Beverly Mann
@beverlymann19.bsky.social
Economic-progressive Dem posting on politics, law, pet-rescue efforts. Was prolific on Twitter/X. Native Upper Midwesterner living in north central FL. Anti-lawn movement fan. #Berner since '15. Have cats. Views my own, but you may borrow them.
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The one-year cutoff is calculated, to the day, to hold California's redistricting law inapplicable to the '26 races -- because it was passed 364 days before the Nov 3 election next year.
One day shy. How ... perfect.
Texas is the only state the court will allow to redistrict before the election.
One day shy. How ... perfect.
Texas is the only state the court will allow to redistrict before the election.
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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You can discriminate on the basis of race as long as the motive is to gain 'partisan advantage'
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
You can discriminate on the basis of race as long as the motive is to gain 'partisan advantage'
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A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence. n.pr/44K1Tb9
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence. n.pr/44K1Tb9
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(I love a fine detail, so appending an asterisk to that "6–3" to say that it's *possible* it was 5–4. All we know is that only 3 signed their names to Kagan's dissent—but you can vote no without signing on to a dissent.)(Thanks for the nudge, @proptermalone.bsky.social!)
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
(I love a fine detail, so appending an asterisk to that "6–3" to say that it's *possible* it was 5–4. All we know is that only 3 signed their names to Kagan's dissent—but you can vote no without signing on to a dissent.)(Thanks for the nudge, @proptermalone.bsky.social!)
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I think you may be missing the fact that there's a distinction between "dissenting" (on the court's vote on whether to grant a stay) and "writing a dissent" (which on the shadow docket is a purely optional exercise, done only if one feels compelled). The shadow docket is a little different.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I think you may be missing the fact that there's a distinction between "dissenting" (on the court's vote on whether to grant a stay) and "writing a dissent" (which on the shadow docket is a purely optional exercise, done only if one feels compelled). The shadow docket is a little different.
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The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A608
GREG ABBOTT, ET AL. v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[December 4, 2025]
With an eye on the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, several States have in recent months redrawn their congressional districts in ways that are predicted to favor the State's dominant political party. Texas adopted the first new map, then California responded with its own map for the stated purpose of counteracting what Texas had done. North Carolina followed suit, and other States are also considering new maps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreib7k7524ynq3rfb7daons5fqmxc5wx75ga3gihx45fxq5xwlgk4dq@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.
I realized long ago that a fundamental tenet of the Federalist Society has always been that facts are irrelevant to law and lawsuits.
What matters is using cases to rewrite the Constitution and federal statutes. And, if necessary in order to do that, the facts.
What matters is using cases to rewrite the Constitution and federal statutes. And, if necessary in order to do that, the facts.
Anyway, I'm no grand scholar of the judiciary, and all of this is just my own two cents and perhaps I'm overreading the extent to which the lower courts are going to be upset, but as someone who cares deeply about *facts,* I'm mostly just frustrated about the extent to which this Court doesn't.
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I realized long ago that a fundamental tenet of the Federalist Society has always been that facts are irrelevant to law and lawsuits.
What matters is using cases to rewrite the Constitution and federal statutes. And, if necessary in order to do that, the facts.
What matters is using cases to rewrite the Constitution and federal statutes. And, if necessary in order to do that, the facts.
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As a former fed clerk who had many high profile cases, it’s just so disheartening to actually do law and then for an appellate court to ignore your record and make up new facts predicated on vibes seen on cable television.
Particularly for PIs. Reagan appointees are working til midnight!
Particularly for PIs. Reagan appointees are working til midnight!
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
As a former fed clerk who had many high profile cases, it’s just so disheartening to actually do law and then for an appellate court to ignore your record and make up new facts predicated on vibes seen on cable television.
Particularly for PIs. Reagan appointees are working til midnight!
Particularly for PIs. Reagan appointees are working til midnight!
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Anyway, I'm no grand scholar of the judiciary, and all of this is just my own two cents and perhaps I'm overreading the extent to which the lower courts are going to be upset, but as someone who cares deeply about *facts,* I'm mostly just frustrated about the extent to which this Court doesn't.
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Anyway, I'm no grand scholar of the judiciary, and all of this is just my own two cents and perhaps I'm overreading the extent to which the lower courts are going to be upset, but as someone who cares deeply about *facts,* I'm mostly just frustrated about the extent to which this Court doesn't.
THIS:
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
THIS:
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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With Trump and his Putin loving cronies, Macron is effing spot on:
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"We Must Not Leave Ukraine and Volodymyr Alone with These Guys"
DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
With Trump and his Putin loving cronies, Macron is effing spot on:
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
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Hegseth, Trump, Bradley, anyone in leadership should be brought up on charges
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hegseth, Trump, Bradley, anyone in leadership should be brought up on charges
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good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
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Without evidence, Prasad claimed COVID-19 vaccines have killed 10 children in the US, and announced unilateral, sweeping changes to the way the agency regulates and approves vaccines, including seasonal flu shots.
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid
Prasad’s arguments “misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record.”…
arstechnica.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Without evidence, Prasad claimed COVID-19 vaccines have killed 10 children in the US, and announced unilateral, sweeping changes to the way the agency regulates and approves vaccines, including seasonal flu shots.
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
A dozen former FDA chiefs say that's deeply stupid.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Hey, y'all, MY post is sarcasm, too!! Just like the post I was posting to.
Soooo ... you're saying they *weren't* headed to the US - even "theoretically" - and Hegseth and Bradley knew that, given the size and type of their boat?
They're destroying boats they know are way too far from the US to be headed here, saying they're keeping them from arriving here with drugs??!
They're destroying boats they know are way too far from the US to be headed here, saying they're keeping them from arriving here with drugs??!
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hey, y'all, MY post is sarcasm, too!! Just like the post I was posting to.
Soooo ... you're saying they *weren't* headed to the US - even "theoretically" - and Hegseth and Bradley knew that, given the size and type of their boat?
They're destroying boats they know are way too far from the US to be headed here, saying they're keeping them from arriving here with drugs??!
They're destroying boats they know are way too far from the US to be headed here, saying they're keeping them from arriving here with drugs??!
Clearly they were trying to overturn their capsized cigarette boat to continue on their trajectory of delivering drugs when the gas tank capacity of such a boat would only make it 1/5 of the way from Venezuela to America.
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Soooo ... you're saying they *weren't* headed to the US - even "theoretically" - and Hegseth and Bradley knew that, given the size and type of their boat?
They're destroying boats they know are way too far from the US to be headed here, saying they're keeping them from arriving here with drugs??!
They're destroying boats they know are way too far from the US to be headed here, saying they're keeping them from arriving here with drugs??!
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Clearly they were trying to overturn their capsized cigarette boat to continue on their trajectory of delivering drugs when the gas tank capacity of such a boat would only make it 1/5 of the way from Venezuela to America.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Clearly they were trying to overturn their capsized cigarette boat to continue on their trajectory of delivering drugs when the gas tank capacity of such a boat would only make it 1/5 of the way from Venezuela to America.
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The American people need to see the video … if we can see the all the other strikes ( there was another strike today) then why not release it ?
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The American people need to see the video … if we can see the all the other strikes ( there was another strike today) then why not release it ?
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December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.