Thank you!

Trump, McConnell, Roberts. That’s Not Rule of Law. It’s Rule by Law The constitutional skids for Project 2025 have been greased by a Trumpian federal judiciary that is carrying out its own autocratic revolution

My latest, on Trump's ongoing judicial coup.

@contrariannews.org

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The leaked memos confirm what we all knew: Big Oil effectively has the conservative Justices on retainer. This casts a disturbing pall over future cases affecting oil industry interests, including, most notably, Suncor.

Becoming increasingly radicalized against qualified immunity every time one of these decisions comes down

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

Bingo

👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further:

- No shadow docket
- No clerks
- No building
- Riding the circuit

We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.

Somebody call that court a plumber. We’ve got a leak!

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

this is a microcosm of the world as conservatives want it, where “merit” means an unrestricted good ol’ boys club

Arguing the state has a legally cognizable interest in promoting the impregnation of children.

The ONLY ANSWER to Fixing the Supreme Court YouTube video by Legal AF

Want to know how Congress can fix the Supreme Court? Had a great conversation with @alexaronson.bsky.social on the tools we can - and must - use to ensure that ethics, democracy and rule of law survive the Roberts era. youtu.be/3lb4HZQMN-4?...

An HBO documentary exposing “dark money” in American politics just earned an Emmy nomination.

It cites The Lever’s reporting — and credits us in the film.

This is the system we’ve been investigating for years.

“We are at a dangerous precipice, and it is now a matter of national security for Congress to fulfill its responsibilities under the 25th Amendment to protect the American people from an increasingly volatile and unstable situation."

Stay on offense @raskin.house.gov ↘️

Sunlight for Vampire Vought OMB Director Russell Vought has long avoided accountability for his role in the destruction of the federal government. The American people deserve answers.

OMB Director Russell Vought it set to testify before the House and Senate Budget Committees this week. For far too long, Vought has operated in the shadows as the chief architect of Trump's destruction of the federal government.

It's time to shine a light on Vampire Vought.🧵

To scholars of democratic backsliding, it is difficult to overstate how big a deal today's election in Hungary, a country of less than 10 million people, is likely to be as a narrative milestone for our age, regardless of which way it goes.

Cover drop and I'm in love
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Could not agree more!

@thelisagraves.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻

Talking with Lisa Graves On the corruption of our politics — and the Supreme Court

This is an absolutely must read. 5-star

Paul Krugman and @thelisagraves.bsky.social
@alexaronson.bsky.social

Top to bottom, every word. You’ll know more than years of reading NYT or Wapo.

And get her book - Without Precedent on Roberts’ corrupt court.

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Opus Dei, Ep. 3: Snow on the mountaintops Podcast Episode · Untold: Opus Dei · S4 E3 · 34m

Financial Times # 3 on Opus Dei recruitment & “pipeline” to DC at Princeton

a concerted effort to recruit students who came from or had connections to Washington, DC.

“a lot of the people I knew worked at the Heritage Foundation”

Part 4 - 4/17 - Opus Dei in DC

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The ONLY ANSWER to Fixing the Supreme Court YouTube video by Legal AF

"You're going to come at us, we're going to punch you back."

I spoke with Rep. @seancasten.bsky.social about his SCOTUS reform plans and the host of powerful tools Congress has in its belt to actually rein in the rogue Roberts Court.

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Sotomayor Faults Kavanaugh Over Immigration Stops Concurrence Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized a fellow member of the US Supreme Court for failing to grasp the real-world effects of an unsigned order last year that allowed immigration enforcement sweeps in Los...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor lets Brett Kavanaugh have it:

“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops. This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour."

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Why would anyone come here voluntarily?

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

They have to remove him from office and send him to The Hague, literally as fast as they can

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

If America is to actually repudiate fascism, not kinda sorta put it on partial pause (if only in some states), we require a reckoning across every aspect of society.

When the Nation’s Top Lawyer Treats Ethics as Optional How a decade of ethical evasion paved the way for Pam Bondi’s partisan performance

A few months ago, I broke down why Pam Bondi wasn’t facing disciplinary proceedings at the time. Given her termination, it’s worth taking another look. The short version: There’s nothing stopping these investigations now.