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the "reasonable people" expecting ordinary government employees to resist a president's illegal orders with no prospect of support from responsible parties

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How the fuck should I know?

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At this point the DA should argue that bail be revoked pending eventual appeal because Trump is a flight risk.

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Also just tossing it out there, but SCOTUS saying "we need to do this to protect executive authority" when it's literally the executive branch arguing they shouldn't, sort of gives the lie to the idea this was about protecting constitutional departmental interests as opposed to protecting Mr Trump

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The “joe biden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever” jokes are now literally correct

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

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Yeah starting to think that a lot of people are worried not that he’s gonna lose but that he’s gonna win - I feel like whoever is actually running the show is doing a good job tho

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I mean Democrats have done this a couple times in the Senate but you don’t seem to be aware that it’s happened

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I’m sorry I meant to pay a gratuity to a judge…sorry sorry I’m trying to delete it

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Because it’s easier to bribe a judge than it is an unelected public official

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Yes I’ve given them way too much credit Barrett gonna be out here complaining that the lower courts misunderstood their clear direction for decades

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Nice to see that in crucial historical moments The NY Times will use the goodwill and prestige it has built up over decades to absolutely shit on itself cf Iraq, 2016 election, this.

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I always figured they would never really do it because at least a couple of the cons would have enough sense to realize what they’ve unleashed but nope lol. Maybe you’ll get your name on the case that is to Chevron as Rahimi is to Bruen.

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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge's avatar We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge @2facedjanus7927.bsky.social
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I think the most honest answer for "How will jurisprudence work post-Chevron?" is "until the legislative does their job, it doesn't". The dog's caught the car and now it's going to get serious road-burn, and sadly we're part of the dog.

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Kind of hope Menendez gets his case thrown out based on this so Dems can say "Trump judges legalized giving gold bars to Senators"

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

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What if it's the Streisand effect but you're doing it in purpose

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Think it would be funny if the Manhattan DA argued his bail should be revoked pending appeal because if he wins he certainly would not submit to NY's jurisdiction if he were elected president and lost his appeals and maybe never.

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"Please see instances where I have lied or committed crimes on your behalf in Appendix A"

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Oh I'm sorry I mean INSTEAD of bombing Gaza into oblivion, not in addition to. But you knew that didnt you?

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No I'm suggesting Israel doing a bunch of targeted operations in order to rescue hostages is a counterfactual.

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Maybe people would be happier if they did this before indiscriminately bombing Gaza into oblivion.

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The baseline assumption should be that it won't because most criminal convictions aren't overturned on appeal. People stanning for the right of politicians to violate campaign finance laws if what they're doing is covering up affairs is hilarious.

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Also amazing that she claims a lab leak is the most parsimonious explanation echoing language of the actually seminal “Proximal Origins” paper she doesn’t address (because it does in fact mention the furin cleavage site)

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Really amazing that the case still adds up to “isn’t it curious that this outbreak occurred in a city where they were doing coronavirus research” while pretending the 1st cluster of cases at animal market is just a coincidence that doesn’t have to be explained away at all

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Everything about him seems more and more on the up and up the closer you look at it

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Man knows enough not to get milkshake ducked he's gonna disappear into the wind

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Right, streets are busier, drivers would be more focused on the cars coming from left than pedestrians in the crosswalk to their right. E.g NYC prohibits right on red even though so many streets are one way so not so much concern about left hand turns across traffic

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Wouldn’t an intersection with lights tend to have more cross traffic than one with merely a stop sign? I’m guessing that’s why it has lights instead of stop signs?

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He has an extremely bad hand so he keeps making desperate moves that worsen his situation because he’s not actually cunning or smart , just a brute and being a brute has worked for him for a long time. and eventually it may again.

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guys like SBF and Elon have spent their entire lives being able to talk their way into or out of just about anything, which causes them to struggle in situations where it would be useful to shut the fuck up

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If you're a neo-Nazi who receives a phone call from me asking whether a social media account belongs to you, and you deny that it does, it's probably not a wise idea to then make a post about me from that account immediately afterward

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The thing to remember about Tom Cotton is that he doesn’t really care about Jews or Hamas but he does get a hard-on for war crimes

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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GOP leadership said to be daunted by challenge of how many wives and family members must be threatened

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