Founder of @EmergencyDocket | Originalist | Student @Hillsdale
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Happy to announce the launch of Emergency Docket, a new platform covering constitutional issues from fresh perspectives.
Built for young legal conservatives, the site will provide sharp, timely commentary and informative news.
Link in bio and below. 1/5
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The President today nominated Texas Supreme Court Justice James Sullivan to the Western District of Texas, OLC head Elliot Gaiser to the Northern District of Texas, and Grayson Lambert to the District of South Carolina.
Expect the objection on Sullivan: Texas voters just removed him. Sen. Cornyn answered it well: "an election result does not diminish a record of ability and integrity." Democrats swept every statewide office in Texas last week, including four Supreme Court seats. That's a verdict on a party label, not on a judge's opinions. Article III life tenure exists precisely so federal judges aren't chosen or removed by that kind of swing.
The bigger clock here isn't only the Senate majority. It's the blue slip. Under current Senate practice, a home-state senator can effectively veto a district court nominee. After January, Texas's home-state signoff runs partly through a Democrat. These seats get filled in the next seven weeks, or they likely sit open, or go to someone very different, for a long time.
Lifetime seats don't wait for the next majority. That was true Saturday, and the blue-slip math makes it more true. Get the signoffs, schedule the hearings, and stay in session.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
Impeachment is fake.
Impeachment inquiries exist only for media attention, fundraising, and riling up the party base without actually doing anything.
The Constitution treats removal of a president as a rare, high-stakes judgment reserved for specific crimes.
Today, even when the alleged offense is serious, the push to impeach a president comes from routine policy disagreements.
The parties have divided so sharply that the Senate threshold is unreachable whenever the president’s party holds more than 33% of the chamber.
So now all we're left with is theatre: the House impeaches on a party-line vote when it wants the political scalp, and the Senate will always acquit. That's how the past 30 years of presidential impeachmens have gone.
Yes, judges and lower officials are still removed with some regularity because the political stakes are lower. But for presidents, the mechanism is now useless as a removal tool.
It's sad in a way.
The Founders designed impeachment as a major part of the checks and balances system, but like the power to declare war, it no longer works as designed.
Ethan Savka retweeted
Even so-called moderates among 2028 hopefuls are endorsing court-packing and “real reform” of the Supreme Court.
Court-packing is no longer a fringe idea in the Democrat Party.
Ethan Savka retweeted
Confirm the judges! The @WSJ Editorial is right. The outgoing Congress and President Trump have an opportunity to achieve some real good before January. They should show America what good can come out of Republican majorities. Affordability is more vital than ever
UPDATE: Add @ElliotGaiser to this list, who should be a top priority. Excellent nominatiom from President Trump.
Here are Trump's judicial nominees who have NOT been confirmed by the Senate.
They have 60 days to be confirmed. Call your Senator now.
Anna St. John (5th Circuit)
Daniel Domenico (10th Cir)
Lee Rudofsky (8th Cir)
Todd Butler (5th Cir)
Peter Mansfield (La.)
Courtney Coker (Tex.)
Richard Bennett (Tex.)
Daniel Ballou (Ky.)
Samuel Adkisson (Tenn.)
Philip Axt (N.D.)
Kyle Reardon (Alaska)
Zachary West (Okla.)
Trevor Pemberton (Okla.)
Gregory Cook (Ala.)
Robert E. Long, Jr. (Fla.)
Bradford Kelley (La.)
Jesus Osete (Mo.)
In case you haven't paid attention, here is the Democratic agenda now that they have power.
1) Pass "court reform"
2) Wage lawfare against Republicans
3) Abolish the Electoral College
Here's the project in their own words. 1/5
Much has been made of how Democrats want to abolish the Senate, but since the Constitution forbids them from doing so, they'll take something more vital: the Electoral College. Should they succeed, America will fall into total mobocracy. 4/5 teapawt.net/jamestalarico/status/1…
Ultimately, the only way to save American democracy is to abolish the undemocratic loopholes in our system—like the electoral college and the filibuster—and re-establish majority rule.
