Adam Bonin

Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

Standing requirements have seemed to be pretty darn malleable of late.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:39 UTC

+10 to anyone who recognizes that letters of marque and letters of reprisal are to different things!

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

There are few concert moments which have given me more unadulterated joy in my life than chanting "AL-i BA-ba and the FOR-ty THIEVES!" over and over again at UMass Spring Fling '92. [Also on that bill: Phish, Fishbone, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, fIREHOSE. Just an amazing day.]

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:49 UTC

I don't think they want to pay the tolls on the Thruway.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

I'm a member of the Supreme Court bar. I'm asking you why, in 2024, you still think it's a barrier here.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

this is filed directly with SCOTUS under original jurisdiction.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

And this matters now because ... ?

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

thanks

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

That happens a few times each term; it's often over things like water rights, interstate compacts, weird border/jurisdiction issues. See. e.g., the attached.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

It is a wonderful movie, from back in the era where we knew how to write movies centered on Joan Allen.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

I see where he talks about the other gonzo Missouri suit (re: social media), but not this.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

The part of this to which I'm agnostic is as to whether a circus-like House GOP-led nomination hearing is good or bad for the VP nominee (assuming same person chosen for interim and full-time). Only example most of us have for this is that great movie where Gary Oldman cosplayed as Arlen Specter.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

no one has been nominated yet!

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

paid by Missouri taxpayers.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons.
ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

Show Me ... a press release in the form of a complaint?

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Just trying to think if there's any path to state-law prosecutions to crimes committed as President. (Or, even: appeals of the current NY or GA cases still working their way through the courts.)

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

as I said, let's hope it's not urgently needed.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

@irontuna.bsky.social @sprawlhater.bsky.social are correct. Thank you, New York Times Machine. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

I'm old enough to remember when Donald Trump posted an online video calling for a "unified reich" in the fine print. That was only 44 days ago.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

There could be a Rahimi to this Bruen in a few years. Let's hope it's not urgently needed.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

This has widely understood to be the rule for ~20 years via directives promulgated by DOS. This confirms that they are the law. (The full guidance is at this link.)

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:23 UTC

In teeny-tiny election law news that only nerds like me tend to care about, until it matters, PA Commonwealth Court affirmed late yesterday in a disputed GOP state house primary that write-in votes cast for someone whose name is on the ballot DO NOT COUNT. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

Well, not a complete match, actually. Because if they had impeached on the Jones stuff, that was pre-presidential conduct. As to Lewinsky, there's *some* official acts in there (the efforts to get her out of the WH and into the Pentagon) and some not. What a mess.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

I had forgotten that the House did not impeach on the Jones perjury (205-229) but only on the grand jury perjury (228-206), but it's the same analysis. And the more I think about it ... this was perjury around his relations with a WH intern, and POTUS is never off the clock, so ... guh.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

Crimes independent from his exercise of official powers. Prosecuting Clinton for perjury in the Jones Deposition would still be allowed. And *some* aspects of the J6 stuff are still not-yet-foreclosed-but-who-knows.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

Also, ELSBETH is a drama? There are no clean ways to solve anything of this without drastically reducing the number of categories. Sigh.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

This Court doesn't decide questions not squarely before it, other than ruling *out* certain aspects of the J6 prosecution as being off the table.

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