|
Chris Curtis@curtosis.bsky.social |
33 followers 39 following 279 posts
Computational linguist, artificer, λ(data). Syntactician with semanticist delusions. Theatre artist. Anti-Taylorist. Continuous everywhere, differentiable nowhere. Boosts are multivalent. He/they.
|
rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.
16 replies 188 reposts 548 likes
|
Elad Nehorai
@eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
31 replies 576 reposts 2031 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
More directly, Roberts has signed off on *this* plan. It’s not a weird hypothetical. It’s what the petitioner in *this* case says he wants to do.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
To emphasize this point, it’s not hypothetical. This is exactly what Trump has promised to do: use the powers of the presidency to exact revenge on those who he feels have wronged him and punish everyone else he disfavors. And Roberts has signed off on it, saying we cannot even inquire into motive.
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“If the president is a king, then we are subjects, whose lives and livelihoods are only safe insofar as we don’t incur the wrath of the executive. And if we find ourselves outside the light of his favor, then we have find ourselves, in effect, outside the protection of the law.”
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
[ View ] |
19 replies 900 reposts 2790 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“Why, Chief Justice, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Trump?”
0 replies 1 reposts 1 likes
|
Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
[ View ] |
/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
40 replies 894 reposts 2787 likes
|
Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
[ View ] |
Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
15 replies 424 reposts 1693 likes
|
Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
55 replies 246 reposts 1598 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Mitch McConnell did more damage to the Republic than any one person in history than John Wilkes Booth, and it’s actually close.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
48 replies 347 reposts 1486 likes
|
Rufus J Squirrel 🇵🇸
@rufusjsquirrel.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Yeah this is really the thing that is the most unbelievable of all. This isn’t some kind of theoretical law school exercise. This is a real case about real conduct that has already happened and been promised to happen again. They know exactly what the implications are - and they welcome them.
0 replies 1 reposts 11 likes
|
|
Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
[ View ] |
There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
50 replies 905 reposts 2436 likes
|
Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
[ View ] |
74 replies 542 reposts 1620 likes
|
Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.
73 replies 276 reposts 1871 likes
|
b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history
69 replies 303 reposts 2204 likes
|
Col. Boozy Badger
@boozybadger.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.
23 replies 442 reposts 1670 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
He could order the Marine to shoot, and his reasons for doing so may not even be queried.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
[ View ] |
26 replies 741 reposts 2898 likes
|
|
Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
[ View ] |
T̶h̶e̶ a̶r̶i̶s̶t̶o̶c̶r̶a̶t̶s̶!̶ Originalism!
7 replies 138 reposts 765 likes
|
Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
[ View ] |
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social makes a strong case for this being the most radical Supreme Court in history. Yes more radical than Taney's Court. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
3 replies 31 reposts 80 likes
|
Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
10 replies 143 reposts 723 likes
|
|
Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
19 replies 233 reposts 1172 likes
|
The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
[ View ] |
a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
54 replies 954 reposts 3186 likes
|
|
b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.
23 replies 479 reposts 2079 likes
|
Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
25 replies 523 reposts 1424 likes
|
Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
98 replies 644 reposts 2158 likes
|
Adam Bonin
@adambonin.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Justice Jackson: the next time a President wants to fire his attorney general, he has options.
6 replies 62 reposts 249 likes
|
A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Anyway I’d like everyone who responds to every call for necessary drastic action by saying the president doesn’t have the authority to pipe down now; there are 4 months left to stop the American Nazi party.
5 replies 35 reposts 142 likes
|
Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Pretty clear that the Federalist Society project to take over the courts for the far right is the most successful and consequential political effort in history. Only took them a few decades. Meanwhile, Dems are like "Let's not be hasty, blue slips serve an important function in preserving comity."
12 replies 176 reposts 664 likes
|
Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.
8 replies 351 reposts 897 likes
|
David Kaye
@davidkaye.bsky.social
[ View ] |
commentary seems pointless. we are facing the construction of new kind of lawless, authoritarian-friendly governance in america, and i'm not sure what to say. it's what we do that matters.
6 replies 36 reposts 167 likes
|
Tobias Harris
@tobiasharris.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Honestly, one thing that the elite-focused accounts of the American Revolution and its aftermath obscure is the extent to which ordinary people were *pissed off* and took matters into their own hands.
0 replies 7 reposts 56 likes
|
Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it. I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.
5 replies 46 reposts 106 likes
|
Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
27 replies 445 reposts 1066 likes
|
Phil Plait
@philplait.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The immunity decision from SCOTUS may be the worst in the history of our country, and may very well end that history.
4 replies 17 reposts 179 likes
|
|
b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction
30 replies 323 reposts 1542 likes
|
|
b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
all of this for donald fucking trump of all people
92 replies 478 reposts 3063 likes
|
|
b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
48 replies 700 reposts 2858 likes
|
Nicholas Wallace
@wallace.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
43 replies 721 reposts 2268 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I think it’s clear what Biden needs to do now to save the country.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends…. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” 2/2
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
[ View ] |
Sotomayor: "Today’s decision ... makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law."
5 replies 62 reposts 233 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Sotomayor said it better. “When he uses his official powers in any way […] he will now be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders […] Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune.” 1/
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This opinion literally says there is no such thing as abuse of office. The king — sorry, president — cannot even be indicted for anything within his (obviously only for men) official powers. The president can, in fact, order the assassination of his political rival.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Jesus Christ. Caligula would be shocked by how brazen this court has gotten.
19 replies 88 reposts 532 likes
|
Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
33 replies 544 reposts 1945 likes
|
Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I warned of this on Friday at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/forget-the...
3 replies 42 reposts 118 likes
|
|
Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
One silver lining to the death of stare decisis, Chevron deference, and a functioning administrative state is that, in doing the bidding of their billionaire masters, the corrupt court has utterly screwed the petit bourgeoisie business owners who actually still vote GOP.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes