I'd really been enjoying the new season of @onlymurdershulu.bsky.social, but I like free speech a lot more. @jimmykimmel.com

J. Sotomayor on the history of the Constitution's birthright citizenship guarantee: "The lawmakers who ratified the Fourteenth Amendment understood that it would extend citizenship to all children born here, regardless of parental citizenship."

J. Sotomayor calls out #SCOTUS conservative supermajority's attempt to ignore the patent unconstitutionality of the Trump birthright citizenship executive order: "As every conceivable source of law confirms, birthright citizenship is the law of the land."

Powerful words from J. Sotomayor in birthright citizenship dissent: "No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. ... Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

J. Jackson minces no words in the final sentences of her dissent: "Americans with disabilities have proven time and again that they can overcome long odds in fighting for their own equality. When that happens, my one wish would be for this Court to stay out of their way."

More from J. Jackson: "Worse still, by doing all this, the Court renders meaningless Title I’s protections for disabled workers’ retirement benefits just when those protections matter most."

Powerful words from J. Jackson today in dissent in a #SCOTUS disability rights case: "Too often, this Court closes its eyes to context, enactment history, and the legislature’s goals when assessing statutory meaning. I cannot abide that narrow-minded approach." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

And more from J. Sotomayor's #Skrmetti dissent: The majority's decision "also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them." 2/2

This language from J. Sotomayor is key: "judicial scrutiny has long played an essential role in guarding against legislative efforts to impose upon individuals the State’s views about how people of a particular sex (or race) should live or look or act."

More powerful words from J. Sotomayor: "That marks the first time in 50 years that this Court has applied such deferential review, normally employed to assess run-of-the-mill economic regulations, to legislation that explicitly differentiates on the basis of sex."

As J. Sotomayor explains, the TN law "plainly classifies on the basis of sex."

Powerful words from Fourth Circuit today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case: "[The government's claim] should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." www.courtlistener.com/docket/69902...

BREAKING: Important DDC decision recognizing that Trump's attempt to fire MSPB Member Cathy Harris was unlawful, & Harris remains a member of the Board.