Ha, I'll answer that! The robed partisans prefer the political result of this decision.
(And I say this being no fan of the D's NY gerrymander.)
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Ha, I'll answer that! The robed partisans prefer the political result of this decision.
(And I say this being no fan of the D's NY gerrymander.)
In a new Election Law Blog, I argue that, in prepping for a post-Trump world, we need to re-think preclearance. Using the mid-decade redistricting fights as an example, the post argues that DOJ should be sidelined and/or courts given power to review preclearance grants.
electionlawblog.org?p=154611
Clock is steadily ticking making it impossible for states to draw new districts in response to a Callais ruling before candidate filing deadlines for the 2026 primary elections. Already too late in many states!
reading over Malliotakis v. Williams and lowkey think New York courts/the NY Redistricting Commission should be like...since the Supreme Court clearly lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the case at this time, we are treating it as the nonbinding advisory opinion that it is, thanks for the input tho
Not quite as good as being convicted in a corruption scheme like David Lewis, the architect of the last several anti-democratic NC gerrymanders, but couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
www.wunc.org/politics/202...
Wild that the king of the North Carolina gerrymander, strongman Phil Berger, looks like he is cooked in the GOP state legislative primary.
The rule is perfectly clear: Heads, Republicans win. Tails, Democrats lose.
Emmet is an icon and hero, this is terrific
Who is behind the attacks on Kimmel, Colbert and Late Night tv?
Daniel Surh Center for American Right - former Federalist Society, Leonard Leo staff.
No paywall
archive.ph/FK1Sj
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/m...
Please do not mistake this as sympathy for Supreme Court justices, but it's a very funny quirk of our politics that at the State of the Union, they are expected to just sit there for two hours without making any facial expressions, even when Trump looks directly at them and tells them they suck
You can't sue the government if postal workers accidentally drop the glassware you ordered or lose a letter from your pen pal
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that this means you also can't sue if postal workers refuse to deliver your mail because you're Black
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...
perhaps I have made a mistake
This is all John Roberts' fault
There is no longer a serious metric or common definition to understand how originalists would approach hard constitutional cases. Originalism is much more of a political identification than a theory of constitutional interpretation. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/02/if-i...
In LUPE v. Abbott, a federal appeals panel of three Republican judges insisted that voter fraud is a huge problem that states have every right to solve by punishing voters and the people who assist them
citation is...very much needed
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
My "hot take" on the tariff decision is that Justice Alito would never stay silent amid a full-on SCOTUS food fight (which the many squabbling concurrences & dissents reflect), unless he was busy cooking up something else nefarious & genuinely awful in which he is writing for the majority.
Sorry.
I'm currently reading @davedaley.bsky.social's "Antidemocratic," in which he shows pointedly how true it is that #SCOTUS is SUFFUSED with politics, not above it. Much of that revolves around the Federalist Society, which is MUCH more than a "debating society".
www.levernews.com/the-lesson-o...
Trump getting rid of Roberts, then Dems winning Senate control in midterms, so seat remains vacant until AOC appoints @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social Chief Justice would be just the perfect answer to how McConnell got us into this mess in the first place.
Nah, they just sided with daddy Leonard Leo instead of daddy Trump
Putting on my political theorist hat, what you're seeing here is someone with considerable power protecting and reinforcing the institution which empowers him. The power of SCOTUS is Katyal's power because he plays by its rules, so he'll exert effort to legitimate that power with claptrap like this.
"The architect of the current Court — the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo — was behind the litigation that undid the tariffs. That tells you all you need to know."
The Utah Supreme Court has rejected the GOP-led legislature's attempt to prevent the state's new congressional map from being used this year. The new map gives Democrats a strong chance to flip a GOP-held seat.
The ”major questions doctrine” is as made-up as the “equal sovereignty doctrine” that Roberts fabricated in Shelby County.
Roberts Court Decoder Ring:
When it comes to corporations or the Epstein Class:
Rule of law for me; rule by law for thee
Stop keeping score by Trump’s W/L, but by the W/L record of those who spent billions to capture the court. You don’t need to be a ConLaw professor; just look out the window.
1. Trump's global tariffs were always on shaky legal ground.
2. Still heartening that Roberts, Gorsuch, & Barrett had the spine to say they're illegal.
3. The liberals held on the line on major questions!
4. Kavanaugh's dissent is an abomination.
5. Thomas' is even worse!
slate.com/news-and-pol...
There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange
issuing a correction on this. it isn't just the justices' portfolios, importantly, it is also those of the billionaires with business before the Court who are constantly giving the justices massive bribes. I regret the error