Hey it’s paperback day for LJ. And if it tried to map out the blueprint women across the country proved the concept: ballot initiatives, Wisconsin Supreme Court, midterms. Fani Willis and KBJ. Buy it for a law student you love and tell them I say thanks!
The real gut punch isn’t that Alito has dinner with donors to influence SCOTUS or that these donors get seats set aside by Justices for arguments. It’s that the ethics rules are “consulted” as if they were, say, a phone book or weather reports
Thomas apologists who say his critics are whining about trivial ethics violations because we don’t like how the legal landscape has changed don’t seem to understand. The “trivial ethics violations” are the explanation for why the legal landscape has changed.
Not just a win for E Jean and her team. She put everything out there. But for the friends who believed her and testified at personal cost. It takes systems to subvert systems. Ours are not always visible but they are mighty.
Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork.
It’s so weird. Now the avoidance of flagrant lies, threats of violence and contempt for law and truth is a crabbed “silo?” I sort of prefer to think of it as “democracy “ but sure, I’m limited that way.
Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?
KBJ asking a hypo about why a UNC legacy applicant can have his story and background honored while one whose family was not allowed to attend bc of race cannot be considered. Bound up in race.
I spent five long years listening to Trump speeches so you wouldn’t have to. Now I don’t have to. Until and unless he’s commander in chief, he gets not a single penny from this participant in the attention economy …
Stunning that given the choice between finally distancing themselves from a dangerous shambolic liar and upholding the need for vigilance in safeguarding national security the bulk of the GOP has opted to do… neither
Whenever I’m asked to comment on a story, I send my response directly to the WSJ edit page, which is renowned for its unrelenting commitment to fairness and accuracy.
Is there anyone out there defending Justice Thomas’ conduct who hasn’t taken a yacht trip with him, or written and performed a love song to him, or paid for a Hallmark Christmas movie about his life? Didn’t think so.
Why on god's green earth did the S Ct not take the case earlier when the Special Counsel sought review directly from the District Court? They have really played into Trump's hands.
Saying that Kaitlan Collins did a better-than-totally inadequate job at a task that was wholly impossible is neither a defense of her or of CNN … just sayin.
While it’s true Roberts has deplored wild politicization at the court, he’s also used his vote to quietly wildly politicize the Court. He’s not just the victim. He’s also the steady architect here.
Press not much interested in ex-president calling to execute former chief of staff? Where are the professionals, the adults with news judgment and a sense of responsibility? I don't see them.
@conor64
The cases are part of it. The campaigns to seat justices and prevent others from having hearings, the fake doctrines cooked up and peddled in amicus briefs, it’s all follow the $ stuff
Jeffrey Clark, who should be at the top of the indictment list, reacts to news that 50 Trump officials received DOJ subpoenas: “All of this makes me angry .. It seems like they won’t stop .. This is really causing a lot of upsetment in the country.”
"If one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women."
-- Tocqueville, Democracy in America
In post-Dobbs America, some girls can travel hours to get an abortion; some can't. This is the story of one of them.
She was raped. The nearest abortion was nine hours away. Now, she's a mom. Soon, she'll start seventh grade.
Judge Chutkan: you mean live tweeting?
Windom, in a reference to Trump's Mar-A-Lago troubles: " I mean taking a photo of it, any of it. He's shown a desire to hold onto materials he should not."
A pretty extraordinary moment: Solicitor General Prelogar points out that men are wildly overrepresented among the Supreme Court bar, and that this "gross disparity" could signal to women that becoming a Supreme Court litigator is not "a path that's open to me."
Justice Kagan runs through the Supreme Court’s recent assaults on the Voting Rights Act then asks the Alabama solicitor general: If you succeed in blowing up the VRA’s ban on dilution of minority votes, what’s left of the law?
Traveling the galaxy looking for a way to get
@MarkHamill
a copy of LADY JUSTICE: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America. Where's Obi-Wan when you need him?
Had a little medical stuff today that included a bit of this. The staff at
@lenoxhill
in Greenwich from admin folks to the nurses to the technicians and docs? Heroes. They’ve lived COVID for two plus years I’ve had it 18 hours. But they show up like warriors every day. Thank u
This is
@MuellerSheWrote
modeling graciousness and generosity to absolutely everyone she knows tonight. This is how we should all move through the world of Stupid Twitter (TM) just now. Xo
And I’m in touch with young activists and voters who are done with gun lobbyists and influence peddlers who are dunk on death and violence. Thank you for making clear which team you will show up for.
Our hearts break with the community of Chesapeake this morning. I remain in contact with law enforcement officials throughout this morning and have made available any resources as this investigation moves forward. Heinous acts of violence have no place in our communities.
Trevor Noah announces he will be leaving The Daily Show after seven incredible years. An incredible human. I can’t wait to see what big things he does next.
“Forgiveness, it has been said, means giving up our hopes for a better past.”
― Alan A. Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Have a meaningful Yom Kippur to those observing
Hate in America:
Yesterday, the head of an antisemitic and white supremacist group (and his supporters) dropped banners over the 405 in Los Angeles. One banner read, "Kanye is right about the Jews.”
My son is insisting that I celebrate paperback week with an updated sh*t post for
@MarkHamill
who generously allowed us to harass him over the hardcover release. Thank you for all you do.
"This is the death penalty for the administrative state. I mean this is really as consequential... as Brown v. Board or Roe v. Wade in terms of this decades-long process of dismantling government's ability" -
@Dahlialithwick
w/
@NicolleDWallace
Hundreds of candidates on the ballot won’t acknowledge the truth about the 2020 election.
This is why election lies continue - not b/c there is any truth to them, but b/c weak candidates lack the courage to tell the truth to those they seek to serve.