My piece about the last day of the latest Supreme Court term has some comments about Department of Commerce v. New York. The TL; DR is 1)Breyer's opinion is obviously.
For those so inclined. Hopefully the courts will come up.
A bare party-line majority of the Supreme Court has held that legislators can entrench themselves against electoral majorities because math is hard, man. This opinion is a disgrace and Kagan.
More about this as we summarize the term, but glad to see some pushback from Leah Litman against people cherrypicking a few pro-defendant Gorsuch votes to make his record seem.
Eric Levitz has a good summary of the year of progressive legislation passed by the legendarily dysfunctional, corrupt, and reactionary assembly in Albany: Yet it is precisely Albany’s well-earned reputation.
What it reveals about Donald Trump is extremely important, of course, but it shouldn't drown out the fact that the excerpt from E. Jean Carroll's book is a pretty extraordinary.
Today is the sixth anniversary of one of the very worst decisions in the long and largely ignoble history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appropriately, the 4th.
Earlier today, Paul discussed this LOL Nothing Matters post by Kevin Drum, arguing it was OK that the media was substantially under-covering E. Jean Carroll's credible rape allegations because nothing.
