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James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social |
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Columnist and editor at MSNBC Daily. Formerly Washington Post. jim.downie@nbcuni.com
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James Downie
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"Essentially, the Court in Trump v. United States is declaring the Constitution itself unconstitutional." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Rick Hasen
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No, States Would Not Be Forced to Keep Biden on the Ballot If He’s Not the Democratic Party’s Nominee from the DNC electionlawblog.org?p=144245
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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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James Downie
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Granted, but OTOH, no one should make *any* decisions based on "will Heritage engage in fuckery?", given that the answer is always "yes."
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George Pearkes
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Quick thread about the labor market after continuing jobless claims rose much more than expected this morning. What are continuing jobless claims? These are the number of people who are currently receiving jobless benefits. This is hard, actual counts of people, not a sampled survey data set. 1/n
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James Downie
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Let's check in on how throwing trans people under the bus is going for Keir Starmer:
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James Downie
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Thirty years ago, guys like this were jackbooting around their living rooms, telling each other that "actually the judge can't enforce my restraining order because he didn't use the right stamp."
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James Downie
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One thing I'd add about the "shifting dynamic" around Biden's age is that many of these stories share a chronology: recent "weeks and months"/"since the previous fall"/"since last summer." There's reason to blame staffers, but as anyone with old relatives knows, the decline can be out of the blue.
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James Downie
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John Roberts: The left is just "fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals" Heritage Foundation: Bring on the violence.
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James Downie
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Evergreen post.
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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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James Downie
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Which is also basically the most recent polling in a nutshell.
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James Downie
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Jared Golden wants to assure Orange Man that he's one of the good ones, please don't drone him. www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...
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James Downie
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If only there were a single adjective to describe this. Perhaps in the form of a gerund.
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James Downie
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New poll leaked to Puck:
- National race unchanged (similar to other polls)
- *But* Biden "has fallen by around 2 points in every single core battleground."
- Trump close in Va., NM, Colo.
- Harris (and Whitmer/Newsom/Buttgieg) ahead of Biden in every battleground
puck.news/biden-plunge...
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James Downie
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The *only* reason Hunter Biden should be in the same room as the president and his aides is if they want to know what not to do.
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James Downie
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As a layman, I'm grateful that the actual experts are asking as well!
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James Downie
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The mocking right-wing profs are just echoing Roberts' opinion, no?
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James Downie
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Mitchell: "What are you hearing from donors?"
Pelosi: "I hear, uh...
*big pause*
"mixed...." youtu.be/KS0bJpw5x88?...
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James Downie
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Pelosi "trust[s Biden's] judgment" but says "it's a legitimate question to say, 'is this an episode or is this a condition?'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS0b...
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James Downie
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Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett becomes first Dem rep. to call on Biden to withdraw (via Igor Bobic). x.com/igorbobic/st...
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James Downie
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Evergreen reminder that when Fox News asked Trump to unseal the feds' Epstein files, Mr Deep State got super squirrely all of a sudden. news.yahoo.com/news/fox-new...
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James Downie
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Whatever you think Biden and his campaign should do next, I think we can all agree that "gaslighting your own donors" is not it.
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James Downie
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Well for some reason I'm a lot less confident that US Soccer will sack Berhalter than I was 12 hours ago. Does that count?
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James Downie
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Otoh, "patently absurd" is basically the Roberts Court's walk-out music.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say.”
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James Downie
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Gee if only someone were in a position to investigate such brazen corruption and hold those justices accountable. Ah well nevertheless...
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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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James Downie
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James Downie
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As Chief Justice Roberts knows, you can excuse an endless amount of crimes when you assume facts not in evidence.
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James Downie
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Roberts' rebuttal to Sotomayor and Jackson's dissents depends entirely on conservatives' assumption that liberals are equally corrupt. "The dissents overlook the more likely prospect of an Executive Branch that cannibalizes itself, with each successive President free to prosecute his predecessors."
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Jacob T. Levy
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James Downie
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Sotomayor: "In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law." Happy Fourth, everyone!
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James Downie
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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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James Downie
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"We've got Ja Rule on the phone; let's see what Ja's thoughts are."
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Philip Bump
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I can’t imagine asserting with unwavering confidence that I knew who was or wasn’t the best candidate against Trump.
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James Downie
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Scorched earth Kagan is by far the best Kagan.
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James Downie
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Well when one side's 2020 standard bearer is now 81 and the other's is 82,* no one's hands are clean. *(And the third most popular choice is now 75!)
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Adam Bonin
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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
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Peter
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one element of Grants Pass is that it’s not just about whether you can enforce anti-camping laws against the homeless. it’s about whether you can enforce those laws **even when you haven’t provided adequate shelter beds**
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Quinta Jurecic
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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter
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Osita Nwanevu
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Everything's complicated and my hesitation about replacing Biden up to now has been informed by polls showing other candidates not doing much better. But a lot of people seem remarkably certain that Harris specifically could not win a general election for reasons I think they should say out loud.
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James Downie
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"There is a tremendous amount of unfounded confidence that Democrats could find and nominate a more capable candidate than either Biden or Harris." -- @jbouie.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...
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Adam Serwer
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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.
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Adam Bonin
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There is a *very* sharp paragraph in Justice Kagan's dissent in Loper Bright on the dance this conservative majority has performed repeatedly to weaken liberal precedents en route to overturning them altogether -- on worker's rights, on the Establishment Clause, and on voting rights.
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Chris Geidner
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Kagan is reading from her dissent. Here's a key part:
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Jackson 🏳️🌈
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Liz Warren on twitter has the correct message for us going forward:
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James Downie
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Trump in 2020, Dubya in '04, HW Bush in '92 and Reagan in '84 all struggled in their first debate as well though. Pretty much every incumbent presidents struggles in the first debate.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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biden’s answers on trump’s personal conduct and on 1/6 are genuinely very, very good, not just by comparison, they are good, fucking hard hits
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Radley Balko
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Just reiterating this, because, unfortunately, it appears to be increasingly relevant.
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