A pretty consequential set of oral arguments coming up at the Supreme Court the next two weeks:

April 16: Jan 6 defendant's criminal appeal
April 22: Punishing the homeless
April 24: fed-state clash on abortion
April 25: Trump immunity

Crikey

Not said, apparently, with any irony at all

Supreme Court rulings at 10

Similar vibe in the press section

.David Lat on the Berkeley protest:

Wow

(Menzies Campbell being a British politician & former leader of the Liberal Democrats)

I've been waiting about a year to see the Shakespeare Theatre production of Macbeth starring Ralph Fiennes. It turned out to be good (thankfully) but not in the way I expected, not least by playing the villainy of M and Lady M for laughs...

My dad visited the US for the first time in the summer of 1994.

He was flummoxed when he was in a restaurant and everyone was gathered around the tv.

'Why are they watching someone driving a white suv slowly down the road?' he wondered.

'Leave it to the states' was a talking point tethered to the push to overturn Roe v Wade that has no bearing on the post-Dobbs debate.

Neither side actually wants to leave it to the states.

When people say the president is not a king this is what they mean:
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Arizona's Democratic AG who says she will not enforce the state's old abortion ban won by just 280 votes out of more than 2.5 million cast, just 0.01%

BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court rules that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban still on the books in the state is enforceable, adding the state to the growing lists of places where abortion care is effectively banned. nbcnews.com/politics/arizo…

With violent rhetoric, Trump fights electric vehicles to defeat Biden in Michigan

nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… by Allan Smith

Dulles airport passport check on arrival remains a shambles. Entire hall is full with lengthy lines. At Heathrow it takes 5 mins if that.

In 2014, liberal law prof Erwin Chemerinsky was a prominent voice calling for Ginsburg to retire. He is singing a different tune on Sotomayor:
nbcnews.com/politics/supre…