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Do you want to learn how to spot originalist arguments, understand how they work, and respond effectively? Then we’ve got the guide for you: Countering Originalism. It’s written for lawyers, but it can help scholars, teachers, students, journalists, and commentators, too. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Do you want to learn how to spot originalist arguments, understand how they work, and respond effectively? Then we’ve got the guide for you: Countering Originalism. It’s written for lawyers, but it can help scholars, teachers, students, journalists, and commentators, too. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
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An environmental group filed a lawsuit to halt federal plans to decorate next year’s national parks pass with an image of President Trump’s face, arguing that federal law requires the pass to feature the winner of an annual nature photography competition.
Wildlife group sues to remove Trump photo from 2026 national parks pass
The 2026 America the Beautiful pass featuring the president’s face violates a 2004 law and causes “aesthetic harm,” the Center for Biological Diversity said.
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An environmental group filed a lawsuit to halt federal plans to decorate next year’s national parks pass with an image of President Trump’s face, arguing that federal law requires the pass to feature the winner of an annual nature photography competition.
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Thanks to John Roberts, Trump gets to pay himself hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars because, according to Roberts, the president controls all executive branch personnel and all of their decisions—and there’s probably nothing anyone can do about it.
As Trump plans to steal $230 million from taxpayers, we can thank John Roberts
Shall we call it a "Roberts reward"?
www.motherjones.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thanks to John Roberts, Trump gets to pay himself hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars because, according to Roberts, the president controls all executive branch personnel and all of their decisions—and there’s probably nothing anyone can do about it.
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Netanyahu refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, the most popular Palestinian leader—and the one most likely to bring about a two-state solution. Hamas refuses to disarm. The two enemies are united in opposition to a two-state solution. That makes lasting peace unlikely. wapo.st/3W5yhAx
Opinion | Why the Gaza ceasefire won’t lead to lasting peace
“A new Middle East” will require sacrifices that Israelis and Palestinians show no sign of making.
wapo.st
October 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Netanyahu refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, the most popular Palestinian leader—and the one most likely to bring about a two-state solution. Hamas refuses to disarm. The two enemies are united in opposition to a two-state solution. That makes lasting peace unlikely. wapo.st/3W5yhAx
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If you are feeling frightened or disoriented, you have every reason.
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
September 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If you are feeling frightened or disoriented, you have every reason.
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
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contrarian.substack.com/p/cancel-can... they are engaging in something far worse than cancel culture. They are censoring and trying to suppress people and ideas they do not like. The word for that is authoritarianism. Doing so in the guise of honoring Charlie Kirk breaks the hypocrisy meter
Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’
Words & Phrases We Can Do Without
contrarian.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
contrarian.substack.com/p/cancel-can... they are engaging in something far worse than cancel culture. They are censoring and trying to suppress people and ideas they do not like. The word for that is authoritarianism. Doing so in the guise of honoring Charlie Kirk breaks the hypocrisy meter
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5 GOP justices: *quietly sign shadow docket decision*
Kavanaugh: I LIKE BEER. AND RACISM. I LIKE RACISM A LOT. WE ALL DO. *signs shadow docket decision*
5 GOP justices: *collective facepalm*
Kavanaugh: I LIKE BEER. AND RACISM. I LIKE RACISM A LOT. WE ALL DO. *signs shadow docket decision*
5 GOP justices: *collective facepalm*
New in PN: Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism
"Five justices calculated that it was better to remain silent and be thought of as a bunch of racist hacks than to speak out and remove all doubt. But Kavanaugh, channeling his inner Col. Jessup, refused to sign on to the plan."
"Five justices calculated that it was better to remain silent and be thought of as a bunch of racist hacks than to speak out and remove all doubt. But Kavanaugh, channeling his inner Col. Jessup, refused to sign on to the plan."
Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism
He showed his whole hood.
www.publicnotice.co
September 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
5 GOP justices: *quietly sign shadow docket decision*
Kavanaugh: I LIKE BEER. AND RACISM. I LIKE RACISM A LOT. WE ALL DO. *signs shadow docket decision*
5 GOP justices: *collective facepalm*
Kavanaugh: I LIKE BEER. AND RACISM. I LIKE RACISM A LOT. WE ALL DO. *signs shadow docket decision*
5 GOP justices: *collective facepalm*
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“Jeffries and Schumer, get your shit together. Tell us what your demands are.”
As another government funding deadline approaches, we’re starting to get déjà vu about Democrats caving to Trump.
Urge Democrats to reject any Republican budget that fuels Trump’s chaos: indivisible.org/campaign/car...
As another government funding deadline approaches, we’re starting to get déjà vu about Democrats caving to Trump.
Urge Democrats to reject any Republican budget that fuels Trump’s chaos: indivisible.org/campaign/car...
September 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Jeffries and Schumer, get your shit together. Tell us what your demands are.”
As another government funding deadline approaches, we’re starting to get déjà vu about Democrats caving to Trump.
Urge Democrats to reject any Republican budget that fuels Trump’s chaos: indivisible.org/campaign/car...
As another government funding deadline approaches, we’re starting to get déjà vu about Democrats caving to Trump.
Urge Democrats to reject any Republican budget that fuels Trump’s chaos: indivisible.org/campaign/car...
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The job market is drying up. Prices continue to rise. Millions are living paycheck to paycheck. 70% of U.S. adults say the American Dream is dead.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
September 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The job market is drying up. Prices continue to rise. Millions are living paycheck to paycheck. 70% of U.S. adults say the American Dream is dead.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
What has Trump been up to lately?
Hobnobbing with billionaire Big Tech CEOs and profiting off the presidency with crypto schemes.
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Rest assured. The seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-263
Sunday thought: Why Trump is doomed
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Rest assured. The seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-263
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If you are a professional economist sign here!!
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you are a professional economist sign here!!
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Protests Highlight Growing Discontent With Netanyahu and the Gaza War ... BRAVO. we need a similarly gigantic movement here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
Protests Highlight Growing Discontent With Netanyahu and the Gaza War
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Protests Highlight Growing Discontent With Netanyahu and the Gaza War ... BRAVO. we need a similarly gigantic movement here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently defended the Supreme Court’s use of unexplained emergency orders. Here’s why he’s wrong:
bit.ly/4mzvX0p
bit.ly/4mzvX0p
Supreme Court Must Explain Why It Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor
The Court has repeatedly halted lower court orders and allowed administration policies to go forward via its “shadow docket” without any explanation.
www.brennancenter.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently defended the Supreme Court’s use of unexplained emergency orders. Here’s why he’s wrong:
bit.ly/4mzvX0p
bit.ly/4mzvX0p
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Rogan mocked the Trump administration’s insistence that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself—warning MAGA fans they’re being “lied to.”
Joe Rogan Slams Trump’s ‘Gaslighting’ on Epstein: ‘Line in the Sand’
On the latest Joe Rogan Experience, the megastar podcaster mocked the Trump administration’s insistence that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself—warning MAGA fans they’re being “lied to.”
trib.al
July 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Rogan mocked the Trump administration’s insistence that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself—warning MAGA fans they’re being “lied to.”
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Trump is nothing if not unpredictable. If he has been consistent about one thing throughout his tumultuous, decade-long political career, it is support for Putin and skepticism of Ukraine. And yet there Trump was in the Oval Office on Monday sounding a very different tone. bit.ly/459TzBh
Opinion | Putin took Trump for granted. He’s going to pay for his mistake.
After the president’s startling, welcome shift on Ukraine, there’s more to do.
bit.ly
July 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump is nothing if not unpredictable. If he has been consistent about one thing throughout his tumultuous, decade-long political career, it is support for Putin and skepticism of Ukraine. And yet there Trump was in the Oval Office on Monday sounding a very different tone. bit.ly/459TzBh
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the degree of panic evidenced by super-rich underscores their anxiety that ordinary voters have had enough of condescending oligarchs. Their failure to find a viable, alternative candidate or platform makes clear that, in their lexicon, “better” means “keep the status quo so the rich get richer.”
