Expanding and unpacking SCOTUS is the institutionalist position. When our most powerful institutions are corrupted and weaponized against the people, that’s an emergency. We desperately need institutions worthy of the people’s trust. Ducking this fight is not institutionalism. It’s denial.

The Court’s Corruption Seeps Into Every Tissue of American Life talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

We need to keep the pressure on relentlessly and not let up. It's pretty unprecedented that a Democratic House Leader is talking openly about right wing justices on Roberts Court helping the Republicans to cheat. That's progress. We need to keep pressuring to following through.

“This is the culmination of Roberts’ and Alito’s hostility toward the landmark Voting Rights Act that they have harbored since early on in their careers. They have been fully aligned and headed toward the same destination for years..." @thelisagraves.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@nataliebaviles.bsky.social and I had a chance to talk about this topic recently with @thelisagraves.bsky.social, former Judiciary Committee chief counsel for noms. That is: how John Roberts' agenda is related to Vought's agenda, and together they are destroying #NIH and cancer cures.

A Supreme Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places the Court at odds with democracy itself. This is the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts. I opposed his nomination back in 2005, and I stand by that.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Today's horrible 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision that greatly weakens the Voting Rights Act just reminds us why Supreme Court reform is desperately needed!!

Kagan called Callais "this latest chapter in the majority’s now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act." Not quite: Shelby County didn't kill Sec 5 preclearance. But this SCOTUS will kill that if we don't strip the court of jurisdiction to review the John Lewis VRAA's constitutionality.

Yes, Congress can and should add seats to the Court. But the VRAA sponsors can and should also update the bill to reassert the Section 2 power that Callais just denied, and strip SCOTUS and lower courts of jurisdiction to review any part of the bill's constitutionality, including preclearance.

2029 we either expand the Court to unpack it …. or we lose the dream of a multiracial representative democracy. If you’re not ready for that by now, we aren’t on the same team.

RIP VRA, 1968-2026. RIP all of the civil rights leaders who were murdered while fighting for the rights it secured. www.weekendreading.net/p/americas-s...

Mike Davis and his former boss

Mike Davis and a friend

The NYT exposé on the shadow docket reveals John Roberts as the partisan actor he’s always been — despite his reputation as a serious institutionalist that outlets like the Times have long helped him cultivate. The essential @thelisagraves.bsky.social helps me unpack the story:

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

So, we didn’t just pay for the tariffs, we paid for the tariffs twice?

The very attorneys who have spent years protecting Trump from accountability are now charged with protecting us. Under the Trump regime, their job description is unchanged from their time as his personal attorneys. Our latest newsletter: courtaccountability.substack.com/p/trump-mcco...

When John Roberts agrees with a Republican policy he will "conclude ... as a matter of law" he has "a solemn obligation to preserve it." If he doesn't like (most likely a Democratic) policy he will "conclude ... as a matter of law" that he needs to "stuff it in the garbage." He pitches & hits.

In my view, John Roberts's most impressive PR accomplishment is persuading an entire generation of Supreme Court commentators that he is anything other than a Republican politician who uses legalese to implement policies that Republican voters want

Trump pressured Republican states to rig their electoral maps, because he saw a midterm disaster coming for his party. He knows they will lose big without rigged districts. Virginia can level the playing field and stop his newest scam tomorrow by voting YES for fair election maps. #VoteYesVirginia

ICYMI - really important bombshell story + breakdown of how Peter Thiel is misleading black voters in Virginia about this week's redistricting ballot measure election by @couriernewsroom.bsky.social Contributor @thelisagraves.bsky.social www.graveinjustice.news/p/billionair...

I learned this from @thelisagraves.bsky.social's book Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts And His Accomplices Rewrote The Constitution And Dismantled Our Rights. More details on @nicolesandler.bsky.social show about the the harm Roberts has done to #SCOTUS www.youtube.com/live/t4-_1yl...

@thelisagraves.bsky.social Always think of you when SCOTUS comes up and then wonder what you think🤓 Hope spring finds you well✊

This tracks with @thelisagraves.bsky.social book Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts And His Accomplices Rewrote The Constitution And Dismantled Our Rights. She talked to @nicolesandler.bsky.social about how Roberts enabled Trump's irreparable harm to the US. www.youtube.com/live/t4-_1yl...

All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

Tremendous reporting: The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The 25th Amendment already gives Congress the tool to remove Trump. Raskin’s bill would finally create the independent commission to make it happen. This is one more real shot to protect the country. Tell Congress to pass it. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

The rise of the shadow docket in 2016 was followed in 2017 by another procedural trick from the Roberts Court, known as "Munsingwear vacatur," which they weaponized to wipe out progressive precedent without having to explain why. Profs. Lisa Tucker (my wife) and Michael Risch (he's not) explain. 1/2

I’m so excited about this. I hope people keep starting newsrooms. There’s appetite for the truth.

Your vote in Virginia can flip the scales in Congress today. This critical window slams shut on April 21. Don't let this chance for real change slip away. Act now and vote YES while it still counts. #VoteYesForVirginiaLive

Report: Peter Thiel is spending big against Redistricting in VA- targeting Black voters with racial messages open.substack.com/pub/graveinj...

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Billionaires & corporate interests are buying influence. Voting rights are under attack. Extremists are dismantling democratic norms. VOTE like our democratic freedoms depend on it. Fight to end corruption & build a federal gov't to benefit all of us.

Go to IWillVote.com to find out everything you need to know to vote in your state’s next election! #VoteYesVirginia Democrats for the win — LFG!! 💙🇺🇸

Republicans started this fight, Democrats are finishing it. This is about fairness. #VoteYesVirginia Pass it on!

Donald Trump and his MAGA administration are trying to rig (and steal) the Midterm elections (see: Texas Gerrymandering)… But we are fighting back, state-by-state one election at a time. #VoteYesVirginia

Lesson for our future in the US 👇

Financial Times part 3 transcript. How Opus Dei recruits at elite college to fill a “pipeline” to Heritage and other DC power jobs. archive.ph/eBY65

It's really something to be living through the worst President, the worst Supreme Court, and the worst Congress all at once

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💡The Roberts #SCOTUS immunity decision “made Donald Trump king-like in his powers”enabling Trump’s “destruction of the rule of law” through immunity and pardons in a landscape where “basically no law can hold.” - @thelisagraves.bsky.social + @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Could not agree more! @thelisagraves.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻

John Roberts Supersized Trump’s Power over DOJ, Fueling the Fulton County Raid and Other Wreckage By @thelisagraves.bsky.social substack.com/@legalaf/not...

Wow! @thelisagraves.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

This is an absolutely must read. 5-star Paul Krugman and @thelisagraves.bsky.social @alexaronson.bsky.social Top to bottom, every word. You’ll know more than years of reading NYT or Wapo. And get her book - Without Precedent on Roberts’ corrupt court. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Trump is having election maps redrawn so that your vote means nothing. He has already forced states like Texas to gerrymander their maps because he’s trying to hold onto power. Virginia is giving voters the right to choose their own maps. Vote YES for fair elections April 21. #VirginiaIsForVotingYes