In my view, John Roberts's most impressive PR accomplishment is persuading an entire generation of Supreme Court commentators that he is anything other than a Republican politician who uses legalese to implement policies that Republican voters want
Why?
Guys the link from Australia is a barn-burner! You better go read Mike’s Blog Round-Up!
H/T @karoli.bsky.social
We need a sarcasm font. I'd still hang with McMorrow. Michigan also has a deep bench.
Why is she even on Tapper's show? Three minutes of my life I can't get back.
Yikes! Always something…
We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.
📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.
Worth repeating. Again and again.
I’d just like to say, at the risk of seeming obvious, that Donald Trump is the worst fucking thing that has ever happened to this country I had the misfortune to be born in.
BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!
TRUMP’S MEDIA TAKEOVER MUST BE STOPPED!
Good to see Joe back in like Flynn, toadying yet again.
Bootlicker.
Same. And I’m not bashing her. I think we could have had some great progress and certainly no wars.
It's telling that the entire premise of the shadow docket is that lower courts are incompetent. Not wrong, not the normal judges-can-disagree stuff. SCOTUS is certain the Appellate and District courts are all so truly incompetent that they cannot properly decide injunctions, forcing SCOTUS to act.🙄
Really gotta emphasize this: the targets & requirements in the Clean Power Plan were *so* modest, *so* conservative, *so* unambitious that *the power sector met them anyway, in the course of normal market operation*. The regs would have had basically no effect at all relative to the status quo.
Onward and upward ….Two Ships Are Fired On As Iran Says the Strait of Hormuz is Closed www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Why do you suppose that is?
7 Dems did, 40 didn’t. So focus on the Dems who did.
He’s problematic. He gives me hard Fetterman vibes
Graham Platner worries me. Jasmine Crockett doesn’t. Nor does Dr Abdul’s el Sayed, but my choice there is Mallory McMorrow
It certainly wasn’t Trump!! That was the choice. Harris or Trump.
I’m always amused by the number of accounts I’ve never heard of or interacted with who block me after a particularly noisy day here on BlueSky.
This is excellent news!
If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Indeed.
In my perfect world there would be two Dems at the top of the ticket.
That SCOTUS article is…something. I’ll be reposting some of the better comments. Here is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.
Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
“The New York Times has obtained those papers and is now publishing them, bringing the origins of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket into the light. The 16 pages of memos, exchanged in a five-day dash, provide an extraordinarily rare window into the court, showing how the justices talk to one another outside of public view. A Breakdown of Five Days of Secret Supreme Court Memos April 18, 2026 Writing on formal letterhead, but addressing one another by their first names and signing off with their initials, they sound notes of irritation, air grievances and plead for more time. In addition to the usual legal materials, they cite a blog post and, twice, a television interview. They sometimes engage with one another’s arguments. But they often simply talk past each other.”
A reasonable bet that these days the very online Kavanaugh and co are rubber stamping Trump regime’s decisions via secretive shadow dockets based on content they are taking in through not just through right wing cable tv but its massive conspiracy filled online media. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
