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SCOTUS correspondent for The Economist. Political studies prof at Bard Early College-Manhattan.
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TL;DR: ✅ Trump gets to claim giant victory ✅ Substantive constitutional violation soon blocked in lower courts through procedural workarounds ✅ Roberts stays above the fray ✅ Barrett rehabilitates conservative credentials (Alito concurrence warning against "loophole" = further evidence)

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v interesting 🧵 speculating / gaming out the angles in Trump v CASA

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I’ve been thinking about Barrett’s majority in Trump v. CASA yesterday and Roberts’s decision to assign her the opinion. Some observations/speculation…

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And ... it's out. Our episode on SCOTUS's latest complicity with Trump's lawlessness @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social : crooked.com/podcast/scot...

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SCOTUS's conservative majority is risking a chaotic patchwork citizenship policy with today's ruling in Trump v CASA. As I write in @economist.com, even if that does not come to pass, Trump will now see smoother sailing for other parts of his agenda www.economist.com/united-state...

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Let's all have a good chuckle at Justice Barrett citing Marbury v Madison—the case in which SCOTUS claimed for itself the ultimate power of judicial review—to show how sometimes judges can't do certain things.

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This is the headline. Schools caving into parents with religious objections to gay-themed books. Making LGBT people less seen and less welcome in civil society.

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it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office

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Yes. This is about the ability of courts to stop all the OTHER lawless aspects of Trump's agenda. That ability is now seriously impaired.

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SCOTUS CLOSING DAY Opinions at 10 AM Here’s what’s coming. Follow me here for all the details.

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SCOTUS CLOSING DAY Opinions at 10 AM Here’s what’s coming. Follow me here for all the details.

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A look with @daniellaraz.bsky.social at what might explain plummeting support for same-sex marriage among Republicans on Obergefell’s 10th birthday — w insights from @leahlitman.bsky.social and @profmmurray.bsky.social @economist.com economist.com/united-state...

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The Senate parliamentarian may soon have gentle, reasoned all-caps presidential social media posts directed her way www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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BIG DAY AT SCOTUS TOMORROW A half-dozen opinions coming: - age verification for online porn - opt-outs for religious parents from LGBT content in schools - Louisiana's congressional map - FCC fees for broadband in rural areas - ACA preventive care - birthright citizenship/nationwide injunctions

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