Meagan Hatcher-Mays

@importantmeagan.bsky.social

first and foremost I’m from Seattle. democracy & courts expert. formerly Indivisible, Demand Justice, and Eleanor Norton. currently semi-retired hater of the Supreme Court and podcast host: https://linktr.ee/textmeback

@jakefaleschini.bsky.socialReposted by @importantmeagan.bsky.social

I respect Steve, but the assumption in #4 is just so wrong. Please tell me what other reform will cleanly and immediately allow us to overturn the MAGA majority’s Rucho, Citizens United, Shelby Co, and other democracy-threatening decisions and allow Congress to fix our constitutional republic? 1/2

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...

Screenshot from the post listing the four questions Court expansion proponents should have to answer: 1. How do we avoid touching off a race to the bottom, where each time one party controls the House, Senate, and presidency, it expands the Court to ensure an ideologically and politically sympathetic majority? 2. If a race to the bottom is unavoidable, how do we avoid further (and potentially fatal) erosion of public confidence in the Court—which will quite transparently be little more than a lever of power for whichever party last had such a trifecta? 3. If eroding public confidence in the Court is a feature, and not a bug, how do we insulate against the same erosion of public confidence in lower federal courts? 4. What is the case for why expansion is a better way to achieve the desired reforms than alternatives that would (or, at least, should) avoid many of these forward-looking concerns?
@truthout.orgReposted by @importantmeagan.bsky.social

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

truthout.orgRep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBPThe Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
@marisakabas.bsky.socialReposted by @importantmeagan.bsky.social

i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started

Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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