WASHINGTON — If the Trump administration wanted to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty on short notice, according to the Justice Department, Americans might just have to accept that.
My report from today's hearing:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
one of my big takeaways from 2024 was: the low-info tipping point people who decide close elections think of themselves as consumers — not as workers, and certainly not as citizens.
After the Roberts Majority in Callais said the 15A forbid Congress from codifying disparate impact liability in the VRA, Trump’s DOJ takes the position that Title VII’s codified disparate impact liability violates equal protection under the 5th and 14th Amendments www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
I think it's really past time for California to change the way it counts votes. This isn't the only way to ensure all votes are counted. Claiming that it is some attack on making sure all the votes are fairly counted to say that this excruciatingly slow process is not good is a bad look.
“So move fast and break things and nobody has standing?” U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett asked during a hearing on the president's ballroom project.
Congress codified disparate impact liability under Title VII so Trump can't eliminate that. But surely there's a litigant looking to get the Roberts Majority to say the provision violates the Equal Protection Clause...as Scalia all but called for in 2008:
www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/07...
The dirty secret of modern progressive politics is that the abandoned viewpoint of “workers should be paid generously for their labor” is the true progressive position, while “affordability” is a slopulist slogan that promises more consumer consumption to the most consumerist society in history
The latest indignity from the Supreme Court's conservative justices, who eroded decades of hard-won civil rights progress with a brief, unsigned decision that @paulblumenthal.bsky.social calls "so shoddy and partisan that it is hard to take the court’s conservative supermajority seriously anymore."
