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4. As the story (and the song) go, in exchange for agreeing to assume states' Revolutionary War debts, Congress provided that the capital would be on land at a point

1. Given all of the chatter on D.C. statehood, I thought I'd post a few quick points about what the Constitution does—and, more importantly, *doesn't*—say about the location and size

Yesterday, I posted a thread about how Friday's 5-4 #SCOTUS ruling enjoining CA's #COVID restrictions on in-home gatherings is the latest in a major uptick in status quo-altering rulings on

#SCOTUS issued another significant ruling on its "shadow docket" late last night, voting 5-4 to block California's #COVID-based restrictions on in-home gatherings insofar as they interfere with religious practice:https://www.s

1. An attempt to clear up confusing public discourse about counting ballots, in five tweets.When Trump talks about no "counting" after Election Day, he could mean one of two things:A)

1. In response to the President's claim that we "must have final total" election results *on* Election Day, here's a #thread on how and why presidential elections *actually* work under

The extent to which conservative judges continue to insist that everything we need to know about federal remedies at the Founding can be divined from statutes Congress enacted, without *any*

What’s especially stunning about this ruling is that the D..C. Circuit had denied DOJ’s stay request while setting an expedited briefing schedule last night—which would’ve allowed the courts to fully

1. The new defense of Barr's conduct over the weekend is that he was just trying "to find a job for [Jay] Clayton."There are at least three problems with this

There's a fair amount of disinformation and misinformation going around about the federal government's legal authority to use troops to help respond to the unrest in Minneapolis.Here's a short #thread

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against those who would like to cast mail-in ballots in order to avoid having to go to crowded, public polling places to exercise their

The #DACA case is now the only undecided case left from #SCOTUS's November sitting, and, after today's decisions, the Chief Justice is the only Justice who hasn't written at least