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David Noll @david.noll.org [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

"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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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:00 UTC

When you make this point defenders say Nixon was at risk for prosecution for unofficial actions which tells me they have never read the articles of impeachment drawn up against Nixon.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

right, these schools are so selective that if the single best student at every high school in the US applied to say, Harvard, the vast majority would be rejected.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

i was one of the top students at my high school and i had people *in my class* tell me i only got to UVA because of affirmative action

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

that’s 23 too many for these people

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

it is relevant inasmuch that even a prosecution of the interrogator may want to bring evidence of illegal intent from the white house

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:38 UTC

don i have basically been unable to function since the decision came down

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

I guarantee that if that dentist’s kid does not get into their preferred college, that dentist will still blame affirmative action. The unspoken belief is that people like them *deserve opportunity* and people who don’t look like them do not.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

you joke but the literal minute my hire was announced there were people at other publications screaming on the internet that i was an unqualified diversity hire

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

before they go after the 64 CRA they are going to weaponize it to make it illegal to address discrimination.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:09 UTC

but they know this too. their belief is that white men ought to be entitled to the most valuable and prestigious positions irrespective of whether they can actually perform in them.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

exactly. the idea that there is a single and reliable way to judge “merit,” that this can be purely quantitative and that job performance is a straightforward function of “merit” should be ridiculous to anyone who has held a job

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:01 UTC

it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:00 UTC

for these people the mere presence of any nonwhite person, and especially any black person, in a desired and prestigious position is on its face evidence of anti-white discrimination and unfair preferences.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:58 UTC

this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:48 UTC

under the opinion in trump v. united states there was no need for john yoo to come up with an elaborate justification for torture. george w. bush could have ordered an interrogator to crush the testicles of a child, no questions asked.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

oh, you might say, the president can’t issue corrupt pardons. ah. but john roberts says that not only can he issue corrupt pardons, but if he tells his staff they are corrupt in the course of issuing them, that evidence is inadmissible in the event that you could somehow prosecute the corruption

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