Chatted with the indispensable @janainelson.bsky.social, Prez of the @legaldefensefund.bsky.social, about how, post-Callais and mid-Trump, we have to *both* fight in the courts and work to reform them. Amen. @meidastouch.com @legalafmtn.bsky.social @courtacctability.bsky.social bit.ly/4pSa7Yo
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Somil Trivedi
Профиль VivelyAdvocacy Director & Senior Counsel, Court Accountability | Sometime Host, Legal AF | Exes: ACLU, Democracy Forward, MD Legal Aid, DOJ, WilmerHale, Innocence Texas | Dad, jokes | Views are my own, etc. Substack: @courtaccountability YouTube: @legalafmtn
If you're hearing spin that the meeting was "productive" and/or these women are just political operatives, remember: they were under oath yesterday and praised Josh Hawley--Josh Hawley--for his conduct in their private meeting with him. They are honest brokers. Blanche is not. #BlockBlanche
MeidasTouchNEWS: Epstein survivors just gave Todd Blanche a failing grade after their meeting. "Condescending." "Gaslighting." No plan to go after anyone beyond Epstein and Maxwell. And Sen. Tillis's reaction? Somehow worse.
Wanna honor the legacy of John Lewis, learn how the Supreme Court is trying to erase it, and organize to fight back? Join me & @courtacctability.bsky.social *tomorrow at 1:30* for a virtual event as part of the #GoodTroubleLivesOn Weekend of Action. Spread the word & sign up here. bit.ly/3Rcu0wn
It's already Todd Blanche's legacy that he protected Donald Trump & and the Epstein Class over female victims of sex abuse. Tell your Senators not to make it theirs, too.
Jim AcostaEpstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
Justice Barrett would laugh at and rule against anyone who just flat refused to answer a question from her at oral argument. Yet she gets to do this when the robe’s on the other foot. Doesn’t sound like equal branches to me.
Alex AronsonAmy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
@katiephang.bsky.social is a triple threat advocate, attorney & journalist, and she’s using all those skills to sue Todd Blanche for covering up the Epstein Files. With his confirmation hearing coming up, we chatted on @legalafmtn.bsky.social about her case. #BlockBlanche youtu.be/g0ddg4Anfwg?...
@leahlitman.bsky.social & I did a @strictscrutiny.bsky.social speed round on red cards, corruption, birthright, court reform, and Emil Bove’s not at all creepy (or judicially independent) cell phone background. Take a look. youtu.be/YEnI_2C65ow?...
Catch me & the great @frost.house.gov on @mspopok.bsky.social tonight, covering why this horrific SCOTUS term should be the last straw on court reform.
Legal AFLIVE AT 8 PM ET: Popok is back at the Intersection with special guests Rep. Maxwell Frost and Court Accountability Action’s Somil Trivedi to break down the Supreme Court’s immigration, birthright citizenship, and transgender rights rulings. Plus: Alito retirement rumors and calls for Court reform.
Now that our annual Supreme Court wreckage is complete (and we’re all still citizens, for now), join me, @leahlitman.bsky.social, @elienyc.bsky.social, @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app & @mikesacks.bsky.social to talk about fixing this thing for good. Livestream, tomorrow at 11: bit.ly/courtstream2026
Don’t believe the lie that the Roberts Court is killing independent agencies to make government “more democratically accountable.” They’ve gutted voting rights, made it impossible to sue rogue officials, defied congressional oversight & refused an enforceable ethics code. They *hate* accountability.
The Supreme Court is not a court. We've known that for a while. But it's not supreme, either. Time to take our power back.
Mark Joseph SternThis heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
You see, the seat at the Treasury Department would have been empty otherwise, so it’s fine that an Alito sat in it.
NOTUSSamuel Alito’s son has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department. https://www.notus.org/us-news/samuel-philip-alito-trump-treasury-department