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[stares in project 2025]

submitted 15 minutes ago • 8 comments

Also the entire news media. There's really not that many Democrats on the anti-Mamdani beat but curiously virtually all of them are getting prime slots on cable news shows as if they speak for all Democrats. It makes you think!

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

to make a finer point: if the issue of nationwide injunctions reached the Court maybe half a dozen times in a few years, and they let them stand every time but one, is the rule really that nationwide injunctions are disfavored?

submitted 12 hours ago • 26 comments

Something very on brand that guy whose company engaged in a massive Medicare fraud slips in a bill that would result in a massive cut for health insurance for the poor

submitted 57 minutes ago • 3 comments

we literally cannot afford them taking these weird racist side quests

submitted 1 hour ago • 14 comments

The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported. In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.

submitted 2 hours ago • 75 comments

There is a big distance between “universal injunctions should be granted sparingly” and “no universal injunctions even if government acts in ugly & unlawful ways in areas where uniformity is essential, individual litigation is impossible, the stakes are high, and the issue is a pure legal question.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

This paragraph is going to be my joker origin story. That "two people can get married...so long as they love each other" is just objectively true. It is not a view that can be accepted or rejected.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Democrats: We need a message, we need relevance, we need energy Also Democrats: Yes, well, lets just defame the people who can deliver that

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling

submitted 2 hours ago • 33 comments

I'm OK with Democrats going on Fox News to counter misinformation and debate the conservative hosts or moderators. Going on Fox News to slam another Democrat should get you stripped of your committee assignments and DCCC funding.

submitted 4 hours ago • 39 comments

Incredible that Very Serious People are decrying proposals that Zohran Mamdani didn’t run on. His rent freeze pledge is only for NYC’s rent stabilized apartments—a tiny fraction of housing inventory. He never proposed rent control.

submitted 9 hours ago • 64 comments

Bruh

submitted 5 hours ago • 124 comments

I have serious, possibly irreconcilable differences with anyone who thinks Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral primary is a bigger threat to the Democratic Party than the shit being churned out by the Neo-Confederates on the Supreme Court

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

submitted 4 hours ago • 277 comments

Everyone talks about Fox News. Far fewer people talk about Sinclair Broadcast Group, which has gobbled up TV stations across the country - often multiple stations in a single market (thanks Clinton). They're just as bad about the right-wing propaganda on local news.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Hey I've seen this one before

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

This would be madness if Republicans wanted to rule an economic superpower in the 21st century but makes perfect sense with their actual goal of pushing the American population into servitude and slavery for global oligarchs

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Voting to kill people and shaking my head the whole time so the people I represent know I disagree with it

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵

submitted 9 hours ago • 71 comments

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

submitted 14 hours ago • 207 comments

It is really wild that the Supreme Court has ended the national injunction regime. That’s a legitimately absurd thing to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Just to be clear; when you put this way, it suggests the Roberts Court amended the American Constitution yesterday to eliminate a tool courts have used to rein in executive overreach, and chose to do so right now in order assist the consolidation of a reactionary dictatorship.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Here's my prediction: They find it unconstitutional, but not until this time next year at the earliest.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

this seems key to me. if this were a case where a preisdent romney or a president haley were pushing against nationwide injunctions, i might be less hostile or cautiously supportive of the majority. but this is a totally lawless administration! www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/06/scot...

submitted 15 hours ago • 43 comments

The fact that right immediately went to “DEI” route to attack KJB’s dissent underscores the malicious intent which is the core of those meritless attacks. KBJ’s dissent is powerful and now essential for the long game. Barrett’s petty attack on her opinion shows that fear.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

imho ACB's inability to muster a substantive response to pretty straightforward arguments about the implications of her decision for the constitutional system and the rule of law are pretty telling

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

SG Prelogar also teed up the constitutionality of universal injunctions when NDTX was enjoining Biden left and right, and SCOTUS passed.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until now to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

In addition to the pettiness, Barrett's response to Jackson is embarrassingly thin and built on rhetorical flourishes, as if this is the first universal injunction ever and it's about a minor technical point of law rather than the President violating the Constitution to kidnap and expel citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Speaking to nonlawyers: never let a legal pundit tell you a SCOTUS case isn't a big deal because it's written around a wonky technical issue. The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected. If it looks big and serious, it is.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

I would politely suggest that if you, as someone who swore an oath to uphold the constitution, do not make an effort to remove a president who brazenly and creatively assaults that constitution on a daily basis, then the business of government might not be for you.

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

When Trump says he needs to “reform” the civil service to improve responsiveness, this is what he means (even as he ignores existing civil service laws). And some court, including potentially SCOTUS, will bend over backwards to pretend to believe him, rather than acknowledge the authoritarian goals

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

strongly recommend reading justice kagan's dissent in FSC v Paxton. for one, it's measured & rooted in law/precedent. but more than that, it shows that the liberal wing of the court is now the main defender of american freedom of expression. not the right. not the phonies. the left.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

submitted 1 day ago • 239 comments

Remarkably strong correlation between pundits who told me the Supreme Court upholding Texas’s abortion bounty hunter law was technical and not a sign it would overturn Roe, and pundits assuring me birthright citizenship is fine because people can “just file a class action” or whatever

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I don't think people in general have wrapped their heads around just how much exploitation trans-friendly youth shelters prevent just by being affirming. If every change in this bill goes into effect, youth homelessness will explode at the exact same time every possible support ceases to exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I keep hearing from highly educated friends, including Ivy League attorneys, that I’m overreacting to the authoritarian onslaught of this era; I would ask them what they think they know that she does not

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

I could practically feel KBJ's sobbing through the page in her birthright citizenship dissent today tbh. can't recall reading another opinion quite like it my girl is exhausted and has had it up to here holding hand as high as my 5'2 self can put it w these people's complete betrayal of democracy

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Barrett adopting the Ilya Shapiro asterisk tone.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Law professors are this amazing fount of cloistered, near-sighted pearl clutching that never ends. It’s genuinely impressive to see a discipline so dedicated to avoiding any confrontation with reality.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments