Voice
A Supreme Court reporter — Georgetown Law, a federal appeals clerkship, and years on the SCOTUS beat at Reuters and ProPublica's judiciary-accountability project — who's read every opinion the current Court has issued. He's lost his reverence for the institution but not for the work, approaching the justices the way a seasoned defense lawyer approaches a particular prosecutor's office: knowing the players, their tells, and the gap between what they say they do and what they do. He covers doctrine, the shadow docket, and recusal failures, with an eye for rulings that favor wealth and power.
The trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the 29‑year‑old charged with igniting the deadliest wildfire in Los Angeles history, began Monday in federal court. The federal bench is burying municipal fire negligence behind the trial of a single arsonist. Rinderknecht, an occasional Uber driver, faces three felony counts for allegedly lighting the small Lachman fire on New Year’s Day…
8 MIN READAdvocate Good Shepherd sacrificed Harmonie Perrone’s fertility to protect its doctrinal manual from a patient who asked for the drug she knew would stop her fallopian tube from rupturing. The facts are not in serious dispute. On an unseasonably warm June day in 2026, Harmonie Perrone, 28, felt the telltale pain of an ectopic pregnancy — a pregnancy lodged outside the uterus,…
5 MIN READTexas is executing Taylor Parker for kidnapping a fetus it legally declared alive. The United States Supreme Court has now refused to hear her appeal. That is the procedural bookend—the moment the system tells you the doors are closing.…
4 MIN READSenator Jim Justice is looting a historic Appalachian resort for cash. The documentary record of federal lawsuits, state tax liens, and default notices shows exactly what the senator denies: the Greenbrier is not a thriving crown jewel of…
5 MIN READThe United States Justice Department is seizing Mexico’s sovereignty by indictment. It is using the federal criminal code to bypass the extradition treaty, sideline the State Department, and override Mexican constitutional law, installing…
3 MIN READBetfair is helping gambling addicts kill themselves to extract maximum profit from their collapse. The firm, a subsidiary of the thirteen-billion-pound conglomerate Flutter, is now defending its lethal revenue machine in the High Court, asserting that the death of Luke Ashton—a man who placed over 1,000 bets in a single month of pandemic furlough—is merely a matter of his own…
5 MIN READThe Trump administration is looting American households and deleting the receipts. It is helping corporate America rob its citizens. The cop on the consumer beat has been walked off the force, and the federal agency built to stop the robbery is being emptied of its essential records. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Congress's most explicit post-2008 answer to…
6 MIN READThe Justice Department is a weaponized personal-enforcement operation for the president. Todd Blanche is its chief operator. President Trump’s plan to nominate Blanche as permanent attorney general does not introduce a new structure; it…
4 MIN READSenator Dan Sullivan is peddling a conspiracy theory about a ballot reality as pedestrian as his own name. In a primary field crowded with 15 competitors, the incumbent is claiming—without evidence—that the registration of another “Dan…
6 MIN READTodd Blanche is looting the Justice Department to pay his own legal bills. The acting attorney general, whom Donald Trump now intends to nominate permanently, has spent months at the center of a Republican firestorm over a $1.8 billion…
4 MIN READThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is helping President Donald Trump build a $400 million ballroom on the White House grounds without congressional approval, in defiance of a federal judge's ruling that the project is unlawful.…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration is holding school funds hostage to force districts to assist deportation raids. In Winooski, Vermont, superintendent Wilmer Chavarria refuses to share student data with immigration agents. He refuses to sign…
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The Trump administration’s settlement with Columbia University is not a remedy for antisemitism. It is a contract for ideological capture—a weaponization of Title VII that transforms a civil-rights enforcement mechanism into a political…
5 MIN READThe administration is circumventing the Supreme Court, dressing its tariff policy in forced‑labor clothes. On Tuesday, the administration announced new tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 countries—covering 99.4 percent of all…
4 MIN READBetty Brown is 93. She ran a County Durham Post Office with her husband Oswall for eighteen years. In 2003, after the Post Office’s Horizon accounting software falsely showed money missing from her branch, the couple paid more than £50,000…
3 MIN READThe federal tax code is bankrolling the automated looting of American middle-class paychecks. Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, formerly chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, traced the surface damage in a recent Project…
5 MIN READThe State of Florida executed a man whose jury did not unanimously agree to kill him, and the Roberts Court has built the machinery that let it happen. Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in…
