Star Axis is complete. 50 years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory in New Mexico. An open lens tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's precession. Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...

Amen

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

FWIW one of bluesky's superpowers imho - the brilliant legal community here. The live updates I get via my "Courtwatchers" list is better than any live blogging I ever read from SCOTUS Blog back in the day. Also if you want to build your own list here is a good start. YW. go.bsky.app/4oXpi4Q

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Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

New paper from me: Reconstructing the Civil Rights State After Democratic Backsliding. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The USMNT has won a third game at a World Cup, a thing they have never done before

Jason Anderson@jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · last mo.

Complete list of World Cups in which the USMNT has won 2 or more* games: 1930 2002 2026 *They have never won more than 2 games, this "or more" is currently decorative

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law

As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...

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2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble

“Considering the four exceptions as a permanently frozen or closed set as of…1868—such that there can be no subsequent exceptions recognized based on new developments—is inconsistent with [our] approach to const’l interpretation in a variety of areas.” 🙏 grateful to see some 2nd Amdt common sense 🙏

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

25 years ago, a Michigan district court embraced a bizarre theory about the limits on Congress's power under the Spending Clause—one that was quickly repudiated. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court's six Republican appointees quietly revived it while making it harder to enforce an array of federal rights:

Bonus 234: The Ascension of Westside Mothers

The Court's 6-3 ruling in Landor is likely the "sleeper" case of the term—a technical decision with massive, long-term, and ominous constitutional implications.

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BREAKING: Federal judge grants patients' request to block DOJ from seeking or obtaining patient information via grand jury subpoena as to any transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care in New York City (including NYU Langone). More to come:

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The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Yes you can smell the sulfur on the opinion.

Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · last mo.

White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation.

This facility should never have been proposed in the first place and ICE scrapping the deal is a win for Romulus and for Michigan. It is what can happen when local citizens, local leadership, and state leaders all work together to protect our communities. www.wxyz.com/news/region/...

City of Romulus says plans for ICE detention facility scrapped, building will be sold

City officials say it is now unlikely that a proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility will be placed in Romulus.

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Come work with me!

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Here's my full report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-and-...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spent most of the day on the 107-page DC Circuit trans military ban ruling — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — but fell down so many rabbit holes in doing so that I was not able to finish my report today ...

I am thrilled that my article exploring the STRONG protection that 1A law provides against govt jawboning is now out in @uchilrev.bsky.social. It is deeply depressing however that understanding the law of jawboning remains so impt today lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Those who pop in for a year will be champions.

Outstanding result! The Michigan Court of Appeals rules that the Wayne County Board of Canvassers shouldn't have thrown out 37 ballots in the Hamtramck mayoral election. Important case vindicating the fundamental right to vote. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ph3mx....

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute. Damages awarded: $42 million. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like looksmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing?

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Justin@justinlawguy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This table of contents, my G'd

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

One of the more frustrating moves by the conservative courts in recent years has been, after declaring that nothing can be racist unless you can show proof explicit racist motive, to act as if citing explicit racist statements by Trump or his underlings to prove racist motives is a form of cheating.

If you live in Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, or South Dakota, DREDF has information about how to contact your attorney general.

Texas and Eight Other States Renew Attack on Section 504 and the Right of Disabled People to Live in their Communities - DREDF

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

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If you work for ICE or Border Patrol and have information about unlawful conduct taking place at your agency, please speak up. House Judiciary Dems want to hear from you. America needs to know about crimes committed in our name. As a whistleblower, you can share anonymously:

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Do you have a tip to share about unlawful or unconstitutional activity-or other wrongdoing-in a federal agency or other organization? Now more than ever, Congress depends on insiders to conduct its co...

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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.