Scott Cornelius
@scottcorne.bsky.social
Political hack/wonk, urbanist, Chicago lawyer, and lover of South Louisiana and Houston sports. Very left-liberal, not a socialist. There's a difference.
I am reminded today that John D. Sauer really does have the most irritating voice known to man.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I am reminded today that John D. Sauer really does have the most irritating voice known to man.
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I am old enough to remember this long-ago time.
Earlier this year, SCOTUS tried to construct a stupid legal framework where the President was allowed to destroy basically all independent institutions except for the Federal Reserve, which was deemed too economically important.
Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.
Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.
Hard to pick the most morally indefensible thing the Supreme Court did this year, but the most legally indefensible thing they did was say Humphrey's Executor is overturned except for as it applies to the Federal Reserve because their sugar daddies don't want that.
August 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I am old enough to remember this long-ago time.
This is how it happens: you don't think of it as appeasement or seeking favor, but you want to avoid the unpleasantness or inconvenience of fighting back.
August 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is how it happens: you don't think of it as appeasement or seeking favor, but you want to avoid the unpleasantness or inconvenience of fighting back.
My initial reaction on reading this: SCOTUS needs to make a new "Super Duper Important Docket" where SCOTUS just rules in the first instance without any lower court involvement.
If the president and SCOTUS will both ignore lower courts' applications of precedent, why bother with them at all?
If the president and SCOTUS will both ignore lower courts' applications of precedent, why bother with them at all?
May 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My initial reaction on reading this: SCOTUS needs to make a new "Super Duper Important Docket" where SCOTUS just rules in the first instance without any lower court involvement.
If the president and SCOTUS will both ignore lower courts' applications of precedent, why bother with them at all?
If the president and SCOTUS will both ignore lower courts' applications of precedent, why bother with them at all?
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i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.
May 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.
Trump doesn't need to pass laws. In the eyes of his followers, including in Congress, he is the law, he is the state.
"Trump has signed fewer bills into law at this point in his presidency than any new president taking office for the last seven decades." punchbowl.news/article/whit...
April 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trump doesn't need to pass laws. In the eyes of his followers, including in Congress, he is the law, he is the state.
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This is what judges should be doing right now.
If the Trump administration is going to insist that it can’t bring back anyone once they’re removed, then federal judges should put the brakes on any and all removals until the *full* legal process—to ensure the removals are valid—has run its course.
If the Trump administration is going to insist that it can’t bring back anyone once they’re removed, then federal judges should put the brakes on any and all removals until the *full* legal process—to ensure the removals are valid—has run its course.
Last night, US Judge Sweeney in Colo granted district-wide (state-wide) class habeas TRO to stop Trump from summarily removing aliens under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. @ACLU attys had warned that, despite SCOTUS ruling, Admin won't commit to providing even 24 hrs notice.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is what judges should be doing right now.
If the Trump administration is going to insist that it can’t bring back anyone once they’re removed, then federal judges should put the brakes on any and all removals until the *full* legal process—to ensure the removals are valid—has run its course.
If the Trump administration is going to insist that it can’t bring back anyone once they’re removed, then federal judges should put the brakes on any and all removals until the *full* legal process—to ensure the removals are valid—has run its course.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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What's funny is that this speaks directly to the govt's arguments about "facilitate"!
Govt: The court can't make us retrieve Abrego Garcia because he's fully in El Salvador's control. "Facilitate" only means *allowing* him to return.
Bukele: I can't return him, because the US would never allow it!
Govt: The court can't make us retrieve Abrego Garcia because he's fully in El Salvador's control. "Facilitate" only means *allowing* him to return.
Bukele: I can't return him, because the US would never allow it!
COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What's funny is that this speaks directly to the govt's arguments about "facilitate"!
Govt: The court can't make us retrieve Abrego Garcia because he's fully in El Salvador's control. "Facilitate" only means *allowing* him to return.
Bukele: I can't return him, because the US would never allow it!
Govt: The court can't make us retrieve Abrego Garcia because he's fully in El Salvador's control. "Facilitate" only means *allowing* him to return.
Bukele: I can't return him, because the US would never allow it!
