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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom
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Great headline
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Pyperkub
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Not just Nixon, but also Spiro (I solicited and accepted bribes **in The White House**) Agnew. www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
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John McCall
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This is a great piece. I’m sad to say that I’ve finally given up on the Times, though, and in a bit less than a month, I’ll have to make do with just reading you here
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B. Travern
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Johnny "Balls and Strikes" Roberts just retconning the unitary executive into Article II.
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Don Dechert
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Wow! That vindication of Nixon was really the thread I also thought of regarding the opinion, leavened with Roberts Court power grab. Really seems like malpractice to mention the unitary exec outside of the historic events (Nixon, Reagan corruption/teflon President) that gave rise to the doctrine.
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Alan "the Truth shall make ye flee" J
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They haven't yet realized that the sword they just hung over everyone's heads cuts both ways.
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Слава Україні
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Yep. They've been super mad about Nixon, that's where so much of this weird shit comes from.
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Bruce Fulton
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Meanwhile, in your New York Times:
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Josh Dobbin
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I think I remember hearing or reading that Roger Ailes saying that the founding idea of FOX News was "if a news agency with our viewpoints were in place, Nixon would have never needed to resign."
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Dessel
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this reminded me a lot of how @foldablehuman.bsky.social described governance in decentraland, the crypto metaverse bs, where power is separated but fully unchecked within those spheres
truly embarrassing for the US govt to be compared to Decentraland
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Chrisby
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Your - never having to spend time in jail - card is ready.
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Ralf W
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Yup. And since the radical six have taken a fully political decision, one not flowing from the constitution or precedent, then the principal solution is also political: major court reform legislation. ASAP.
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Filipe Campante
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Yes, but the key is that their belief is that the “unitary executive” is for Republicans only — Democrats can and should be thwarted at every step. This decision perfectly threads that needle, by leaving in the hands of this Court the ability to decide whether and to whom immunity applies.
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amdiamanti
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This is THE way to read it.
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UnboughtAndUnbossed
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I see it as the end result of religious extremists seizing the courts as a means to impose dominion. It still smarts that the Court dealt a death blow to Jim Crow.
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Janet Linde
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A decision for the ages, J. Kavanaugh said. We all scratched our heads and wondered what he could possibly be thinking. Of course US law applies to a president, just like anyone else. Except Boofing Brett had other ideas.
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Flying Pace
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Definitely. I think we should also see it as a crime rather than a "ruling." A high crime against the state, a conspiracy against the people's rule, an abuse so severe that it warrants the arrest of the six crooked Justices and their co-conspirators (Leo, Crow). Court packing is the compromise now.
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Matthew
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Biden is writing strongly-worded complaints about how heavy the sword SCOTUS just handed him is and what terrible things Trump will do with it if he has to hand it to him next January. His desire to be ideologically pure is going to be the death of democracy. Biden is the wrong man for this moment.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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Roberts, Alito and Thomas all cut their teeth in a Reagan administration eager to expand the outer limits of executive power. Kavanaugh did the same under George W. Bush who tried to make the unitary executive a reality.
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Jeff Hancock
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1. Commit Crimes 2. Get Elected 3. Continue committing crimes related to the pre-election crimes 4. Claim "official act immunity" 5. Refuse to turn over documents that could prove they weren't "official acts" 6. Get out of jail free
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Virginia S. O'Possum
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The dead hand of Lee Atwater.
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sheilabjeletich.bsky.social
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Life is unfair. Nixon should be on the news programs crowing about he was right, he was right! What a disgusting era of politics. 🤮
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Taco Avenger
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Conservative justices watched the Frost/Nixon interview and walked out like Galileo, mumbling "and yet it moves"
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yeah, this is definitely what i'm seeing. they are all still majorly butt hurt that Nixon and the GOP generally got lambasted for decades for being a gang of thuggish dictatorial criminals, and they won't stop until they whitewash their greatest failure (in their eyes).
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HadEnoughRight-WingBS
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After months of waiting, and extending their term, the MAGAt Majority announces their decision that “it’s not illegal if a Republican does it,” and they and their allies want to pretend that nothing has changed.
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Mark Shatraw
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I was under the impression that Nixon was arguing that the president's conduct is always legal if conducted in the interest of national security. If ever that nuance was there, however, the Roberts Court made it disappear.
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Irene Seaborn
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Supreme Court; is in on the fix for Trump , and so is Jerome Powell of Wall St he’s waiting for Trump like he did in 2018 cutting interest Rate to 0% Billionaires & Millionaires do not want to pay taxes🚨🚨🚨
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Irene Seaborn
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So Trump won’t be held accountable, cause, the Supreme Court gave more power to him, yet he thinks he’s still President, working behind scene🚨🚨🚨🚨
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Hrender
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Agreed, the same cultists that thought Bork got a raw deal on his SC nomination.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Eden Gallanter
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I just want to say how much I appreciate your work. This is all very scary, and your clear, sensible opinion pieces are a breath of fresh air amid the hysteria I seem to encounter everywhere else. I’d much rather spend my energy in understanding what is happening than panicking, if that makes sense
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Susan (George) Schorn
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This is the only part of the NYT worth reading, TBH.
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Father Jim's Flapjacks
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They've worked so long to make it happen
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@kandoh.bsky.social
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They're all still obsessed with Bork, never got over his rejection to the Supreme Court. Personally blames every liberal for that injustice
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In An Octopus’s Garden…
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It’s ALWAYS about the long-held grievances with these cretin.
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CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
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When I was 25, I was working down in Austin for an environmental non profit, and early one day, I was asked to go with our group's lobbyist to the capitol building downtown. She wanted a young white man from the country to help her chat with the old white men from the country about our water bill.
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David Kaye
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not only nixon but w and the entire post 9/11 detention/torture apparatus
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Steve Watts
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"Trump v. United States" is a pretty apt description of this whole period of American history tbh
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Firebrand
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So with Stare Decisis dead that means that this will be undone/redone when/if the political makeup of the court changes, right?
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Jim Ray
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I’ve always understood the rise of right wing media as a direct reaction to Watergate. Took em a little longer to use the courts to enact the same project on the executive branch.
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Kevin J. Miller
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Keep waiting for someone to bring this up, but so far no: Prohibition. The law said 1 thing, the American people said nope. The idea that the people will go along with a law that they think is wrong is WRONG. It's why pot is pretty much legal now. "Oh, you have immunity? How well do you duck?"
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anitamargarita
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I first read about the unitary executive in an article about Roberts’ history at doj when Bush nominated him to scotus.
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reality check 🤔🤷♂️
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"If the president is a king, then we are subjects, whose lives and livelihoods are only safe insofar as we don’t incur the wrath of the executive. And if we find ourselves outside the light of his favor, then we ... find ourselves, in effect, outside the protection of the law."
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jed
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