No surprise that Mr. "We May Need to Tell the Courts 'Fuck You'" was also pushing the administration's campaign of extrajudicial killings. www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...

Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system. PI granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Former clerk eh? Not Crystal Clanton yet I trust!

Reagan and Obama appointees agree: this is kind of a no brainer.

It's so stupid for me to get pissed about this, but I still remember the radical shift when Advil went over-the-counter, when I was a freshman in college— I was wrecked by cramps, non-functional, & suddenly, this cheap miracle fixed it all in 20 min

“Putting on the ritz!”

I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.

This sentence ranks right up there with language from Bowers and Plessy for combining cruelty and callousness.

Dr Oz: "We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms."

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

But I thought the law in Skrmetti was about regulating a particular medical treatment, not making sex classifications.

Cf. "Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home." Lawrence v. Texas (Scalia, J., dissenting).

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

“I didn‘t intentionally quote Hitler; I just unintentionally said things that are almost verbatim what he said” is … maybe not the defense you think it Is?

So we all agree now that Bostock applies to Title IX?

SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas. @laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...

The whole premise of all these shakedowns of schools has been that the schools have been Title VI.

Rita Mandamus Sue Marie Judgment Rue LaLeven

An amazing story of this decade was the ADL turning all its fire on Israel critics while tech companies dismantled their censors and Hitler-lovers came roaring back.

22 Oct 2025 -- 8th grade cis AZ boy w/ mistake on birth certificate listing him as female removed by HS athletic director from basketball team tryouts & told to play w/ girls "to ensure fairness" under new birth-sex designation policies. Genetic tests can cost up to $2k. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

“Why do all these nazis keep taking selfies with me?” theonion.com/why-do-all-t...

AstroTERF

A “what we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank” moment.

Most American Jews are antisemitic, according to right wing gentiles who are constantly employing anti semitic dogwhistles www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

SCOTUS emergency rulings for Trump administration: Never stop never stopping.

I honestly don’t understand why there isn’t a staffer whose job is to propose a statutory fix for every possible SCOTUS decision each term.

There’s a long list of statutory reforms that Dems failed pursue last time around (including fixing Bivens and voting rights) but we should make sure that we add amending the CRSA to eliminate channeling, clarifying jurisdiction over grants, and reforming the ICA the queue.

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

For the sins we have committed — by commission and omission, both knowingly and unknowingly — we seek to make t’shuvah. May it be an easy fast for those observing.

At the end of the day, defending institutions with liberal values (like higher Ed) is a always a better better bet than aligning yourself with authoritarians

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

Last I looked, TCU is a private religious institution that government should not be investigating for their programming decisions. Unless Texas adopts a law requiring First Amendment principles at higher educational institutions or provides conditional funding to TCU, the TXAG is abusing his office.

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Kavanaugh’s reliance on Lyons is not aging well.

OMG game changer! I just discovered the "citations" section of Westlaw's preferences. No more parallel citations to L.Ed and S.Ct.! You can also specify italics instead of underlining and add quotation marks before and after selected text you want to quote.

Will the same Justices who relied on Sam Bray’s work to nix nationwide injunctions listen to him on Humphrey’s Executor? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...

“Get in, loser. We’re overruling Humphrey’s Executor.”

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

NEW: The Supreme Court freezes a lower court order reinstating FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump illegally fired, by a 6–3 vote. So Slaughter remains terminated. SCOTUS also schedules arguments to decide whether to overrule Humphrey's Executor. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

En banc second circuit denies rehearing en banc in Öztürk and Mahdawi. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

This piece by Robert Post is excellent. I especially like that he traces the Trump Administration's authoritarian trampling on the First Amendment to, in part, the Roberts Court's extreme unitary executive theory. verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...