Steven L. Taylor
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 30, 2026
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SCOTUS: Cruelty Without Due Process to Continue (opens the original)
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The shadow docket strikes again, as the NYT reports: Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now. The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave President Trump a temporary victory on a central piece of his mass deportation agenda, agreeing the administration can, for now, resume rapidly deporting immigrants to countries other than their own. Although the justices cleared the way for the policy to continue, they also announced that the court would fast-track the case and hear oral argument
Deeply Unserious People (opens the original)
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Once you decide that your loyalty is to a specific man or movement, and not to objective reality, you are likely to get sloppy. This is especially true if you are trying to make your “argument” and “evidence” fit a predetermined conclusion. Congressional hearings and their penchant for committee members to try and turn the events into “gotcha” moments are frequently quite absurd, but we now have an all-timer courtesy of Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO). He thought he had caught Jack Smith committing
I Chose to Listen to “Choosin’ Texas” (opens the original)
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So, over the weekend, there was a bit of a social media brouhaha over a Rolling Stone piece concerning the notion that people might be lying about whether or not they had heard the song “Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley. The song recently broke a record for nonconsecutive weeks as the number one song in the land with 23 weeks, beating out Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” There are two distinct claims in that quote: whether people have “never heard of” the song or whether people h
Paid for By the US Government (opens the original)
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Last week, James Joyner noted that the US government was paying for pro-Trump ads on television, in what is clearly a violation of federal law. Over the weekend, another spot dropped. There have been three in total. First, it is hard to ignore the ominous, fascist aesthetic on display. Second, and not to diminish the significance of the first point, this looks like it was shot on an iPhone. Third, “We will expel the war-mongers from our government.” You don’t say? On that last point, it continue
AG Monday: TNG Season 2, Part 1 (opens the original)
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We return to the 24th century for the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. We start our discussion with an overview of this pivotal season. What did we expect, when we watched season two for the first time, after the few highs and frequent lows of season one? How well did it live up to our expectations? What were the critical improvements made this season? And what might have happened if this had been the last season of ST:TNG? In the next two episodes of this podcast, we’ll review i
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