ANN ALTHOUSE ON OUR FIRST-MONDAY-IN-OCTOBER RITUAL: “It’s the first Monday in October, time for people like Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick to tell us ‘the court has taken the law for a sharp turn to the ideological right…… while at the same time masterfully concealing it.’ And, annoyingly enough — to them, anyway — ordinary Americans still think the Supreme Court is too liberal. . . . Speaking of tricks, calling this a trick is itself a trick! It lets Friedman and Lithwick discount all the big cases that came out liberal and cherry pick any and every case that came out conservative. Hey! Look what the Court did in here!”

UPDATE: More from Josh Blackman.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more.