Carolyn Shapiro

they didn’t do it with CA, but are now toying with the idea that the constitution means “Republicans get to gerrymander but Democrats can’t”

One thing the Supreme Court could do is issue per curiam merits rulings on regular, scheduled ruling days at 10am instead of 6pm at night without any advance notice.

This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.

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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.

Breaking: Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Order That Redrew Congressional Map in Staten Island, with Ominous Implications for Voting Rights Act #ELB I’m on the road so this will be brief. The Supreme Court over the dissent of the three liberal Justices reversed a lower court order requiring the drawing of a minority opportunity district that the l...

Rick Hasen on today: “to me the headline is the Justice Alito concurrence which states that race conscious districting as required not just by the federal Voting Rights Act but also state acts and state constitutions is “unadorned” and “odious” racial discrimination.” electionlawblog.org?p=154596

This is very not good. Very very not good.

214. The Court's (Selective) Impatience is a Vice The only theme uniting Monday night's twin grants of emergency relief is the Republican appointees' willingness to upend long-settled limits on the Court's power when, but only when, they *want* to.

As I explain via the latest “One First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called “selective judicial impatience.”

And that’s *not* a good thing:

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

Seriously, it is easy to laugh now, but there was a real fear that this could collapse law firms. Clients and attorneys can leave at any time. No long-term contracts. No non-competes.

Jenner, Susman, Wilmer, and Perkins deserve so much credit, as do those that stepped in to defend.

Fighting back works. Please take notes university leaders.

Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”

Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

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"In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not."

THIS.

This was a premeditated attack with no conceivable emergency: the choice to do this is Congress not President. Waging war on Iran is an obvious violation of the Constitution, no different than enacting tariffs (raising taxes) or defunding USAID (spending programs).

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'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

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Morning.

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.

These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Hoping Dems add kids and their caretakers out of concentration camps to demands in DHS funding fight. Not only moral also strategic: keep kids in public eye, force Reps to visibly defend this, claim moral hi ground for their position.

This is pretty critical. If (as the administration claims) courts must defer to presidential assertions that an “emergency” exists, no matter how obviously false or pretextual, we have effectively rewritten “emergency powers” statutes as permanent, unlimited delegations of legislative authority.

These are the same people trying to keep us from teaching ‘divisive concepts’ like the afterlife of slavery.

The US Institute of Peace budget was ~$35m and we’re were asked 3x a week why we deserved it.

Even deeper than shared norms. They rested on the basic assumption that the executive branch could be trusted to be minimally competent and minimally oriented to the national interest. Disagreement and partisan polarization are one thing, dumb malice and raw self-interest another.

True, this.

Fascinating thread.