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Kit Beyer argues that the Supreme Court’s refusal to livestream opinion announcements limits timely public access to such announcements and hampers judicial transparency.

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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

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As Trump rips Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, the Senate will consider Trump's first slate of Trump 2.0 judicial nominees tomorrow. Here's one of the worst of the bunch: Josh Divine, an anti-abortion extremist who sure seems like a Leo judge courtaccountability.substack.com/p/judicial-n...

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The outburst about Leonard Leo may signal a dawning realization by Trump: that he actually might not have truly chosen his own Supreme Court appointees.

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Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting www.npr.org/2025/06/03/n...

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Sen. Booker (D-NJ): “I am sick and tired of hearing this kind of heated partisan rhetoric, which is one of the reasons we have divisions in this country. The attacks we see from POTUS, trolling and dragging judges is what we should be talking about that puts people in danger.”

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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1633 comments

The Supreme Court just echoed the Abundance book in its new ruling advancing a fossil fuel industry plan to run oil trains right next to the Colorado River. One derailment could permanently destroy 40 million Americans' drinking water source. Abundance! www.levernews.com/an-oil-giant...

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Considering how few misconduct complaints law clerks are emboldened to file against federal judges each year—typically only 1-3—the judiciary should make every effort to investigate them, rather than sweeping misconduct under the rug + pushing judges out quietly, I argue in @bloomberglaw.com

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More than 135,000 cleaner fish have died at a Highland salmon farm run by Norwegian-owned Mowi, prompting welfare concerns and a formal complaint. Read the full story: theferret.scot/13500...

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UK Govt AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat, 242 to 116 votes. Copyright holders must be able to see when their work has been used and by whom. Tech firms need to be licensed to use the work and pay. Govt disagrees. I voted against the govt.

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IGs fired by Trump had saved the govt more than $50 billion in 2024. Betcha that’s better than DOGE, when the dust settles.

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Leonard Leo: “I’m very grateful for President Trump transforming the Federal Courts.… The Federal Judiciary is better than it’s ever been in modern history, and that will be President Trump’s most important legacy.” Leo picked them Leo picked them Fed Soc picked them. Next.

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This nominee is clearly being set up as the next Matthew Kacsmaryk, a guy who’ll hand out endless nationwide injunctions for the religious right, except he may be even MORE extreme and unstable. What a lunatic. ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

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More than 1/3 of the recusals this term at #SCOTUS have been due to J. Alito's stock ownership. He & Martha Ann inherited nearly all of them when her father passed away in 2012, & they've refused to sell in the years since. Justices shouldn't own individual stocks docs.google.com/spreadsheets....

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🎂 3 years ago TODAY, I had an audacious idea 💡 - nationwide clerkship transparency + real judicial accountability - and I launched a nationwide nonprofit, @thelap.bsky.social , to correct injustices I personally experienced as a law student 👩‍🎓 + law clerk. 💪 We’ve upended the clerkship system…

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Trumpsters want to let banks become less sound and more risky, just as the Financial Stability Board (and others) warn of climate risk cascading through insurance markets into mortgages and real estate, jeopardizing international banking system. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Leonard Leo was always open about whose agenda matters. His. Trump got played. He said this in 2019. 2019. There was zero follow on the WaPo report by other media. “I was here long before this president and I’ll be here long after, doing what I’m doing, God willing.” youtu.be/e1fKkoASTRw?...

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UK moving to ‘war-fighting readiness’, Starmer says. What happened to the war on poverty, poor housing, polluted rivers; lack of healthcare, GPs, dentists, social care? What services will be cut? Planners will find that large sections of the UK population are unfit.

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Supreme Court turns down hearing gun-control challenges

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Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters. No. Must root out gender, age, disability, regional, ethnicity inequalities, economic insecurity, social injustice. Only 4%, of Reform voters might vote Labour. Why pander to Farage/Trump?

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A brutal 2–1 decision from the 5th Circuit forcing the removal of a young girl to Venezuela even though she has lived in Texas for years and it is the only home she can remember. The dissent verges on incandescence in its fury and despondency. Incredibly bleak. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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The Supreme Court declined to take up a pair of gun-rights cases Monday, leaving in place Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic military-style rifles and Rhode Island’s restrictions on large-capacity magazines.

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Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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"The underlying point isn’t to chastise the firms for making the wrong decision; it’s to remind those firms that it’s not too late to reverse course and join the ranks of the firms resisting Trump’s gambit..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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No, no, no — you missed the story here. The Federalist Society is just wallpaper. The Koch political empire is the protagonist, and the likely deal is that in 2016 Kochs let up on Trump (whom they despised) to get to choose his SCOTUS nominees. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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🚨NEWS: The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.

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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Trump the Chump.

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The entire point.

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1. Remove "Chief Justice..." from this law www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/.... 2. Put in "any judge at Jud. Conf.'s discretion...". 3. Potential recusal problem solved. (Roberts recused in a petition involving the Smithsonian earlier this term, www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...).

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Across the US, state lawmakers, primarily Republicans the past few years, are trying to undermine ballot initiatives adopted by voters. “This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism," one expert said. /By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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Thirteen things I discovered on the trail of Fred “the Shred” Goodwin.

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Last year, 49,521 companies did not provide details of persons of significant control (PSC) or any PSC statements. Anonymous companies are central to illicit financial flows. Only 13 companies and 13 directors prosecuted and fined . What if they were benefit claimants?

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New episode of #SistersInLaw is up! Pardons for the Rich and Famous, with @jillwine-banks.bsky.social @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social and me—no holds barred. www.politicon.com/podcasts/par...

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BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

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VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid) ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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This wolf pup is howling it out and ready for the weekend! 🐺 #wolfconservation #ambassadorwolf #weekendready

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Very strong and poignant dissent from Justice Jackson. Surprising that Justice Kagan didn’t join—I fear she’s holding her fire for an even more disastrous shadow docket decision down the road …

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Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

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Trump’s mad rant unloads on Court-fixer Leonard Leo — has Trump FINALLY figured out that he was chumped big-time by Leo, McGahn, and the creepy billionaires (Koch) who REALLY controlled “his” judicial appointments? Slow learner.

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Maximus, UK arm of a US contractor, that tests whether some people should receive disability benefits reported 23% hike in pre-tax profits, from £23.6m to £29.1m. It has £800m govt contracts. US CEO got $10.2m paypacket. Public services increasingly privatised. We pay more, get less in return.

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The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

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Phang: If you see claims that those convictions have been overturned on appeal — it’s bullshit. They have not been overturned on appeal. I have no idea—strike that—I have every idea where that comes from. It comes from stupid, far-right people who don’t know how to read and don’t know the law.

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The Wisconsin Judge indicted by DOJ has filed a motion to dismiss her indictment. "The indictment is an ugly innovation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Trump regime is hiring Palantir to compile data across gov’t, “raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.” MAGA Libertarians should be up in arms over this. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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