Peter Chen

The Washington Post Editorial Board Is Spectacularly Awful at Legal Analysis Since Bezos overhauled the board earlier this year, it has been very good at cranking out billionaire-friendly propaganda. It is quite bad at everything else.

It is hard to overstate how shallow and embarrassing the Washington Post Editorial Board's analysis is whenver it tries to write about the law. They don't make arguments so much as they crank out half-assed jumbles of buzzwords that they hope will make Jeff Bezos happy. Don't care for it at all!

Thank you to Sen. Britnee Timberlake and Asm. Reginald Atkins for joining us at today's press event to talk about pending bills to create Code Red protections and a Homeless Bill of Rights.

Close enough

Note who is labeling the president's vile racist remarks as vile and racist, and who is remaining silent, who is labeling them "divisive," who is nodding in agreement.

If you wonder how people would behave during 1930s Germany or frankly 1930s America, you're seeing their true colors now.

Carers who do the most human work of all -- cleaning, feeding, lifting, wiping our loved ones when we cannot -- deserve dignity and economic security, not cuts and intimidation.

< Bari's CBS Bunker,... ヘ The Dokoupil promotion is telling in that regard. On some level, Tony is Bari's ideal anchor: a strong-jawed white man who harkens back to an earlier era of broadcast TV and thus subverts the industry's recent preoccupation with identity politics. He is

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”

Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!

(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.

NEW: Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law.

Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.

Today, at Law Dork:

Increasing the House would be good for other reasons but do very little about gerrymandering. State legislatures with much smaller districts are still badly gerrymandered.

Proportional representation would make gerrymandering impossible, or Congress could impose strict limits on House redistricting

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

May these jailers and torturers know no rest

Florida lawmakers are exploring ways to eliminate property taxes. Here's why it's a bad idea.

Andrew Desiderio & @AndrewDesiderio NEWS — GOP Sens. Bernie Moreno & Susan Collins team up on new health care plan that extends Obamacare subsidies for 2 years with income caps & other reforms Comes as R's struggle to coalesce around a proposal ahead of vote on Dems' 3-year clean extension

If you get your insurance through your job, it’s subsidized by the govt through ESI.

There’s no income cap, it helps the rich the most, and ~1/10 workers in those plans pays no premium.

But when the ACA subsidies help the middle class and provide some zero-subsidy plans? GOP can’t accept that.

again: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Old enough to remember Republicans accusing Obama ruling by cult of personality

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

More and more people are saying it:
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

hot take: childhood hepatitis is bad and preventing it through vaccination is good

So *odd* that this was missing from the criminal complaint. Weird!

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

He's going to kill our kids

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

hot take: murdering people holding onto the remains of their boat after it has been blown up by a missile is bad

When partisan politics is the best predictor of how Supreme Court justices rule in all the high-stakes cases with real-world electoral implications, the correct thing for journalists to do is describe the justices as "Democrats" and "Republicans"

this manages to legitimately be way worse than all the leaks that were being fed to the papers last night

UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

The last thing NJ needs is its own DOGE to stop executive departments from being able to function by making it harder to protect workers and the environment.

I'm nothing if not predictable

Senate panel OKs bill that would place new limits on rulemaking • New Jersey Monitor The bill would require publicized cost-benefit analyses of regulations. Critics liken it to the federal DOGE effort to cut costs.

New legislation meant to increase efficiency would actually result in “a government that, instead of becoming more efficient, becomes less efficient, becomes less able to enact the mandates that have been set out by this Legislature,” said @ptrchn1.bsky.social.
newjerseymonitor.com/2025/12/03/s...

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...

“Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump