We have reached the “punish the journalists who published the memos” part of the rightwing backlash to the Supreme Court story about the shadow docket memos.

The old is new again.

Pretty sure this is it.

From Masterpiece Cakeshop to 303 Creative to Chiles to now this, there’s something about Colorado being ground zero for the Supreme Court’s project of superimposing religion over the state’s stance against LGBTQ nondiscrimination.

Same state that gave us Amendment 2 and Romer v. Evans.

CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Me: Kids, how about we watch some inspiring nature videos.

Them: Nah, let’s watch this instead.

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...

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.

Nah, I’m actually the only weirdo at the beach in April. I like it that way.

A selfie from an empty beach.

Happy beach o’clock to all who celebrate.

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026 Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old man from Cuba, died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026

A 27-year-old man from Cuba died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.

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I took so many pictures of that pup when I covered that case.

My statement was carefully written to account for many unfairnesses in this life. I’ll show myself out now. 😶‍🌫️

It’s so unfair that some of us get to work outside shirtless on beautiful days and some of us can’t.

The choice of venue is what gets me.

Crazy how miseducated U.S. law students are about this favorite of our judicial overlords.

A Judge's Illicit and Uncashable Check Was Supposed to Make the Case of the Missing $2 Million Go Away. It Didn't. "This information rattles me in my soul."

A perk of owning your workplace as a journalist is that, if you think it's interesting, you can write story after story about an insane legal tangle of alleged scammers, political machers, and conflicted judges, and there's no one to tell you to knock it off.

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Noted progressives Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh, who make up one-third of the Supreme Court, would like a word.

Looks campy as hell. I’ll probably watch it.

Kilmar, too.

The one thing John Roberts is good at is giving the right-wing everything it wants 98% of the time, and using the other 2% to launder the Supreme Court’s reputation as a moderate bastion of reason.

isgur’s argument rests on two obvious fictions: first, that trump’s assertions of executive authority are just a modest difference of degree (from the real villains, liberal democrats) and second, that SCOTUS has no particular ideological agenda of its own

Verily

A New York Times podcast headline, which reads: OPINION INTERESTING TIMES How the Supreme Court Defeated Trump A conservative court watcher explains why the president has failed to bend the judicial branch to his will. April 16, 2026, 5:05 a.m. ET

Not this take again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...

Next up: Supreme Court disbarment. www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/...

I have this problem, too. Sometimes putting in the year, or an approximation, helps. But not always.

destruction of the voting rights act by a partisan court that thinks the blacks have it too good is on par with the ignominy of the courts that gutted the 14th amendment and killed the 1875 civil rights act

It’s a legal term of art under the rules, but the Trump administration is requesting dismissal “in the interests of justice” — and then cites a string of cases where the Supreme Court and other courts blindingly accept whatever the government decides.

A deeply broken, possibly irreparable system.

John Sauer, call your client. He’s destroying your case in real time.

Trump appeal in law firm cases draws two Obama-appointed judges, one Trump appointee Two Democratic-appointed judges and one Republican-appointed judge were named on Tuesday to hear the Trump administration's appeal of rulings that struck down executive orders punishing prominent law ...

The patently lawless executive orders punishing law firms Donald Trump signed last year will be Neomi Rao's biggest audition yet.

The hearing is going to be lit.

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