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Ginni Thomas urged Mark Meadows to overturn the 2020 election by any means necessary—while her husband was ruling on cases attempting to overturn the election. A truly extraordinary level of

BREAKING: Supreme Court takes a Second Amendment case challenging New York's restrictions on concealed public carry. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/042621zor_e18f.pdf This case is likely to pave the way to the Supreme C

First opinion of the day is in Jones v. Mississippi. By a 6–3 vote with Kavanaugh writing, the court rules that a sentencer need NOT make a separate factual finding

The Supreme Court uses an unsigned shadow docket opinion on Friday night to confirm that it has altered 3+ decades of precedent. This is not a plausible reading of Smith

Barrett casts the fifth vote to lift COVID restrictions on houses of worship in NY. Roberts dissents. The new five-justice ultraconservative majority takes shape for the first time.https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/133194379404082380

11th Circuit rules that bans on anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" violate the First Amendment. 2–1 decision, both judges in the majority appointed by Trump. A really awful and frightening decision. https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/

Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan

This decision is INSANE. By a 2–1 vote, the 8th Circuit rules the Minnesota Secretary of State and the Minnesota state courts unconstitutionally usurped power from the state legislature by

By a 5–1 vote, the Florida Supreme Court overturns a whole line of precedent that limited the death penalty to "the most aggravated and the least mitigated of first-degree murders."

By a 5–3 vote, the Supreme Court has refused to stop Pennsylvania from counting ballots that are mailed by Election Day but arrive up to three days later. Alito dissents,

I am still stuck on Brett Kavanaugh claiming states “want to be able to definitively announce the results of the election on election night.” No state definitively announces the results

Holy shit—Brett Kavanaugh just endorsed Rehnquist's concurrence in Bush v. Gore, which was too extreme for Kennedy or O'Connor.This is a red alert. I can't believe he put it in