This is the best
Obama says I’m not gonna tell Michelle you said that.
Laurence Tribe
Huzzah! May this be a harbinger of a global turn away from fascism!
Brazil’s Lula beats Bolsonaro in stunning political comeback
Unraveling your rights is a dangerous game. The only way to win is not to play.
Brian Kemp was caught on a hot mike saying he’s open to banning contraception. Once they start taking away your rights they don’t stop.
CAUGHT ON TAPE: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said he is open to banning contraception “depending on where the legislatures are” during the next session.
“You could take up pretty much anything … I think, I’d have to check and see because there are a lot of legalities.”
Justice Kagan finally takes the opportunity to remind everyone that a genuine “originalist” would surely reject the demand for race-blindness on the part of state universities in light of the 14th Amendment’s original meaning and history.
I’m hearing “Class of 2028” as a Kavanaugh-driven projection from the 25-year O’Connor endpoint in Grutter v Bollinger (2003). Justice Jackson pushes back based on how different a starting point different groups faced, but she’ll likely have to dissent from a 6-3 holding.
Justice Ketanji Jackson’s two hypothetical applicants, both seeking to honor their family legacy as 5th-generation North Carolinians, but one descending from slaves and the other from slave owners, was an eye-opener for the ages.
This morning, listen for echoes of Chief Justice Roberts’ too-clever line “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” If that empty truism haunts the Halloween proceeding, expect a big loss for racial integration next June
We teach our children not to act this way, but the Kari Lakes among us refuse to heed that basic lesson. Saying the game must be rigged if you aren’t declared the winner is always wrong. Now it’s worse than just wrong: It threatens to end our democracy.
“For the moment, I hope that responsible commentators will remain on Twitter and continue to provide fair, factual, and important commentary.” — I agree with @rbhubbell about staying on @Twitter
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/navigating-musks-free-for-all-hellscape