4 judges of the PA Supreme Court don't like how reformist Philadelphia DA @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social has conceded that some past convictions were flawed, so they've decided to run against him for DA. No, just kidding, they've instead empowered the state's Republican AG overrule him, and only him.
Immediate contender for the political hall of fame.
Since RCV started, there haven't been many high-profile examples of contests where it actually mattered: where the final winner trailed among the first-round preferences.
(Think Eric Adams, Mamdani, all the Peltola & Murkowski races.)
Until suddenly it happened TWICE in Maine last night.
Kumar Rao
In a 4-3 decision today, the Supreme Court of PA has ruled that whenever the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office concedes that a defendant is entitled to post-conviction relief, the state Attorney General has the right to intervene and oppose said concession. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini... 1/2
I'm onboard with Evan's abolish-conspiracy-doctrine take, but there are some problems with accomplice liability mens rea that would need to be fixed to make a conspiracy-free system work. 1/
Happy to be corrected by others who know more about this hypertechnical legal doctrine, but my take is the dissenters are right about Rooker-Feldman being a questionable-to-bad rule, but the issue presented in this case (about trial court vs. high court judgments) is a weird place to draw the line.
Corey Rayburn Yung
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
A real comment from a bike lane meeting I attended
Theme of today’s SCOTUS opinions:
Right-wingers infighting over their individual idiosyncrasies while Kagan tests whether she still has the dealmaking juice to harm-mitigate with the majority
this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan
