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Don Moynihan
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Also, if Biden resigns as President, there is a very good chance the House GOP would block a VP replacement to Harris.
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Don Moynihan
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Also, if Biden resigns as President, there is a very good chance the House GOP would block a VP replacement to Harris.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.
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Don Moynihan
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From last year:
Trump heard too many govt lawyers say, "you can't do that." So he has been looking for lawyers that will say, "no problem."
SCOTUS just gave an authoritarian legal infrastructure a blank slate to come up with legal rationales for crimes.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-cri...
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Don Moynihan
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"energy in the executive" still meant lawful energy!
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Dan Murphy
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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.
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Don Moynihan
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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Josh Chafetz
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1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think @adamserwer.bsky.social has the best case for Biden's resignation www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Don Moynihan
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"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the North allows it to be" Jefferson Davis, 1861
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Joel Mathis
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I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...
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Brendan Nyhan
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Don Moynihan
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Writing for the majority, Justice Alito said: "Thank you for your service, we've got it from here boys"
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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EVEN Trump lawyers and advisers were genuinely surprised at how close the Supreme Court majority got to his absurd “total” immunity argument. They expected a partial victory. They did not expect this kind of technically partial but also massive win: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Brendel
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“The rabbits got the gun now” coming from a lawyer for a crooked Governor going after a newspaper writer is such a telling comment about how much we’ve let powerful people cast themselves as victims and it goes from this to Elon to Trump and everywhere else
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Popehat
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Heritage: it will remain bloodless so long as the libs agree to take cyanide.
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Don Moynihan
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The institutions have failed to defend themselves
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Don Moynihan
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New, from me: I've been working with @pamherd.bsky.social and Amy Widman to embed administrative burden reduction practices into federal policies. Here is a summary of some progress we have made.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/identifyin...
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Bruno J. Navarro
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Don Moynihan
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It’s also just weird that their 4th of July message is that they want a second American revolution. The first one was pretty solid. Maybe stick with that one.
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Don Moynihan
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It’s like an opening montage from The Purge
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Don Moynihan
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What it were to tell you that the dog was vaxxed
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Don Moynihan
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4th of July BBQ: "You want a hot dog, I'll give you a real hot dog"
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Don Moynihan
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Concerns with Clinton aren’t just with her email practices, but with the appallingly bad campaign she's been running to date. And concerns with the latter are directly related to voters’ best shot at addressing SCOTUS overreach thru the ballot box. NYT editorial choices are not the problem right now
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Don Moynihan
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RFK Jr: "America is the land of the free and I'm going to barbecue whatever the hell I want on the 4th of July"
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Chris Hayes
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this is a brilliant point that I was struggling to articulate.
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Don Moynihan
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*its the same picture gif*
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Don Moynihan
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Yes - just say its an Official Act as you are shooting people on 5th Ave and its all good
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Bradford Vivian
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3. Reducing university teaching and research to artificial "conservative" and "liberal" categories only presents a parody of what being a professor involves. It misinforms the public about higher education when accurate and constructive information is most needed. 3/3
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Don Moynihan
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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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People are understandably excited about statewide votes on abortion, but they could be gutted—if not voided outright—by a future Trump administration via the Comstock Act, or by conservative judges upholding fetal personhood. New for Jezebel:
www.jezebel.com/abortion-bal...
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Dave Weigel
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Dems were one Comey letter away from a 5-4 liberal court!
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Don Moynihan
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People significantly underestimate the degree to which the American constitution is now being defined by Nixon/Reagan/Bush government lawyers who disliked having to be responsive to a Democratic-controlled Congress.
Unitary executive theory is an example:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Don Moynihan
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You know there are going to be some posts in the The Federalist of wherever saying "who cares if some radical woke college professors say its a bad idea for the President to be King?"
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Jonathan Ladd
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It's hard to process. It will probably take a generation to overturn. Possibly much much longer, if ever. But there's no way around working to overturn this. We've just been given a massive new challenge we didn't have yesterday.
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Don Moynihan
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As a reminder, Trump was convicted for actions before he was President. He is seeking to use newly created *Presidential* immunity powers to have the conviction quashed even though he is not now President. What do you think he will do if he is actually President?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Kevin M. Kruse
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“What makes you so confident you should be president?” is an actual question a reporter shouted at the incumbent who just warned about a reckless court decision that imperils democracy
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Don Moynihan
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Top headline in NYT now. Turns out the SCOTUS decision offering unprecedented immunity for the President breaking the law was really more of a mixed bag that should be narrowly understood to be about a specific case!
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Popehat
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/3 The problem is that almost anything can be shoehorned into an official act depending on how you characterize it or the level of generality you use. The Court’s “well of course a President has to use due care that election laws are enforced” hints at this.
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Rick Hasen
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My new one @Slate: "Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy"
Is the Supreme Court obtuse or disingenuous? slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Popehat
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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
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Don Moynihan
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If this was English TV coverage, they would be playing "Dry your eyes mate" by The Streets
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Don Moynihan
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This was a good penalty and a fantastic penalty save
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Don Moynihan
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Guys, any guidance on which Presidential candidate, empowered with broad immunity from prosecution, that we should be worried about?
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Don Moynihan
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When Trump said "I will be your retribution" hard not to believe that some on the court are taking him seriously and literally
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Corey Rayburn Yung
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He may have left Bluesky, but Paul Musgrave is still with us in the form of a new Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Don Moynihan
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Henry II: "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" General Counsel: "We interpret the King's query as an official act of his office, and therefore immune from persecution"
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Don Moynihan
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If we have more NYT/WaPo op-eds calling on Biden to exit than on SCOTUS mainlining an authoritarian presidency, that will give you a good read on where we are.
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