Russell Steinthal

With NM replacing IA as an early 2028 primary, Democratic (at least) presidential candidates can go from having nuanced positions on ethanol mandates to . . . whether the federal government should respect the states' sovereign authority to name themselves?

Can't be offsides on that one.

I find it interesting that I get block notifications weeks after I've posted anything. Presumably people reading old posts and deciding they don't want to read more from me, which is entirely fine, but it breaks any sense of what the cause was. Oh well. Just an interesting Bluesky phenomenon.

The suspect being a guest at the hotel would answer a number of questions about the outer perimeter. Unless they are going to clear the whole hotel, it's hard to see how they mitigate that risk (of getting past the outer ring).

Yeesh.

That TV shot of Patrick Ewing, John Starks, and Allan Houston sitting next to each other watching NYK-ATL was cool (and reminds me of my childhood).

Oh well.

"So the Mets with their third hit have matched Miguel Rojas."

I would really like to live in a time when I can stop learning news from the gabbai announcing that we're adding tehillim because of a war started after Shabbat began...

If this NYT reporting is accurate that DHS impersonated NYPD to gain access to a private residence, I hope @manhattanda.bsky.social will consider Criminal Impersonation charges. Even if it's only a misdemeanor, it would send a message and is clearly in the long term interests of *local* LE in NYC.

As a lifelong Mets fan whose son would also consider being an Orioles fan now (if he knew where Baltimore was), this hits hard but true...

Folks, let's say it together: it's baseball season.

Kneeling from your own 1 is harder than it seems like it should be. Congratulations IU.

Wow

I'm not necessarily complaining, but the #Mets' strategy of improving their defense by signing players to play positions that they have never played before, thereby displacing other players into positions they haven't played is . . . interesting . . . .

Several posts I've seen this afternoon/evening have me considering writing a bot to periodically repost the Bluesky Miranda warning: everything you post here can and will be used against you (and probably taken out of context to boot)...

When I see a headline in my inbox "Inside Trump's Decision to Remove Maduro," I can't help but think that it was a short leap (at least in his head/the Administration's view) from arbitrarily removing executive officials in the US to doing it in other countries. Hemispheric Unitary Executive Theory.

Give him another Gatorade bath.

This game will never end

I don't know if Amazon is using some sort of automated system to generate its TNF "Rapid Recap" video, but the fact that it cuts directly from the SEA TD to make it 30-28, then the "incomplete" 2-point conversion, and then to it being 30-30 without showing the replay decision is very confusing...

Baruch Dayan Emet. Unfortunately, an evergreen post.

If you had Indiana and Duke winning conference *football* championships in the same year, I hope you won good money. (Or you're lying. :))

Very good points. Another opportunity for the Court to show that equity matters even apart from the substance.

Ship has probably sailed, but does the logic of CASA v. Trump also apply to facial challenges to criminal laws? If Cong were, e.g., to repass the Sedition Act, would there be any ability to bring a pre-enforcement 1A challenge or would defs have to assert the defense individually until SCOTUS ruled?

If there’s one thing that everyone agreed on at the time, it was the First and Second Banks of the United States 

How is the second phase of the Qatari place grift supposed to be legal even on its own terms? Aren't gifts to Presidential Libraries the property of the United States anyway? (Just as with Presidential gifts received during an Administration and not purchased by the previous POTUS at market value.)

If the WH imposes tariffs with immediate effect, does that mean stuff just sits at customs until people figure out what the new rates are and pay them? Is there a rule for the exact moment when they become due? Whether the goods touch US soil before POTUS (or relevant Sec'y) signs his name?

I don't want to ignore the real, immediate harm done to those whom the US has illegally removed to El Salvador. But to ask a broader legal q: if it's the Gov't's view that habeas jx disappars as soon as they transfer someone to a foreign sovereign's custody, what's the limiting principle? /1