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Should these anti-Mamdani troops actually raise $20B, New Yorkers can get a twofer in electing Mamdani: ensure the moguls waste their money and get a mayor who has no allegiance to the super-rich.
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
"Better..." for whom?
open.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
the degree of panic evidenced by super-rich underscores their anxiety that ordinary voters have had enough of condescending oligarchs. Their failure to find a viable, alternative candidate or platform makes clear that, in their lexicon, “better” means “keep the status quo so the rich get richer.”
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Excellent AM read in Public Notice: The Worst Chief Justice of All Time >>> "Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion." via @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
www.publicnotice.co
July 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Excellent AM read in Public Notice: The Worst Chief Justice of All Time >>> "Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion." via @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
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Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year ... www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/t... via @texastribune.org
Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year
A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communicati...
www.texastribune.org
July 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year ... www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/t... via @texastribune.org
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"Not what we want to hear right now," KSAT's Stephania Jimenez said.
Texas News Anchor Rips Kristi Noem And Greg Abbott Over Flood Press Conference
"Not what we want to hear right now," KSAT's Stephania Jimenez said.
www.huffpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Not what we want to hear right now," KSAT's Stephania Jimenez said.
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Trump/Russia was not a hoax.
U.S. pauses some Ukraine weapons shipments; Kyiv scrambles to respond
Russia, which has been sending massive waves of drones and missiles against Ukraine, said the U.S. move would help end the war early.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trump/Russia was not a hoax.
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No matter who your senators are, they need to hear from you right now.
Tell Republicans not to screw over their constituents with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Tell Democrats to do everything they can to delay and disrupt the upcoming vote: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Tell Republicans not to screw over their constituents with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Tell Democrats to do everything they can to delay and disrupt the upcoming vote: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
June 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
No matter who your senators are, they need to hear from you right now.
Tell Republicans not to screw over their constituents with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Tell Democrats to do everything they can to delay and disrupt the upcoming vote: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Tell Republicans not to screw over their constituents with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Tell Democrats to do everything they can to delay and disrupt the upcoming vote: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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"Given that Trump administration officials are giving license to mass criminality among federal law enforcement officers, there may be only one remaining avenue for bringing such criminal cops to justice: State prosecutions."
Good @davidrlurie.bsky.social thoughts over at @atrupar.com's place:
Good @davidrlurie.bsky.social thoughts over at @atrupar.com's place:
The Trump Administration won't hold ICE officers to account for their rampant illegality; state prosecutors should do so, as I discuss here.
States can step into the breach
Just because Pam Bondi won't hold Trump's thugs accountable doesn't mean they're above all laws.
www.publicnotice.co
June 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"Given that Trump administration officials are giving license to mass criminality among federal law enforcement officers, there may be only one remaining avenue for bringing such criminal cops to justice: State prosecutions."
Good @davidrlurie.bsky.social thoughts over at @atrupar.com's place:
Good @davidrlurie.bsky.social thoughts over at @atrupar.com's place:
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Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The Trump administration seems to be on a search and destroy mission against US alliances. on.ft.com/44g3lBn
Japan scraps US meeting after Washington demands more defence spending
Allies’ top defence and foreign policy officials were due to hold talks on July 1
on.ft.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Trump administration seems to be on a search and destroy mission against US alliances. on.ft.com/44g3lBn
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Forced to Wait for Trump, Israel Faces Strategic Dilemma in Iran .. they went into the war hopeed they could lure the most undependable pres in US history. How foolish you'd have to be to bet on Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...
Forced to Wait for Trump, Israel Faces Strategic Dilemma in Iran
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Forced to Wait for Trump, Israel Faces Strategic Dilemma in Iran .. they went into the war hopeed they could lure the most undependable pres in US history. How foolish you'd have to be to bet on Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...