Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
It’s been 77 days since Nancy Guthrie was reported missing and Kash Patel still can’t find her.
This is both
(1) some of the most important SCOTUS reporting ever, and
(2) far too generous to the Republican justices in framing of many pieces and omissions of Trump-era developments
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
For the people in the back:
Killing the Clean Power Plan was among Justice Scalia’s last publicly recorded actions before he died days later—and Republicans refused to let President Obama fill his seat with Merrick Garland, whose nomination they blockaded that whole year until after the election.
BOOM!!!!
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
To echo Chris, I really hope this is strategic because her criticism of Kavanaugh was spot-on.
I’m with @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on this!
I’m with @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on this!
A detailed explanation of how awful Orban is:
We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he cannot fully articulate, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected and closed the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender.
Reminder that Congress can step up and stop this.
This tragedy of errors continues. Not one of the senior US negotiators was competent to the job. The US position was unrealistic. The process was fundamentally flawed.
A reminder— for most of the trump-vance era: vast majority of stuff you’ve read about or heard about re: the administration’s mass detention & mass deportation regime? The stuff that appalls you? Gotta keep in mind almost all of it you didn’t see live-streamed. The horrors go on behind closed doors…
Does nobody remember the show Designated Survivor!? Hmm 🤔
In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Mr. President, you have declared that the United States of America is an existential threat to the Iranian people. If you follow through with this insanity, we will be a might makes right superpower normalizing war crimes.
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.
LAWFARE INSTITUTE •HABEAS NON-COMPLIANCE TRACKER Government Contempt & Non-Compliance 300 documented instances of government noncompliance with federal court orders in immigration habeas cases, with links to the specific filings and orders. 199 DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA 57 DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY 10 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 5 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS +15 more 300 TOTAL
“Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders”
An extraordinary database of non-compliance, from @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org for @lawfaremedia.org.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...
Chris with Colada Shop Havana Cold Brew, wearing a sky-blue dot tie, blue-and-brown-stripe-on-white dress shirt, and a royal blue jacket.
OK, off early to this circus.
I’ll be in the Supreme Court courtroom today for the oral arguments over Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.
There are no cameras and Trump is expected to attend, so subscribe to Law Dork to get my full report after I’m out of court: www.lawdork.com
The cases declined include over 1,000 terrorism cases, nearly 5,000 federal drug law violations, and over 900 federal program fraud.
Trump’s DOJ is letting actual criminals off the hook — all to break up families and terrorize communities.
Nothing says “strong nation” like people choosing between rent and prescriptions.
But hey, at least the missiles are fully funded.
#FundHealthcareNotWar
“…but I’m an android guy” everyone guffaws.
Law professors across America are rewriting their finals to include Justice Amy Coney Barrett using AirDrop in a hypo.
I thought blockades were acts of war? Are we at war with Cuba too?
