CA9 affirms lower court order that Oregon must release the state’s pretrial criminal defendants from jail if they’re not provided lawyers within 7 days.

Obama, Biden judges in majority.

Trump judge dissents, calls the injunction a “judicial jailbreak.” cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opin…

Speaker Johnson’s exact word were “I know many of [the justices] personally,” followed by “I think they are deeply concerned”—we can reserve the possibility that he feels he read their minds but I think the clear suggestion is that they expressed their concern to him in some way!

Fascinating to hear the GOP Speaker of the House admit to having private conversations with multiple justices who expressed concern to him about Trump’s conviction. I’m sure those justices will recuse from any eventual appeal to avoid sitting on a case they’ve pre-judged.

The notion that former presidents should be forever immune from criminal prosecution strikes me as obviously indefensible, which is probably why its proponents so often advance it orthogonally through memes and abstract declaration of principle rather than stating it outright.

Ron DeSantis’ administration told people they were allowed to vote then sent SWAT teams to arrest them in pre-dawn raids after they voted slate.com/news-and-polit…

It’s now unlawful for Donald Trump to possession firearms under federal law. But this law has been challenged on 2nd Amendment grounds as applied to nonviolent convictions.

Surprisingly, Joe Biden’s son and now his opponent both have 2nd Am args related to federal prohibitions.

You'd think John Yoo of all people would not endorse a principle where others should do to him what he would do to them

I deleted a tweet saying that Trump can no longer vote in Florida because of his felony conviction. He will likely (but not definitely) be able to cast a ballot in November. This explains it well. I regret the error! politifact.com/article/2024/m…

Do we have a live cam on Martha-Ann Alito's flagpole?

Trump criminal trial VERDICT:

The jury finds the defendant GUILTY on the first count.

The remaining counts are being recited.

NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts refuses to meet with Senate Democrats about Alito's ethics issues, citing 'separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence.' s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2470…

This is not a big deal. This is not supporting the insurrection or taking bribes from Republican donors.

This is “my spouse has a job.”

Don’t diminish the actual ethical problems by worrying over something like this.

Alito's opinion in today's capital case has an important lesson for the courts of appeals: If you amend your opinion to add a new substantive point, the Supreme Court may interpret it as a tactic admission that your legal analysis was wrong all along. supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

Jackson planting the seed for undoing the Roberts Court's antidemocratic weaponization of the 1st Amendment as a deregulatory tool while preserving 1A's democratic purpose to protect speech qua speech supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

BREAKING: Slate reporting there is another tape like Access Hollywood—but this time Trump is using the N-word!

Per The Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt, in 2004 Trump asked of contestant Kwame Jackson, “would America buy a n—winning?” slate.com/culture/2024/0…