Mark Joseph Stern
Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Dad to one toddler and several other animals.
- A Montana court has struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, finding that it violates the rights to privacy, equal protection, and free expression guaranteed by the Montana Constitution. lambdalegal.org/wp-content/u...
- It’s publication day for LAWLESS by @leahlitman.bsky.social! A book so good I just had to blurb it. Buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...
- It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...
- From the Supreme Court: Retired Justice David Souter died yesterday at the age of 85.
- Souter was a George H.W. Bush appointee who drifted to the left early in his tenure. He then served as a staunch advocate of democracy and civil liberties, defending the rights of voters, women, immigrants, racial minorities, and LGBTQ people. He was a great champion of equality and freedom for all.
- When Souter donated his papers—a wealth of documents that will reveal behind-the-scenes information about the court's deliberations—he specified that they may not be released to the public until 50 years after his death. That half-century clock has now started. www.scotusblog.com/2018/07/scot...
- It is so darkly funny that the MOMENT unitary executive theory escaped containment from the Federalist Society lab and got exposed to the real world, it was revealed to be a farcical disaster