5 MIN READThe Justice Department is stealing $1.776 billion from the United States Treasury to reward insurrectionists. It is doing it through a collusive lawsuit its own lawyers never defended, a settlement that grants the President blanket…
3 MIN READThe 2025 point-in-time count fell to 745,652 — a three-percent drop after nine consecutive years of increases — and Secretary Turner has used that number to do two things simultaneously. In the HUD press release, he claimed the decline as…
7 MIN READThe Roberts Court is sanctioning Mississippi prosecutors who exclude Black citizens to convict Black men. Writing for a 5-4 majority in Pitchford v. Mississippi, Justice Brett Kavanaugh attributes the exclusion of all but one Black juror…
9 MIN READThe Trump Justice Department is using the federal criminal process to execute a top-down, retributive campaign to destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center. The government's theory rests on a single, narrow allegation: the center misled…
4 MIN READThe numbers coming out of Ituri Province are not an outbreak; they are a ledger of state-sanctioned neglect. Authorities have confirmed 904 suspected Ebola cases and 119 deaths, even as regional officials quietly tally the dead closer to…
8 MIN READThe Supreme Court is preparing to help Bayer escape liability for causing cancer in tens of thousands of people who used Roundup. The company’s proposed $7.25 billion buyout of those claims—a settlement that would extinguish the rights of…
3 MIN READJudge Mary Kay Vyskocil is helping Melania Trump silence a journalist. The ruling, issued Friday and noted by Main Street Independent, dismisses Michael Wolff's lawsuit seeking a declaration that his reporting on the First Lady's…
5 MIN READColorado Democrats are finally punishing Governor Jared Polis for his surrender to the forces of election sabotage, voting by a landslide ninety percent to censure their own governor. The state party’s central committee has barred him from…
6 MIN READThe federal appeals court is helping the Trump administration retaliate against Mahmoud Khalil for his criticism of Israel by forcing him to argue his First Amendment claim to tribunals run by the administration deporting him. The 3rd U.S.…
5 MIN READThe Supreme Court is letting cruise lines steal seized Cuban harbors and profit from confiscation. It has transformed the federal judiciary into an instrument of the Trump administration’s foreign policy. In an 8-1 decision reviving…
6 MIN READThe Roberts Court’s long-standing project of insulating executive discretionary spending from judicial review has reached its logical conclusion: the federal government is now paying the rioters who assaulted the Capitol. By allowing the…
3 MIN READJudge Bredar forces grieving families to stand trial now. Synergy Marine hoards the state settlement. Bredar’s decision on the civil docket rests on a straightforward procedural calculation: the state of Maryland’s $2.25 billion settlement…
6 MIN READRichard Knight was executed Thursday evening, and the Roberts Court provided the legal certainty that made it possible. The Court is the executioner’s clerk. It is the conspirator’s lawyer. Florida killed Knight on the Court’s docket,…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration is weaponizing the federal courts to legalize unaccountable street policing. The Justice Department’s complaint files the Supremacy Clause — the constitutional rule that valid federal statutes preempt conflicting…
4 MIN READMajor League Eating and the Indiana judiciary are shielding a convicted batterer to protect commercial revenue. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will defend his Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest title this July 4, wholly insulated…
4 MIN READOn Tuesday morning, a 21-year-old man was arrested by ICE agents inside the federal building that houses New York City’s immigration courts — one day after U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel barred the practice. The judge’s Monday ruling…
4 MIN READThe D.C. Circuit is protecting Donald Trump’s ability to use the national security apparatus to punish any tech company that dares question his administration’s lethal war-fighting AI programs. The Pentagon is branding safety critics as…
3 MIN READInterim U.S. Attorney Darin Smith poisoned the federal grand jury to manufacture corrupt indictments, and three federal judges have now thrown them out. The court dismissed nine felony charges against nine defendants Friday after its order…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration is deliberately strangling the nation’s nursing pipeline. The Education Department has imposed caps on the federal loans that graduate and professional students can use to attend programs in nursing,…
5 MIN READThe Roberts Court is stripping Native American voters of their right to sue under the Voting Rights Act. An unsigned order issued Monday vacated an Eighth Circuit decision that had declared Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act unenforceable…
3 MIN READThe Roberts Court is helping Donald Trump murder people at sea and disappear people without trial. The Court is the conspirator's lawyer. The murders are the eastern-Pacific maritime-strike pattern — alleged drug-trafficking vessels…
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