I regret to report that we are likely headed for a “see, e.g.” and “but see” string citation that passes for historical research and debate at SCOTUS.

“You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, June 4th, 1940.

Fascinating story of petty shakedowns that apparently occur regularly in India. In my 7 years’ living in Shanghai, I never experienced this sort of thing. Yuen Yuen Ang explains how the CCP eliminated such petty graft by giving cadres a stake in the Party’s long-term success.

DHS apparently based decisions to abduct Venezuelans and send them to El Salvador prison on guesses about the meaning of tattoos and sign language. As Ilya Somin and Steve Vladeck note, procedural due process, was totally absent here: Kafka couldn’t concoct such buffoonish evil.

This weird line in Trump’s EO is a tell that MAGA folks really believe in and care about whiteness and blackness. The idea that “race is not a biological reality but a social construct” was the mainstream “color-blind” conservative view prior to MAGA.

Just curious: Do I have TDS? Because it strikes me as really weird that a DOJ attorney just told a judge that their client (DHS) refuses to give adequate answers to the attorney’s requests for information or follow the attorney’s advice? pbs.org/newshour/polit…

“…’every DOJ attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States. Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences,’ Bondi said.” But DOJ’s defiant stone-walling loses cases: That’s incompetent, not “zealous.” politico.com/news/2025/04/0…

“Martin’s nomination was derailed after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Judiciary Committee considering the nomination, balked at [Martin’s] views on the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.” How’re Pirro’s views any better than Martin’s? bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw/b…