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Jake Faleschini

@jakefaleschini.bsky.social
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Adding justice and equality to the judiciary one judge at a time. Dad & husband. YIMBY and former DC elected. Making good trouble @AFJustice. @WeDemandJustice @Amprog @ACSLaw & @NewYorkStateAG alum. He/his views only.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By "destroying" the VRA (the most impt civil right law) and "gutting" the 14th and 15th amendments Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS "has essentially ended the Second Reconstruction" replicating "the worst impulses of the Supreme Court in the 19th century." Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a must read if you want to understand just how partisan, political, and racist the Supreme Court has become.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction. A must read to understand the stakes of this election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cover of Mother Jones issue on the new Jim Crow
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When Neil Gorsuch sends us his people....
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“The court is totally wrong on separation of powers”
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Turn on notifications to watch here: youtube.com/live/E5dhoNr...
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EXCLUSIVE LIVE: Senate Democrats' Shadow Hearing on Todd Blanche (Not on C-SPAN)
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow an Epstein survivor, the DOJ spokesman Todd Blanche fired, and Blanche's own former co-chief all testify against his confirmation as Attorney General. Not on C-SPAN. Not on cable. I have the exclusive livestream. 2:30 PM ET. 🔗 below. youtube.com/shorts/p7Z21...
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EXCLUSIVE LIVE: Epstein Survivor & Blanche's Former Co-Chief Testify Against Todd Blanche
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Show me where in the U.S. Constitution it details your right to fly on an airplane or get unlimited pasta at Olive Garden. I will wait.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Democrats must expand the Court.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Democrats who are skittish about reforming and regulating the Supreme Court need to get with the times. The public sees the Roberts Six for what they are.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don't forget - what Susan Collins told Mainers. Just like she did when she voted for Kavanaugh, she wasn't being straight with Mainers. Maine voters should be more than concerned today. www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
"Susan Collins says ICE surge in Maine has ended
Maine Public | By Steve Mistler"
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Not all coups involve tanks
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just days after John Roberts let MAGA #SCOTUS gave Trump autocrat like power to fire officials of federal agencies except for the Fed Reserve ...
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) electionlawblog.org/?p=157199
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"there’s no serious reform that doesn’t first include adding justices because that is the only immediate way to break the corrupt power of the current majority" + other thoughtful ideas from @joshtpm.bsky.social including but not limited term limits or mandatory retirement age.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
thank you for your service Chotiner 🫡 giving Trump slightly less than 100% of what he wants does not mean the Court isnt ideologically-captured or the justices arent political actors the Court's ideology just overlaps slightly less than 100% w Trump's as the justices have their own political goals
screenshot from the quote-skeeted interview, with questions from Isaac Chotiner and responses from Elie Honig:

What would be cases where you think Kavanaugh and Barrett voted against their preferences?

Barrett crossed over, so to speak, on the tariffs case, the National Guard case, the mail-in ballots case, and the mifepristone case.

Why do we think these cases are necessarily against her political views?

She’s a staunch, longtime conservative.

Of course. But I can find conservatives who hate tariffs and think the Federal Reserve should be independent, right? Or who think that Trump is being stupid on mail-in ballots.

All of those opinions are certainly against the position of either the Trump Administration, the R.N.C., or the Republican powers that be. And by the way, I would add, birthright, of course, to that as well, yeah.

That’s the reason I brought up the nineteen-eighties Reagan Justice Department. That could be the type of conservatives they are.

It may well be.
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Noah Dahl @noahdahl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yes, you can. Because the case is obviously crazy and should be 9-0. Only now you have to add that at least 4 members of the court are also 'crazy' in that they are pursuing an activist agenda rather than interpreting the law.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"When Democrats retake control of the government... we have to decide if we want to win symbolic victories and simply get caught trying or if we actually want to make permanent, meaningful change. If it’s the latter, then inherently, that requires us to expand the Supreme Court.”
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The Dam Is Breaking on Dems Embracing Supreme Court Expansion
A slew of decisions that are killing democracy might have lit a fire under some of the most powerful Democrats. I got them to say that they'll do something about it.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
When you saw the faux-Alito retirement announcement this week, did you feel prepared to know what we're up against? Probably not. Check out AFJ's new website that will bring you up to speed because it could be a REAL announcement any day now.
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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We're prepared for a SCOTUS vacancy! It'll be one heck of a fight if it happens!
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Alliance for Justice @afj.org · 02/07/2026
As speculation grows over a possible vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, we are leading the effort to ensure the public, lawmakers, organizational partners, & the media have the information needed to scrutinize any potential nominee. View our potential SCOTUS shortlist here: afj.org/scotus-short...
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Potential SCOTUS Shortlist - Alliance for Justice
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Now we appeal the Balogun suspension in the Northern District of Texas
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just like Jesus Christ, famous hater of the poor
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What a great system we have when two sexual harassers, unaccountable to the people, get to determine what constitutes “sex” with regards to discrimination for 400 million people.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about yesterday’s decision in Slaughter - and also about how any post-Trump response *must* include Supreme Court reform www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
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Opinion | Congress Can Just Shrivel. Or It Can Do What It Did After Nixon.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.
“On her view, Congress could commandeer the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, most (if not all) of the Department of Justice, and a number of other agencies besides. Indeed, if Slaughter were correct, then it is not clear why Congress would need to allow the President any say in firings at all”
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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Big surprise. SCOTUS says Trump can fire anyone from independent agencies, except the Fed. For some reason, ungrounded in the Constitution, the federal reserve is unique. (The reason is that the Justices have financial investments and value them.) Couldn't be more nakedly political.
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Waiting for the Supreme Court to tell us what scraps of the Constitution we get to keep is such a degrading ritual
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In plain speak - it’s a shitty ruling handed down by politicians in robes who don’t deserve the power they have. And we the people can take that power back if only we are so brave.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The irony of the MAGA justices’ complete arrogance in believing that they - the Justices most historically removed from the founding - should completely rewrite the Court’s Constitutional position on the separation of powers based on some perceived authority rooted in “originalism.”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026
this morning's decision in the TPS case, Mullin v. Doe, is just a straightforward declaration from the Supreme Court that neither the law nor the lives of nonwhite people matter ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
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The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak
No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Will say this till I’m blue in the face: this court isn’t originalist or Conservative or Constitutional. It’s a 6-3 MAGA, partisan, pseudo-Court working to empower Republicans and their fascist allies in corporate America. Everything else is window-dressing.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
👏👏👏
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SCOTUS Republicans are unabashedly pro-cancer, pro-gun violence, anti-humanity oh, and the fucking racist, xenophobic, nasty president according to them, isn't racist expand this fucking corrupt court. every single Dem needs to be banging that drum. If you don't, retire or don't run
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
More death from the Supreme Court. The Republicans overruled a Hawaii law that prohbited guns on private property open to the public without express consent of the owner. So, if you need to shoot up a beach in Hawaii, the Republican ammosexuals on SCOTUS, as always, have your back.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I still can't believe that a senator who caucuses with the Democrats voted for this sh!thead after all the evidence that @afj.org provided that this guy would rule EXACTLY like this. Divine has no commitment to the law or constitution.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New: Trump-appointed Judge Joshua Divine issued an opinion taking the position that prosecutors today may be free to seek the death penalty in cases involving sexual offenses against children despite a landmark 2008 Supreme Court ruling against such punishments. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Trump-appointed judge says death penalty for child sex crimes may be legal
A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death penalty for child rape, prosecutors today may be free to seek capital punish...
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
THIS IS SO FUCKED. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court just gave the AG the power to intervene whenever Philly's DA concedes post-conviction relief. When the elected prosecutor reviews a case and concludes someone may have been wrongfully convicted, the state can now show up and argue against that.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/06/2026
⚠️ A major escalation in the DOJ’s attack on voting ahead of the midterm elections took place this week. The FBI raided the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters. Ohio is expected to be a key swing state in the upcoming elections.
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Trump FBI raids Ohio voter registration group in latest bid to suppress voting
The raids also represent a major escalation in the Justice Department's crackdown on pro-voting and progressive groups.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2026
that’s right
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
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Jake Faleschini @jakefaleschini.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Court packing is never ever something you should do” is not a tenable position. It’s trivial to imagine a court so extremely anti-constitutional (and yet 34 senators won’t convict) where court packing would be the necessary lesser evil. The only question is if the Roberts Court is that bad. (it is)
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/06/2026
Congress: we passed a law to let judges reduce prison sentences if 1) extraordinary & compelling reasons warrant it, & 2) the reduction is consistent w/ the Sentencing Commission's policy statements, neat huh? Supreme Court: ISN'T THERE SOMEONE YOU FORGOT TO ASK ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...
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The Supreme Court Suggests Any Compassion For Criminal Defendants Is Too Much
Congress gave judges the power to shorten a prison term if “extraordinary and compelling reasons” warrant relief. But the Republican justices on the Supreme Court won’t let judges use it.
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
On Thursday morning, the Judiciary Committee will vote on the nomination of Matthew Schwartz for the 2nd Circuit. He's one of Trump's personal lawyers. That day, the Senate will vote to invoke cloture on Justin Smith's nomination to the 8th Circuit. He's also Trump's personal lawyer. Appalling.
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