Reminder that, the brilliant, Paul Smith warned SCOTUS of this back in 2017 in the Gill v. Whitford oral argument. The festival of copycat gerrymandering is here, and it's awful.

Reading a Ted Kennedy quote about Robert Bork’s unsuitability for SCOTUS (from 1987), but it’s all a bit too close to home on this day of protest

Reading a biography of Sam Rayburn and this stands out as (unfortunate) ancient history

tl;dr on the government’s brief in Callais (constitutionality of the voting rights act) seems to be “stare decisis is for suckers” cite: Dobbs. Amiright @leahlitman.bsky.social

My dog died. My beautiful Billy. The very best good boy. My heart aches.

Weird feeling to be cited by Thomas in support of a position I completely disagree with. What he should have got from this article is that the problem of racial polarization in voting still exists and so we need both the federal VRA and state VRAs to protect systemically marginalized voters' rights.

Attempted mid-decade redistricting in Texas, spoiler: not sure they can push the Republican advantage in Texas congressional districts much more than their already extreme map. Story (Re www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...) and graphics from here (alarm-redist.org/fifty-states...)

Love the clear explanation of what the rule of law is, and how it applies in the U.S. Now bring these people back to get their due process.

Weeping for the rule of law. From www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

My 5 yr old gets to the heart of the issue Harvard is facing. Then returns to regular programming.

Truth-telling from @sifill.bsky.social. The time to stand up is now. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/it-is-not-...

This page about the KKK in the 1920s, and its relationship to populism and racism sounds eerily familiar.