I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

My first thought on hearing this news was, “So, what phrases are going to get *zesty*?”

If the Justices want to write books, they can write them themselves and publish them through the Government Printing Office, where they’ll be free for anyone to read.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

If the Justices want to write books, they can write them themselves and publish them through the Government Printing Office, where they’ll be free for anyone to read.

I unironically believe this. If you're in charge of deciding what is THE LAW, and you hold that position for life, you should have to give up all of other pursuits and dedicate yourself fully to doing nothing but that, without anything else to distract you or influence you.

This a great gig for recent history and poli sci majors!

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What if The Pelican Brief was really about the shadow docket?

"Originalism" promises 2 things: restraining "judicial activism" & (though worded differently today) retaining the Constitution's original intent. By inventing a whole new way of operating on the fly, Robert's showed how phony both claims always were.

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

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

This new NYT reporting on the birth of the shadow docket might also be coining a new term for another feature of SCOTUS practice: “vacation mode.“

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The shadow docket “is now a central legacy of the Court led by Chief Justice Roberts.“

Bird girl has blown this case wide open

What if The Pelican Brief was really about the shadow docket?

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

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Clarence Thomas Can’t Get American History Right In his recent broadside against the twentieth century, the justice is as ill informed as he is mean-spirited.

Speaking of SCOTUS, I took issue with some of Justice Thomas’s recent historical claims:

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