Lawmakers renewed their push to pass the SAVE Act, which would block millions of Americans from voting. It failed before — and it must fail again. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor
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And #notacourt
Sam Alito
And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”
What??????????????????????
It is not a coincidence that our country is being run like right wing talk radio combined with a reality tv show. The problem is neither of those are really real. Our country is-or was.
I've got 2 heavy hitters today @jlcauvin.bsky.social and @espinsegall.bsky.social
Plus a great rundown of yesterday's top stories!
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Great way to wrap up this shitty week.
@petedominick.bsky.social bringing it with Eric Say-Gall @espinsegall.bsky.social and the hilarious @jlcauvin.bsky.social
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In his SOTU--a mere 9 days ago!--Trump declared: "The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens." Yet, as Prof Neil Buchanan says on the blog, he is failing even at his duty "not to inflict gratuitous harm and death on disfavored people essentially for kicks." 👇
The Speaker of the House: “We are not at war, we have no intention of being at war.”
Imagine if another country bombed us and killed our President while saying they are not at war with us.
This is insanity.
As the Supreme Court is about to gut the Voting Rights Act maybe we should remember that 18 states have never, ever, sent a Black person to Congress.
Ever.
history.house.gov/Exhibitions-...
Thinking about Congressional Republicans:
"We have found that authoritarian followers share three tendencies: they obey authority figures from their in-group; they punish rule breakers; and they rigidly endorse long-held traditions."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
#lawless
Really all writing….
“Show, don’t tell” is, in my view, a foundational principle of persuasive legal and judicial writing.
*Just 2* judicial law clerks filed complaints against federal judges last year. That’s not because judges don’t mistreat clerks: actually, it’s because complaint mechanisms are totally broken.
I explain why—and how to fix it. @thelap.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/c2Eon...
The Emperor has no clothes?
Exactly though the word “block” is too strong. Cohesively is enough.
This Louisiana brief argues racial stereotyping when creating districts is unconstitutional b/c it assumes people of one race vote the same way AND increasing the power of one racial group unconstitutionally and automatically decreases the power of another. What? www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Under our current leadership America will end up alone, isolated, and scorned. This is inevitable on our current path. Does our President have a single lifetime friend?
I challenge you to find a law school dean even half as amazing as GSU Law’s Courtney Anderson.
Lawless authoritarianism:
-"How Trump Keeps Withholding Money After Being Sued 198 Times"
-"Officials Violated More Than 50 Court Orders in NJ"
-"ICE violated at least 96 court orders in January"
-"The judge then provided an additional count of 113 more court orders violated in 77 more cases"
One almost unavoidable inference from the government's punishment of Anthropic is that Trump and Hegseth plan to conduct mass surveillance and deploy autonomous killer robots. What could go wrong? I sketch some answers on the blog. 👇
Whatever the real reason for this war is, we don’t know it yet, and if there was a good one, we would.
That’s next.
Fed Soc doesn’t have to file amicus briefs because it picks the justices.
The scene is set for uncontrolled escalation.
A jury has convicted Gray of second-degree murder and more than two dozen other charges in the novel Georgia case involving Gray’s 14-year old son who allegedly used guns Gray bought him to carry out a Sept. 4, 2024, shooting that killed two teachers and two students inside Apalachee High School
