WOW. Todd Blanche IGNORES the court order to produce certain Epstein files or explain redactions, and INSTEAD claims it needs more time, and should be able to do it UNDER SEAL. We saw this deflection coming a mile away. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Political scientists Andrew R. Flores and Jami K. Taylor argue the Court's latest decision weakens constitutional protections for transgender people in ways that could reshape challenges to health care, prisons, workplace policies, and more.

I worked with my good friend Jami Taylor to think about the recent SCOTUS opinion www.advocate.com/opinion/supr...

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

Kash Patel failed to properly disclose a six-figure purchase of stock in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence and mobile software company that has contracted with the Department of Justice, according to federal financial records reviewed by NOTUS.

Longer thread later but in my biweekly newsletter this week I talk about what is in the KIDS act and what the academic literature says about social media's impact on LGBTQIA+ youth (spoiler alert: It is complicated but provides community) Read for free here: open.substack.com/pub/sethjmey...

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

The government accidentally sent Volume II of Jack Smith’s report to a defense lawyer in another case. lol.

That did not fit the definition of a red card.

This is Scott Atlas, the guy behind Trump's herd immunity covid approach, reflecting an ideology where public problems are best solved by doing nothing. "Give way to the market": The reality is that the market depends upon NIH-funded innovations. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.

🚨NEWS: Congressional probe alleges massive fraud in Trump-aligned Freedom 250, alleging Trump allies misled donors, hijacked America’s 250th, and sold access for millions

The families of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting will indirectly receive money from Alex Jones after a billion-dollar defamation verdict.

"You cannot just read that Constitution. You must perceive it, specifically the ethereal version manifesting as a constantly shifting cloud above the right wing of the Court, where original meaning rearranges itself around political need." In other words, the attitudinal model!

A video shows California state Sen. Scott Wiener being shouted at as he tried to leave Dolores Park, where he said protesters surrounded him and made physical contact.

BREAKING MS NOW: The FBI is surging resources into what it calls a "priority" investigation related to the 2020 election in Georgia — an extraordinary effort to find nonexistent evidence to support Trump's election lies.

Published last week: "Local partisan context and mental health" We replicate finding that Democrats, on average, have worse mental health than Republicans, but Republican mental health is contextually dependent: worsening when surrounded by more Democratic neighbors. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are cooking on the East Coast right now. But it's become accepted wisdom that voters don't care about climate change. I wrote about just how wrong that is—and how political elites, including Democratic leaders, are misreading the public. zeitzoff.substack.com/p/let-us-coo...

Coauthors are amazing.

Sister Leticia "Letty" Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in McAllen, Texas, when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary, and put her in handcuffs. DHS would not respond to requests for comment. The Catholic nun from Nigeria is a nurse who entered the country legally.

I mean, it's not like there's a great paper showing that The Apprentice significantly increased Trump's political popularity because he was portrayed as really good at "moneymaking" ungated: static1.squarespace.com/static/59485...

The United States will not extend its trade pact with Canada and Mexico by today’s deadline, instead kicking off a process that could result in a refreshed agreement or an investment-sapping succession of annual reviews.

WH spox Abigail Jackson: "Another option we're going to be pursuing is keeping the border closed and ramping up deportations, getting people out of the country who have no legal right to be there before they can have a child that anchors them to this country."

The party that claims to "protect women" now wants mandatory pregnancy tests at the border. This is in addition to genital checks for little girls to play sports and criminal penalties for women who obtain an abortion.

NBC Exclusive: A White House task force has been gathering thousands of pages of documents from intelligence agencies — with plans to declassify some of them — so Trump can amplify new disinformation about past elections, three people familiar with the effort said.

A radical legal theory emerged half a century ago—and a new Supreme Court decision just made it American law, Peter M. Shane argues:

Brian Kilmeade suggests to an agreeing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mulling that pregnant foreign women should be barred from traveling to the United States

To my great dismay, not because I wanted more exposure, two major international news outlets canceled on me last minute yesterday after the decision dropped. Both believed the danger had passed b/c the birthright was upheld. They should've let me explain. I am doing so in a blog this AM.

Trans people continue to be second-class citizens, the Supreme Court rules. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

BREAKING: Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto, digital tokens and related partnerships in 2025 — appearing to have substantially increased his income after reentering the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Did I imply that the women’s US soccer team would beat the men’s. Yes, I did. Reset assumptions of sex, gender, and athletics.

Justice Thomas: “Sex is an immutable ‘biological’ characteristic…To use language to obscure reality—to show ‘indifference regarding truth’—is to lie to the public.” By Thomas's logic—not mine—I should still play on women's teams, have an ID with an F on it, use the women's room. Who's lying?

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the Pentagon to temporarily lift the requirement that all journalists visiting the building be accompanied by an official escort. The decision was another rebuke to the Trump admin's efforts to restrict reporters who cover the Department of Defense.

Congrats to my advisee and now professor Dakota Strode in achieving the Ken Sherrill best dissertation award. Well deserved - he’s one of the hardest working people I know

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

This is simply not true. Congress cannot do this without a Constitutional Amendment. No gray area here.

grilled by Rep. Pocan, Russell Vought refuses to acknowledge that people have died as a result to cuts to USAID. Pocan then reads the names of various people who have died because of the cuts.

POCAN: You are a Christian nationalist by declaration VOUGHT: This is the second time you've used that slander POCAN: You wrote an article, 'Is there anything actually wrong with Christian nationalism'

Quick read of the trans sports decision.. *Categorical exclusion of trans athletes from sex-separated school sports is lawful under Title IX and equal protection *A biological-sex law is not a transgender classification *No as-applied challenges under intermediate scrutiny or rational basis

FROM SCOTUS: 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.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF IDAHO, WEST VIRGINIA LAWS BANNING TRANSGENDER ATHLETES FROM PARTICIPATING ON FEMALE SPORTS TEAMS

It is, as expected, a two-box day at SCOTUS. All of the remaining decisions are expected at 10a. Birthright citizenship, trans sports bans, and coordinated party expenditure limits cases remain.

President Trump has begun construction on a new White House helipad, his latest change to the historic grounds, according to three people. The helipad will be located near the South Portico, the traditional site for Marine One.

I got coffee ice cream as my emotional support treat today for SCOTUS rulings in case I need to break it out early.

The very actions that once kept them safe can become obstacles in the U.S. immigration system, writes attorney Richard T. Herman.

Do not have the memory of a goldfish. Have the memory of a crow when it comes to SCOTUS.

Suddenly, Britain is indicating that it might put the kibosh on Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. www.reuters.com/business/med...