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Andrew Rudalevige@rudalev.bsky.social |
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Bowdoin College professor of political science visiting at LSE and UCL in 2023-24: feed includes posts on presidential power, bureaucratic politics, and carping about Boston sports and European football.
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Sarah Binder
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Will abolishing Chevron move Congress to legislate w/ greater specificity? Count me skeptical. Boosting institutional capacity leaves in place electoral and political roots of lawmakers’ preference for vague laws. New @goodauth.bsky.social post w/ Forrest Maltzman🤓
goodauthority.org/news/abolish...
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Elizabeth N. Saunders
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My new @goodauth.bsky.social piece on three political gambles in London, Paris, and Washington, and what they mean for the NATO summit and international security. Featuring two elections, one suddenly uncertain nomination, and Taylor Swift. #polisky
goodauthority.org/news/nato-su...
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Helen/Tina/Boob Punch
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"But people don't click the link." "Why don't people click the link?" "Because paywalls. And laziness." Definitely not for the mentally lazy, but: Here's a thoughtful and delightfully wonky, yet accessible, piece on this egregious SCOTUS decision that is *not* paywalled.
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Good Authority
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The Supreme Court’s immunity decision sidesteps history.
Those who framed the Constitution agreed that unchecked presidential power was a terrible idea.
Read the latest from @rudalev.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/immunit...
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Andrew Rudalevige
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No X? “Hey, baby, it’s the Fourth of July…”
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David Ryan Miller
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This clearly-written, level-headed breakdown of Trump v. United States by @rudalev.bsky.social via @goodauth.bsky.social would be a great teaching tool for anyone teaching Intro American or the presidency this fall.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Independence Day seems an appropriate occasion to ponder presidential immunity on @goodauth.bsky.social …
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Andrew Rudalevige
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BTW, I think there *are* in fact some presidential actions that are impeachable but not illegal. Talking to exec branch officials about lying to states about election results probably fits there. But surely something like trading foreign policy - or a pardon - for cash has to be both.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Wondering how the opinion would claim that allowing the president to break the law does not make the president above the law? Simple! via perfectly circular argument: per Justice Thomas, "as the Court explains, the President's immunity from prosecution for his official acts *is* the law."
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Andrew Rudalevige
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And Madison even wrote about this, in pointing out why Montesqieu's version of completely separate branches wouldn't work to prevent tyranny -- you needed overlap, "separate institutions sharing powers" (OK, maybe that's not Madison's phrase.)
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Jonathan Bernstein
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Key point, exactly correct:
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Julia Azari
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Studying the 2024 election: it's frustrating but we don't have to throw our hands up and give in to vibes: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/making-sen...
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Don Moynihan
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John Oliver does the best policy explainers. This is why I was excited to talk to Last Week Tonight's producers about the effects of Schedule F on government.
Watch the segment, and read more about this attack on public services:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-public...
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Andrew Rudalevige
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At the time, Trump attacked Obama for making bump stocks "legal." So for him to praise the Court's decision overturning his own executive action is objectively - granted, not Trumpjectively - strange.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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The Court's decision about the bump stock ban is not hugely surprising - effectively they adopted the Obama administration's reading of the relevant statute and overturned Trump's... for more, see this 2018 Monkey Cage piece now living on @goodauth.bsky.social
goodauthority.org/news/does-pr...
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Sam Adams anyway...
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Suddenly impoundment is a thing again? Luckily @goodauth.bsky.social is there for you.
goodauthority.org/news/good-to...
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Brendan Nyhan
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The arc of milkshake bends toward justice
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Andrew Rudalevige
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That’s.. cold :)
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David S. Bernstein
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My major non-joking response to the verdict is that every time we say that random citizens are “peers” of the holder of the highest, most powerful federal office, I consider it a world-changing act that justifies the importance and greatness of the American democratic experiment.
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Aaron Huertas
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Today is the day Donald Trump became precedent
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Andrew Rudalevige
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I’m somewhat bitter about this.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Another tidbit from the Time interview: the Trump camp says the 1974 Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional and that as president he will refuse to spend appropriated funds. Some thoughts about about impoundment's past and prospects on @goodauth.bsky.social
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Another tidbit from the Time interview: the Trump camp says the 1974 Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional and that as president he will refuse to spend appropriated funds. Some thoughts about about impoundment's past and prospects on @goodauth.bsky.social
goodauthority.org/news/good-to...
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Morrison v Olson was 7-1, the majority opinion written by crazy liberal Chief Justice Rehnquist.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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beyond straightforward partisanship the basic logic of the republican justices seems to be that trump is an ordinary president experiencing an extraordinary prosecution and not that trump is being prosecuted because he engaged in extraordinary actions!
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Andrew Rudalevige
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A book Justice Alito might want to read -- all three branches endorsed internment.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Thomas's opinion in Zivotofksy (about diplomatic recognition, sort of) certainly suggests he is fine with unchecked presidential power...
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Andrew Rudalevige
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The Trump argument about having to be impeached and removed before any prosecution can proceed -- leaving aside his lawyers argued the opposite when he was actually being impeached -- is ass-backwards. The "plain language" is that the president can be prosecuted *even if* he is removed from office.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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For sure. Kagan's questions got at this nicely; Trump's attorney effectively has to misrepresent the entire Constitutional convention to come up with some "doctrine of immunity" that somehow Jack Smith is trying to take away.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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at this point, he’s very clearly trying to get tossed in jail, and i think both the prosecutors and the judge should stop protesting and give him exactly what he wants.
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Lawfare
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On this week's Chatter, @davidpriess.bsky.social spoke to @profsaunders.bsky.social about her new book, "The Insiders' Game," the meaning of foreign policy "elites," their actual influence on presidents and the public, how polarization changes the dynamics of elite influence, and more.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Very true! Though I do think (even as a Maine voter) that the district allocation is even less representative than winner-take-all, given how thoroughly districts have been gerrymandered in most states. My memory is that expanding the ME/NE model leads to a lot of decisions by the House.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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I’m 4500 miles away - but it is surely never too early for Miller’s Pub. Especially if they have smelt!
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Jay Rosen
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A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can:
"Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts." www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03...
Quinn writes of a different kind of access. Access to our own eyes and ears:
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Four Years Ago Today
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Mon March 23, 2020 An Arizona man dies from swallowing a toxic fish tank cleaner called chloroquine phosphate after hearing Trump tout hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the virus. "We were afraid of getting sick," his wife told reporters. "Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."
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Four Years Ago Today
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Sunday March 22, 2020: “Romney’s in isolation? Gee, that’s too bad,” says Trump, smirking.
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Don Moynihan
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After Claudine Gay's resignation, Rufo learned that plagiarism was a smear that he could use to attack scholars of race, no matter how flimsy the evidence.
New, from me. Please share if you want people to understand the machinery behind these attacks.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...
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Four Years Ago Today
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The president of the United States tweets out praise for a drug cocktail that has never shown efficacy against the virus.
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Seth Masket
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New at Tusk: Americans think the economy stinks but their own financial situation is pretty good -- historically those two things don't always line up.
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Andrew Rudalevige
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Basically a lakeside conference facility and wedding factory rather than a library. Would be nice to know where the much-vaunted digitization of documents stands though.
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Stephen Hardwick
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Want to do something to make voter suppression less successful? Serve as a poll worker—and volunteer to go wherever you’re needed most. It won’t make everything better, but you can make your little corner of the election run more smoothly, professionally, & lawfully. More poll workers, more voting.
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Mark Copelovitch
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Quite literally, he put up "national security" tariffs on our closest allies & started a trade war with China 🤷♂️
on.ft.com/3wGVwYe
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Andrew Rudalevige
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And yet presidents have functioned for more than 230 years.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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There’s never been a “historic question” about Presidential immunity because the answer has been obvious for nearly two and a half centuries — they’re not above the law, they never have been.
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Brendan Nyhan
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The unanimous decision issued by D- and R-appointed judges on the DC Circuit that SCOTUS thinks for some reason needs to be reviewed - this is not a close call and never was www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opi...
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Good Authority
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Does the president or Congress have the power to go to war?
@rudalev.bsky.social breaks it down on this installment of "Good To Know: U.S. War Powers."
goodauthority.org/news/good-to...
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Elizabeth N. Saunders
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The end of a very long and very winding road. Pre-order from @princetonupress.bsky.social here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Peter M. Shane
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Welcome to “The 12 Days of President's Day!” Each day we'll highlight 1 of 11 @demchiefexecpod episodes focusing on POTUS elections. On Day 12, a new debut! To Day 1, hear historian Alex Keyssar and election law scholar @Nedfoley on the Electoral College. open.spotify.com/episode/4iM9...
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Heath Brown
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Love this www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/o...
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