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NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors." The man's lawyer plans to demand his return. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 11 hours ago • 73 comments

As we’ve gotten more emergency stay orders from SCOTUS and more ops from the dissenters, I continue to find it significant that there was no dissenting opinion in the transgender military case. And I take it as a sign that discussions were still ongoing about the standard of scrutiny in Skrmetti

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Guess we’re going to find out whether the Smithsonian is part of the unitary executive (with the Chief being recused since he is on the board of regents by statute).

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Today's newsletter is about the study Republicans in Utah ordered about trans youth... that they're now ignoring. www.readtpa.com/p/the-study-...

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Someone hacked the personal cellphone of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and impersonated her in texts and calls (possibly with an AI voice clone) to leading Republicans and corporate executives: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 21 hours ago • 34 comments

I cannot think of a way for the Left to more thoroughly owned than for Trump to continue to attack Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. Please do not continue. We would be so owned.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This nomination is possible only because Trump illegally fired the previous head of the Office of Special Counsel and the DC Circuit stayed the district court injunction keeping him in office.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This guy misrepresented himself as a lawyer -- he hadn't passed the bar -- to represent Andrew Tate

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

“I wonder if I, too, am qualified to destroy a federal agency?”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This comparison between Loper Bright and AEDPA doesn't even make sense. The analog to AEDPA is Chevron, not Loper Bright.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Bribing someone at their standard rate is still a bribe.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Kavanaugh has Seven County, which is the only other decision from December, so Roberts is extremely likely to be the author of Skrmetti.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

So this is basically Drag Race, right? The winner needs to have perseverance energy nerve ingenuity and style.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So they 100% wrote portions of this with Chat GPT, right?

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Made possible by the DC Circuit motions panel from hell (the sequel). newrepublic.com/post/195818/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hoo boy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

yes this is famously how free societies treat their universities

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Wait, WHAT?!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Fewer.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I hope more and more people are able to see the parallels with the rhetoric used to restrict gender affirming care.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This headline is malpractice. It really should win a prize for being technically true while conveying the exact opposite of what the underlying column says. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The defendant in this case is named Calvin Ball. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

it's unfathomably messed up that the president of the United States is using the power of his office to go after a single high school kid.

submitted 3 days ago • 141 comments

The liberals in Hobby Lobby said RFRA codified pre-Smith precedent. The conservatives (per Alito) said RFRA provided more protection than pre-Smith precedents like Lee but apparently won’t extend the same principle to Lyng.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Has Justice Alito ever expressed doubts or regrets about his vote in the “bong hits 4 Jesus” case? It’s the elephant in the room when you read his ode to Tinker in his dissent from denial of cert in the “only two genders” t-shirt case. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’m surprised that only Thomas and Alito filed dissents from the denial of cert in the “only 2 genders” t-shirt case. Interesting to think about how this might reflect on the state of deliberations in Mahmoud and Skrmetti. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Advocate [24 May] -- Florida AG threatens upscale Palm Beach gym with investigation over allowing trans women in locker room. Pure intimidation -- letter doesn't cite any statute & FL bathroom laws only apply to public, not private, facilities. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

submitted 6 days ago • 91 comments

Over half of Israelis believe that has not pushed for a full hostage deal for political reasons; majority also believe his goal for the war is to remain in power instead of winning the war in Gaza. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

JUST IN: Judge Beryl Howell denies stay of her ruling finding unlawful Trump's dismissal of U.S. Institute for Peace officials. Howell says #SCOTUS ruling yday re NLRB & MSPB firings not relevant because USIP lacks 'considerable executive power.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Hope they are the first of many.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Utah commissioned a review of the evidence on gender-affirming care for youth alongside its ban in 2023. The results have just recently been reported. An Assigned reporter will be reading the entire document (which the Tribune story says is over 1000 pages) over the long weekend.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Judge Bates grants summary judgment to Jenner & Block, enjoining the executive order in full. Proud of my alma mater for standing up for what's right. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments