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Will be on @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social shortly talking about this and more SCOTUS nonsense.

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

The conflict here is that the justices aren’t using the emergency docket as a temporary tool, they’re making “precedent” and expecting lower court judges to apply it without explanation. This is why we’re seeing so much frustration from lower court judges.

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

@wapplehouse The Taco Bell drive thru at 1 am will have a $200k Mercedes S65 waiting right behind a '96 Cavalier that's never had the oil changed followed by a moped ridden by three people. All craving the same thing: to Live Más. Truly the last great melting pot of class in this country.

No truer words have ever been spoken.

Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Also: More court pushback.

NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era.

Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America.

Today, at Law Dork:

Thanks to Trump, 1 in 4 nursing homes could close.

Community clinics are on the brink of shutting their doors.

Hospitals, already filled to the brim with patients, are bracing for huge cuts.

Promising research that offers the last hope for kids with cancer is shutting down.

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.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Goddamn. You can’t even have principles and make ice cream because people are too afraid of Trump

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd

Smithers whispers in Mr. Burns's ear

Mr. Burns pushes Smithers away

Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject

This.👇

But I don’t think now is the time to point fingers either way. I just want to make the neutral point that the Second Amendment continues to swallow up the First Amendment—that the omnipresent threat of gun violence in the United States continues to act as de facto censorship on the free exchange of ideas. People are understandably afraid to speak their minds in public. They are afraid to appear in the public arena and say something that might be controversial, or really to say anything at all, because it is outrageously easy for people to obtain firearms in this country. And so it is outrageously easy for someone who doesn’t like you—for political reasons, or moral reasons, or insane reasons—to go out, get a gun, and shoot you. A while ago, I wrote that “the only reason you have not been shot is because nobody has yet decided to shoot you.” That remains tragically true today.

Charlie Kirk's murder is just the latest example of how our nation's love affair with guns is allowing the Second Amendment to swallow up the First. With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

At Governor Mills' Direction, Maine CDC Issues Standing Order Expanding Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Federal Roadblocks Maine Bureau of Insurance also sends bulletin to state regulated insurers reinforcing that COVID-19 vaccines must be covered under Maine law

Maine Governor Janet Mills has issued a standing order that serves as a prescription allowing anyone to get a COVID vaccine at a pharmacy or clinic.

The Maine Bureau of Insurance also issued a bulletin reminding insurers that they must fully cover the vaccine under state law.

NBC News ‪@nbcnews.com‬ President Trump says he spoke with Charlie Kirk’s wife Erika and will attend Kirk’s funeral in Arizona.

Aaron Rupar ‪@atrupar.com‬ Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

here's a great example from @nbcnews.com of how the media cleans up the weirdness from donald trump cc @atrupar.com

Stop the rhetoric responsible for the terrorism, he says, while using rhetoric that will incite more terrorism.

Yes. Yes, they are.

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A picture of Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, which provides that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”

When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own.

Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.

Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm…

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)

Trump on DC: "We haven't had to bring in the regular military, which we're willing to do if we have to. And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also ... Chicago is a mess. And we'll straighten that one out probably next"

The “Joe Biden sniffs girls hair” crowd is awfully silent about this…

If you're a 1L starting law school in coming weeks, just remember: You're *supposed to* feel a bit confused at first. It's normal. Law is like a language. You learn it best through immersion. You'll take a few weeks to get to speed.

This may help, too:
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If only by “Trump’s on the roof,” you meant it like the old joke about the cat’s on the roof. Too bad, really.

Republicans Just Confirmed Trump’s Most Ghastly Nominee. Democrats Made It Possible. Last year, Democrats could have used their Senate majority to confirm someone very different to fill the seat.

The ONLY REASON Trump could give Emil Bove this spot on the 3rd Circuit is because cowardly Democratic senators refused to confirm Biden's nominee to the seat following a bad-faith, Islamophobic smear campaign by Republicans.

Utterly shameful and self-defeating. slate.com/news-and-pol...

YEA 50 NAY 49 Nomination of Emil J. Bove Ill, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit

BREAKING: The Senate Republicans just confirmed Emil Bove to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, a man whose lawless actions should lead to his being disbarred — not confirmed to an appeals court.

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...

Trump administration to burn nearly $10 million in contraceptives for poorer nations The plans are aligned with the administration's goal of reducing foreign aid and abortion access.

2 weeks ago, Trump incinerated 500 tons of food that could’ve fed around 1.5 million children for a week.

This week, he’s burning $9.7 million worth of contraceptives intended for foreign aid. 

He’s actively destroying resources that could save thousands of lives - it’s inhumane.

reporting on the ongoing death of the University of New Orleans always compares the cratering present-day enrollment to the pre-Katrina number of 17k.

however, UNO recovered from nothing after K to 12k by the end of the 00s. Its current collapse began after Jindal's budget cuts.

A map showing which states have more colleges (in purple) than prisons (in orange).

The American experience in one map.