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KC Momkin@kc-momkin.bsky.social |
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KC Momkin
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I think it is the precise opposite. They cost so much money BECAUSE they take so long, and money matters more. Media makes more money, too. If the election season were shortened by law, it would become cheaper.
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KC Momkin
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Could you address the least awful way to restore rule of law, without letting the cheaters win?
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KC Momkin
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If you changed "principled" to "unprincipled," it would be okay. Can't read this, but if you actually were unnerved by Trump, wouldn't you want to reign him in with the limits available?
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KC Momkin
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Could he be disqualified?
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Paul Crider
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This but unironically.
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KC Momkin
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Did Trump lose at bocce ball?
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KC Momkin
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They promised me they'd publish my story first: "Why I don't play to win, and you shouldn't either (especially when you are playing against me)."
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KC Momkin
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And there are all kinds of actions we can take while sorting out how to restore the rule of law. We don't have all the answers, but we can't freeze up and do nothing out of confusion. Keep searching.
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KC Momkin
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Kind of funny that the "Tea Party" Republican movement wound up restoring the king.
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KC Momkin
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Trying to trick people into feeling powerless. Learned helplessness is a thing, and abusers find it easier when people acquiesce.
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KC Momkin
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My parents have a estate plan with health care directives and power of attorney forms. Would it be comforting to spell out the political version of this for Biden/Harris? Nothing is ever certain...Paul Wellstone, Scalia, RBG, Kennedy, Lincoln....the fact that he is old isn't the only concern.
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KC Momkin
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Making comments like this is one of the reasons people find you credible. You were there, and you aren't embellishing or making stuff up for clicks.
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Stephen Wolf
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The New York Times found it appropriate to publish this drivel on Independence Day just one week after the Supreme Court ruled that Republican presidents are above the law.
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KC Momkin
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They can try to do this, but they are using legislative and executive powers that were not given to them.
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KC Momkin
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We did not break the rule of law, they did. Now we have to figure out how to restore it. But they f'd up the system with disingenuous tests, rules, and findings.
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KC Momkin
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The recent opinions are usurpations of powers that belong to the legislature, the executive branch, and the People. Interpreting the law is radically different from writing out core separation of power elements from the Constitution. Anyone who swore an oath to the Constitution should cry foul.
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KC Momkin
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I can't think of Jabba the Hut without thinking of Pizza the Hut, which seems more like Trump anyway.
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KC Momkin
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KC Momkin
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Umm, aren't they all doing what Pecker admitted he was doing?
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KC Momkin
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They swore to interpret it faithfully. This is a completely disingenuous ruling that does far more than "interpret." It overrides and rewrites the Constitution in a way that is amending and legislating. This is usurpation of Congressional and Presidential powers written in the Constitution.
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jaguarr
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This story hits a little harder now that the jury documents for Epstein's case have been released (and Trump's name is ALLLLLL over those documents). Again, mainstream media is burying this story for Trump.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Julian Sanchez
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This is your annual advance reminder that you will never look at a photograph or video of fireworks again, nor will it be of any real interest to your social media contacts. Just look with your own gelatinous human eyes.
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KC Momkin
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We all have to make our own choices. Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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KC Momkin
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Also, Biden should order all executive branch officials not to follow legal rulings that improperly write out significant parts of the Constitution, as they have sworn oaths to uphold the Constitution. We did not create this Constitutional crisis, but it is here and we must push back loudly.
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KC Momkin
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Look, did the Ukraine hand their country over to Putin? I am not talking about wishing for things for free. Our grandparents did not fight in WWII for us to just roll over for that gross goon. But significant steps need to be taken while Biden is still president.
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Greer
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Force them to do it. Don't surrender preemptively. And also assert that whatever the DoJ does--as a part of the Executive--is presumptively legal under new Supreme Court precedent. Up-to-and-including ignoring Judicial Branch dicta.
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KC Momkin
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I think they were testing the waters with the disqualification case. They just wrote out part of an Amendment, and everyone accepted it. So why not just write out other parts of the Constitution?
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Bethany Albertson
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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.
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KC Momkin
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I would like Jack Smith...in his briefing to the Judge...to point out that SCOTUS doesn't have the power to rewrite the Constitution by removing the separation of powers, checks, and balances. As such, anyone who swore an oath to the Constitution needs to rule as faithfully as possible to that doc.
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KC Momkin
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Against enemies foreign and domestic. I don't want my child growing up in a world where this SCOTUS and Trump can just bulldoze the Constitution.
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KC Momkin
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I don't think the Constitution was blank. It says Presidents can be held accountable. Roberts doesn't have legislative power, and this was a gross usurpation of ordinary process.
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KC Momkin
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I for one think shrugging and laughing when we only have a few months is not a productive use of our time. We can let them do this easily by abdicating in advance, or we can make it very, very hard.
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KC Momkin
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Look, we routinely say generals shouldn't follow illegal orders that involve the slaughter of civilians. There are already governors who have ignored court orders. This opinion knowingly destroys the separation of powers on the Constitution. So should all officials who tool oaths shrug?
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KC Momkin
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It happened, but the Judicial Branch relies on the Executive Branch for all enforcement. They take it for granted that all lower court judges, governors, prosecutors, and so on will respect their decisions. But this puts pressure on all officers who swore an oath to the Constitution to defend it.
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KC Momkin
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I mean, that didn't stop them from trying. I think a large number of lower court judges (and Jack Smith) should state they cannot follow a decision that side-steps the Constitutionally mandated process for changing core elements of the Constitution. It would be contrary to their oaths of office.
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KC Momkin
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The courts do not have the legislative authority to write out core elements of the Constitution. That would need to be done via amendments and bills signed into law.
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KC Momkin
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It is the difference between expecting to "find" a pre-built perfect community vs. someone who expects to "build" a community over time through exploration and trial and error.
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KC Momkin
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2/... time consuming, unclear, difficult, and vulnerable to routine reinterpretation by SCOTUS. This was an overreach, as you cannot IMO alter the Constitution this significantly without a legislative process.
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KC Momkin
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The opinion wasn't written to clarify things for the lower courts based on a good faith interpretation of Constitution (which they swore to uphold). It was written to "legally" undo Constitutional limits on the president that are the bedrock of our system. By making accountability extraordinarily...
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KC Momkin
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Sue autocorrect for negligent infliction of emotional distress.
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KC Momkin
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Your phrasing captures things more descriptively.
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Philip Bump
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I think it's funny that there have been all these close reads of the DNC rules about their candidates as if they are somehow set in stone. It's the party's rules! They can just change them completely! It's not the law!
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KC Momkin
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It will get harder the longer we wait. It is much safer to raise one's voice when Biden is president and is in charge of DOJ.
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KC Momkin
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KC Momkin
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It is just a fig leaf for those who are in the know and a talking point for the rubes silly enough to think they are smart.
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KC Momkin
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I hope it doesn't come to this, but the book "Wilmington's Lie" is a warning. www.npr.org/2020/01/13/7...
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KC Momkin
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But Ashley Babbit was a white conservative, so that isn't even true.
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J.M. Berger
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Everyone else is focused, rightly, on the threat, so let me just remind you that it will not remain bloodless, whatever the left decides to do or not to do.
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Eileen Clancy
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Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today.
Short thread with video on Twitter:
x.com/LiteraryMous...
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KC Momkin
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Well, there are an awful lot of movies and books about how horrible things are under dictators and wackos, many of them based on true stories. So lots of people do know cause they found out. It's why the evil queen or evil king in kids flicks is always yelling "off with his head!"
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