Two Trump appointed judges hold that LA congressional maps that created a second majority-minority district unconstitutionally discriminated on the basis of race in violation of the equal protection clause

More evidence that states are laboratories for, um, democracy.

I can think of at least five or six people who might benefit from reading this

We filed an amicus brief highlighting how Pennsylvania's felony murder law disproportionately targets Black people in support of Derek Lee, a Black man serving a mandatory life without parole (LWOP) sentence for felony murder.
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To TIME 'Trump does not dismiss the possibility of political violence around the election. “If we don’t win, you know, it depends,” he tells TIME. “It always depends on the fairness of the election.”

To repeat: federal judges, including in, say, Amarillo, are only as 'rogue' as appellate courts and SCOTUS allow them to be.

Anyone want to guess *where* Texas filed this lawsuit seeking nationwide relief against a new federal policy?

texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/…

Yeah, you didn’t need to guess. It’s in Amarillo (where it has a 100% chance of being assigned to Judge Kacsmaryk).

Everybody should take a minute and read the statement of facts in Kannon Shanmugam ‘s brief on behalf of James Walker supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/1…

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A reminder that in Idaho it is a crime to offer an abortion to a woman who will otherwise lose an organ

A SCOTUS majority could make this quick and easy: “There may be some core presidential duties where some degree of immunity would be appropriate. But we leave that difficult question for another day. Whatever the scope of official duties that might be entitled to immunity, 1/

ACLU to College Presidents: Arresting students must be a last resort, and only escalates matters. Five principles for navigating free speech and campus order.
aclu.org/news/free-spee…

Interesting article. Interpreting the Mass. constitution, the Mass. SJC has held that a Black man's potential fear of profiling is relevant to whether flight from police is suspicious.

I'd think this same analysis is not only consistent with, but required by, the 4th Amendment.

Protest is a central part of Boston’s history, including political expression and student activism.

There is a distinction between removing encampments to ensure safe access to a public right of way and using physical violence against students engaging in peaceful expression.

I’m sorry it’s not possible to interpret the Constitution to say that the president can assassinate rivals but not prosecute them.

Unbelievable that Supreme Court justices who see forgiving student loans, mandating vaccines, and regulating climate change as a slippery slope toward tyranny were not clear-eyed on questions of whether a president could execute citizens or stage a coup without being prosecuted.

love to listen to Supreme Court oral arguments about fun hypotheticals like “if you have a womb is it possible you aren’t a person” and “should we have a king”

Narrowly limiting presidential disqualification and broadly expanding presidential immunity, all in the same term, all based on no Constitutional text whatsoever, and all to the benefit of Donald Trump, would be among the more remarkable things the Supreme Court has ever done.