But women need abortion care *now*.
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Here's @emergencydocket contributor Andrew Schofield on just one component of the Left's agenda, abolishing the Senate. 5/5 teapawt.net/emergencydocket/status…
Abolishing the Senate is not only unwise, it's unconstitutional.
Hillsdale student Andrew Schofield explains why the Senate is an invaluable piece of our constitutional system of checks and balances.
Out today in Emergency Docket.
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Ethan Savka retweeted
A win for Colorado in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy could open the door for other states to create workarounds to the constitutional limits that would dramatically undercut First Amendment protections.
More on this week’s oral argument from @eesavka in @EmergencyDocket:
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The @SenJudiciaryGOP moved a record number of judicial nominations to this point - but we can’t leave anyone’s nomination dangling in the wind when Chairman @ChuckGrassley hands the gavel over to the Democrat Chairman:
Here are Trump's judicial nominees who have NOT been confirmed by the Senate.
They have 60 days to be confirmed. Call your Senator now.
Anna St. John (5th Circuit)
Daniel Domenico (10th Cir)
Lee Rudofsky (8th Cir)
Todd Butler (5th Cir)
Peter Mansfield (La.)
Courtney Coker (Tex.)
Richard Bennett (Tex.)
Daniel Ballou (Ky.)
Samuel Adkisson (Tenn.)
Philip Axt (N.D.)
Kyle Reardon (Alaska)
Zachary West (Okla.)
Trevor Pemberton (Okla.)
Gregory Cook (Ala.)
Robert E. Long, Jr. (Fla.)
Bradford Kelley (La.)
Jesus Osete (Mo.)
Ethan Savka retweeted
If the court doesn’t bury Smith in St. Mary v. Roy, it seems poised to quarantine it.
In my latest @SCOTUSblog column, I explain why the Carson route is the durable one. Justice Gorsuch also made clear that strict scrutiny, properly understood, is not a balancing test. He and Justice Barrett both explored strict scrutiny as a faithful way to implement the free exercise clause’s original meaning.
The anomaly is Smith.
scotusblog.com/2026/11/st-ma…
Harmeet Dhillon's time at the DOJ was one of the best things to happen in the Trump admin.
- Overhauled 75% of the staff
- Launched investigations into Harvard, UCLA, Columbia
- Created a new Second Amendment Section
- Reversed Biden-era police and school investigations
- Launched lawsuits in 20+ states over voter rolls
It's a huge loss to see her go.
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SCOTUS seems ready to rule for Catholics against Colorado's religious discrimination.
"Colorado is creating standards they know these religious schools would not be able to meet," a legal expert says.
Read about the case here on at the link in bio.
Here are Trump's judicial nominees who have NOT been confirmed by the Senate.
They have 60 days to be confirmed. Call your Senator now.
Anna St. John (5th Circuit)
Daniel Domenico (10th Cir)
Lee Rudofsky (8th Cir)
Todd Butler (5th Cir)
Peter Mansfield (La.)
Courtney Coker (Tex.)
Richard Bennett (Tex.)
Daniel Ballou (Ky.)
Samuel Adkisson (Tenn.)
Philip Axt (N.D.)
Kyle Reardon (Alaska)
Zachary West (Okla.)
Trevor Pemberton (Okla.)
Gregory Cook (Ala.)
Robert E. Long, Jr. (Fla.)
Bradford Kelley (La.)
Jesus Osete (Mo.)
Republicans hold Congress for two more months.
Justice Alito will be in 78 in 2028.
Justice Thomas will be 80.
Should they step down now?
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0%Only Alito
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Ethan Savka retweeted
I can think of a handful of Reagan appointed circuit judges that should probably give serious thought to retiring in the next 37 minutes.
So I guess we are all just going to forget about the Supreme Court "rigging" the midterms for Trump?
Leftists warned of the Roberts Court stealing the election for months.
Turns out none of that was true. I'm sure everybody will apologize to the Court now.
I'll wait.
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The venerable Jonathan Turley has some thoughts ...
thecollegefix.com/umich-shou…