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Elon Musk is such a sad, pathetic little man.
April 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Elon Musk is such a sad, pathetic little man.
On what passes for a plus side, apparently, he ONLY ordered his enemy prosecuted rather than disappeared to a foreign prison.
So far.
So far.
Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’
Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’
Trump went so far as to accuse Taylor of committing treason, a capital offense, for writing about what he saw during Trump’s first term.
The post Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
April 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
On what passes for a plus side, apparently, he ONLY ordered his enemy prosecuted rather than disappeared to a foreign prison.
So far.
So far.
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1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
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"We are currently clean on opsec."😂 😂 😂 💀💀
Pete Hegseth is the dumbest motherfucker alive. And worse, he is actively putting our "war fighters" at risk. He must resign.
Pete Hegseth is the dumbest motherfucker alive. And worse, he is actively putting our "war fighters" at risk. He must resign.
March 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are currently clean on opsec."😂 😂 😂 💀💀
Pete Hegseth is the dumbest motherfucker alive. And worse, he is actively putting our "war fighters" at risk. He must resign.
Pete Hegseth is the dumbest motherfucker alive. And worse, he is actively putting our "war fighters" at risk. He must resign.
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
No due process means no rule of law.
No rule of law means Trump or his henchmen can lock you up or deport YOU no matter who you are.
No rule of law means Trump or his henchmen can lock you up or deport YOU no matter who you are.
And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome.
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should re...
www.mediamatters.org
March 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
No due process means no rule of law.
No rule of law means Trump or his henchmen can lock you up or deport YOU no matter who you are.
No rule of law means Trump or his henchmen can lock you up or deport YOU no matter who you are.
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Who needs the rule of law, anyway?
And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome.
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should re...
www.mediamatters.org
March 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Who needs the rule of law, anyway?
Seems like an important point. Just maybe.
DOJ agrees that individuals targeted by the Alien Enemies Act can challenge that label with a habeas petition.
Less clear is how they would do that if they're whisked onto a plane before they can file a challenge.
Less clear is how they would do that if they're whisked onto a plane before they can file a challenge.
March 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Seems like an important point. Just maybe.
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When you assume bad things are always done in secret, it can take much too long to realize proclamations of ill intent are serious.
I think this is the hang-up.
I think this is the hang-up.
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
When you assume bad things are always done in secret, it can take much too long to realize proclamations of ill intent are serious.
I think this is the hang-up.
I think this is the hang-up.
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Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
March 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
What do they block? Crimes?
There it is.
There it is.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
What do they block? Crimes?
There it is.
There it is.
One month. That's how long it took the SecDef to break his promise to the Senate.
Jan 14, he promises not to drink youtu.be/BfwqTC3HjoI?...
Feb 14, he drinks on the job on TV.
Jan 14, he promises not to drink youtu.be/BfwqTC3HjoI?...
Feb 14, he drinks on the job on TV.
February 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
One month. That's how long it took the SecDef to break his promise to the Senate.
Jan 14, he promises not to drink youtu.be/BfwqTC3HjoI?...
Feb 14, he drinks on the job on TV.
Jan 14, he promises not to drink youtu.be/BfwqTC3HjoI?...
Feb 14, he drinks on the job on TV.
The death cultist latest act of worship.
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The death cultist latest act of worship.
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“The agreement we came to.”
Just two government officials publicly admitting that one sold out his constituents in exchange for not getting prosecuted for his corruption by the other’s colleagues.
*This* is why six DOJ lawyers have already resigned:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...
Just two government officials publicly admitting that one sold out his constituents in exchange for not getting prosecuted for his corruption by the other’s colleagues.
*This* is why six DOJ lawyers have already resigned:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...
February 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“The agreement we came to.”
Just two government officials publicly admitting that one sold out his constituents in exchange for not getting prosecuted for his corruption by the other’s colleagues.
*This* is why six DOJ lawyers have already resigned:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...
Just two government officials publicly admitting that one sold out his constituents in exchange for not getting prosecuted for his corruption by the other’s colleagues.
*This* is why six DOJ lawyers have already resigned:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...