Dahlia Lithwick

Yes, Supreme Court Decisions Really Matter | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts No, that doesn’t mean the wizards in robes are doing magic. The former Solicitor General of the United States puts the tariffs case in its legal realism context.

With former Solicitor General of the United States Donald Verrilli Jr. on why one still fights at SCOTUS

If I want to know about Supreme Court procedure I would definitely ask on Truth Social, yep

Pentagon removes senior official from Joint Staff post, sources say U.S. Vice Admiral Fred Kacher only took the post in December.

Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

The recent Decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning TARIFFS could allow for Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to be returned to Countries and Companies that have been “ripping off” the United States of America for many years to come, and now, according to this Decision, could actually continue to do so, at an even increased level. I am sure that the Supreme Court did not have this in mind! It doesn’t make sense that Countries and Companies that took advantage of us for decades, receiving Billions and Billions of Dollars that they should not have been allowed to receive, would now be entitled to an undeserved “windfall,” the likes of which the World has never seen before, as a result of this highly disappointing, to say the least, ruling. Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible??? PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump on the Supreme Court's tariffs ruling: "Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible???"

Lest anyone think Judge Murphy selectively quoted Mary Larakers—the DOJ lawyer defending third-country deportations—here's the full exchange from the transcript. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The most fraudridden administration in American history will make an argument to the Supreme Court that it will not fund eligible health care claims because it is fighting fraud.

Seeing some "fuck Kansas" replies/QTs and while I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment behind the statement, I think a better response would be "fuck, we need to help the people of Kansas"

If anyone knows a good way to do that, please put it in the comments and I will amplify

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

Transgender adults in Kansas have received letters ordering them to surrender their drivers licenses until they obtain a new one with a marker reflecting their sex assigned at birth.

Their current licenses are now invalid.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76

Rest in peace and in the power of words. Grateful every day I had the honor of working with her.

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

How To Stop The Dictator
Part 2

In Brazil, South Korea, and Poland, Dictators tried and failed to overthrow Democracy.

The population fought back and won.

What strategies worked?

Why is nonviolence so important?

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www.vox.com/politics/479...

Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
apnews.com/article/hung...

"We are witnessing a White House cover-up of serious allegations against the President by a survivor. We demand AG Bondi come clean…and tell the American people if their President is under investigation for allegations of sexual assault,” said Ranking Member @robertgarcia.house.gov

.... actually what is brilliant in MN is a lack of cooperation.

Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."

Newsmax, yes Newsmax, says this about Tucker Carlson:

"Isn’t Tucker Carlson almost sort of whatever one considers entertainment, but almost like an entertainer? He's really not a journalist. He has his own brand of entertainment. Do you even think his opinion matters?"

hallo you

ICE’s Warehouse Purchases Herald New Model for Immigration Detention - American Immigration Council ICE is purchasing commercial warehouses and retrofitting them into a national network of immigration detention centers.

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org’s blog: ICE is buying up warehouses around the country. I summarize ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” laying out what we know about the Trump admin’s main plan to use the $45 billion they have for detention.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...

Apparently Trump and his flunkies are oblivious to his poll numbers. #TrumpTax

How the Supreme Court Enabled Trump’s Latest Free Press Assault Something profound is happening to the right to gather news.

This is great. A rich and insightful conversation about press freedom and contemporary threats to it—with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social & former @knightcolumbia.org visiting scholars @randersenjones.bsky.social & @sonjawest.bsky.social. slate.com/news-and-pol...

perfection. Thank you

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Fascist Failure The State of Trump

@timothysnyder.bsky.social on the SOTU
snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-fa...

Trump’s bogus claim about illegal immigrants voting in 2024 Former President Donald Trump’s final push before the Iowa caucuses came with warnings about an outrageous Democratic sc

Trump urged Congress to pass the SAVE America Act to “stop illegal aliens “ from voting in elections, adding “that cheating is rampant in our elections.”

Trump has spread falsehoods about noncitizen voters since 2016.
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Opinion | John Roberts Is Losing Patience With Trump

Linda Greenhouse on Chief Justice Roberts salty paragraph

Opinion | What Hath Trump Wrought

What Hath Trump Wrought www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska
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www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

More people need to read these emails.

They show that Epstein, with the help of Norway’s former prime minister, tried to help Russia blackmail Trump.

The emails:

Clarence Thomas Just Created a Dangerous New Threat to Mail Voting The Supreme Court handed down an alarming decision on Tuesday prohibiting Americans from suing the Postal Service for damages.

Last year, a note in the University of Chicago Law Review flagged a relatively obscure Supreme Court case as a potential threat to mail voting, noting that it could immunize the government from damages when postal workers steal or destroy mail ballots.

Well, bad news ... slate.com/news-and-pol...

Dems demand probe of Trump’s SAVE America Act website "This webpage appears to be a prima facie violation of restrictions on the use of appropriations for explicit appeals to the public to contact Members of Congress to support pending legislation."

🚨BREAKING: Top Democrats are asking Congress’ investigative arm to probe a White House website urging voters to support SAVE America Act — calling it a blatant violation of federal laws barring officials from using taxpayer dollars for partisan politics. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...