Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick

“Elena Kagan has this one really good example. She has several, but I will highlight one. The Republican operative who drew this racist map claimed that he never looked at racial data, even though he had it, quote, available at the press of a key on his redistricting software.”

“Elena Kagan spent a page of her opinion listing out all of the racist things that Trump has said about Haitians to remind the reader.”

“Elena Kagan's dissent in that case, I think is one of her better sort of short descents in this space.”

“Keir Starmer offered Britain not.”

“Keir Starmer is the latest casualty of the Downing Street meat grinder.”

“Keir Starmer offered Britain nothing.”

“the arguments that are being made by Donald Trump's Department of Justice under Pam Bondi to the federal courts of the United States are outrageous. They're lawless. They are contemptuous of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and they are contemptuous of the courts of the United States, and even the individual judges sitting on those cases.”

“Trump asked his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to open up a criminal investigation, but only into Democrats mentioned in the emails.”

“Pam Bondi certainly said DOJ would release the files within 30 days as Trump signed, but she also suggested that they might just hold this up because she's opened an investigation into the Democrats now.”

“John Roberts likes the Fed, and John Roberts does not like the Federal Trade Commission. That's it.”

“there is no kind of moderate or swinging member of the conservative supermajority to reign in John Roberts, to say, I don't know if we need to go this far.”

“this is now just John Roberts' sort of wild ride across the dictatorial field of American governance that he's created.”

“Samuel Alito collapses these two different scenarios into one.”

“when you're reading Samuel Alito's decision in Calais and he, you know, is cited their musings in earlier cases, sometimes dissents, just about like what they feel.”

“Samuel Alito has now announced it's not that we can't do anything about political gerrymandering. It's the political gerrymandering is legitimate.”

“Brett Kavanaugh going out of his way to explain almost like a race-neutral process by which you could question and stop U.S. citizens of Latino descent.”

“the Supreme Court affirmed that district court decision in a case called Allen v. Milligan. Five to four decision with John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, joining the three liberals, said this decision is correct.”

“Brett Kavanaugh here who has staked his career on the major questions doctrine since he was on the D.C. Circuit, like this is his jam saying, oh, surprise, surprise, the major questions doctrine doesn't apply to foreign affairs, period.”

“President Trump got to appoint so many justices in such a short time, three justices, I think, in four years, and two of them, right, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, were replacing justices who usually ruled on the side of religious freedom, Anthony Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

“Here, without any briefing, without any oral argument, right, which is like what the shadow docket is, we see not just Justice Amy Coney Barrett in her concurrence, but the main opinion that came down from the court in this case.”

“Amy Coney Barrett wrote an opinion in the Scrimetti case where she rejected outright the idea that the Constitution protects trans people as trans people.”