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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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I hope it goes bankrupt
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Hayes Brown@hayesbrown.bsky.social |
5998 followers 489 following 987 posts
Twitter Refugee. Writer. Etc.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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I hope it goes bankrupt
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Karen K. Ho
@karenho.bsky.social
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hi, are you doomscrolling? Have you had something to eat today? How about water? Have you gone outside?
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ProPublica
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Judge Denies Texas Attorney General’s Efforts to Use Consumer Protection Law to Shut Down a Migrant Shelter Annunciation House is one of more than a dozen organizations Ken Paxton has investigated using the state’s powerful consumer protection laws.
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James Downie
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If only a Founder made this exact point, in the Federalist Papers, to explain separation of powers.
Oh wait that's exactly what Madison wrote. "It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government." constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
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Hayes Brown
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sorry, i've been narrowly focused on specific parts of this opinion to Make Content that I'm only now letting myself yell about all the stray bits that are infuriating
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Hayes Brown
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AND ANOTHER THING. It's wild how much Roberts leans on Fitzgerald to find that criminal immunity must also exist, when there's such a world of difference between saying "we gotta keep randos from being able to sue the president" and "the president can't be charged with doing crimes at work"
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Ed Morrish
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I once made a show about power with @hugorifkind.bsky.social and my favourite question was “what’s the worst thing you could do if you were evil?”. A former Lord Chief Justice reckoned he could rig Supreme Court cases by carefully assigning judges.
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Hayes Brown
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Pwnallthethings
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which, of course, would be news to the impeachment judgments clause, tho I guess we're only very selectively textualists these days
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Hayes Brown
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John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life
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Hayes Brown
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And even though bribery is one of the few enumerated “high crimes and misdemeanors” eligible for impeachment, apparently you could no longer prosecute him for it even if removed from office??
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David Noll
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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"
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Hayes Brown
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Oh yeah they have been entirely unsubtle about it for months
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Hayes Brown
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New from me: the SCOTUS immunity decision gave Trump’s cronies all the ammunition they need to completely destroy the firewall between the White House and DOJ in a second term. That is, in a word, bad.
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Jacob T. Levy
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At the risk of being tiresome in reposting my own writings on the separation of powers and executive accountability, since prominent scholars are now in the news saying "habeas corpus will still be OK"— Montesquieu's insight was precisely that it won't be.
dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....
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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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Matt Novak
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When I first saw news that Gavin Newsom was going to the White House tomorrow I assumed it was a long-planned thing. But this is like an emergency meeting demanded by Dem governors.
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National Security Counselors 🕵
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the cops have no way to prove that POTUS knew about it because the only proof he knew about it was in the context of that official meeting. So even if someone in the meeting were willing to testify that yes, POTUS knew about the affair because they told him, it would be inadmissible.
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National Security Counselors 🕵
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Here's another fun downstream effect of the Trump immunity decision. POTUS learns in an official meeting that a person he's never met is having an affair with the First Lady. He then slips out in the middle of the night and shoots the guy. The affair comes out in the murder investigation but ...
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Brooke Binkowski
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This IS Heritage's Project 2025. Remember it's not IN 2025. It's BY 2025.
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Gabe Ortíz
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“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards.
The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...
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Popehat
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.
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Hayes Brown
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new from me: the opinion in Trump v. United States is a John Roberts special, creating an immunity test meant to give the veneer of wide applicability beyond Trump while clearly skewed towards a single predetermined outcome
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Paul Tobin
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
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Hayes Brown
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Wow we can't even have ONE NICE THING
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Hayes Brown
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It's apparently a technical quirk of the law. He's been convicted of felonies, but the conviction isn't finalized until sentencing, which makes it inaccurate to call him a "convicted felon" until then
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Hayes Brown
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even if the NY court rejects this application of the immunity ruling, it still manages to keep Trump from accurately being called a "convicted felon" while at the RNC, since he won't have been sentenced by then
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Harry Stevens
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How accurate is the weather forecast in your city?
Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Hayes Brown
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Chief Justice Roberts "sanctimoniously forgoes driving the dagger into the heart of this case" instead letting it bleed out slowly, with the lower courts tasked to come up with definitions that the Supreme Court can (and likely will) later reject if they go against Trump
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stacy-marie ishmael
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"“How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare?” he said. “We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us. It’s unfair. So that’s what keeps me awake at night.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Joe Sudbay
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"It would be more honest for Roberts to not bother pretending that the court’s conservative wing won't eventually consider Trump’s attempts to steal the 2020 election entirely within the bounds of this newly created immunity"
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David Kaye
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i look forward to debates over this, which given US power projection, will no doubt come sooner or later
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Hayes Brown
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It’s the way the Roberts opinion praises itself for not deciding what an “unofficial act” is right now, while hamstringing any attempt to prove what one is in the meantime, and very loudly ignoring that any answer they dislike will just be overturned by them later
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Hayes Brown
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It’s the way the Roberts opinion praises itself for not deciding what an “unofficial act” is right now, while hamstringing any attempt to prove what one is in the meantime, and very loudly ignoring that any answer they dislike will just be overturned by them later
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Hayes Brown
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new from me: the opinion in Trump v. United States is a John Roberts special, creating an immunity test meant to give the veneer of wide applicability beyond Trump while clearly skewed towards a single predetermined outcome
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Quinta Jurecic
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Quinta Jurecic
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Trump will not stop pushing if you give him a slap on the wrist; he will push as far as he can possibly go. We've already seen this in action when the House failed to impeach him over the Mueller report and he immediately embarked on extorting Ukraine
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Hayes Brown
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Only for federal crimes tho!
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Hayes Brown
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Like if your boss knows that he can’t get in trouble for something but orders you to do it, with a high chance you’ll take the fall, how long does that system work?
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Hayes Brown
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Who’s gonna be the guy who decides to be the test case for whether this criminal immunity for super official acts extends to staffers directly told to break the law
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Hayes Brown
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the immunity ruling manages to both be written as though the criminal case against Trump is a frivolous civil suit and like he’s An Average President instead of a living embodiment of The Worst Case Scenario
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Radley Balko
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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.
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Adam Bonin
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Justice Jackson: the next time a President wants to fire his attorney general, he has options.
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Hayes Brown
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just thinking about how much of the dread situation we currently face was completely avoidable in so many way
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Hayes Brown
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shorter SCOTUS: let’s let the president get away with crimes this time, as a treat
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Chris Geidner
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First is Corner Post. Barrett has the court's 6-3 ideological decision holding that APA claims accrue from plaintiff's injury, not the date of the final rule — opening up all rules to possible new challenges. Jackson writes the dissent for the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Hayes Brown
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new from me: I went back to look at the Curse of the Incumbent, the strange affliction that has settled on every recent sitting president (except one, mostly) during their first debate when trying to get re-elected
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Hayes Brown
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the only mood his compliments should inspire:
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Bryce Covert
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A nice little summary of just some of what's at stake after the Supreme Court's decision to get rid of the Chevron doctrine last week www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Matt Novak
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"Most of the campaign’s significant war chest would fall to Vice President Kamala Harris, Chavez Rodriguez said, according to two people familiar with the discussion. Only a smaller pool of money would be kept by the Democratic National Committee."
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