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"His for-profit company is seeking to wrap itself in the mantle of voting rights to make the case for a gambling activity that states have ample reasons to choose to discourage, while no one’s constitutional rights are being infringed. Freeman is not John Lewis."

SCOTUSBlog as profit center is not pretty

Supporting a nuclear strike on DC home rule … to battle a 20 cent fee that will raise money to help feed poor families in low-income communities. Please. Just do it. Cancel your DoorDash.

DoorDash, in damage control mode, now claims it supports D.C. home rule and denies lobbying against it. Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...

The typo-prone part of my brain was so incredulous that DoorDash would go to war over a 20 cent fee that it swapped in a bigger sum I guess

FYI a typo on my part—not a 20 percent tax, a 20 CENT tax!

In a footnote in a labor case, a senior Republican-appointed judge on the D.C. Circuit blasts the Supreme Court about an embarrassing error in its landmark ruling overturning the Chevron case, which unsettled four decades of administrative law precedent. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

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Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

Here's a new one: ICE *prevented* a man from self-deporting by a June 11 deadline — he asked ICE to let him leave and had a one-way plane ticket for June 10. Then ICE re-detained him because he missed the deadline. Due process violation, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As Judge Higginson notes in dissent, this en banc rehearing takes up a recent call from Justice Clarence Thomas to dismantle federal gun laws and, with them, much of the U.S. Code by shrinking congressional power down to almost nothing. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

The 5th Circuit, sitting en banc, will decide whether §922(g)—the entire federal statute that prohibits violent offenders from possessing firearms—violates the Constitution's commerce clause. A vehicle to increase gun deaths while gutting congressional power. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

We (the people) need this wakeup call.

NEW SERIES! By the People: How to reclaim the Constitution from an imperious Supreme Court and an imperial presidency. A primer on popular constitutionalism and a toolkit if you're as fed up as we are. The opening batch of essays, and the first podcast episode, are here: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

Alaska prosecutors have been trying to seize this guy's plane for 13 years now. State courts have held that seizing a $95,000 plane over a forbidden six-pack of beer does not violate the 8th Amendment's prohibition against excessive fines. Now SCOTUS will take a crack at it. Kind of a crazy case.

The Supreme Court just took up a case (Jouppi v. Alaska) that asks whether prosecutors violated the 8th Amendment's bar against excessive fines when they confiscated a pilot's private plane (worth $95,000) after he unknowingly flew a passenger's beer into a dry town. ij.org/case/alaska-...

New Series "By the People". For the better part of two centuries of U.S. history, the American people understood that they—and not the Supreme Court—were the final arbiters of the Constitution.

Lots of important stuff, but these two stood out from the analysis: 1) Americans are not helpless. 2) No ideology or authoritarian state is self-executing. You facilitate it by insisting you have no choice and you halt it by refusing to lend it the legitimacy and weight of your participation.

fuck em up Todd