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Busy Day At SCOTUS

The term ends.

Stephen Breyer retires.

Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as his replacement.

But before all that, the last big case TPM cares about will be issued shortly after 10 a.m. ET.

Background on the EPA case here.

Kate’s story on the oral arguments in the EPA case here.

More a little later.

The Coup That Almost Succeeded
INSIDE: Marjorie Taylor Greene ... Tina Peters ... Andrew Giuliani
Hate To See It

Tina Peters goes down in flames in Colorado.

Mystery Jan. 6 Witness Revealed
INSIDE: John Eastman ... Jeffrey Clark ... Tina Peters
GOP Sure Is Acting Like The Dog That Caught The Car
INSIDE: Rudy ... Kilmeade ... McConnell
Welcome Back To A Pre-New Deal America

From a longtime reader and top echelon DC lawyer:

Agree with what you just wrote.  But don’t separate what the Court has done on guns and Roe—and what’s surely coming on affirmative action in the cases already granted for next term and what Justice Thomas is foreshadowing on other constitutional rights—from the Court’s decisions on federal agency authority.  And the long series of rulings whittling away at individuals’ ability to obtain relief in court when injured by violations of the Constitution and federal law—rights don’t mean much when there is no remedy for violations.

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Wrong Turn at Albuquerque

It’s been rather tidy to encapsulate conservative opposition to Roe as one decision gone way too far that marks a fork in the road of modern jurisprudence.

But Justice Thomas’ concurring opinion in Dobbs today makes clear that the true fork in the road for diehards came at least a decade before Roe, with a series of substantive due process cases that protected the rights to contraception and private sex acts and extended all the way to 2015 with the right to same-sex marriage.

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BREAKING

Everything you need and want to know about this new post-Roe era. This is the place to be.

It’s Still Happening

Let history show that we knew. We all knew.

From Judge Luttig’s testimony today to the Jan. 6 select committee:

Today, almost two years after that fateful day in January 2021 … Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy. That’s not because of what happened on January 6th. It’s because to this very day the former president, his allies and supporters pledge that in the presidential election of 2024 if the former president or his anointed successor as the Republican Party presidential candidate were to lose that election that they would attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way they attempted to overturn the 2020 election but succeed in 2024 where they failed in 2020.

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How Baby Formula Shortage Turned Into Racist Attack On Immigrants
Elon Musk ... John Durham ... Rand Paul
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