Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Jason P. Steed
@profsteed.bsky.social
was @5thCircAppeals at The Bad Place • former English Prof & practicing appellate lawyer, now Assist Law Prof @ UToledo Law • he/him • all the disclaimers
New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...
Colbert Savages NSA And Rep. Mike Rogers In 'See No Evil' Segment
Colbert Savages NSA and Rep. Mike Rogers in 'See No Evil' Segment
crooksandliars.com
#ELB: “James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising Questions.” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/james-talarico-accused-ken-paxton-of-voter-fraud-his-own-voter-registration-is-raising-questions/
Rather absurd framing when you consider the results up and down the ballot, and where expectations were before just the last few weeks.
Politico@politico.com · 23h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Judge Burroughs speeds up her consideration of Somali TPS termination but not before taking a swipe at DHS General Counsel James Percival and what she calls "shameful cruelty" of refusing to give people a short window to prepare for deportation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Can state high court opinions serve as catalysts for national change? Examining Hawaiʻi Justice Todd Eddins' latest opinion, my latest @statecourtreport.org essay draws on Prof. Justin Long's insight that state court opinions can engage the public and inspire democratic change. Read below!
One Hawaii Justice Is Using State Constitutionalism to Challenge Federal Constitutional Orthodoxy
Justice Todd Eddins has consistently reminded us that state courts need not agree with the U.S. Supreme Court’s reasoning or conclusions — and neither do we.
statecourtreport.org
🚨 JUST IN: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County on Monday, October 5. Suncor and ExxonMobil want the Court to stop Boulder's climate deception case against the oil companies before it goes to trial. Here's what you need to know👇
Boulder and Exxon’s coming Supreme Court clash, explained. | Center for Climate Integrity
As Big Oil tries to escape accountability, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of dozens of climate deception lawsuits. Here’s what you need to know.
climateintegrity.org
"Free Should Be the Strong Default Setting for Academics’ Substacks and Other Online Work," an interesting post from Paul Horwitz over at Prawfs. Long post, but the basic idea is in the screenshot. prawfsblawg.com/free-should-...
BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
boltsmag.org
Essential essay about a very flawed man (the cringeworthy 2003 photo of his office reveals an extraordinary absence of humility & self-awareness) who's nonetheless done more to improve the state of the world than almost anyone ... [1] www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci
He built an empire. It did not last.
theatlantic.com
Tread in one of the world’s poorest countries, and tragic consequences from the end of USAID emerge. Register to learn why estimating the human cost is not simple, however
How many people are dying as a result of USAID’s demise?
Fewer than academics imagine, but more than Elon Musk will admit
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Michigan courts, when determining whether a police sting amounted to entrapment, must determine whether police inappropriately escalated a situation.
Michigan high court sets 'escalation' entrapment test for police stings
Michigan courts, when determining whether a police sting amounted to entrapment, must determine whether police inappropriately escalated a situation.
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Academically, the first question that comes to mind is: is there any argument that this is treasonous? Seems (at the very least) like the kind of argument the right would construct if, say, Biden did this…
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d agoI can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday rejected an effort by the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation to regain ownership of more than 1.5 million acres of land in northeastern Utah. www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-d...
DC Circuit denies Ute Tribe ownership over millions of acres in Utah
The ruling is the latest defeat for the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation to restore a large portion of the Uncompahgre Reservation in northeastern Utah.
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13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
Very excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power
What does a power-shifting agenda look like?
donmoynihan.substack.com
Willett is a conservative on CA5 but he’s not a performative crazy-MAGA-conservative like some of the others (Ho, Duncan, etc)
Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 6d agoA strong dissent from denial of rehearing by Judge Willett in McKesson - the case where the Fifth Circuit upheld liability for a Black Lives Matter leader when there is no evidence he had anything at all to do with a police officer's injury. 1/ www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
National temperatures, which have been about 2.5 degrees above average, are on track to break the previous record set in July 2012.
Scorching July may end up the warmest month on record across the U.S.
National temperatures, which have been about 2.5 degrees above average, are on track to break the previous record set in July 2012.
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ATTENTION STATE CONSTITUTION APPRECIATORS: Here's a significant defense of state constitutional independence, courtesty of the Michigan Supreme Court. www.courts.michigan.gov/siteassets/c...
More detail from @mmfa.bsky.social on just how insane Fauci coverage is on the right. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...
Right-wing media's unhinged response to Fauci's diary and congressional testimony
Right-wing media have gone into overdrive to denigrate Dr. Anthony Fauci following the release of his private diary by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), accusing him of being a “mass murderer” whose "body count ...
mediamatters.org
This story is both hilarious and indicative of why DSA and democratic socialists are winning elections. In this case, they're following the Mamdani approach of "you can just do stuff" to make people's lives better. Turns out people like that!
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 6d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
