A couple months ago Sheldon Whitehouse had Allison Orr Larsen on his podcast and they discussed the way the current SCOTUS is abusing fact finding.

As the final stop with no appeal or adversarial process, they can use whatever facts they want - via amici, or simply invented.

Rep. Lofgren (D-CA): 'It can't be in our system that a president who tried to overturn the government to stay in power will not be tried before the next election. This is really outrageous.'

Rep. Lofgren (more) to MSNBC: 'He has indicated an intention to be dictator on day one. He said that he intends to.. terminate parts of the constitution. He doesn't intend to live under the rule of law. He is a grave threat to the constitutional order. It looks like his partners…

Someone has likely pointed this out, but it’s important to note:

The appeals court took its time on the immunity ruling *specifcially* to narrow the case so SCOTUS would only need to rule on the issue at hand.

SCOTUS ignored that. They wanted a reason to do this.

David Pecker says he signed a cooperation letter with the Manhattan DA's office — something not previously known.

The agreement was signed Oct. 25 2019, well before current District Attorney Alvin Bragg was elected in 2021.

Trump spent Wednesday playing golf at his Bedminster club, sources told CNN. Wednesday's the only weekday court isn't in for his NY criminal trial. Trump has lamented that trial has kept him off campaign trail: “Im not in GA or FL or NC campaigning like I should be' he said Mon.

'Vaccines alone, the researchers find, accounted for 40 percent of the decline in infant mortality. The paper... estimates that in the 50 years since 1974, vaccines prevented 154 million deaths.'

cc: Vox

I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as 'an official act.'

I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.

Charmed as ever by the libertarian capacity to be extremely and loudly correct on about four issues.

As covered in Katherine Stewart's 2012 book The Good News Club, this sort of Christian supremacist right invasion of America's public schools has been underway for years. thehumanist.com/magazine/may-j…

Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. 'Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea,' Pecker said.

‘Inside a Modern Murder-for-Hire Ring in NYC’

Bitcoin, Telegram, and Instagram. All were used in a recent murder-for-hire and extortion plot in New York City.

New piece with the ⁦404 Media⁩ folks. courtwatch.news/p/inside-a-mod…