May the Fourth Be With You!

*clears throat* literatibookstore.com/book/signedl... in a TX case, SCOTUS said federal courts were wrong to pause a map they found illegal *in Dec 2025* bc that was too close to election. now, in a LA election already underway, SCOTUS jumps in to alter the state map - & free LA to do more.

Not only does the Roberts Court selectively apply the Constitution, even when they determine something is unconstitutional, they selectively decide when that matters

Same energy:

stars wars day, is it

May the Fourth Be With You!

I refuse to recognize “compute” as a noun. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

There tends to be an overly heavy focus on Trump himself, when the key failure in the system is Republicans in Congress. The founders knew someone like Trump might get elected. But they never anticipated such craven allies in Congress. My latest at Wamo: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/29/r...

Anyone remember the Purcell doctrine, saying courts shouldn't change electoral districts too close to the election because it might cause confusion? Remember how SCOTUS applied it six months ago to say it was already too late to invalidate the Texas districts? Funny how that didn't happen in Callais

"Hambre en la escuela, Festín en la Moneda" (Hunger in school, feast in la Moneda [presidential palace]) Santiago centro, May 1, 2026

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

Over the past 14 years, Antofagasta has attracted significant fines and sanctions from the country’s environmental watchdog.

It’s darkly humorous that one of the few industries to stand up to Trump is the petroleum business bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Undoing my repost of Alan's piece from March so I can repost this again now because damn if it isn't even more relevant this week.

Happy International Workers’ Day to those who celebrate. Santiago, Chile, May 1, 2026

Just one more example why these platforms need to be broken up and their power reined in.

Reconstruction, according to my high school U.S. history class, was all about Radical Republican carpetbaggers taking advantage of a beaten South. And this was in Wisconsin.

The racism, was, indeed the point. My colleague @juliaazari.bsky.social has written a great book, press.princeton.edu/books/hardco..., on this question, because it leads to the next President doubling down on the racism.

The Gavin Newsome of mayors.

I’m not even sure we deserve commentary this good. Best thing you can listen to all day, I reckon. The main takeaway is that the problem isn’t the court’s ideology. The problem is American juristocracy. Once you see that, the game is cascading, interwoven remedies.

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

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Not a Mills fan but I’m also not looking forward to Fetterman 2.0.

I’m all for these, but the Supreme Court needs to be fundamentally reconceputalized and reformed.

“Orban files” llega a EE.UU.: congresista pide investigar a grupo de ultraderecha vinculado a Kast

theres just no coming back from this without a complete tear down and rebuild of some of our most major institutions

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

fondly recalling Biden's Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and its 300-page memo which advised, more or less, "Keep on truckin'" www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sites/defaul...

Well I’m glad John Roberts ruled in Shelby County that all these states were no longer racist otherwise this might be cause for concern.

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This is a lawless authoritarian government that needs to be removed from power but in the meantime should be entrusted with domestic spying powers.

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.

in retrospect, Fifteenth Amendment should have specified that Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation

We need court reform and “add four new justices” doesn’t cut it. Some ideas 👇👇👇

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Again - the Roberts #SCOTUS is the Hormuz problem for Democrats or anyone concerned about democracy in U.S. It doesn’t matter what agenda Dems have, they’d be negligent if they don’t plan to act on an all out push to reform, rebalance (expand) to rein in the MAGA Court when they get back in power.

KAGAN: Louisiana v. Callais is the “latest chapter in the majority’s now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” Expand and unpack SCOTUS in 2029.

The Court’s jurisprudence is anticonstitutional. The 15th A was ratified during military occupation ending a war that rejected a so-called equal sovereignty principle. Its plain purpose was to place political equality of people over state equality and to let congress decide the mechanics.

Democrats need to tone down their rhetoric.

Great piece. What was the original public meaning of the 14th Amendment? Let’s ask the public!

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The United States is ruled by the American people, via a Constitution that establishes three coequal branches of the federal government. It is not ruled by a monarch, a dictator, or any other individual. No living politician’s face or signature should stain our money or our passports.

Everything is so stupid

The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to avoid saying that Cole Allen didn't fire any weapons at all inside the Washington Hilton — and that the officer hit was most likely hit by friendly fire. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...

Randy Barnett is a stain on my law school. Kudos for others there for calling out their colleague.