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Since 1770, more or less, the Commonwealth's leading journal of politics and culture. Available at realmassachusettsspy.blogspot.com

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This is actually an important win for anyone who posts dumb stuff on line (like our staff!) because it holds that mere public posting does not grant jurisdiction to courts in every state or territory over said poster.

Jay Willis

Kash Patel sued a blogger for defamation for calling him a "blatantly incompetent chud" and a "googly-eyed Kremlin bitch," but the case got bounced based on civil procedure doctrine that every law student learns during the first week of 1L year. Beautiful stuff from our brightest minds.

The Mad King has been abusing his sanctions and tariff authority to bully our allies, thereby doing grave and possibly irreparable damage to US national security. Senate: Let's give the Mad King more authority to bully our allies and undermine our alliances! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

Senate Advances Graham’s Russia Sanctions BillAs Washington remembered Senator Lindsey Graham, his colleagues cleared away a hurdle to passage of his long-stalled bill to penalize Moscow.www.nytimes.com

And that's why all Democrats sat there like Easter Island statues rather than jump to their feet and raise points of order to strike such blatant breaches of Senate decorum and democratic behavior and to proclaim that every American has the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment at such inquisitions.

Leon Lowery

The degree of venom towards Dr. Fauci is amazing. Never have I heard so much profanity and scatology in a Senate hearing. Even if you disagree with his decisions, there are many who come before them more worthy of that kind of viciousness. DJT makes another fine public servant's life miserable.

And of course moderate principled Republican Sen. Susan Collins could use this moment to serve her state and her nation by opposing Blanche and supporting the rule of law. On Earth 2. #mesen

Marty Taylor

'Where does it stop?' Todd Blanche's 'lawfare' haunts him as another GOP senator defects www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Todd Blanche nomination is in serious trouble as another Republican defects Sen Bill Cassidy joins Cornyn and Tillis in opposing Blanch’s nomination

"[Prof. Garland's] challenge now is to explain the “three distinguishing features of America’s penal state: its monstrous, extraordinary nature; its grounding in popular fear of violence and disorder; and its authorization by the American electorate.” " www.vitalcitynyc.org/david-garlan...

A Sweeping Critique of America's Justice SystemDavid Garland’s “Law and Order Leviathan” is a powerful work about how the United States got here and what should happen next.www.vitalcitynyc.org
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