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You knew this was cominghttps://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1331826974432649218 As Sotomayor says, the majority's argument that places of worship are being singled out for unfair treatment requires treating highly dissimilar things a

Today's iteration of the Magical Neoconfederate Shadow Docket, restoring Alabama's arbitrary ban on curbside voting, produced a lengthy dissent from Sotomayor. (Significantly, it is joined by Kagan and Breyer, who

Today in the bad faith industrial take complexhttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/09/today-in-the-bad-faith-industrial-take-complex Why do they feel the need to insult your intelligence like this? Why not just say "we're doin

Excellent piece by @jbouie on judicial supremacy:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/down-with-judicial-supremacy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage I am obliged to add that in addition to being normatively unde

I might have known beforeif I'd got this old before I thought I got too cool to give a damnThat who you see in dreams at night seem to spend

The Senate is institutionalized white supremacyhttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/08/the-senate-is-institutionalized-white-supremacy The most obvious way this is true is that it massively overrepresents white people: https://nymag.co

Whoa -- June Medical is Breyer. This is HUGE Roberts says Whole Womans Health is still wrong -- but votes to apply it and strike down Louisiana's identical law I'm

The thing about the Robertson/Helm feud over songwriting credits is that they're both right Robertson's position -- arranging is the band's job, it doesn't merit composition credit any more than

When you're *this* close to getting it "You have to understand that Chomsky said that Donald Trump would be a terrible president, but he also said that George W. Bush

If I may be permitted to state the obvious, Bernie was clearly right to reject this priceless advice https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/04/could-bernie-have-won-by-ramping-up-attacks-on-biden-spoiler-no What doomed Bernie’s campaign was his fa

This analysis by @DavidOAtkins is very good. The failure of Bernie to win doesn't show that a progressive candidate/agenda can't win, it shows that you can't win a Democratic primary

I don't know if she'd be my pick, but I don't really get the idea that Stacey Abrams is "unqualified" to be president. The best one ever had two years