As a neutral I was excited to watch round two of PSG v Bayern, but the officials seem dead set on ruining the experience. Apparently all PSG players are allowed to handle the ball now?

This isn't a hindsight thing about strategy. Plenty of people were arguing for this better approach all 4 years of Biden. The most productive look back now should be about why those people were ignored.

whole states have stopped their election processes faster than the Biden administration was able to respond to an opinion that had already been leaked months earlier. i don't mean this as a random jab; republicans just understand power in a way that dems do not.

I agree with Steve's points about the need for congress to get involved, but disagree on his last point. I think the court would vote differently with different composition! To me the difference is short term (congress, impeach, IG, etc.) vs long term (expansion/term limits).

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

But of course it did. And it went up even faster in 2022 and 2024 than ever before. Alito KNOWS this. It's why he reached back 5 cycles. He couldn't say, "well, things are hunky dory since the turnout gap has grown."

I am not a lawyer so I don't quite understand how this works. This case has been going on for at least 6 months and suddenly, on the eve (using scotus def) of trial, the feds have completely removed 4 defendants, and dismissed all charges but misdemeanors against remaining 2.

His fixation on Assad was really weird.

Regarding Callais, I think it would surprise the crafters of the 15th Amendment that when they wrote "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation," they had left it up to SCOTUS—and not to Congress—to decide what legislation is "appropriate."

LULAC makes Callais worse: Justice Alito's Callais opinion purports to preserve claims in which there's evidence of racially discriminatory intent. But this is the same Court that simply waved its hands at a district court's *detailed* factual findings of exactly such evidence in the Texas case.

If anyone is trying to decode what's going on in these responses: godspeed. I'd advise you to save your time. Personally I think almost all these people are lying to try and save face because of how poorly Trump is achieving his stated goals.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Chief justice stepping in during Sotomayor's seriatim round. Not sure I ever remember this happening?

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

I personally don't like it when a justice's spouse does work related to judiciary, but I'm open to the view that we shouldn't punish a spouse. My question is now is, is $10+ million typical for a legal recruiter? We should probably just have an enforceable emoluments clause for judges.

Again, it's weird that @dividedargument.bsky.social has turned off comments on their blog while posting a flurry of "circle-the-wagons" posts. (latest blog.dividedargument.com/p/how-to-del...) It's also strange that none of the posts (even this one) seem to be dealing with most of the criticism.

Im in no way knowledgeable about the ethics guidelines but the first amendment issues i would guess would override other concerns and penalties wouldn't be practical. Regarless, seems like people are quick to circle the wagons & talk about the peripheral instead of shadow docket merits.

Some good perspective here that isn't completely about the nuts and bolts of procedure that many other commentaries dive deep into.

At least some of those now insisting that there's no news in the leaked memos about how #SCOTUS decided the Clean Power Plan cases have previously responded to criticisms of unexplained shadow docket rulings by insisting that the Court engages in robust and rigorous dialogue behind the scenes. Hmm.

This morning, I posted two important stories based on insider information from the FBI and SCOTUS, published in @theatlantic.com and @nytimes.com respectively. This doesn’t happen by accident. The source(s) have to know they’ll be protected, even if the reporters are threatened with jail.

Jamal is too nice to say "utter hypocrisy," but that's what this is. Today's #SCOTUS treats *all* coercive relief against the executive branch as imposing irreparable harm on the government. For that proposition, they cite a 2014 opinion by ... Chief Justice Roberts. Its absence here is deafening.

So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about. I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

Interesting chatter about this www.reddit.com/r/math/comme... Math community is often skeptical, and I’ve never seen them this stunned by a result. And by a public model too.

I've been reading up on MAXXXING culture and it seems to me it's largely aimed at men. I've discovered there is a whole untapped maxxxmarket out there: women. Facemaxxxing: you can apply stuff to your face to maxxx it's appearance. Heightmaxxing: attach things to your shoes to gain height.

If this technicality actually matters then it seems easy enough to re-issue a subpoena for citizen Bondi. I also assume that if this distinction matters then acting AG Blanche will show up on the 14th and testify in her stead.

#ICYMI: I wrote yesterday about the effort by a handful of academics to create a literature supporting President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order—and how such backfilling has only been encouraged by the way that #SCOTUS has utilized (and cited) legal scholarship in recent years:

Prognostication is bad and I'm a fool for doing it. After oral argument I think the case comes out 7-2 or 8-1 with Kavanaugh agreeing in the judgement and concurring that there is still room for congress to legislate. Thomas joins that concurrence if he doesn't dissent.

NEW: DOJ Inspector General refused to investigate whistleblower Erez Reuveni's misconduct complaint against Emil Bove & other top officials, as watchdog accused of failing to probe political scandals under Trump news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Crazy the CO sec of state is saying stuff like this while their governor is running toward pardoning Tina Peters.

Elizabeth Banks

Why does he think what they tell him privately is the truth? How does he know he's not the one getting played?

I've given this article a thorough skimming now and I just think it's not very good or that interesting. I think it jumps to conclusions while avoiding most of the hard questions. Hard questions that sprang to mind and seem more important than what is discussed in the article are:

Not sure I have a single positive thing to say about that liverpool performance. Dreadful top to bottom. Completely outplayed and lucky to only lose by 1. Players look lost physically and emotionally.

andrew, come on

This befuddled me and I was going to shamelessly tag @orinkerr.bsky.social as the resident bsky 4th amendment knower, but I see NPR already did it: here is his take from the article

I hope he’s burning in hell www.instagram.com/p/DWB_MwOlIG... More details, including other victims — children — in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Update: Dolores Huerta has released a statement. In it, she confirms the Times's reporting, and supports the other women who have come forward. "I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here."

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

@fivefourpod.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social is there an official 5-4 march madness bracket this year? I've accidentally joined imposters in the past so asking early this year.

It's good that they deferred, but I don't like the rash of "cert before judgement" (i.e. scotus jumping in to hear the case on the merits before the lower courts have actually heard and ruled). This is not just about the shadow docket uptick.

Im not a big awards guy (who arts best!?) but want to say that it's a crazy achievement to play identical twins as main characters and have them be such distinct characters and never confuse the audience. Crazy good performance.

This is a wild story. I'd love to know way more details.

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written. Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

This looks and sounds bad to me, but it's pretty scary how close to just generic entertainment slop this is. I'm not looking forward to the near future where this type of content is flooding youtube and social media.

If you are into the "creator economy" this is a really wonderful listen. Check it out.

Im a layman here. If judges take judicial notice of this will they have to start verifying with every line attorney if they have personally verified their in court representations with potus?

What's really frustrating about watching Liverpool these days is that tactics, line-ups, adjustments, etc. are all so predictable. It was doubly hard to watch today with such poor individual performances and lack of chemistry. Whole club seems completely rattled.

Citizenship scholars @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @marthasjones.bsky.social, @evanbernick.bsky.social: do you know this is happening tomorrow (3/10) at 2:30 PM EDT? www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac... I can't find who the witnesses are, but c-span says it's "law professors & others".

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