Chris Seaman

Obama: "This election is our last best chance to at least rein in some of the foolishness of this administration. It's the circuit breaker in the system; we need to flip that circut breaker!" bluevirginia.us/2026/10/satu... h/t @factpostnews.bsky.social

The background: Elon Musk's company is powering its enormous data center with dozens of illegal, hazardous turbines in Black neighborhoods The NAACP sued xAI under the Clean Air Act, but then Trump tried to take over as plaintiff and dismiss *their* lawsuit ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Forget the man's politics. Feds' conduct was despicable. He may have been arrested because he shares name with citizen relative. 5 am raid with helicopters and swat team to take down man who recently had 6 surgeries. He was shackled & charged with misdemeanor. electionlawblog.org/2026/must-re...

This is asking for a lawsuit. Wow.

(all of this would be news to the authors of the 14th amendment btw but then originalism is a tendency designed to reify hierarchies of status and thus they dispense with it when it comes to equal protection jurisprudence)

i have said this before but “It is not permissible under the 14th Amendment for the state to alleviate racial inequality” is basically a version of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that the 14th Amendment was not meant to equalize social relations. bsky.app/profile/mike...

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

Oof. SCOTUS has to punt on reviewing a major copyright decision from the Fifth Circuit because too many justices recused themselves.

Reyes gonna reyes even harder now

Reyes reyesing hard last night

Big shoutout to Reynolds Hutchins for this; if you aren’t getting The Short List emails from The Daily Progress, today is a good one. This is incredibly concerning.

This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.

Had a little to say about the DC opinion slamming DOJ Civil Rights for illegally collecting voter files. (Stay tuned for more...)

I’m supportive of it but incredibly frustrating they are doing nothing to tell people about it or advocate for it! City schools are doing an incredible job with their advocacy!

Your 1,384th reminder that the Supreme Court's grant of criminal immunity to sitting presidents was an epochal dereliction of duty. It needs to be wiped from the books as soon as possible.

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

My takeaways from the SCOTUS Missouri ruling: 1. The Court is angry for the 8th Circuit and district court not following its earlier orders. The court says: “Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise.”

Breaking: With No Noted Dissents Supreme Court Once Again Blocks Missouri from Using Gerrymandered Maps for 2026 (Now Updated with Analysis) electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...

Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated with Analysis) electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...

A beautiful day for early voting! 🔵🔵 Don’t forget to vote YES for all 4 ballot questions!

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social

When a Trump-funded super PAC has to dump 💵💵 for a rescue mission in a district he won by 12 points in 2024, you know the House is going 🔵. #va05

🍎 IIc!

This is insane. We've been over this! Repeatedly!

The Eighth Circuit has ordered the district court to reinstate Missouri’s 2025 congressional map. But before folks freak out, it also ordered that court to pause such a ruling for long enough that the challengers can (and will) seek further review from #SCOTUS: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Just to be as clear as possible, this is going to force the Supreme Court (or Justice Kavanaugh) to intervene *again.* But there’s every reason to think that the parties will seek that intervention (and #SCOTUS will provide it) fast enough to prevent this ruling from actually going into effect.

The Eighth Circuit has made some truly bizarre (and terrible) decisions in voting cases in recent years - denying any ability of private plaintiffs to enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, for instance — but this one takes the cake. Expect SCOTUS to overturn this swiftly.

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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It's quite something for the U.S. Solicitor General to misrepresent the Chief Justice's (2008) majority opinion in a 2026 brief to SCOTUS. It occurred in Solicitor General's most recent filing in USPS mail ballots case. See footnote by Marty Lederman: www.justsecurity.org/156963/usps-...

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

Newly released text messages from Elon Musk show the billionaire bragging about using "lasers from space" to elect Donald Trump president in 2024. The question-raising remark comes as Musk spends millions on November's midterms.

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Can’t let people see how many women died from the new abortion laws before they vote

NEW AD: Politicians like John McGuire take the dark money donations and sell us out brick by brick. That ends now. I'm taking a sledgehammer to the Wall of Corruption so that everyone has access to the American Dream.

the more important voters say an issue is right now, the more voters dislike how the president is handling it. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-04...

Breaking: Supreme Court, with Only Justice Jackson Noting a Dissent, Says Political Parties Spending in Coordination with Candidates Entitled to Favorable Advertising Rates Available to Candidates electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...

I can't speak to its merits, but this recall is touted as a bipartisan effort. The gentleman pictured, Phil Riese, who is leading the effort, happens to be the chairman of the Albemarle County Republican Party. (This article does not identify him as such.)

[Before I debate] McGuire said, “My first caveat is he has to go on national TV and apologize for accusing me of insider trading. I don't even do trades.” "McGuire’s financial disclosures filed with the House Clerk show that he has reported stock transactions while in office." tinyurl.com/38a6cs5a

The order from Judge Talwani, an Obama appointee, is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s new U.S. Postal Service rule setting new restrictions for mail ballots. Judge Talwani’s TRO lasts for 14 days while she considers the preliminary injunction requests, with a hearing set for Sept. 3.

As expected, the USPS mail ballot rule is now blocked again. It'll stay blocked. Because it's not even close to lawful.

headlines like these are literally why Justice Jackson wrote that the ruling "needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections"

Lots of headlines on SCOTUS mail-in ballots ruling are wrong. A different injunction blocking the executive order still holds and the Post Office's proposed rule will probably be enjoined too. It ain't over yet. Steve Vladeck sets the matter straight: www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...

It’s weird how stays that benefit Trump are always kept in place and stays that stop him are always lifted. It’s almost as if there’s some of pattern behind legal procedure at work….