Wait there’s more! The Court has had a bunch of chances to consider this exact issue “the regular way“, via a full merits case, Kagan writes. But it chooses to weigh in prematurely via the shadow docket on a subtle and super controversial question.
03.03.2026 00:15 — 👍 228 🔁 62 💬 3 📌 4
Kagan: “A mere decade ago, this Court would never have granted relief in this posture. (Indeed, I am confident that the plaintiffs would never have thought to ask, at this stage, for the Court’s involvement.)”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Kagan correctly notes the contrast with how the Court treated the substantive due process rights of parents supporting their trans kids in Skrmetti
03.03.2026 00:10 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This is an issue the court has repeatedly declined to grant cert on and on which every court of appeals has come out the other way.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Aaaaand more from SCOTUS tonight: bsky.app/profile/lawr...
02.03.2026 23:37 — 👍 70 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
02.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 7029 🔁 1333 💬 85 📌 60
can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.
www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social
"FN2: “The DOJ has publicly touted its “core purpose” of “defending the Constitution and protecting the God-given rights of every single American.” www.justice.gov/opa/pr/relig.... (emphasis added). Transgender Americans surely would appreciate its commitment to honoring and protecting theirs."
02.03.2026 18:05 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It's one of the cases quashing DOJ's criminal subpoenas of providers of gender affirming medical care for minors under the pretext of investigating non-existent violations of the FDCA.
02.03.2026 17:56 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"The time for muscle-memory genuflection, or benefit of the doubt, is over.... Its rhetoric regarding gender-affirming care reflects callous indifference, if not abject cruelty. There is more than a 'whiff' of ill-intent. Arguably, it is closer to a stench."
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71443...
"The DOJ’s actions in this area are unprecedented,
to say the least. Reliance on historical norms, standards and, frankly, decency, cannot be seen as given."
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71443...
Poor Mr. Tumnus…
02.03.2026 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Janet Mills does not have the profile I prefer, mostly bc of age. But she showed gumption when many senior elected Dems were 🐓. And afaik there‘s no reason to think she might be a Nazi.
So I hope ME Democrats will nominate her & press her to be a progressive senator after she beats Susan Collins.
“Why do all these [Nazis] keep [getting echoed by me]?”
theonion.com/why-do-all-t...
At this point, the claim for plausible deniability is giving the same energy as….
theonion.com/why-do-all-t...
Wait WHAT?!
01.03.2026 17:02 — 👍 135 🔁 22 💬 10 📌 1Jon Secada is apparently not the same person as Neil Sedaka and is, in fact, still alive.
27.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Love that small-government conservatism. Love how it made the government just small enough to take away the merit badge my son just earned.
27.02.2026 22:20 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Congrats to my colleagues on filing this important case.
27.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 54 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
But could be bi or pan!
25.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The silver lining for Livingston taking senior status is that Judge Lohier will now be chief judge.
25.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1"First-rate attorneys who prevail in litigation are entitled to receive fees commensurate with their skill, experience, and reputation, even if their clients are mom-and-pop businesses that don’t have Fortune 500 budgets to hire big law firms to represent them." cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
24.02.2026 23:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The biggest news of the night is that Trump’s effort to steer control of CNN to a lackey by threatening the corrupt use of regulatory power is moving closer to reality. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/trump-es...
24.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 751 🔁 315 💬 29 📌 21Continuing the pattern that Gorsuch is the GOP appointee who most frequently joins Dem appointees in 5-4 dissents.
24.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He was part of the en banc 10 Commandments decision issued just last week.
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