Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u... Gift article - The corruption is 24/7.

"Johnson was forced into one of the most humiliating possible positions for a House speaker: He conceded he could not regain control of the chamber and instructed members to leave Washington early." CNN Politics share.google/s9a9jwdDCjSe...

Early last year, I wrote about what I called the "rule-of-law" split on the Supreme Court—where Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett joined the three Democratic appointees in 5-4 rulings. Cook was an example of this yesterday; the Fourteenth Amendment holding in Barbara is a bigger one today.

Among lots of things that are striking about Kavanaugh's opinion in the birthright citizenship case is the totally unnecessary dissent on the constitutional question. He could've just concurred in the judgment on the statutory question *without* discussing the 14A, but went out of his way to do so.

Press leading with the Birthright Citizenship decision as dealing Trump a blow are missing the point. 4 SCOTUS Justices believe that the Constitution does not protect birthright citizenship!!!

It’s frightening how close this vote was. 5-4 on constitutional grounds. Kavanaugh concurred in the result solely on statutory grounds. Expand SCOTUS! Kavanaugh and the 3 dissenters are RWNJs!!

Trump loses on birthright citizenship ban. Held: "Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause." buff.ly/w79xHEa

The Birthright Citizenship decision, upholding it 5-4 on constitutional grounds, should have been 9-0, just like the mail-in voting case. We have a bizarro SCOTUS.

One clarification: It's 6-3 on equal protection (the big question); it's actually unanimous on Title IX, but on *very* different grounds.

Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, agrees that the trans plaintiff's Title IX claim fails, but accuses the majority of reaching an overly broad conclusion about Title IX's tolerance of anti-trans discrimination. The three fully dissent on equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds West Virginia and Idaho's laws banning trans girls and women from women's sports. Justice Kavanaugh has the opinion for the court, holding that states "may" make sports eligibility based on "biological sex." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Here’s a direct gift link to my @slate.com piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

In the same vein: It is extraordinary just how little effort Roberts (and Kavanaugh) put into distinguishing the Federal Reserve from every other independent agency. They can just speak it into existence. There's basically no law here, and barely any pretense of it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

John Roberts handing down Slaughter and Cook together felt like a weird domination ritual in which he gets to flaunt his power to issue irreconcilable rulings that perfectly track his partisan preferences and we all just to take it because, really, who's gonna stop him? slate.com/news-and-pol...

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!

The simple truth is that @drlisadcook.bsky.social's position on our Federal Reserve Board should never have been threatened, the smear campaign against her is a filthy lie, and what is needed is not just protection for her job, but accountability for the people who tried to illegally remove her.

Wow. Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak ordered a bond hearing w/this note: "If the Court is wrong, let another court declare that a noncitizen with no criminal history, no history of flight, & an adjudicated right to asylum may be detained indefinitely without running afoul of the Due Process Clause."

There’s a remarkable amount of triumphalist, smugly self-congratulatory rhetoric in the chief’s Slaughter opinion. And I’m curious how it’ll register in 5-10 years when it’s recognized as the reason the United States is not allowed to have a neutral, nonpartisan body of experts that regulates AI.

A lie. Slaughter allows Trump to purge the heads of the MSPB and Office of Special Counsel, which protect civil servants from unlawful firings. When those agencies are paralyzed or corrupted, civil servants’ job protections become worthless. Thomas and Barrett endorsed this outcome just last month.

Co-sign @stevevladeck.bsky.social. It may feel good to purge Trump holdovers under the next Democratic president. But the deeper damage that Slaughter inflicts on the infrastructure of our democracy will ultimately cause way more pain. www.stevevladeck.com/p/236-three-...

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the sprawling, dictatorial news powers that SCOTUS has handed Trump www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Ukraine argues it can legally attack Russia’s shadow fleet

correct, this is an imperial presidency that answers to an imperial court and Biden presidency is the proof text that the tie will always go to the court.

As I write here, it's totally incoherent to immunize the president from prosecution on the theory that he can be held accountable through the political process — and then to suppress the information that might allow Congress and the public to actually hold him accountable.

Japan scores to take a 1-0 lead! Let’s go Japan!

substack.com/@paulkrugman... This version of SCOTUS does not believe in the administrative state that we have had for most of the 20th and 21st centuries. It also believes that there is no racism in this country today despite the fact that the Confederate state’s quickly seize every opportunity to

substack.com/@kansaspeach... He is one of Trump’s former lawyers.

Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As the late Joe Madison would say he puts it where the goats can get it. Great candidate.

This story on the Trump and Lutnick corrupt interest in a Tungsten deal is breathtaking on its face. But as you read it, remember urgency behind the deal was Trump's illegal tariffs. Then note that deal won't actually PRODUCE any tungsten, if it does, until 2030. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

It's high past time we put together a survey of all the way Trump 2.0 DRASTICALLY increased spying on Americans, and confront the self-imagined libertarians on the Tea Party about their complicity.

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

I look at pictures like this and am convinced this was ALWAYS just intended as a money laundering vehicle. Trump, and also Trump's special events people, have the ability to put on a decent show, even with the partisanship. Here they didn't bother wasting the money to do so.

GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim

would you believe me if I told you that it was a source of frothing anger among Republicans that the set for Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver came with four Greco-Roman columns and that this is something the ostensible neutral media treated as a bona fide scandal

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

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...

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.

I also don’t think it’s posturing. I think they’ve all absolutely cooked their brains.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com With the Supreme Court’s recent immigration decision, “we have just witnessed another example of the Supreme Court’s unshackling of the U.S. presidency,” Kate Shaw writes.

under Alito’s jurisprudence, the “equal protection of the laws” means that racial subordination is constitutionally protected and ending racial subordination is constitutionally suspect

so… (1) north carolina declines to pay to put up state booth at trump “state fair”. + (2) random republican congressional staffer does state booth instead = (3) cue the “confederate flag at north carolina booth” headlines… www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo... Immigration

Alito’s opinion was not, as he would say, not “overly racist”, but you have to have drunk the MAGA Kool-aid to believe that it’s not racist or that Trump was not motivated by racial animus to kill the TPS programs at issue. Alito can’t hide behind Trump’s alleged aversion to all immigration because

69-page bar complaint filed against Acting AG Blanche by @democracydefendersfund.org , > 100 former judges, et al. dea5edf3-e27d-4adc-a42a-b9c082bc3167.usrfiles.com/ugd/dea5ed_b...

This is about Tulsi, but it's also about a modus operandi that's gone rampant. Without naming names, it's about Jim Jordan and James Comer and the whole industrial defamation complex.

Thanks, but no thanks. In Trump v IRS, Judge Williams—weighing Rule 11 sanctions for "serious misconduct" relating to collusive conduct by Trump & DOJ—rebuffs 3 amicus briefs, including one from 23 blue state AGs & one from former govt officials, including a former IRS com'r. She's seen enough.