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Informema@informema.bsky.social |
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Lifelong learner. Fun header image credit: flic.kr/p/8ergyT
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Informema
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No Democratic President going forward should allow their oath of office to be administered by John Roberts. The next oath should be administered by someone like Capital Police Officer Eugene Goodman or a woman who has been victimized by the Dobbs decision.
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Is there any good case for Biden resigning instead of simply finishing his term while dropping from the campaign?
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Biden can say, “This administration is doing a great job, and I’m going to finish my term, but it’s clear I’m not as good at campaigning as I used to be, and we need to defeat the felon.” Then Harris can focus on campaigning instead of the time-consuming job of being President.
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Remembering when Trump pulled the “hardly knew ‘em” about Manafort, Stone, Cohen, E. Jean Carroll…
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¡Imunidade absoluta!
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That conversation with a parent when we say it’s time to take away the car keys.
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Leave the race or the WH? The former seems preferable.
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The season 1 finale of Survivor brought in nearly twice the viewership as that of The Apprentice. Just saying.
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SCOTUS’s approval is basically equivalent to that of Brexit, in case there was any question of whether Democrats should run on buyer’s remorse for Bush-Trump justices.
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I have left the cult of biology. It is a pagan faith.
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Trump could keel over tomorrow, but the lessons he has provided bad actors on how to play the system will reverberate for decades.
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Yes. Trump’s base loves the strong man. But we shouldn’t mistake the concerns of the marginal voters in swing states over Biden’s age as the same thing. I think they’re better described as having risk aversion, so Harris (or Biden, if necessary) needs to show that Trump presents the greater risk.
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It would take a dozen verses to get through the first Trump administration. I can’t even imagine a second – or maybe the fire just stops burnin’.
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Pardons: Core power Nominating Supreme Court Justices: Core Power Promising a pardon for anyone who provides an opportunity to nominate a new justice: absolute immunity.
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The President can assassinate a justice at an official event, such as the State of the Union Address, which is why Thomas never attends.
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I don’t see how their relationship could have even been investigated.
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No Lewinsky or Clinton testimony or evidence would have been admissible in the Paula Jones suit either, given that she worked for the President, right?
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I wonder if it would be more straightforward to require all pardons get approval from a Board of Pardons consisting of members appointed by the House, Senate, President, and appellate court system?
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“Accomplice” seems tricky to establish. Would Roger Stone have been considered an accomplice? Bannon? Was Caspar Weinberger an accomplice of GHW Bush? Who decides?
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Five years ago I might have been upset about using a Presidential speech at the White House to pronounce on the dangers of your campaign opponent, but for many reasons – including the decision this morning – it’s hard to care now.
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In 2016 Trump was consistently able to offer the prospect of changing the court with one hand and the “threat” of Clinton with the other. SCOTUS is deeply unpopular and a good place to direct public frustration.
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Despite today’s ruling I bet Alito, Thomas, Roberts et al would uphold a conviction of Biden for a Hatch Act violation for giving a campaign speech at the White House tonight.
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So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!
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I can’t imagine Trump would allow any special counsel investigation or inspector general investigation that he doesn’t want in a second term after today’s decision.
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“Roberts is, in actuality, usurping the Article II authority of DOJ to prosecute crimes exclusively in the case of a former President, adopting that power to the judiciary.”
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I assume no respectable law school would hold an event in which Taney was to be honored, so the same should be true of Roberts going forward, right?
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Popehat
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/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.
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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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Another would be to call for legislation for an age 75 limit for federal officials (including justices), and use that as the excuse to hand the campaign over to Harris.
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This won’t happen since a third of the senators are aged 70+, but if it were to happen there would be no need to stack SCOTUS if Alito, Thomas, and Roberts have aged out. And it would be a real commitment to the electorate for fresh governance ideas.
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Biden should hand off the campaign to Harris, and the Democratic Party should rally around an anti-gerontocracy campaign, promising to support legislation for an age limit of 75 for serving as President, in Congress, *and as a judge/justice*.
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The point of the list is to put the the moral illegitimacy of this court and the question of its future front-and-center as an election issue in the media, like Trump did to energize conservatives who otherwise wouldn’t have voted in 2016.
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.
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I hope the gratuities that Roberts is expecting for making a joke of the court will be worth it.
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Publish a list of ethical justice candidates that he’ll consider to replace Thomas or Alito if one of them dies in his second term.
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Have any insurrectionists filed a brief yet arguing that their participation in the insurrection was an official act deputized by the President to protect the election?
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They already declared large sections of charges and evidence as out-of-bounds without even a hearing.
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A reminder that Trump’s 2016 win was in large part because of, “but Gorsuch”. If Democrats don’t run against this SCOTUS majority with three R justices who will be in their 70s or 80s in the next President’s term…
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SCOTUS also casually decided today that it’s not a prosecutable obstruction for a President to self-pardon.
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*60 senators.
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Why? SCOTUS just dismissed large parts of the case as being under the barest fig leaf of “official conduct” without any hearing.
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Also just tossing it out there, but SCOTUS saying "we need to do this to protect executive authority" when it's literally the executive branch arguing they shouldn't, sort of gives the lie to the idea this was about protecting constitutional departmental interests as opposed to protecting Mr Trump
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“Fuck SCOTUS” flags outside of every justice’s summer vacation home.
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I’m not even sure how the new AG could be prosecuted for following the order under SCOTUS’s separation-of-powers reasoning, but, regardless, the President can simply pardon the AG in another official act.
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When you effectively remove all legal avenues of justice against a President who uses their power against the people all that remains is vigilante justice, which itself is destabilizing to society.
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Julia Azari
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i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate
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Arguably even before this term none of the six MAGA justices should have been treated respectfully at any professional event, but after this term it seems inarguable. Why should legal professionals treat anyone with respect who conspires against the law?
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SCOTUS has given the President a green light to shoot them during a state of the union address with impunity.
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John Pfaff
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Pack the Court with 1000 new justices, reverse 80% of its recent decisions, and then strip it of 99% of its jurisdiction. This Court is absolutely lawless and beneath contempt. And should be treated accordingly.
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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