Sorry for the delay: Is there a good explanation out there for why de la Fuente pulled Rodri for Zubimendi in the 99th minute?

OK, but the Sixth Circuit surely *would've* held that some federal statute prohibits courts from reweighing evidence underlying a bond decision or second-guessing an IJ's judgment--so what's the big deal that DOJ hallucinated a citation for that holding? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I stopped short of joining the Clash in 1979. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

One of Elizabeth's best, and funniest, on one of Dylan's worst (and least funny). I don't think I'm there on "Brownsville Girl," but even so ...

ICYMI. I'm an easy mark, but I'm taken with all eight of the kids. And the song's great, too. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaV...)

Chatrie only makes more pressing the second and third questions I raised eight years ago, post-Carpenter: (i) which actions by the third party, exactly, constitute the search?; and, especially (2) what about administrative and grand jury subpoenas? balkin.blogspot.com/2018/06/carp...

Yup--the eye-popping numbers only confirm just how astonishing he is. We're privileged to have been able to watch him all these years. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Gender-affirming treatment returns to the U.S. military. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Joyous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaV...

Great breakdown of Argentina/England with Ian Wright and Chris Ryan. open.spotify.com/episode/18E2...

Sinner and Zverev have now held serve in 30 straight games. Only 138 more and they'll tie the record. (not a typo)

Has anyone yet seen anyone citing the, you know, actual *rule* here? I assume that if the ref had seen Embolo flop in the first instance, he would've had discretion to warn Embolo--or even award Argentina a free kick--without issuing a second yellow card (true?). If so, ...

Kinda remarkable that the commentators on Fox don't know whether the referee had discretion not to award Embolo a yellow if he reversed Paredes'. Was "neither gets a yellow" an option? What's the rule?

The After the Whistle podcast with Rebecca Lowe and Brendan Hunt is fantastic. Lowe's even better in this medium than as a host (which is saying something).

Gosh, it simply never occurred to me and my colleagues at OLC all these decades that part of our job was to write pithy, tendentious Op-Eds celebrating our own OLC opinions rejecting decades of precedent and explaining to readers of the Washington Post ... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Moraff, Fan & Katz were just doing what they do. Nothing new under the sun. There've always been folks like them--as the Times puts it, "a dangerous combination of inexperienced and overconfident" (though I'd add "and self-righteous and indifferent to electoral realities"). [1]

Can anyone explain why the New York Times editors thought it was a good idea to allow 87 instances of the second-person-singular in this?

Interesting case (the Kennedy Center litigation) in which the panel (incl. Judge Katsas) implicitly rejects the idea that the Executive Branch inevitably suffers cognizable harm when its policy is enjoined. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Very disconcerting (although the exam here is likely far different from what we might try to test in law school). Is a return to bluebooks the answer?

Kinda wild that the Nationals got the better of the 2022 Juan Soto trade, even though Soto hasn't dropped off much. I sure didn't see that coming.

A new AP poll of Jewish Americans Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable 71% Unfavorable apnorc.org/wp-content/u...

The top 47 considerations ought to be: Who's most likely to win in November?--which means winning over the many Biden/Collins voters from 2020. Seems to me that would likely be Golden if he were willing to run. Bellows and Shah might fit the bill, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

Any savvy Maine politics peeps who can tell us whether Bellows or Shah is more likely to beat Collins?

Hot Contrarian Take (but not really): As virtually everyone outside the U.S. recognizes, FIFA's suspension-of-Balogun's-suspension on its Shadow Docket, w/no explanation (nor any apparent consideration of the Nken factors!) is indefensible. For starters, the red card was the right call. [1]

So many heroic performances on both sides, but Anthony Gordon was remarkable throughout.

Rhapsody and Rebellion (and, I'd add, resignation and respite): This is the only playlist you need today (though I'd add the Dave Alvin original to the X cover that's No. 1).

If this (especially the altered lyric in the third verse) doesn't move you to tears, well ... www.facebook.com/watch/?v=117... Though we can't be forever blessed, may you all have a peaceful Fourth ... and get some rest.

Mary Gaitskill on Bullwinkle J. Moose is ... (chef's kiss) www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... As for me, if it weren't a different cartoon character (namely, Krazy Kat), it'd almost certainly be either the obvious choice, Abraham Lincoln, or ... [1]

Obama’s speech on the 50th anniversary of Selma is worth reading today. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-of...

Just to offer some perspective: The suburban county where I live has almost twice as many residents as Cape Verde.

How many years has it been since anyone has overshadowed Taylor Swift? Verde!

I won't be overly impressed by Messi tonight unless he also attends the Swift/Kelce wedding.

Jacqui Oatley is great on World Cup play-by-play.

Here's Judge Pitts' opinion in the Stanford hospital gender-affirming-care grand jury subpoena case. The key is on pp. 36-40, where Pitts writes that the record ... [1] storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In his dissent in Barbara, Justice Thomas invokes the word "domicile" merely 350 or so times. (Compare that with, e.g., the number of times it appears in the U.S. Constitution.)

Hear, Hear!

Interesting understanding of what's "famous" (from the Kavanaugh partial dissent in Barbara): "Amid their famous First Amendment debate in Ollman v. Evans, 750 F. 2d 970 (CADC 1984) (en banc), both Judge Bork and Judge Scalia agreed ..."

Ludicrous (and telling) what Thomas considers a "wide range of originalist scholars."

A nice idea, I suppose, but I'm not sure why anyone would think this group of people might have special insight into which American songs are most "essential." www.cbsnews.com/projects/202...

They keep screaming at us that they intend to steal the election. I know lots of folks on the Dem side are working against that goal, and I think the countermeasures will be effective, but we all need to be in this fight. Literally nothing is more urgent for our democracy.

Here's the transcript of Judge Failla's oral decision in the NYU hospital grand jury subpoena case. Key sentence pertinent to my post below: "Because I cannot conceive of a crime that would require the breadth of disclosure sought in the subpoena, ... [1] storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@kateshaw.bsky.social gets at something very important & correct here: In case after case (including yesterday's TPS case), the Court *hasn't* ruled that the Trump Administration acted lawfully--instead, it's held that courts can't enjoin or remedy *illegal* conduct. [1]

This Decision Is a Slap in the Face to Immigrants Who Followed the Law www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/o...

Candidate for most egregious/disturbing SCOTUS opinion sentence I can recall in a long while (even apart from the unwillingness to quote Trump): "Political discourse by prominent public figures is increasingly couched in terms that would have scandalized the public just a short time ago, ...

Dear @nytimes.com: It is permissible for you to link to a filed complaint (see below). It's irrelevant that "a copy of the newly filed complaint was provided to The New York Times by one of the judge's lawyers." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/w... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I didn't realize until reading the Court's opinion in Mullin today that "laconic" is a synonym for "inapposite" and "deliberately nonresponsive."

"Norwegians and Swedes not so much." E. Kagan

The list of decisions, many of them very, very significant, that would have been decided differently if Jim Comey hadn't taken it upon himself to disregard DOJ norms is now *extremely* long--and that's before several more next week and in the years to come.

Judges Failla (SDNY) and Pitts (NDCal) have now both expressed understandable sympathies for the plaintiffs' concerns b/c neither can imagine any situation in which a grand jury investigating possible crimes in Fort Worth might have any legitimate need ... [1]