Senate Democrats should offer an amendment to the SAVE Act requiring the same registration and identification provisions for every dumb analogy Republicans have come up with

If the Democrats don’t take proactive steps to restructure and rebalance John Roberts led - illegitimately packed MAGA Court - right wing Republicans in judicial robes will remain in charge of #SCOTUS at least till 2065.

Pan to Federalist Society spending the weekend frantically pre-writing articles and op-eds to support these “not yet articulated or vetted” but “irrefutable“ positions.…

I mean, 21 Supreme Court justices kind of is my dream….

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Ultra-MAGA Judge Edith Jones of the 5th Circuit peddles deranged conspiracy theories about mass voter fraud and "ballot harvesting," declaring that mail voting "is a rich field for fraud" that's frequently exploited by "operatives" attempting to steal elections. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Wildly alarming and important as assault expands — also we need to thank and appreciate the writers and researchers who swim in these toxic waters every day to tell us what the right says when they think no one else is listening

SURPRISE we are live TODAY with @usamahandrabi.bsky.social and @davedaley.bsky.social! Talking about the Democrats' ICE reforms, Bad Bunny's performance, and figuring out if there will be a midterm election... exciting stuff! youtube.com/live/V12Yvz8...

The 5th Circuit is the most right-wing court in the country. It desperately needs to be rebalanced. Republicans forum shop there all the time as a path to SCOTUS.

Under single member districts, the tyranny of the map is inescapable. You're effectively pre-deciding how many seats are allocated to each party with at best only a few truly competitive ones in the middle. And maximizing how many are competitive runs afoul of other principles like compactness etc.

Federalist Society judges are giving talks with titles like this, in the year of our Lord 2026:

Again, even if the Democrats win, & even if the Republicans cede power in January, it will still not be evidence that we are a democracy or that things worked. Elections under these conditions fail basic criteria of democratic process, & this stuff doesn't happen in any actual democracy anywhere.

For context: Leonard Leo is one of a half dozen individuals most responsible for our descent into fascism. *He* picked Roberts & Alito, and manipulated Trump into selecting Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and ACB. All of this in his bizarre quest to criminalize abortion, contraception, and homosexuality.

Once Trump's regime is removed from power, we need a constitutional refounding to finally create a fully egalitarian democracy. Reconstruction did not go far enough, and we can't repeat the failures of that era by keeping the flawed political institutions that helped bring us to our present crisis

This hasn’t received nearly enough attention: Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander. Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander

This kicker from @nikobowie.bsky.social: “If the public were aware of how much of the deliberations affecting millions of people are made by 27-year-olds after happy hour, they'd be shocked.”

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Republicans have also expanded state supreme courts in Arizona and Georgia. A Democratic trifecta should have zero compunction over expanding a hijacked, runaway SCOTUS that has actively undermined democracy, enabled extreme gerrymandering and become the true source of the right’s political power.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

On a phone call heard by millions, Pres. Trump pressured GA's Sec. of State to “find” him 11,780 votes to overturn Biden's electoral victory in Georgia. Fulton County Commissioner Mo Ivory & @davedaley.bsky.social join @ 10a to discuss why the FBI would seize the county's 2020 ballots & voter rolls

NYT pulls "both sides" in warning about Trump & midterms, with a strawman. It's not that voter ID causes large decline. It's that modern ID laws are surgically targeted to put barrier between specific voters & ballot box, in close states, demanding forms of ID they know they're least likely to have

Please join me @velshimsnow.bsky.social 10a-1p w/ Jason Stanley @repangiecraig.bsky.social @repsuhas.bsky.social Mo Ivory @davedaley.bsky.social @yobencohen.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social Yeng Her @allenorr.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Greg Ketter #Velshi

If you had told me in September 2018 that in eight years the conservative legal movement would be led by a gang of weirdo creeps who manage to make Ed Whelan sound normal, I would have laughed you out of the room, and that's on me, I underestimated them, I'll do better going forward

They say to understand politics follow the money. This excellent article does that for the expanding 'civic institute' scam. Tracing the money trail leads back to a shadowy network of right-wing billionaires like the Koch family. prismreports.org/2026/01/27/c...

On Tuesday, a Virginia judge ruled a proposed constitutional amendment on congressional redistricting violates state law because the process Democratic state lawmakers used to create it was improper. Virginia Democrats are expected to appeal

Today’s Wordle is braver and bolder than Schumer and Jeffries

Hey, let’s go check the top stories over on the Fox News site

Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Trump is weak, Bondi is weak, Miller is weak. The administration is filled with cartoon bullies who crumple when they face real opposition. Minnesotans get it. Denmark gets it. Lower court judges get it, and the best have moved into DGAF mode. When will SCOTUS get it? slate.com/news-and-pol...

This Court could well be searching for a way to pause the CA map while allowing TX to stand. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

It's the Unitary Executive Theory, except when it affects Roberts's 401(k)

Billy Corriher’s work on state supreme courts — and his chronicling of assault on democracy in NC — has been viral. He has a new book on brilliant Anita Earls, the NC justice and voting rights activist at heart of fight for the vote. Back it at this Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/206...

Alabama Republicans are proceeding to lay the groundwork for gerrymandering their congressional map once the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act

Trump looks likely to lose Cook case, as he should. Which means usual apologists will herald Roberts for bravely reining Trump in ... when in reality the chief justice created this entire moment. This is mildly turning down heat on a pot that the conservative supermajority already brought to boil.

State supreme court races are some of the most important in the nation. In North Carolina and Ohio, it's the reason why state and congressional maps remain gerrymandered. Not running candidates in what could be a wave year is crazy-making.

🚨 NEW: Obama-era Democrats sold a myth of presidential powerlessness to excuse inaction. Trump is now demonstrating, in real time, how false that myth was.

The US Supreme Court has too much power. And once the Court was packed with pro-billionaire partisans, the Roberts Court used that power to break Congress, the most democratic branch. @duncanhosie.bsky.social :

In a democracy, 57% disproval of the masked federal agents invading cities, shooting citizens and violating the rights of millions of people would result in a massive shift in policy. The American people oppose the fascist project--but the fascists don't care about the American people.

“What makes life tenure in America so pernicious is our Constitution is among the hardest to amend in the world…the Court’s decisions are effectively unreviewable except in the long run and even then only if political cards and random events play out the right way.” www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/01/the-...

It’s the year of the horse. Here is a new interview of 90 minutes of Leonard Leo shoveling horse shit and calling it gold. youtu.be/RM04X5O9GV4?...

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

today's updates: - I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument in the trans sports cases so you don't have to - John Roberts and co continue to have their heads lodged, firmly yet comfortably, in their asses - I am very tired ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

Really fun to join @maryharris.bsky.social on @slate.com’s @whatnext.bsky.social to present the (I guess???) optimistic case for the midterm elections.

North Carolina Republicans are making it harder for Black voters and college students to vote after usurping control over election administration in violation of NC’s separation of powers. Republicans undermined voting access this way when they last ran the election boards under ex-Gov. Pat McCrory

If you’re looking for a book to explain how the Roberts Court came to be, today is a good day to order Antidemocratic bookshop.org/p/books/mino...

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

It's that time of year again [the time when Chief Justice John Roberts publishes an annual report about the federal judiciary and then I publish an article about all the stuff he deliberately left out of the report, and what he hoped to achieve in doing so] ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...