worst structural con law decision in the 20th century

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Funniest possible outcome in Trump v. Slaughter would be for the originalist Justices to find an unenumerated Presidential power to fire all principal officers within the penumbras of the Vesting, Take Care, and Appointments Clauses.

In light of Humprey’s Executor likely getting axed, I think the next Dem president should fire the Fed Chair. This has 2 main benefits: 1. It will be entertaining to watch unitary exec. theory proponents try to squirm out from their theory; & 2. We’ll (probably) get some caselaw limiting the UET!

Pretty rich coming from the genius who wrote Citizens United and provided the 5th vote in some of the Roberts Court’s most democracy-undermining decisions

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying. Political violence has no place in this country and should never become the norm. I’m sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.

In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

With alt text. This is absolutely judicial speak for “get your shit together, SCOTUS”.

Why is it so hard to get America to be true to the promises we made on paper?

Reading Ashcroft v. Iqbal in public and shaking my head the whole time so everyone knows I disagree with it

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.

Between this and Judge Ho’s stuff there’s enough material to file an amicus brief in support of birthright citizenship consisting entirely of arguments made by people who abandoned them the moment they became politically inconvenient

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

What, pray tell, is there to be proud of about the Confederacy?

My takeaway from former Fox News heads and commentators now in government is that they are lazy as shit and have no idea that normal people work for many consecutive hours in a day

This is just disgraceful

Reminder: while it is true that members of the House are stunningly dumb as a group, state lawmakers are uniquely the dumbest motherfuckers who ever thought they were smart.

In a new statement, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says he's done supporting any aid to Israel amid Gaza's nutrition and humanitarian crisis. "My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”

When you strip away humanity

The moment has arrived! The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website. Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

I'm old enough to remember when the Court held in Rodriguez de Quijas that this is exactly what lower courts shouldn't do.

Wow! Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court holds that the Tribe’s 1866 Treaty requires the Tribe to recognize the descendants of Creek Freedmen as full Tribal citizens! Opinion here: www.creeksupremecourt.com/wp-content/u...

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Man what the fuck

Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.

I do think it’s interesting that the White House’s official position is that God killed a volunteer fireman in front of his family

If this is substantiated every single justice department attorney who touched the filings denying jurisdiction should be disbarred unless they're individually willing to put in a sworn statement declaring that they were told something different and identifying who lied to them about it

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

Let’s help Gabby finish what she started!

The Oklahoma Supreme Court just released an opinion allowing the State to tax the income of Indians who live and work within their Tribe’s reservation boundaries. The Court contorts itself to get around clear federal law demanding the opposite result. Yet another Indian law blunder from OK courts.

If this thing becomes law, it will be essential for Democrats to not simply run against it. They must demonstrate to voters that they also understand that the pre-Trump status quo was unacceptable and articulate an affirmative vision of how we can do better if voters return them to office.

one thing that is important to emphasize at that this is just republican governance at work! this is what happens when you give republicans power in washington!

President Michael D. Higgins has sent a message to all those celebrating Pride today and across the summer

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere. They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

I’d like to propose a new Latin maxim relevant to the current situation: Curia iniustia non est curia.

So, liberal parents who can ground their beliefs in religion (many do) can opt out of: - abstinence only education - Baby Olivia videos - reading Ayn Rand - any class that talks about Donald Trump or this Supreme Court This is going to be fun. (And by "fun" I mean "utter and complete nonsense").

Chastising Justice Jackson for “embracing an imperial Judiciary” is one of the most hypocritical things a Roberts Court majority has ever written.

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

Super-quick take while reading the ruling: This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling). *That's* the import.