There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other The marketplace has heard the ideas Large supermajorities reject them Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions The problem is the anti-democratic institutions

New from me in @thenation.com: Good news from Indiana aside, the gerrymandering wars will be decided by John Roberts. That‘s less great. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The 9-member Super-legislature prepares to burn more entrails, read tea leaves, & turn more lead into gold, in its ongoing efforts to make the One Special Boy a King while also pretending the Fed is somehow Very Different Delegation. Other, more serious countries have actual constitutional courts.

Federalist No. 70 has/will come up a lot in the Roberts Court’s analysis of executive power. I dove into how SCOTUS has blithely misquoted and misread it along the way.

25 years ago today, five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights, and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause, told Florida it could not finish counting ballots despite the Florida SCT ruling to the contrary b/c of an equal protection principle never used before or since.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Multiple Republicans are absurdly claiming they're just fighting back against Democratic gerrymandering. In 2024, roughly 3 times more seats were in states drawn to favor the GOP than Dems. The GOP in Congress & on the Supreme Court has repeatedly blocked efforts to ban gerrymandering nationwide

There's a pretty good argument that John Roberts misled Congress during his confirmation hearings when asked about his work on the Voting Rights Act reauthorization in 1982 as a young aide in Reagan's DOJ.

Some truth that is worth your time to read. #supremecourt #history #votingrights @davedaley.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...?

New from me in @theatlantic.com: Inside John Roberts's life-long fight to smother the Voting Rights Act -- as he stands ever-so-close to his goal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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"The best way to end gerrymandering—and the extremism and polarization that runs hand in hand—would be for the nation to adopt a more proportional House of Representatives." - @davedaley.bsky.social Important read -> newrepublic.com/article/2028...

my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...

NYT Upshot: Why SCOTUS decision approving Texas maps means Democrats are winning redistricting wars

When you pull your cover story out of the mailbox

On today's @msignorile.bsky.social Show ‼️ @owillis.bsky.social of @dailykos.com #intrfthalliance #PaulRaushenbush @davedaley.bsky.social 🔊Listen Here: siriusxm.us/Signorile Give us your calls at: 866-997-4748

Hey @davedaley.bsky.social thanks for all you do & for being on the pod w/ @petedominick.bsky.social. A most voluptuous news roundup, plus audio, plus rad guest await on this Tuesday episode, listeners! standupwithpete.com/1493-david-d...

On today's show the great @davedaley.bsky.social delivers this EPIC destruction of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.

Please join us in 40 minutes — talking redistricting and my new New Republic cover with brilliant panel @leedrutman.bsky.social Katie Fahey and @cliffalbright.bsky.social Cc: @newrepublic.com Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/butchering...

ICYMI: A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice used a fake quote and citation in a high-profile dissent. She completely turned SCOTUS' 2023 gerrymandering ruling (out of North Carolina) on its head. #AI

@sjdemas.bsky.social sat down with David Daley to discuss how redistricting battles are accelerating into a full-blown structural crisis for American democracy. Subscribe to watch the full episode! www.lincolnsquare.media/p/can-the-go...

So.....today Indiana Republicans proposed a 9-0 redistricting map to eliminate both of the state's Democratic districts, gave the public less than 24 hrs notice of the hearing at 9am tomorrow AND included a deeply bizarre provision trying to restrict legal challenges to the map

Upshot still gonna find a way to say Dems are winning redistricting wars

I want to talk a bit about one specific project we will get off the ground if we're able to meet our goal and hire full time staff. We have been calling it The Reconstruction Papers. It will be a collection of essays focused on a positive, practical vision for the country gofund.me/29ce4ead3

SIGH I personally date the fall of the post-Civil Rights constitutional order 2013 & Shelby County v Holder. When a reactionary SCOTUS could knock out the keystone of equal voting rights, & everyone agreed that was valid, it was an epochal change. It meant democracy was itself now a partisan issue.

I talked with @pascalsabino.bsky.social at @boltsmag.org about the ways that the current VRA case could have outsized implications for local representation --- something I've been yelling about on here a lot. This whole piece is worth a read on your Saturday morning boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Four Republican legislators in Indiana have been targeted in "swatting" attempts just days after Trump called for primaries against those who opposed re-gerrymandering the congressional map. Trump's supporters take him literally and seriously when he advocates political violence

Wrote this more than 25 years ago and still might be my favorite story ever....

I did not need to see that picture first thing in the morning. But always read @davedaley.bsky.social

Every word of this @davedaley.bsky.social piece. Read it. Now.

NEW this AM: A new Marist poll has Democrats up 14 points on the generic congressional ballot ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Also the butterfly wing flap that brought us to this moment

A two-year study released today finds gerrymandering in NC resulted in reduced access to healthcare services. The authors say the findings could offer a new strategy to fight gerrymandering in court. More: spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-... #ncpol

The right has worked five decades to undermine the credibility of the media. The NYT isn't perfect. It's still insane that prominent voices on the left think it's a good idea to go after it, too -- for partisan and business reasons of their own.

The half-million for senators who had their phone logs pulled after J6 is the Senate version of the buyout Tommy Tuberville got from Auburn

Nate Cohn fan fiction

Conservatives under siege at …. the Federalist Society ball 🙄 apple.news/A1mfJq9wDSf2...

Wow, look at that, that's all it took

The Supreme Court's tariffs case should be an open-and-shut major questions doctrine case. It won't be

Good morning, Los Angeles! Hope you might join me at 7 this evening at the great @vromansbookstore.bsky.social in Pasadena to talk ANTIDEMOCRATIC, gerrymandering, the Supreme Court. Also, why do I live on the east coast and not here? www.eventbrite.com/e/david-dale...

I have said this before, and I’ll say it again here: We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/ARRddzG

"Things have changed in the South"

YES

A good overview of the ways that Republicans have anti-democratically seized power by gerrymandering congressional districts and putting anti-American revolutionaries on the Supreme Court (Roberts et al). Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social @davedaley.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/U-z60SV...

Elie Mystal--Justice correspondent for The Nation-- spoke to me about the corrupt GOP Supreme Court. Elie explained the court gives Trump what he wants as an act of self-preservation. He noted without SCOTUS reform, we will never be able to move this nation forward. youtu.be/qsTzICW1tZQ?...

Live on FB with the magnificent @hcrichardson.bsky.social at 11. Please join us!

It's our final moving day & walkthru with the landlord. So 1 more 'best of'. Since tomorrow is Halloween, it's a scary one w @davedaley.bsky.social of Ratf**ked fame. Listen any time @ nicolesandler.com/10-30-25 @ nicolesandler.substack.com, or watch the original airing youtu.be/ptHzeI8ellE