Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk
NBC News projects Virginia Redistricting Amendment will pass, major victory for Democrats in Virginia and nationwide.
With almost 80 percent of the vote in, Virginia Redistricting measure now is winning with 50.3 percent YES, 50 percent of vote from Fairfax County is in.
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
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this is what America can be
What is striking to me about these is that the Justices candidly admit they are imposing their will without understanding the merits of the case.
It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...
Texas State Rep. James Talarico just announced his campaign for U.S. Senate raised more than $27 million in the first quarter of 2026 — the largest amount ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year.
This is lunacy.
The president has used a loophole in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to get away with mass warrantless surveillance of Americans — and this week Congress will vote on whether to expand this power.
Tell Congress to vote NO at 833-946-2258.
Thank you to UB Law Links for this profile on my new role as director of the Jaeckle Center for Law, Democracy and Governance. Excited about the role the Center can play as a forum for advancing research, scholarship and advocacy in the years to come.
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said the panel would be “fully prepared” to vet a Supreme Court nominee should there be a retirement at the end of the term, and would recommend that either Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or Mike Lee (R-Utah) get the nomination.
Congratulations!
Congratulations and so well deserved!
Disparate impacts of the war: "Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, whose hospitality industry has been hit hard by the war with Iran, are facing furloughs, pay cuts and even repatriation."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...
After tracing how these approaches operate in key cases, the article examines the implications of these approaches for the proper role of the court, key structural values, protection of voting rights, and for the relative centralization or decentralization of electoral regulation.
"Constitutional Structure and Election Law" is now up @wmborj.bsky.social. The article analyzes the Supreme Court's application of three forms of constitutional structure-based approaches in election law: historicist, structuralist, & background structure.
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Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
Consumer prices spiked 3.3 percent due to war.
Wrote this at the same time! Great minds...
Although one must seriously question the rationality of the "rational state actor" assumption underlying realism
Realism in international relations feels too real now.
One lesson from the last year is that many underestimated how quickly federal agencies and departments could be shut down or downsized. Rebuilding or creating new agencies and departments in the future will require sustained attention to questions of resilience and preservation.
Pending before the Supreme Court are three disparate cases, each with the potential to remake rules on district boundaries, campaign finance and the eligibility of certain mail-in ballots. These rulings, issued in the middle of the election season, could potentially confound voters, scramble overworked and threatened election administrators, and alter campaign strategies in the middle of heated election contests. And depending on how the justices rule, these decisions may have cascading effects including new court challenges, legislative changes and even more uncertainty in the months before the midterms. The justices can avoid this confusion entirely. In June 1964 the court issued a landmark decision in Reynolds v. Sims that helped cement the principle of “one person, one vote.” Yet the ruling made clear that it need not be applied to that fall’s fast-approaching elections. Whatever this court ultimately decides on the merits in these cases, it should apply the same principle.
My New One at MS Now: “Three ways the Supreme Court could upend the midterm elections” — A Call for Court To Take Timing into Account in Callais, NRSC, and Watson @msnownews.bsky.social
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Graphic with a quote of Julian Reyes, Chief of Staff at UCS. The graphic includes the image of Smokey the Bear: “My own experience as a civil servant at USDA working directly with Forest Service R&D scientists tells me this relocation is bad for the American people, bad for American producers and foresters, and bad for rural communities.
In his blog, UCS’s Julian Reyes explains how Forest Service restructuring is irreversibly damaging the federal scientific enterprise. It leaves the nation facing growing climate threats with fewer experts to manage wildfires just as risks are surging across the US.
🔗 act.ucsusa.org/4sqD11s
"Bring Back Smokey Bear" and protect forests should be part of '28 campaign platform.
See also Lando Calrissian, This Deal is Getting Worse All The Time
per the art of the deal, deals evolve and change and parties often do not know what is in the deal, see The Empire Strikes Back
Trump likely just ended GOP chances of winning a huge upset for California governor.
Everyone runs on 1 ballot with the top 2 candidates advancing. The 2 main Rs needed to evenly split the ~1/3 of GOP votes to win both spots over the more numerous Dems, as some polls had shown.
That’s unlikely now
