Scott Lemieux

I (or Paul or both) will have more on the Trump immunity case when I’ve had a chance to read the transcript, but Sam Alito was in very Alito form today as he was yesterday: Justice Alito suggests that, if former presidents are subject to prosecution after leaving office, they'll be more likely to seek […]

Obviously, I love Michael Penix — he's the best QB my NCAA team of choice has produced since Mark Brunell if not Warren Moon, and he took them closer to a national championship than anyone could have even hallucinated 3 years ago. I would

A petulant nepo baby being one of the most influential people in American media is really not great: In Sulzberger’s view, according to two people familiar with his private comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency. Beyond that, […]

The two big oral arguments that stained the Supreme Court this week make for jaw-dropping reading. (I am once again reminded of the old-line Republican lawyer adjuncting at CUNY who condescendingly told me during the Alito nomination that liberals were catching a real break to get such a sensible moderate and I was completely wrong to evaluate him based on him voting record rather than his dry, technical prose. At least that superficial contradiction has been resolved!).

Paul has already dealt with one of the many remarkable-in-a-bad-way aspects of the oral arguments in — the Court's Republican justices refusing to

Trump's falanginst estranged consigliere Bill Barr is voting for Trump, because uncle Joe Brandon is the real threat to democracy, because, um, whoops, look at the time, need to work on that brief about how the Constitution requires the EPA to allow Exxon to pave over Lake Tahoe:

Bob Cole, an announcer with a stature in Canada comparable to Vin Scully or Al Michaels in the United States,died earlier this week. This tribute to someone who was a legendary figure even before becoming the lead announcer for Hockey Night In Canada — I love that they got some footage of Cole serving as Newfoundland's skip at the Canadian curling championship — is incredibly well done:

I obviously don't share the author's disillusionment with conservative legal theory — and as is often the case with actual anti-Trump former conservatives, it's not clear how much Last ever really believed it either — but boil that off and this might be the best summary of the position Alito advanced at oral argument in the Trump I-can-shoot-people-on-5th-avenue case:

The theory of judicial minimalism, which was hot in the early 21st century, isn't discussed much anymore in part because it was used in such cynical

Suburban Yalie and venture capitalist JD Vance — having tastefully omitted any advocacy for dog murders out of Hillbilly Elegy — seems l ike a viable candidate to be Trump's running mate: