Alison Gill

Crowd of people at Butterworth’s for Emil Bove’s confirmation party Photo: Alex Swoyer on Twitter

Bove in a suit gives remarks in front of American flag at Butterworth’s Photo credit: Mike Davis/Article 3 project on Twitter

Todd Blanche gives remarks at Butterworth’s. He’s wearing a suit and speaking into a microphone next to Bove Photo credit: Mike Davis/Article 3 project on Twitter

Drinks at the party included “A Bove & Beyond” Photo credit: Mike Davis/Article 3 project on Twitter

Last night, Emil Bove celebrated his confirmation as a federal appeals court judge at Butterworth’s, the MAGA hot spot in D.C.

The Article III Project hosted the party, with guests including Steve Bannon, Jack Posobiec, Judge Jeanine, Todd Blanche, Chad Mizelle, Ed Martin, and Jeffrey Clark.

Why must dentists always criticize me for not flossing well enough? I don't criticize you for not knowing enough about the Supreme Court or the assassination of James Garfield or my other areas of niche expertise. Can't we call it even and make this a judgment-free zone?

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

How Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Make Law School Unaffordable For People Who Are Not Already Rich Sweeping changes to key student loan programs will make it harder for aspiring public interest attorneys to attend law school—and exacerbate this country's justice gap.

Of the many culture shock moments in law school, one that still sticks with me is learning how *wealthy* most of my classmates' families were, and the notion that it's going to be functionally impossible for lower-income students to attend going forward is really hard for me to contemplate

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

BREAKING: Senators just reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill would restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — ensuring every voter is protected against racial discrimination at the polls.

In CA, Access to Top Surgery is Vanishing. One Surgeon Calls it a “Tactical Retreat.” — Assigned As Kaiser Permanente acts to halt access to gender-affirming surgery for minors and young adults, many providers fear for the well-being of patients. Others are defending the decision.

Clinics across the country are ending or limiting gender-affirming care.

Today, Assigned has two stories from opposite sides of the country on the crisis in trans youth care.

First, Kaiser Permanente is ending surgical care through age 19. One surgeon told our reporter it was a "tactical retreat."

DOJ escalates its attacks on judges who rule against Trump

Another brave whistleblower has come forward with evidence that Emil Bove told Justice Department attorneys to ignore court orders. That’s a crisis for our democracy.

He's not fit to receive a lifetime judicial appointment.

Arkansas United - 2025-07-28 8th Circuit Panel Opinion

BREAKING: In another 8th Circuit ruling limiting Voting Rights Act enforcement, a panel rules private individuals/groups in 7 states have no right to sue under Section 208, which allows voters who need help because of a disability or inability to read/write to get help from a person of their choice

The Worst ICE Agents Are Coming Tens of billions of new dollars plus a rush to hire 10,000 new agents equals a disaster in the making.

A President with a nationwide force for mass arrests would be among the worst fears of America's Founders. They faced such issues in Fugitive Slave Acts, which mandated arrests by local officials & private slave-catchers, with certification under federal courts.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worst-...

Bove, 44, is on track to be confirmed as soon as Monday to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Put another way, a guy who's been using his DOJ job to seek retribution against Trump's perceived political enemies is on his way to becoming a decadeslong federal judge. 🇺🇸

I am deadly serious that he should be criminally investigated by a future administration for what he did in the J.G.G. case.

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."

Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

This is the guy who negotiated a corrupt quid pro quo with Eric Adams and forced the resignation of the lawyers who protested. He is a criminal and has demonstrably shown he has no concern for the rule of law, and will break any rule to advance Trump. Installing him to the judiciary is a crisis.

F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s $8 Billion Merger With Paramount

Anna Gomez, Dem FCC Cmsr: FCC used “its vast power to pressure Paramount to broker a private legal settlement and further erode press freedom.... [I]t is now imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law.”

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Ah, yes, mass involuntary institutionalization to "restore public order": www.whitehouse.gov/presidential....

This is what you voted for⁉️

Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.

Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.

F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s Merger With Paramount

A Democratic commissioner on the F.C.C. said in a statement that the F.C.C. is now imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

I see the are-executive-orders-laws thing is coming up again.

1. EOs, by definition, are interpretations of existing law. If they’re not that, they’re illegal.

2. EOs only bind executive branch actors.

3. Exec actors behave differently because of them, and that often affects your legal rights.

CA9 panel holds that Oregon policy requiring adoptive parents to respect a child's sexual orientation/gender identity favored one religion over another, citing the Court's recent Establishment Clause decision in Catholic Charities.

So if you tell the state that its abortion ban violates your faith?

Oops! Pro-Choice Senator Admits Vote For Anti-Abortion Judge Was ‘A Mistake’ The Maine senator says he was "not fully” aware of Josh Divine’s record, but "took Josh Hawley’s advice” to confirm him to a lifetime federal judgeship.

NEW: Sen. Angus King admits he made "a mistake" when he voted Tuesday to confirm Josh Divine, an 35-year-old archconservative with a long record of attacking abortion rights, to a lifetime federal judgeship.

“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social

I have never been a senator, but maybe I just wouldn’t take advice from Josh Hawley?

Telehealth abortion access could be challenged nationwide in new lawsuit A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.

A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.

🚨NEW: Further stories of the horrors inflicted on people the Trump admin imprisoned in El Salvador without trial are emerging.

Three men describes how they were punished by guards — stripped naked, beaten for six days straight as men and women watching laughed and mocked them.

Senator Richard Blumenthal speaking on the Senate floor.

HAPPENING NOW: Senate Dems are speaking on the floor about Trump's judicial nominees. @blumenthal.senate.gov says they're discussing one of the most important decisions they're going to make with respect to the future of justice in America — the nomination of Emil Bove to serve on the Third Circuit.

A Court Just Ruled That Cops Can’t Stop-and-Frisk You—if They Suspect a Gun The ruling makes clear, however, that cops can still stop and frisk a person for existing while Black.

There's a terrible 5th Circuit opinion I'd like you all to see. Lots of people say we should "use conservative arguments against them," but you have to understand, FedSoc judges do not care about their own hypocrisy. They just write their way through it.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Jul 23, 2025 DEMOCRACY PROJECT. (Jacobson, Daniel) (Entered: 07/23/2025) Main Doc Response to motion Buy on PACER MINUTE ORDER. Upon consideration of Defendants' 36 Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal and Plaintiff's 38 response thereto, the motion is DENIED. For all of the reasons articulated in the Court's July 21, 2025 Opinion, Defendants' conduct in removing the Public Apportionments Database unequivocally violates federal law. See Mem. Op., ECF No. 34. The Court's Opinion addressed each of the Defendants' arguments reiterated in the Motion to Stay, concluding that the public disclosure requirement of the 2022 and 2023 Acts does not infringe upon Executive power nor does it "impede the Presidents constitutional authority over the implementation of appropriations[.]" Defs.' Mot., ECF No. 36 at 4. The Court further denies Defendants' requests to extend the administrative stay or stay the statutory time requirement of publishing apportionment decisions within two days of their approval. As to the first, Protect Democracy states that Defendants have already requested such relief from the Court of Appeals. As to the second, this is the first time Defendants have made the request-despite ultiple rounds of briefing-and provide no points and authorities in support of it. The Court will not be complicit in further delaying Plaintiff and the public of information they are entitled to know as a matter of federal law!!! Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 7/23/2025. (Icegs2)

Two exclamation points!! In a minute order!!

there are far too many mcclellans in the democratic party