Sharing a post of Will saying this graphic is bad and pretending it is him saying Gaza is fine is stupid and means you have brain worms. Saying being told you need therapy is ableist is also a sign of brain worms. Therapy is good.

In the first Atkins Feature, @fpeterson.bsky.social explores how early American law often diverged from the Constitution and legal texts. Because governing law differed from law on the page, she argues that America’s original law cannot be recovered by parsing texts alone.

And they should be sanctioned.

I have noticed how few people are grappling with SCOTUS yet again overturning portions of the 14th amendment today (they just invented a trans exception to the equal protection clause). Birthright citizenship doesn’t matter if trans citizens aren’t protected as citizens. It’s an empty marker.

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

That's right.

Truly no punishment severe enough for this guy.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Alito appears to be upset that nobody would look at the context he wanted them to in regards to the 14th Amendment but when it came to the second Amendment he told context to get fucked we just need that plain text

I've given 8am academic conference presentations in windowless rooms to a larger audience than the political party who controls all three branches of the US government at an event that also sells hot dogs and beer.

Gorsuch’s concurrence in Slaughter: It’s actually kind of scary for the president to have absolute control over the administrative state! 😱 But don’t worry ☺️ there’s a solution: get rid of the administrative state 🪄

the reader always comes away from these stories unsure whether having functional federal public interest governance is a net positive or not who needs a Consumer Product Safety Commission, they just stifle innovation anyway

This is indeed the case and it's perhaps not gotten as much attention as it should. The lower courts are bordering on open mutiny to an unprecedented degree, and it's not just Democratic appointees. The Supreme Court's perceived legitimacy is in freefall *within the federal judciary.*

Accepting the (wrong) premise, if Congress created agencies and officers structured unconstitutionally, then the rule of law result would be striking down their existence and powers entirely. Instead the Court treats it like a one-way ratchet: grants of power by Congress upheld, limits struck down.

💯. Congress granted the power on the condition of the constraint and to think they would've been ok with the executive having these powers without the constraint without saying so is perhaps one of the clearest violations of the "major questions doctrine" I can possibly think of.

So now, in effect, Congress needs a veto-proof majority (good luck with that) to reclaim its own constitutional powers, despite never having intended to confer those powers on the executive in an unrestricted form.

This is a dangerous pattern with this Court: They find a delegation paired with a constraint, decide they don’t like the constraint, but appear totally untroubled by the idea that Congress delegated the power only *because* prior precedent assured them their constraints would be binding.

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

This is true in HVAC narrowly but it's also true more broadly. Fossil fuel techs are mature & supported by infrastructure that's been developed over a century. Electrotech is rapidly developing. A snapshot comparison is misleading -- pay attention to *trajectories*.

This is so utterly fucking stupid. Basically we have a monarchy except when the king tries to fuck with the money, then the bankers get to say no. Unprincipled garbage by a bunch of robed imbeciles

There are many decisions that are wrong, sometimes egregiously, as to a particular policy issue. But Slaughter belongs next to Trump v. United States as doing deep violence to the constitutional structure itself, profoundly incompatible with the very idea of power being subject to the rule of law.

yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs

If congress set up the FTC (and other independent agencies) with the intent that they have independently appointed members with removal protections, and SCOTUS ruled congress can't do that, then shouldn't the entire law creating the FTC and other such agencies itself be thrown out?

SCOTUS waiting until the last possible moment to release their birthright opinion as some kind of exercise in drama is extremely annoying. underrated reform is just to mandate a day when they release all of the opinions.

Alito’s dissent in the vote counting case makes perfect sense if you think of it from the perspective of a braindead fox news viewer who thinks dems are “cheating” when more vote get counted and a republican lead in the count is erased.

6/ So Roberts wrote an opinion that invents an imaginary "central bank" exception to the general "break whatever you want" rule. It's the logic of the playground: now all of a sudden the Fed is on base, so you'll have to go tag some other kid, Donald. Barrett correctly recognizes that's imaginary.

Juneteenth is a holiday because it took two years for people to be made aware of the emancipation proclamation. That doesn't mean Lincoln didn't issue it until two years after he issued it. That just don't make no sense.

@npr.org Hi, Just heard Mara Liasson say that the constitution puts the executive branch in control of immigration, and that's wrong. You may want to ask someone like @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social before saying stuff like that.

The only question after last week's primaries should be what are the voters telling us, not how can we undercut the winners

One of the things you guys need to be realllly careful about is not reinventing housing segregation in order to satisfy the demands of anti-gentrification activists. “Keeping affluent people separate from poor people” has not historically been a policy proposed by or benefiting the poor people.

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

Centrist Dem loses to someone on their left: We must declare war on our opposition to protect our identity and the sanctity of the party against extremists! Centrist Dem loses to far right: Whelp, we just need to be more racist and more bigoted against LGBT people, it's necessary for the country.

I just noticed that HHS Civil Rights office has deleted its webpage about the Supreme Court's 1999 landmark Olmstead decision, which guaranteed the rights of disabled people to live in their homes rather than being institutionalized. It was live on May 25. Now it's "PAGE NOT FOUND"

"Lived experience" is the left wing version of "common sense" in that it's almost always anti-empirical bullshit.

If you only care about alt text as a way to virtue signal, you are denigrating the disabled community and that's bad.

SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett has 2 Black Haitian kids who she adopted. Today she ruled to expel 700K Haitians who were here legally. Proximity to white supremacy is not protection from white supremacy. And proximity to Black and brown people is not exemption from being a fascist and racist.

If one combines Callais, Mullin v. Doe, and Abbott v. LULAC, a legislator who explicitly justified district lines based on statements like the ones on the right will have violated neither the Voting Rights Act nor the Constitution.

back when the Times knew what was what and had the courage to say so. @asharangappa.bsky.social

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

Imagine asking someone unfamiliar with the cases to read this side-by-side with Masterpiece Cakeshop & predict in which case the statements by official decisionmakers were sufficient to make the govt action invalid because of animus.

Yeah. That’s not good.

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

A "no true scotsman" approach to gun laws. If you want to have a gun regulation, you better have a historical analog. Also, any analog we don't like doesn't count because of its troubled history. When that same troubled history is implicated in laws we do like? No problem.

I’m going to tear my hair out with this & the quotes in footnote 9. LOOK AT WHAT THE SOUTHERN ANTEBELLUM JUDGES YOU JUST CITED AS PROTECTING GUN RIGHTS SAID ABT BLACK PEOPLE! For goodness sake, Bruen cited DRED SCOTT *approvingly*!! That vile cite was and is beyond me.