"Court-packing would create a slippery slope to the destruction of judicial review...To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering. There are also better remedies for various other shortcomings of the Court," writes @ilyasomin.bsky.social.
It "started as a $10 B lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS in his personal capacity and ended as a $1.776 B slush fund with no appeals, no transparency, and a tax immunity addendum that looks a lot like a self-pardon." Tad DeHaven, Daniel Greenberg and Molly Nixon discuss on the Cato podcast.
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
The Trump administration's multiple investigations of the 2020 election may have more to do with 2026 (Votebeat)
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I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
In this post, I explain why Bernie Sanders' plan to expropriate 50% of the value of major AI producers is unconstitutional, dangerous, and has much in common with Trump's awful policies. Another example of "horseshoe theory" at work: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
How much #FISA Section 702 noncompliance incident material is the regime withholding? Lots...as in tens of thousands of pages. My latest, out now.