Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Re: replacing SCOTUS with a rotating panel of lower judges who server temporarily: I would add that one random panel should be in charge of deciding which cases get heard and a different random panel hears the cases. So those who vote to take up a case don't know who will be hearing the case.

Under-appreciated (not by @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app obviously!) example of Roberts’ awfulness on race is Parents Involved v. Seattle, where Roberts decided that integrating schools was no different from segregating schools.

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

appreciate this post about the technocratic libs' confused messaging: "it would be like Coca-Cola commercials saying 'but Pepsi is pretty good too.'" substack.com/home/post/p-...

Grand Avenue has LA's best architecture clumped haphazardly along a very bleak street. Yet Frank Gehry had a vision to change that. "You close that piece of Grand Avenue, put some chairs out there and you've got something special," he said. "We're not just building buildings, we're building places"

Unconscionable. Full stop. No excuses to be associated with or endorse or remain silent: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

Honestly, Schumer should put some version of this into legislative language, thank Trump for his leadership, and then demand senate republicans vote on it by tomorrow.

Of course social media made everything much worse, but it’s interesting that Bill Clinton’s memoir complains about how no matter what he did (or didn’t do), the public was convinced he spent all his time during his first year focused exclusively on gays in the military.

Utah deserves to be a punchline in most conversations.

This thread is excellent, and I would just add, this is one of my chief complaints with SCOTUS as well. In the school prayer case, the affirmative action case, most recently the ICE raids in LA case, the Court has simply lied about the facts to reach its preferred outcomes.

Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist & far-right violence in the USA outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”Per Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12 Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”* * Depending on race.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

In addition to all the other problems, and as has become standard practice for this court, actual facts no longer matter to them. The statement that officers "promptly let the individual go" once they discover they are citizens is contradicted by the facts *of this very case.*

Even pre-MAGA, republicans have made clear that democracy is merely a means to achieve their goals, and if democracy no longer gets them there, they will reject democracy. Liberals have failed to articulate that democracy *is an end in and of itself*.

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

Obama was a great campaigner and also a great president and this is a good thing.

What a graph

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Getting democrats to 'rally . . . behind those ideas' is dumb. The lesson from Project 2025 is have it ready, but keep it quiet! Project 2025 was bad for Trump! He had to disavow it! The Dem nominee shouldn't spend the election talking about whatever ends up in Project 2029!

Absolutely shameful behavior from Barrett.

And the thing they hate her for is bizarre: Her dissent is essentially (powerful and meaningful!) platitudes about checks and balances, separation of powers, rule of law. Barrett's response is a massive overreaction, basically, "How DARE you bring up constitutional first principles!?"

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

I'm going to do a real hot take here but if I were still in SoCal I'd suggest the community find them decent shelter and start bringing them home cooked food since it's horribly obvious their CinC doesn't give a shit about them unless they are in his parade. Believe me, they know it.

I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”

Both the thread itself and the comments along the way are so insightful.

we're doing masculine crisis discourse again, I guess. so I'll post this again. Patriarchy *defines masculinity as a crisis*; that's how patriarchy works. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/there-isnt...

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today's Headlines

All of these articles should be seen as a kind of misinformation, a symptom of elite insularity, fragility and class anxiety. Every time they warned us about the 'new McCarthyism,' they missed an opportunity to point out how the same old McCarthyism was growing and radicalizing under our noses.

The Trump administration has cut funding for a University of Utah research institute because work there focused on health disparities, including skin cancer in rural communities and brain injuries in combat veterans.

This is bizarre framing—they’re not debating whether the judge was right, they’re debating whether Trump’s use of this statute was permissible.

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

A hero and a coward are meeting in the Oval Office today. And when the meeting is over, the hero will return home to Ukraine.

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy. 1/

Jeffries and Schumer are just profoundly not up to what’s happening and what’s coming. I’m sorry but it’s just true

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.