The newest Idaho anti trans bill scares me.
It gives the attorney general SWEEPING powers to investigate allegations, fine up to 100k, provides civil relief with 50k minimum verdict.
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On keeping hope right now, from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on stream with @katmabu.bsky.social.
Said it before and I'll say it again: A real problem with the legal profession's cultural norm of venerating the Supreme Court is that the legal profession never contemplated that there might someday be a justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh on it
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
We did it for you Dick Cheney
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
MAMDANI: "We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great."
lol at everyone teaching first amendment law
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
Senator Risch voted to keep Epstein’s files secret—ignoring survivors, deepening their pain, and protecting the powerful over justice. The public deserves the truth. His vote is reprehensible, and he must answer for why he's shielding Epstein and his network.
Yeah, I freely admit that I lacked the imagination to realize that the sharp, biting commentary of … Jimmy Kimmel … would lead to the moment that marked the end of the American experiment.
A timeline in which I have to rally behind Jimmy Kimmel.
Dark times, indeed.
Congrats to Jimmy Kimmel for never bending the knee.
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
In short: Happy Constitution Day!
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the Epstein Files are a distraction from the rollout of fascism, not the other way around. 🤷🏼♀️
We can take issue with more than one thing at a time. If fascism moves forward, we will never see the list. #idpol
Me: guys we gotta save public broadcasting from Trump
Public Broadcasting: that Trump guy is on a roll go off king
Girl, why are you still saying “respectfully” when you’re dissenting from absolute horseshit like this
NEW: The Roberts court allows Trump's gutting of the Education Dep't in a lawless ruling.
Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it."
This afternoon, at Law Dork:
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
This is such an incredibly moving, important piece of work. It is something else to read an essay and know, as the words move from your brain to a deeper place within you, that it will be recognized with awards. That is not why Hanif Abdurraqib wrote this, but it is undoubtedly true.
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
Being a life-tenured Supreme Court justice should mean you have to show your work
Justice Jackson’s criticism is spot-on, of course. But as Justice Sotomayor’s concurrence suggests, SCOTUS’s order looks like a negotiated compromise that leaves the district court room to block future RIFs and agency “restructuring.” So the damage is limited. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
i'm crying oh my god mamdanitimes.com
when this case dropped there were a bunch of legal commenters, liberals included, arguing that it wasn’t a big deal. this is our comprehensive explanation of why those people are stupid and wrong.
