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Dahlia Lithwick

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Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice

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Mark Stern

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Not only is this grievance not justiciable, but it’s also an attack on free speech. You do not have a constitutional right to be free of harsh opinions or criticism. Obergefell created no sanction for disagreeing with it.

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Five justices recused from cases in today's orders list: Roberts, Alito, Barrett, Kagan, and Jackson.

Kagan and Jackson followed the court's new ethics "guidelines" and provided a reason for their recusal.

Roberts, Alito, and Barrett did not. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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as always, your rights are less important than whatever mild social opprobrium Alito suffers while in his bubble of people who never disagree with him

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RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s jailed opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, died in a Russian prison colony on Friday, Russia’s prison service announced in the early afternoon, without giving the cause of his death.

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New in PN: If Biden is senile, why is he kicking so much Republican ass?

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It was my privilege to have this extraordinary discussion with the brilliant @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about why @crew.bsky.social's case to remove Donald Trump from the ballot is not only right under the constitution, but so important for the survival of American democracy.

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my teenage sons would have just rolled their eyes and ambled away. Thank you.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The American Right is fully committed to a fundamentally anti-democratic project, and the Republican Party has a comprehensive strategy to put it into practice. Some thoughts on the radicalizing threat of authoritarian minority rule: 1/

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one crucial development in the ideology of anti-abortion politics is the widespread belief that pregnancy runs essentially on autopilot and no serious medical attention is ever required. allows anti-abortion zealots to ignore the fact that their policies produce maternity care deserts

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