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Quinta Jurecic
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honestly the people I want to hear from rn are disability theorists
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Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social |
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I write about law, democracy, and the internet. I'm a senior editor at Lawfare, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Washington Post's Book World. It's KWIN-ta.
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Quinta Jurecic
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honestly the people I want to hear from rn are disability theorists
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Quinta Jurecic
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which is not exactly news, but still sort of mind-boggling to watch in action
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Quinta Jurecic
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my takeaway from a lot of this—substantive "what should the dems do" questions aside because I have no idea—is that people are incredibly weird about aging and disability
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Quinta Jurecic
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jesus christ I can't take another week of this
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Quinta Jurecic
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note that warner's spox doesn't deny
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Quinta Jurecic
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under Roberts's opinion, I'm not sure you could use the show as evidence of bribery. maybe you could use re-airings of the show as evidence. maybe you could use the AV Club's summary of the episode as evidence. maybe you could only use the AI aggregation of the AV Club summary as evidence...
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Quinta Jurecic
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you know what looks really bad in retrospect? SDNY's decision not to move forward with a prosecution of trump on FECA charges
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Quinta Jurecic
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ah good, the return of the "I barely know him" tweets
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Jeff Lazarus
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Robinson is hardly the only Republican using language like this. At this point it's pretty close to the official position of the party to call for their political opponents to be arrested, jailed, subject to military tribunal, beaten up, or killed. They're not being subtle about it.
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Quinta Jurecic
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right, I think it's useful as a way of explaining how roberts sees himself
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Quinta Jurecic
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not saying that anyone is infallible, but it's a useful data point imo
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Quinta Jurecic
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Baude is an originalist
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Quinta Jurecic
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Baude who, by the way, clerked for Roberts, and whose read on what the hell is going on with the conservatives is worth a great deal
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Quinta Jurecic
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"the court sees itself as trying to save the country from other institutions’ disproportionate responses to Mr. Trump ... When dealing with Mr. Trump in particular, the court is so sure that our other institutions cannot be trusted that it fails to look in the mirror."
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Quinta Jurecic
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ignore the hed, this is extremely harsh criticism from the very measured Will Baude of the Court's rulings in the 14th Amendment and immunity cases www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...
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Quinta Jurecic
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desperate times!
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Quinta Jurecic
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fwiw I yelled so loudly about this opinion while recording a podcast the other day that my coworkers heard me from across the office
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Osita Nwanevu
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I wrote about the election and the American project. www.ositanwanevu.com/will-america...
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Quinta Jurecic
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it's time for my favorite ever law review student note: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Don Moynihan
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*did not know democracies could do that*
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Radley Balko
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Not that anyone is asking me, but I have no idea what the Democrats should do right now. All the options seem bad, and there isn’t one that seems less bad than the others. And as a professional opinion-haver, it’s disorienting to have no strong opinion about something so enormously consequential.
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Quinta Jurecic
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The us politics knower
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Keith Ng
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imagine if billionaires had to take 300 supreme court justices fishing every time they wanted something; what a nightmare scenario
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Quinta Jurecic
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"John Roberts [is] abandoning his imperfect efforts to put the institution ahead of any ideological or political agenda"
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@svateboje.bsky.social
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crises come in different flavors but they do keep coming
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Quinta Jurecic
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totally fine for 3 yrs, then suddenly started getting leggy and drying up. it has a pebble tray and a humidifier and I water it with the little watering globes using tap water that's sat out for 24 hrs to let chlorine etc evaporate. do I need to start using distilled water on this stupid thing
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Quinta Jurecic
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oh, sorry. #1. when I was there he was not sleeping.
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Quinta Jurecic
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on top of everything else my calathea is dying >:[
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Quinta Jurecic
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I report, you decide
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Quinta Jurecic
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yes, i wasn't there that day. I can't say whether or not he dozed off in that instance. my point is that a lot of the time when he had his eyes closed, he did not in fact seem to be asleep. (also, this ultimately doesn't matter, but I can add some facts here to the conversation bc I was there)
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Quinta Jurecic
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He had his eyes closed and was leaning back but I don't think he was sleeping. I realize how insane this sounds because it is absolutely a weird behavior, but he did not seem like he was asleep. It seemed like a weird power move to communicate how little he cared about the proceedings
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Quinta Jurecic
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re: posts about "why is the press focusing on biden's age when it didn't focus on how trump was asleep at his trial"
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Quinta Jurecic
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definitely
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Quinta Jurecic
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I'm going to regret this but as someone who was in court for 2 days watching trump's ny trial, he definitely was not asleep the whole time. idk if he was asleep at other times when I wasn't there, but mostly it just seemed like he was sitting leaning back w eyes closed as a weirdo power move
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Quinta Jurecic
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Incredibly, if you make this argument today you will still be accused of overreacting
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ryan cooper
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"viewing Trump as something like a fascist leader foresaw the violence of January 6th as a live possibility, while its critics mocked the notion as mere hysteria. Whatever its shortcomings, “Trump as fascist” remains the best guide to what Trump will try to do next"
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Nate Schenkkan
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It’s demoralizing & demobilizing to speculate about extreme scenarios, even if they are plausible in a long enough timeline. Focus instead on what you can do to prevent them: building coalitions (including with those who you disagree with on other issues) & acting in solidarity
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Nate Schenkkan
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Stuff takes time. Pick your example—Hungary, Turkey, Russia, wherever—they are all quite distinct and didn’t get that way in a vacuum or overnight. Focus on the next thing rather than the hypothetical drawn from a different context.
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Nate Schenkkan
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I think it is wise and productive for people to take seriously the idea we are in a constitutional crisis in America. I don’t think it is wise or productive to assume what happens next is like what happens in semi consolidated or consolidated authoritarian systems.
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Jonathan Bernstein
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The best argument against Biden resigning.
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Quinta Jurecic
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Thanks. I pointed to this “hypo” because it was raised repeatedly during oral arguments at the dc circuit and scotus and is helpful in identifying the boundaries of what the Court’s ruling allows.
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Quinta Jurecic
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Do you think it is bad?
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Quinta Jurecic
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I’m comfortable saying that is extremely bad.
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Quinta Jurecic
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If you want to say that there has long existed a state of exception in confined circumstances, along the lines of Mbembe’s necropolitics, I have no disagreement with that. I would argue that this opinion is the motion of the exception swallowing the rule.
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Quinta Jurecic
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Yes, my point is that this is an expansion beyond the protection that the Al-awlaki olc opinion provides
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Quinta Jurecic
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Additionally, isn’t there a significant distinction between absolute or presumptive immunity for conduct and whether the conduct is legal/whether an advice of counsel defense is available?
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Quinta Jurecic
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I haven’t thought deeply about the public authority exception, but I’m comfortable saying that this opinion goes far beyond that. What’s your view?
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Quinta Jurecic
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Ah but do those statutes specifically name the President
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Quinta Jurecic
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Foreign affairs power, commander in chief power, absolutely or presumptively immune
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