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Mark Joseph Stern
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Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Basically yes. Primaries under current maps will be well underway by then.
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Mark Joseph Stern
More SCOTUS rulings expected on Wednesday
January 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I'm pretty sure the SG gets a seat whenever s/he wants one.
January 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Today's decision really is quite important FYI! The first really good habeas decision from this court in ages. bsky.app/profile/byka...
BREAKING: A 5-4 Supreme Court *refuses* to limit how many times a federal inmate can challenge the legality of their sentence, saying they aren’t limited to one try like state prisoners. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch & Barrett dissent. #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
January 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
FWIW I doubt we will get Callais—the case gutting what remains of the Voting Rights Act—until June. I think the liberal justices will drag out the drafting process by writing long dissents, and by custom the court doesn't release opinions until every justice is finished writing.
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
You should ask Alito to do a blurb for the reprint
January 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Do we even have proof of concept that microblogging is sustainable? Seems possible that all such platforms are destined to become sewers.
January 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I think there's a difference between posting your thoughts anonymously, even when they are sometimes critical, and being an asshole who just slings often-personal insults from behind the mask of anonymity; this was the latter case
January 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I don't quite understand the incentives behind this behavior; some of it might just be a contrarian impulse to disagree with the perceived faculty orthodoxy on Trump and SCOTUS. Who knows. But I think it's best to ignore this discourse-policing because it is, at best, spineless and distracting.
January 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This faction tends to be anti-anti-SCOTUS too: They might not defend the Supreme Court's bad decisions on the merits, but they'll nitpick progressive professors who criticize those decisions. The real threat to the court's legitimacy, they imply, comes from these critics—not the justices themselves.
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM