The Hall of Fire

So the Republicans who control Louisiana's state legislature, faced with the likelihood that a court would force the creation of a second Black congressional district (in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act), created that district on their own, but they deliberately made it gerrymandered in ...

Professor who correctly predicted 9 presidential elections weighs in on Biden vs. Trump Allan Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University who has accurately predicted 9 of the last 10 presidential elections, tells CNN's Laura Coates why he thinks President Joe Biden has an...

I'm not familiar with that term. What does it mean? Is your Prius okay?

Professor who correctly predicted 9 presidential elections weighs in on Biden vs. Trump Allan Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University who has accurately predicted 9 of the last 10 presidential elections, tells CNN's Laura Coates why he thinks President Joe Biden has an...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the House Democratic leadership have officially announced that if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene moves to vacate the House Speaker position held by Republican Mike Johnson, Democrats will vote against it. Apparently, Rep. Greene says she is going f...

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Awesome! We have a nesting pair in Santa Cruz but I have never seen them.

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I thought that this was both succinct and on-point.

This is a detail I don't recall seeing before.

Trump removed the posts that violated the gag order as ordered by the judge. Justice Merchan did day he would've imposed a higher fine if he could have.

Eric Trump is in the courtroom today, the first time in this trial a family member has appeared to support Trump.

Typo. (or perhaps wishful thinking)

Justice Merchan has ruled that Trump violated the gag order on 9 of the 10 alleged occasions and fined him $10,000 for each, warning that further violations will potentially result in incarceration.

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An update from Christina and Wayne, though they don't really provide much new information.

Tolkien’s Collected Poems Update

This substack post from Steve Vladeck about the oral argument is well worth reading.

78. "Writing a Rule ... for the Ages"

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While I certainly see your point, on the whole I think the analogy does not hold. 1. The ICC didn't exist in the early 1940s, or any equivalent; 2. the bombing of Dresden, while it caused horrible loss of approximately 25,000 civilians, was an attempt to end a war started by Hitler that killed rough...