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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 6h
You love to see it
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 8h
I just added 1,000 new rows to my Trump second term shadow docket spreadsheet, because why not. The latest: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Supreme Court again backs GOP in election ad rates dispute
The Supreme Court for the second time in a matter of weeks has ruled in favor of Republicans seeking to ensure that party committees can pay the same lower TV
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 16h
Which one is it, Mr VP? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/u...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I've been using Duolingo for years and yet only now has it started feeding me words it expects me to know that I've literally never come across. It's really annoying, enough to make me want to switch to an alternative. I have a feeling AI is something to do with it.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Judge’s order: Musk engaged in intimidation of ex-FEMA CFO Mary Comans, clears her name www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/j... Musk accused her of “criminal action” and of funneling millions to house undocumented immigrants in Manhattan hotels…
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Judge says Musk engaged in intimidation of ex-FEMA CFO Mary Comans, clears her name
Ex-FEMA CFO Mary Comans' name was cleared by a federal judge after Elon Musk and other government officials falsely accused her of criminal actions in 2025.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Supreme Court maybe as soon as next week might take up Missouri's defense of a state law that bars sex offenders from participating in Halloween. From the petition:
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Supreme Court to weigh if a Nigerian man can be denied asylum after he spent six months cooking for a militant group called the Unknown Gunmen: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court to weigh if Nigerian who cooked for terrorists can be denied asylum
The Trump administration appealed after a lower court ruled that a Nigerian man could not be denied asylum for spending six months cooking for a terrorist group.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: DOGE is back at the Supreme Court over Trump's attempt to withhold documents about its inner workings from a watchdog group: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court to hear Trump attempt to withhold DOGE documents
The justices took up an appeal by the Trump administration seeking to prevent the disclosure of information about the inner workings of the agency used to downsize government.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Justice Department investigating major TV networks over suspending pool coverage of Trump
The investigation into the five networks — CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News — is underway, and civil investigative demands were sent out Friday, a Justice Department spokesperson said.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The phrase "cultural zeitgeist of societal elites" as it refers to trans rights might need some parsing as SCOTUS of course ruled against the transgender plaintiffs in the underlying case.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It would have been weird and controversial if the court had changed the case caption. I hadn't even noticed it.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Judge James Ho seems very upset that the Supreme Court, in a ruling written by Justice Kavanaugh that upheld bans on transgender athletes participating in women's and girls sports, used a female pronoun in the case caption (as it was in lower courts)
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A rare Trump-related shadow docket application in which the administration is the respondent has been filed, as blue cities try to challenge what they term a collusive settlement w/ Texas that nixed a Biden-era immigration regulation. Background: www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/t...
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Paxton, Trump adviser’s org win bid to block immigration rule
On Monday, Ken Paxton’s office asked the judge to block the rule, a request the federal agency then agreed with. The suit echoes a similar move in 2025 that killed a 24-year-old state tuition law.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What's funny is now the neighborhood he shows is gentrified while the national mall still looks like crap.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here we go again
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
MK is not in Greater London, but yes location as key as discussed in the story I posted.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Also: bsky.app/profile/lawr...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I had never been there before and it was a mostly pleasant surprise considering the bad rap it has historically received. We also had the biggest naan bread known to man:
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why @amandakhurley.bsky.social made us go to Milton Keynes this summer:
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Worth it just for this line:
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Duolingo seems to be getting worse by the day, no? Is there a good alternative not driven by crappy AI?
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This whole scheme is nuts
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pair with this one too! I love that local reporters are sniffing out pink slime sites floridatrib.org/2026/05/14/t...
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The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida
The search to find out who was behind the South Florida Standard shows how easy it is for the real people behind digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
crazy tale
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint (RIP) once starred with Henry Fonda in a play called "The First Monday in October" that was produced in the 1970s and was about the (then future) first woman Supreme Court justice
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not really
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What's interesting is that in some ways Alito's approach is a conservative version of Obama's so-called empathy standard that was widely panned by conservatives back in the day. Here's what Obama said: www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jack Goldsmith on Alito's version of originalism: apple.news/A0QAICoyMRrG...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And yet ... his administration is still heavily stocked with FedSoc types and he is drawing from the same pool for his judicial nominees.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A lot of the commentary on a potential Supreme Court retirement seems to be based on a pre-Dobbs/pre-Trump mindset. On the right, the stakes really aren't as high any more. There is no Roe to overturn. They have a 6-3 court. And Trump prefers Alito & Thomas to the justices he himself appointed.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"It’s better to keep your mouth shut and let people suspect you’re an idiot than to open it and prove them right," said, uh, Megyn Kelly variety.com/2026/music/n...
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Megyn Kelly Tells Olivia Rodrigo to ‘Stick to Singing’ After Speaking Out About Cornell 7 Case: ‘You Don’t Know What the F— You’re Talking About’
Megyn Kelly is firing off at Olivia Rodrigo, calling her a “know-nothing moron” who should “sit down and be quiet.”
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It does kind of raise the question why he didn't recuse earlier. Also I'm all in favor justices explaining their recusal decisions in YouTube videos.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alito explained in more detail why he recused from climate case in WSJ i/v, confirming it was because of the downstream impact it could have on oil & gas stocks he owns even though he doesn't own stocks in the companies directly involved: youtube.com/shorts/bUDtx...
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Justice Alito Explains Recusal in Climate Change Case
YouTube video by Wall Street Journal Opinion
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can’t wait for the dissenting opinion
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alito made those comments years ago, one of the problems with a book compiling old speeches.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
First on @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alito's book consists of speeches he gave over the years so there is little in there that hasn't already been discussed and pored over by those interested in it.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agree with the second part of this, not so much the first
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to remain on the Supreme Court even if Democrats capture the Senate in next month’s midterms, dismissing speculation that he might quickly retire to ensure a successor gets confirmed, @gregstohr.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Supreme Court’s Alito Plans to Stay Even If Democrats Win Senate
Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to remain on the Supreme Court even if Democrats capture the Senate in next month’s midterms, dismissing speculation that he might quickly retire to ensure Donald Tr...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎧👇 open.spotify.com/episode/5Wh6...
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Supreme Court Kicks Off a New Term; Latino Voters Swing Away From GOP
Here's the Scoop · Episode
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/10/2026
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is putting President Trump on notice: If Democrats win control, they don’t intend to put “MAGA” judges on the courts.
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Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump
Democrats need a net gain of four seats to capture the Senate. If so, they’d control what happens in a vacancy, as Justice Samuel Alito admits he’s thought about retirement.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A feature of the argument is the oil companies pushing for a broad constitutional ruling and getting little traction, but they could still win on the narrower Clean Air Act preemption argument they have downplayed, a point made by Justice Kagan that plaintiffs would not have been pleased to hear:
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The new Supreme Court term opened with the justices, minus Alito, seemingly perplexed over how to decide some novel legal questions raised by Boulder's novel climate change lawsuit: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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New Supreme Court term begins with justices stumped by climate change case
The justices heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, seeking to hold Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy liable for the impacts of climate change.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Justice Alito's absence in today's climate case at the Supreme Court could be significant: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the first time since the end of April I am required to wear a tie. Yes, it's the first day of the Supreme Court term, folks.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Coming up at the Supreme Court tomorrow:
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