can start with amending the Constitution. Between 1909 and 1920, we amended the Constitution, 4 times. We have not amended the Constitution since 1971. We might want to figure out some new amendments.

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

As SCOTUS was dismantling the Voting Rights Act today, I was leading a staff ride at Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American history and the campaign that permitted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, beginning a century-long path to the VRA All of that feels incredibly fraught

To say that I am concerned about the future of our nation is putting it mildly. But it is thus as it ever was, I suppose. Abe says it best. “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

Well, the Reconstruction Amendments were nice while they lasted.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2026

The Supreme Court's Republicans just gutted the Voting Rights Act, severely weakening democracy. By 2028, Republicans could erase many VRA congressional seats and entrench state legislative supermajorities across the South—and oust Black, Latino, & Native officials from local governments nationwide

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Everybody knows what “when It Happens” means and two thirds of the country will vocally celebrate when It Happens, however It Happens, while the other third will immediately turn on each other. www.todayintabs.com/p/ballroom-t...

Nashville could rapidly accelerate building world-class BRT on Murfreesboro Pike ahead of the Super Bowl. Instead, the state is blocking airport BRT to favor of a low-capacity tesla tunnel promised by a serial liar.

one of the single most important bursts of legislative activity in the nation's history happened because the governing party did not hesitate to remove their opponents from congress itself when they had the opportunity. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:

WATCH: Rep. Gino Bulso gets pushback from (Republican) Williamson County School board members on a bill to “bring (teacher-led) prayer back to public schools” and “teach the Bible as history” @ericwelchwcs.bsky.social points out kids already pray in school. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DTgF-Aa...

This was an execution. A murder by masked agents followed immediately by a cover up with zero attempt to investigate first.

Some economic stories are complicated. This one is not. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

What a colossal societal failure that our national response to this was 🤷‍♂️ Something something Every Day Is Jan 6 Now something something and the Republic faces an existential threat something No self-governing society can survive such a threat something by denying that it exists something something

Five years ago.

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