Maxine Eichner

Another contrast—this time, between this case and United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U. S. 495 (2025)—is also striking. In Skrmetti, several parents challenged Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The suit raised claims grounded in both equal protection and substantive due process. As to the latter, the parents in Skrmetti, similarly to the parents here, asserted a right “to make decisions concerning medical care for their minor children.” Pet. for Cert., O. T. 2023, No. 23–466, p. 34; see id., at 18 (invoking a “right of parents with respect to the care, custody, and control of their children, including in decisions about medical care”). And in support of that right, the Skrmetti parents relied on the same precedents the Court does today: Parham, 442 U. S. 584, and Pierce, 268 U. S. 510. See Pet. for Cert., No. 23–466, at 34–36; ante, at 5–6. But the Court, when deciding to grant certiorari in Skrmetti, limited its review to the equal protection issue: It would not even hear the parents out on their substantive due process claim.

This footnote in the Kagan dissent specifically called out how they avoided this sdp claim in the Skrmetti case but then decided it here in an emergency shadow docket posture here. It's all calvinball where the principal is whatever hurts trans people.

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

Trump calls fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers”.

And then there’s Trump.

John Kelly confirmed that President Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers”

War is not a morality play.

The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things?

The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?

Assuming that this administration‘s evil exceeds its stupidity is not always a safe bet.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

Pete Buttigieg • @PeteButtigieg The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day. This nation learned the hard way that an unnecessary war, with no plan for what comes next, can lead to years of chaos and put America in still greater danger.

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For Trump, the Iran Attack Is the Ultimate War of Choice

The must-read of the day. Although “war of choice” is actually a euphemism. It’s a war of whim, of ego, of madness. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Trump says he is a savior of women’s sports. His ice hockey joke showed what he really thinks | Austin Killips The president and his allies have never been interested in helping or elevating female athletes. His true feelings were exposed on Sunday

This Guardian op-ed nails it: “On the right, female athletes are only significant in the shadow of the transgender menace. They are …useful pawns for a political project aimed not at advancing women’s sport but purging transgender people from public life.”
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Very normal. Judges usually rely on the adversarial process to locate applicable laws. Rarely, where the process isn’t adversarial, as in warrant applications, judges are used to government pointing out relevant laws. The problem is that government can’t be relied on to do that anymore.

On the plus side, I am learning which sane-washing talking heads it makes sense to unfollow.

If they were looking for clerks who knew lots about the law they wouldn't be hiring so many straight out of law school.

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say

This is horrifying. Trump’s paramilitary (aka ICE) is tracking dissenters and menacing them at their homes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Tab was the best!

We are, I’m afraid, leaving the youngsters behind on this one…

Who says there’s no white culture????

Downright perfect! Thank you!!

Nope, but that’s because he’s a terrible person. I don’t think he’s resentful that Yale Law didn’t give him the opportunity he deserved. He just thinks expressing resentment will help him climb the ladder further.

Not at all clear to me that that’s true for many of these guys. Look at JD Vance. He did fine at Yale – walked away with a wife and a famous professor who helped publicize his book, and a ladder into the elite. He’s just a rank opportunist jumping on Trump‘s coattails.

No surprise here. But the combination of corruption and spinelessness of the US elite remains truly disturbing.

Months ago, after the Ann Telnaes and related controversies, I decided it was time to cancel the Post. I received an offer to renew at one dollar a month for 12 months.

Act like a grown up and go to bed!

Delaying the SCOTUS vote on Garland is up there too.

Read it hoping to agree with you, but: 1. It's KGET.com, not the Hill, and 2. Dems are asking for things like a code of conduct that will do nothing to stop a paramilitary force already grossly violating existing laws that is being used to occupy Dem cities. Gourevitch is right on target.

You’re retweeting a parody account, right?

What’s the Matter with Kansas?? (This sounds familiar….)

I was just thinking about how good the show is. It should get more notice—a lot more fun to watch than Pluribus, and as or more creative than Severance.