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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/04/2026

Laying down a marker now: The first time a Supreme Court pundit uses John Roberts's "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution" line to cast him as Our Principled Defender Of The Rule Of Law Agains Trump, I am going to go their house and give them a swirlie

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Derek Carr @dcarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Aaron Boone is a terrible manager with no feel for baseball and you can’t convince me otherwise

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’m not downplaying what ICE and CBP will fee empowered to do now. I’m not downplaying the real costs of grinding thru a BS charge before the courts toss it. But it is also important to stress this is just an EO, not a law, bc the media is going to frame it as law. It. Is. Not.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Some fire from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Here's the quote: "Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well as the population at large to the acceptance of evil as such."

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

There is something here that I want people to remember. The only way shit like this happens is governance structures that make it way too easy for unpopular shit to happen and popular shit to get veto-gated. This is minoritarian rule.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I mean, obviously, you use whatever tools are available, and there’s plenty to do with the law. Movement lawyers always have and always will figure out ways. But if the question is, is this court going to be a dependable means of resisting fascism? Absolutely the fuck not, and often the opposite.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 27/06/2025

2026 midterm dems should be running on the explicit platform of completely neutering SCOTUS with a massive overhaul of the judiciary act

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/06/2025

It's not hyperbole to call this case the death of meaningful constitutional rights in the United States. If you do not have an attorney that can litigate against the government, you no longer have rights. This will go down in history as the gutting of the constitutional order.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Derek Carr @dcarr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Unqualified support for immediate court expansion MUST be a litmus for all federal Dem candidates

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Remember that Emil Bove made sure that the case against Eric Adams would be dropped so that Eric Adams would do something exactly like this. Adams got his case dropped, and Bove got a judicial nomination. (www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...) Adams must be voted out, and Bove cannot be confirmed.

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Jason Bailey @jbaileyky.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The House plan threatens SNAP for many Kentuckians, including by: --putting 135K older adults & children at risk of losing benefits from paperwork requirements --shifting up to $190M/year in costs to the state budget, the equivalent of hiring 2,354 public school teachers 1/2

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Derek Carr @dcarr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This. People celebrating the outcome while ignoring the details. The court all but invites Trump to issue a new proclamation that says the magic words and thereafter becomes an unreviewable political question. Extraordinarily dangerous

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 27/04/2025

If you repeat the phrase "Medicaid work requirements" — even if you think you're being clever with something like "medicaid work requirements don't work" — you're helping MAGA destroy Medicaid. Don't repeat their disinformation frame. Instead, reframe: Medicaid Job Loss Penalty

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: "Medicaid Work Requirement".
Description: Some lawmakers are considering changes to Medicaid that would require certain Medicaid recipients work, volunteer, or train for a job to maintain their healthcare coverage. Do you support or oppose a Medicaid Work Requirement?
All likely voters — Support: 50%, Oppose: 44%
Democrat — Support: 35%, Oppose: 59%
Independent / Third party — Support: 53%, Oppose: 41%
Republican — Support: 63%, Oppose: 32%
Female — Support: 47%, Oppose: 45%
Male — Support: 54%, Oppose: 42%
Under 45 — Support: 55%, Oppose: 41%
45+ — Support: 48%, Oppose: 45%
No College — Support: 48%, Oppose: 45%
College — Support: 54%, Oppose: 42%
Black or African American — Support: 51%, Oppose: 43%
White — Support: 49%, Oppose: 45%
Latino — Support: 60%, Oppose: 36%
No, I do not identify as disabled. — Support: 50%, Oppose: 46%
Yes, I identify as disabled. — Support: 53%, Oppose: 39%
Urban — Support: 56%, Oppose: 40%
Suburban — Support: 46%, Oppose: 47%
Rural — Support: 50%, Oppose: 44%
Persuadable Congressional Voter — Support: 55%, Oppose: 38%

April 18–21, 2025 survey of 595 U.S. likely voters.

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: "Medicaid Job Loss Penalty".
Description: Some lawmakers are considering changes to Medicaid that would require certain Medicaid recipients work, volunteer, or train for a job to maintain their healthcare coverage. Do you support or oppose a Medicaid Job Loss Penalty?
All likely voters — Support: 38%, Oppose: 53%
Democrat — Support: 29%, Oppose: 62%
Independent / Third party — Support: 31%, Oppose: 59%
Republican — Support: 52%, Oppose: 41%
Female — Support: 38%, Oppose: 53%
Male — Support: 38%, Oppose: 55%
Under 45 — Support: 29%, Oppose: 59%
45+ — Support: 43%, Oppose: 51%
No College — Support: 36%, Oppose: 54%
College — Support: 42%, Oppose: 52%
Black or African American — Support: 27%, Oppose: 67%
White — Support: 43%, Oppose: 50%
Latino — Support: 30%, Oppose: 59%
No, I do not identify as disabled. — Support: 39%, Oppose: 53%
Yes, I identify as disabled. — Support: 37%, Oppose: 53%
Urban — Support: 39%, Oppose: 54%
Suburban — Support: 37%, Oppose: 56%
Rural — Support: 39%, Oppose: 51%
Persuadable Congressional Voter — Support: 38%, Oppose: 58%

April 18–21, 2025 survey of 576 U.S. likely voters.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hey, political scientists: Is there a term for a regime whose official law enforcement leaders call for the arrest of independent judges w dehumanizing, absolutist language? Asking for the headline writers at the NYT, CNN, etc.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It is entirely appropriate to call a concentration camp a concentration camp.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Here's the Bluesky post. This is incredible. Now the goal will be to get him home. And I want to hear what Senator Van Hollen learned from him. What this shows is that Bukele is very much susceptible to pressure. Now we can't forget about the other 237 people sent there on March 15.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all. 5/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Respectfully, I think you are missing what the court is trying to accomplish. They are trying to look more moderate, but in fact still allowing an outcome determinative procedure violating due process likely overturn the results of a valid election.

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Derek Carr @dcarr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Riggs may still win (TBD), but Justice Earls speaking truth as always: “From the majority’s disrespect for the will of the people, its blatant legislating from the bench, and its deliberate effort to substitute its choice for that of the voters regarding who sits on our Court, I dissent.”

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

As in the 14th Amend Sec. 3 insurrection case, & the Trump immunity case, this Court when dealing w/Trump continues to rule as though they are facing a hypothetical scenario rather than ruling in the context of an actual executive whose conduct demonstrates the worst case scenario of abuse of power.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.”

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"Thank you again. I won't forget."

Trump thanks Chief Justice Roberts at the State of the Union

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

At this point everyone should have a lawyer on speed dial who can file a habeas petition with a few fill-in-the-blanks immediately in their local federal district court just in case. It’s that absurd.

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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If the majority means what it says about due process entitling detainees to sufficient notice and time to meaningfully avail themselves of habeas, then two planes full of people have already been removed without due process to rot El Salvador prison indefinitely in violation of the Constitution ….

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day. Nothing else is good enough.

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Derek Carr @dcarr.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“With more … rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it” - J. Jackson

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🚨 🚨 🚨 the North Carolina state court is going along with Jefferson Griffins request to disenfranchise tens of thousands of NC voters by throwing out their votes. And thereby hand the seat on the NC SCT to Griffin when Justice Allison Riggs won the election. This is a HUGE deal.

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Benjamin Mason Meier @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

UNC public health students are pushing back against government attacks on their education — standing up for public health engagement with equity and social justice. www.change.org/p/stop-equit...

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Sign the Petition

Stop Equity Erasure at UNC Gillings - Reverse This Decision!

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Derek Carr @dcarr.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Oh I’ve missed watching Aaron Judge mash

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