Keepseagle was a *court-approved* settlement.

BREAKING: We just temporarily blocked enforcement of a Kansas law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 18. A state court found the law likely violates the Kansas state constitution.

A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y.

"It's clear now that what powerful media operators [want] is their own personalized versions of The Free Press. That is, they want to rule over little fiefdoms, and want nothing more from that experience than to have a space of their own in which they will always be told that they're right."

Another reason why we’re overdue for our first Jewish president

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

Rand Paul son explains why he was ranting at Mike Lawler in public that he hates Jews and gay people and wants them all to die.

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

The Fifth Circuit seems poised to effectively invalidate the entire 2021-22 Congress based on the quorum clause. www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circui...

This would be an extraordinary extension of Mahmoud. It would effectively overrule Smith for all school activities, not just instruction. And there’s no limiting principle to distinguish someone who objects to simply being next to a trans kid in class. www.courthousenews.com/parents-tell...

Jesse’s Squirrel

🚨🚨🚨 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...

Folks might remember Judge Traynor as the person who thought gender affirming surgery was being performed on transgender newborn infants. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Happy Mother's Day. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

How the administration’s restrictions on care for trans youth is leaving families scrambling — even in blue states. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

Secretary Roadkill is literally trying to ban Prozac.

It should be a scandal that ADF now regularly appears as attorneys for state governments, not merely as amici. Even just a few years ago, this was understood to be wildly inappropriate. It’s a religious ministry filing in the name of the state. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Big victory for the First Amendment.

Virginia Democrats will be able to replace 1 of the 4 state Supreme Court justices in the majority here (Kelsey) in early 2027. If they retain a combined majority of all 140 House and Senate seats after the 2027 elections, they could replace another of the 4 justices (McCullough) in early 2028

The Virginia Supreme Court was very clear earlier this year that even though they were letting the election go ahead they would ultimately invalidate it. That doesn’t make the decision correct, but it also should not have been a surprise.

Worth noting:

Among most consequential litigation actions. @aclu.org asks full DC Circuit (en banc) to review 2-1 panel decision that stopped Chief Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt inquiry Compelling opening lines⤵️ High stakes as DOJ continues to violate court orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The Devil Still Wears Prada”

BREAKING: Rhode Island Hospital is appealing Judge Reed O'Connor's order enforcing DOJ's subpoena seeking invasive information about trans minor patients and has asked O'Connor to stay his ruling by Friday. Background: www.lawdork.com/i/196237187/...

Only the Avatar, master of all 17 schools, could stop them. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/n...

imagine reading “Animal Farm” and being like “that was okay but I wish this were a coming-of-age story about a pig named Lucky” “also I wish that any time anything happened two or three characters looked into the camera and announced that it was bad”

Even if this provided venue in NDTX it still wouldn’t automatically provide a court in NDTX with personal jurisdiction over a hospital in Rhode Island.

This woman, who also represented three J6 defendants and well as Roy Moore in one of his defamation suits, is one of the people they hired to be an immigration judge; a person who will have to decide on gender-based violence cases.

The great liberal dissenter, Judge Richman.

Interesting that Justice Kavanaugh, in remarks at Catholic University recently, included Dobbs in a discussion of how religious liberty has been strengthened during his time on the court. "I viewed that as -- that's not religious liberty per se -- but certainly related," he said.

If any criminal defense attorneys follow me, maybe consider reaching out to these dads? I’ve been reluctant to repost the underlying video, but it’s nauseating to watch. And now the family is facing this assault prosecution while caring for their infant. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/gay-...

FWIW, I think folks are dramatically underestimating the likelihood that the Virginia Supreme Court will invalidate the redistricting amendment.

Same playbook. www.edweek.org/education/op...

Worth several thousand words 🫤

To understand how unhinged the current CA5 is, note that Judge Priscilla Richman (one of the most conservative and controversial GWB appointees) joined the dissents.

Four years between oral argument and the decision!

Good QI decision from a conservative CA10 panel re excessive force during protests. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Family Watching Movie White-Knuckles It Through Unexpected Sex Scene https://theonion.com/family-watching-movie-white-knuckles-it-through-unexpec-1819574925/

If Raffi is right, and this is an indication of his frustration with “moderate” colleagues, then maybe there is reason to hope that some recent votes in conference didn’t go his way—or go far enough his way.

The Republicans have loved mixing religion and government — many are still working to get Catholic charter schools OK'ed by SCOTUS — until the Pope calls out the many ways in which the Trump administration is acting contrary to those religious principles.

Local Bar Comes Out As Gay https://theonion.com/local-bar-comes-out-as-gay-1819569813/

Two weeks ago The Free Press let a whiner publish 2000 words ab how I got his book review cEnsoReD. It was pure nonsense from the moment it went out—but I spent the next 14 days trying to get them to post an Editor’s Note and admit reality. They won’t. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

People ask me all the time for my favorite Onion headline, and there are like 200 of them, but my favorite recent print headline is easily this:

When you work in largely progressive circles (like, say, entertainment or news media) it's easy to believe trans people are an ideological project being forced on you by an HR department rather than a vulnerable population being victimized by some of the most powerful people in the country

8th Cir. rejects anti-trans organization's Title IX lawsuit which challenged Minnesota policy allowing a trans girl athlete to play girls softball in high school. Held: no evidence the state's policy was created for the purpose of discriminating against girls. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/04...

More importantly, 8th Cir. says the Trump administration's anti-trans policy guidance "does not reflect settled law" such that it informs whether an injunction should issue over a state's policy allowing trans kids to play sports.