State party should just throw the names of every Dem state legislator between the ages of 40 and 60 in a hat pick a replacement that way, the odds are better than any deliberated calculated decision they could make.
Joe Bishop-Henchman
@jbhenchman.bsky.social
Husband of Ethan, DC lawyer (tax and constitutional), policy, history, transportation, liberty
To quickly understand a Supreme Court opinion, quickly flip to the dissent. They'll usually explain in the first paragraph or two what the majority has done and what they think it means
Federal judges seem to be getting tired of the endless requests for time extensions from U.S. government lawyers. It's been endemic for the last year as DOJ lawyers say they need time due to workload and to consult political leadership.
We’re not clear as to the specific member of the Bishop-Henchman libertarian power couple, but safe to assume it’s a man
Maryland legislature last night passed @govwesmoore.bsky.social's Transit Oriented Development bill with amendment proposed by @actfortransit.bsky.social. The ACT amendment exempts mixed-use development on @wmata.com station parking lots from all local zoning rules that limit density & use. 1/2
Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether apartments should be legal in all parts of the District. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Gorsuch to Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to strike down what the President did. You said vague statutes, unprecedented actions, attenuated causation, that those are all fatal. So why are you in the dissent in this case? Why?
"We have National Park Service-run spaces, from parks to small triangles, where clearing depends on federal choices and timelines rather than local needs.... The transit system clears train stops but not bus stops" www.commonplace.org/p/joe-bishop...
Why Can’t D.C.—Or Anywhere Else—Remove Snow?
The response to a non-exceptional snow storm undercuts public confidence in the nation’s capital and beyond.
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Looking like the President will miss today's deadline to submit a budget: "On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year." 31 U.S.C. § 1105(a)
Almost every Safeway in San Francisco is planning a total rebuild into "housing over grocery." At least three recent proposals. Meanwhile, zero proposals from Safeway in the East Bay. sfyimby.com/2025/11/prel... sfyimby.com/2025/11/perm... sfyimby.com/2025/11/bern...
Preliminary Plans Filed For Safeway in Outer Richmond, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY
Preliminary plans have been filed for an eight-story apartment complex at 850 La Playa Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The project will...
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Watson v. RNC. It appeals a 5th Circuit decision holding that federal law requires election ballots be received by officials no later than election day. Mississippi, like 30 states and DC, counts mailed ballots to come in after election day.
The Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal asking to overturn the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision, without comment and without dissent. The case involved former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis and damages she owes to a couple she denied a marriage license to.
Rumored deal to end the government shutdown. -CR and ban on reductions in force of fed govt employees through 1/30/26 -Minibus: Adoption of military construction/veterans, agricultural, and leg branch portions of budget -Promise of vote in Dec on enhanced ACA subsidies.
Trump keeps bragging about how much money the tariffs have raised lol
Joe Bishop-Henchman@jbhenchman.bsky.social · 9mo agoSauer says these “regulatory tariffs” only incidentally raise revenue, to respond Justice Kagan’s question about how the President can impose tariffs when taxes are usually imposed by Congress. It’s a lot of “incidental” revenue: $88 billion so far, and $1.8 trillion over 10 years if continued.
Today at 10am ET, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the extent of presidential powers to impose tariffs, and they will have a brief from National Taxpayers Union Foundation to help them. NTUF’s brief highlights a new letter signed by 465 economists including 9 Nobel Prize winners
I will be working well into the night finalizing our brief in the tariffs case in the Supreme Court, due tomorrow. Share cartoons, memes, and pet pictures
Before turning it over to the parties, Judge Reyes says: Can we all agree that I'm fortunate enough to be the first person to rule on that section of the Home Rule Act? Huzzah!
HAPPENING NOW: Temporary restraining order hearing in DC v. Trump, a suit filed this morning over Trump's effort to takeover the DC police. Judge Ana Reyes just took the bench. I'm listening in for @lawfaremedia.org Follow along ⬇️
Charles Allen interregnum to say that the team is open to reducing parking, re-siting the garages, and kicking in for Metrorail (?). Allen's rightfully been a harsh critic of all this; imagine if the rest of the CMs held out for something more meaningful than a one-time CBA and *negotiated*.
Senate voting on the motion to proceed. Currently 45-50. R no votes include Tillis NC, Johnson WI, Paul KY. Not yet voted: Lee UT, Lummis WY, Scott FL, Schmitt MO, Murkowski AK VP Vance just arrived with Schmitt.
Rand Paul: "Tariffs are taxes & when you put tax on a business it's always passed through as a cost, so there will be higher prices. There's an economic fallacy that trade deficits mean anything. They're artificial accounting. The only trade that means anything is the individual who buys something"
Justice Alito's dissent from last night's order has been published. He objects to the necessity of rushed relief, but notes that "[t]he Executive must proceed under the terms of our order in Trump v. J.G.G." - notice and opportunity to challenge removal. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The Supreme Court doesn't usually issue orders at 1:00 a.m. on Saturday while the lower court is still deliberating, the government hasn't responded, and one of the justices isn't finished writing a dissent.
