Just heard on tv that our elections are totally corrupt and unreliable. We have no choice but to start over and elect a new president

Dave Portnoy should be forced to run against Mamdani. Legally bound. Required. Held to his words.

I feel like he was drunk in a pizza joint and yelled out "i could be a better mayor" and two people cheered and here we are thehill.com/homenews/cam...

The New York Times filed a court motion to block federal grand jury subpoenas to three of its journalists over their reporting on security concerns involving President Donald Trump's new Qatari-donated Air Force One, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

It’s just pathetic.

Gift link. It’s as bad as we can imagine. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

Are Senate Republicans really going to confirm Todd Blanche when he just got referred for sanctions for his crooked January 6 slush fund? Really??? “Williams referred a ​Trump lawyer in the case and senior ​Justice Department officials who signed off on the settlement ‌to ⁠state bar authorities...”

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Best thing about Lindsey Graham (and Mitch McConnell): They recognized that Donald Trump was a grave threat to this country. Worst thing: They protected and enabled him anyway. Their legacy is craven self-interest over patriotism.

A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY

Also just thinking about different Mitch McConnell’s legacy would be if he’d voted for impeachment and conviction. Had a chance to have a right side of history last roll of the dice and chickened out

So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

The boss said the law firm wouldn't help Trump in his E. Jean Carroll case. Now it is—and that’s deepening a rift among partners. on.wsj.com/4pi2GcK

This is a lie, it is an obvious lie, there is no conceivable reason why this lie unless they are also lying about how and why they killed him.

App update! "if parties sue Uber they must disclose any litigation funder who financially backs the lawsuit. They also must provide Uber with copies of the funding agreements, and the requirement applies to any appointed arbitrator. " news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

7th Cir. rejects race discrimination suit from a white employee who was demoted after declining to adopt an "equity mindset," which she decided (contrary to the materials) required her to view all white people as racists. Revives 1A retaliation claim. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

This morning, we filed a federal lawsuit challenging what DHS is doing to David Streever: www.fire.org/news/ice-law...

The second person that ICE "warned" about their protected speech has filed a First Amendment lawsuit. The complaint, linked in this story, does a nice job making ICE look both menacing and incompetent www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

WHY DOES HE HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHING?

Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" is the greatest-ever July 4 speech. Contrary to mythology it is NOT a condemnation of the Declaration and Revolution, but rather of Americans' failure to live up to their principles: reason.com/volokh/2020/...

Our little town celebrates the Fourth with a reading of the Declaration of Independence. Astonishing how many of the King’s sins can be attributed to Trump. No kings!

Trump’s profiteering in office was once unimaginable in a democracy, particularly by a sitting American president. The Trump family’s earnings move him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

The American legal system is being abused in order to pander to the president's fantasies and make them seem real www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

Gov. Josh Shapiro on the Supreme Court: "I think everything needs to be on the table. I think we need radical reform."

The justices who are most likely to believe in hell are also the ones most likely to burn in it

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports. This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.

Robins are such smart birds. They swarm the lawn whenever I cut the grass, knowing bugs will be easier to find.

Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

Today is, alas, yet another day that I’m glad I retired from writing a column about litigation.

Unitary Executive thread: SCOTUS decided Slaughter & Cook. 6-3 for Trump, overturning Humphrey's. 5-4 for Cook & Fed independence. All 6 conservatives confirmed they do not understand or care about historical evidence or originalist methods. 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Yeah, the headlines will focus on Trump's loss in the E. Jean Carroll case, but this is a lot more important for our democracy./

NEW: The Supreme Court will decide whether Arizona (and potentially other states) may require proof of citizenship on state voter registration forms. A huge case, and I fear the outcome is predetermined. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS *denies* certiorari in one of the two E. Jean Carroll cases ("Carroll II," to the folks who follow closely). That presumably clears the way for Carroll to collect the $5 million judgment (the $83.3 million judgment in Carroll I remains under appeal):

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Why does Jesse Watters think that any bisexual women — or any woman with more than a few brain cells — gives a fig about his opinion of their sexiness?

This is such a disturbing flex. He’s basically acknowledging that he and Trump have raised the bar on what scandals presidents can get away with so much that Watergate was nothing compared to them today. True. But yikes.

Justice Kagan, in dissent, emphasizes that Alito and the majority are too cowardly to even print Donald Trump's bigoted statements in their opinion, only giving them summaries which drastically downplay their severity. She is right. The majority is endorsing racism.

3. The 3rd opinion is the asylum case: It's a challenge to the federal policy of systematically turning back asylum seekers before they arrive to the border (and so before they claim asylum). Again, it's 6-3 decision by Alito (usual line-up): allows the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.

The final SCOTUS opinion today is Mullin v. Doe. Alito has the 6-3 opinion, holding that the temporary protected status statute bars court review of non-constitutional claims and the Haiti plaintiffs are unlikely to succeed in their equal protection claim. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

It's easier for media to portray the election as an attack on American Jews than to delve into what NY-10 really was: The second most Jewish Congressional district in the US having a referendum between two Jewish candidates on what it means to do Jewish politics in the age of Trump and Netanyahu.

Judge blocks Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Elections are controlled by states and Congress, not the president.

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...