Leave it to Brett Kavanaugh to complain about a logistical "mess" that he voted to create in the first place
10.03.2026 22:49
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Leave it to Brett Kavanaugh to complain about a logistical "mess" that he voted to create in the first place
Republicans are getting less and less shy about going after state courts they don't like
Imagine if, when the Supreme Court is trying to find out what Congress meant when it passed a statute, the justices simply consulted the record Congress created about what it meant when it passed the statute
"Judges are starting to remember their responsibilities to enforce the rules by which everyone else must abide—and the full range of tools available for enforcement."
The man has reorganized the federal government's law enforcement capacity around attacking people who made him upset
This love letter to legislative history and intent in statutory interpretation from @ballsandstrikes.org is great. Here are some excerpts, but read the whole thing.
There are signs that at least some federal judges are getting tired of the Trump administration simply ignoring court orders
The Supreme Court's amateur historian era is getting more humiliating with each passing year
Oftentimes, figuring out what the law means is not nearly as complicated as conservative Supreme Court justices pretend it is
The only lawyers left in the Justice Department are cowards, right-wing freaks, or some combination thereof
"Elections are approaching in which millions of people plan to cast their ballots by mail. Thomas’s opinion puts that mail—and those voters—at risk."
Want to be a federal judge? Just become one of Trump's personal defense lawyers and you've got a good shot
Nothing quite like Supreme Court justices attending the State of the Union and spending the entire time looking like they want to die
Trump sees federal judgeships as rewards to hand out to his most loyal underlings
According to Clarence Thomas, mail that your mail carrier steals from you is really just “lost,” if you think about it.
If you are an ambitious conservative lawyer who wants to be a federal judge, the smartest thing you can do is get Trump to hire you on to his personal legal team
"When someone signs up for a career that shrouds them in selfless patriotism, they must be ready to lean in to the selfless patriotism when the going gets tough."
"Justice Department lawyers should have quit already. They definitely should quit now. If they do not, they are complicit."
Trump is running out of time to get federal judges confirmed before the midterms. But three high-profile appeals court judges have handed him another set of key vacancies to try and fill
"Whether the Court uses the major questions doctrine, as Roberts and two conservatives would prefer, or statutory interpretation, as the liberals would prefer, the Court’s jurisprudence remains flexible enough to stop Trump’s financial fuckery, or anything else enough conservatives don’t like."
Another day, another Fifth Circuit voting rights opinion that sounds like a copy-paste from a conspiracy theory message board
The Supreme Court's conservatives support basically every aspect of Trump's agenda that won't make life harder for billionaires
Trump might not like the Court's ruling on this tariffs, but the conservative justices are already looking ahead to their next big political showdown with a Democratic president
We do not mean to shock you, but Edith Jones is making a deceptive argument about voter fraud in order to support a GOP-backed anti-voting law