Jake Faleschini

Trump’s pick for a 9th circuit judgeship, Eric Tung, should not be confirmed. Here’s what he’s said about issues critically important to the American people. #CourtsMatter

If we are going to have judges recuse themselves for the comments of their wives - imagine there will be number of cases involving Thomas and Alito if it pertains to Trump or right wing advocacy issues, in which they should have to do the same.

No?

He’s saying that they will violate the law to protect right-wingers in military fatigues.

This is the HUD home page right now. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a clearer violation of the Hatch Act. When is Congress going to wake up.

Same, but, “So, Senator, …”

Turns out that just about everyone calling for Court expansion (and other reforms) in the late teens was right and everyone else (the vast majority of the liberal legal establishment) was wrong.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

You only bring a case this bad to use the power of the state to punish someone for non-legal reasons. Every prosecutor who works on this case should be disbarred.

In a world where I'm President with supermajorities in Congress in 2029 what I do is:

1. Skip the 2029 SCOTUS term to put reforms in

2. Expand the Court to 13 justices (matching the Circuits)

3. Require justices to actually ride Circuit, hopefully this forces retirement of one's like Thomas (1/2)

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Faeelin is hiding behind a cat picture. They can join the grown up table when they’re ready to take responsibility for their words.

And I think it’s super toxic for people to hide behind cat pictures and harass people online. FUCK OFF.

Your words. Not mine. But all you’re doing here is yelling at an ally. He’s one of the good ones. You aren’t helping. Fuck off.

I have zero patience for the circular firing squad turned inward at allies. Fuck off.

Real question - is she visibly drunk?

Your comment doesn’t have any likes and the one before you had 1. That’s not a flame. It’s hardly a spark.

And yet lower court judges are expected to follow them even before they are issued or risk being chastised.

That’s awesome. Where is the show?!

Justice Eddins went even further in a concurrence joined by two other justices. He flamed the U.S. Supreme Court for choosing to "steamroll" the First Amendment's separation of church and state by mandating government support of religion. He wrote: The federal wall cracks. The Supreme Court's recent religious clause cases wreck the relationship between free exercise and non-establishment.... The Roberts Court casually dismisses the lessons of American and world history, the warnings of prominent early Americans, and the judiciary's storied legal minds. Bad things happen unless government and religion are completely separated. Justice Eddins also wrote about something you and I have been talking about for a long time, which is the conservative supermajority making up facts. He called out Kennedy v. Bremerton, the notorious "praying coach" case, writing: "As it often does, the Court repackaged and whitewashed facts to achieve a desired outcome." This is the same point that Sherrilyn Ifill has made on the show about how the record in that case, and so many others, is ignored.

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court.

He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) . The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of- government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court's nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution "has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
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He cited to the footnote in the Constitution that explained that the 4th Amendment only applies when convenient.

Soooo, to state the obvious …. a “Court” that says that it’s okay to consider race for bad things (stop and frisks, arrests, etc.) but that it’s not okay to consider race for good things (college admissions, voting rights, etc.) isn’t really doing law. The republican justices are MAGA in robes.

Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent

Looking back at you! #FreeDC

The crowd was in then tens of thousands. Beautiful day. Thanks @freedcproject.bsky.social ! #FreeDC

Going through the Scott Circle tunnel was a little wild.

Church bells ringing at United Methodist Church at P Street. Beautiful community here in DC. Totally peaceful.

The start at Malcolm X Park.

Oh what a beautiful morning! Oh what a beautiful day! #freeDC