Ian Millhiser

Did anyone ever really believe Trump's idiotic campaign promises to drain the swamp that he personifies or hold Wall Street-- which now runs his regime-- accountable? If so... how tragic! Late Tuesday evening Trump had Mike Pence break the 50-50 tie in the Senate that will now allow banks more leeway to prey on their customers without fear of sanctions. That it even got to a point where the GOP-controlled Senate needed a tie-breaking vote from Pence was strange.

Gorsuch throws a gang sign: "thin the herd"What do you think-- should senators be considered responsible-- by voters-- for the actions of Supreme Court judges they vote to confirm? I've always thought so.

Here's the whole CBO report on Ryan's Trumpcare proposal. The way Ryan, Pence and Price wrote the bill, 14 million people would lose their health insurance immediately and then coverage would be reduced by 21 million in 2020 and down by 24 million in 2026.

First thing Monday morning the Democratic Coalition Against Trump announced they had filed a complaint against Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the hyper-partisan head of the House Oversight Committee, with the Office of Congressional Ethics for his role in releasing information provided to him by FBI Director Comey.

They're ba-a-ack!by KenAre you ready for it, constitutional-law fans? Yes, it's Ian Millhiser's fall preview. "Next Monday," ThinkProgress's legal maven noted in his post this morning ("Everything You Need To Know About The Big Supreme Court Cases The Justices Will Hear This Term"),

"Something very unusual happened at the nation’s highest court this year. The justices adjourned for their summer vacation and liberals were left feeling pretty good about the just-completed Supreme Court term. . . .

He-e-ere's Booby! "Why don't we save some money and get rid of the Supreme Court?""Justice Anthony Kennedy is a conservative Republican. The irony of Obergefell v.

Chief "Smirkin' John": Too clever for his own good?by KenAs Daily Kos's Adam B writes in a fine post on yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that Florida can indeed bar judicial candidates from personally soliciting campaign funds, the ruling "stunned many Court observers -- certainly including me."Even in retrospect, it looks to have been a ho-hum Ro

by KenWhen I went yesterday with the Washington Post team's account of the Supreme Court's oral arguments on the cases it's hearing regarding same-sex marriage, I kept meaning to check ThinkProgress to see what legal eagle Ian Millhiser had to say about the proceedings.

"Injustices tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of the people that it has hurt the most -- the young people stripped of their childhoods, the freedmen forced into peonage, the men and women who will die needlessly if the Supreme Court guts Obamacare."-- Ian Millhiser, about his new book, Injustices: The Supreme Court'sHistory of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflictedby KenThis is going to be an unusual sort of book plug -- it comes from the au