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Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social |
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Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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Angus Johnston
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Just ... the idea that Biden stepping down and Kamala rolling out her campaign—platform, veep, strategy, interviews, debates—that that would be BORING? Forget everything else that's wrong with that passage, you're looking at the most West-Wing-ass shit to happen this century and yawning?
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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I am an upper-middle class white guy but it consistently blows my mind that the Trump plan to put a permanent ICE contingent every Latino neighborhood (because that's what it would take to deport every illegal immigrant) has garnered almost no coverage. They're aren't kidding, they're gonna try.
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Larry Glickman
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It’s undeniable that the Biden campaign is in crisis and worthy of intensive coverage and headlines of this sort. But there is another crisis that threatens to upend and weaken, if not destroy, our democracy. The contrast in how the Times is covering these related crises is striking.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old
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Larry Glickman
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Durbin pulling his punches so as not to “ruffle the feathers” of Republicans is yet another example of preemptively attempting to prevent an expected backlash. Trying to placate the right in this way has failed over and over again, and it is important to note that the GOP rarely if ever does this.
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Sean
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this is even more ludicrous! durbin could unilaterally prevent republicans from blocking nominations if he simply stopped the blue slip nonsense—something republicans themselves won't honor once in power. this democracy is cooked
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Larry Glickman
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This a really important point. Since the New Deal at least conservatism has been premised on the idea that they are losing that it is “five minutes to midnight,” that civilization hangs in the balance, and that emergency politics is justified. I track this history in my book, FREE ENTERPRISE.
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Jason O. Gilbert
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In awe of this tweet, which truly captures everything bad about mainstream journalism in 2024
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Holly Brewer
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My article for @newrepublic
“The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.”
newrepublic.com/article/1833...
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Paul Rosenberg
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So, today's decision has even LESS support than Dobbs:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...
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Chris O'Leary
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Probably one of the most consequential moments for the future of our democracy and the @nytimes.com still does this. Fuck them every way to Sunday.
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Larry Glickman
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I recommend this book if you want to read about a great Supreme Court Chief Justice, who made the United States a fairer, more democratic country.
wwnorton.com/books/978087...
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Ashley Fairbanks
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This coming week, temperatures in Death Valley will be the hottest in the recorded history of this planet. Beryl is the earliest category four storm in the history of Atlantic hurricane season. People, both now and in the future, need us to stave off fascism and build a world where they can live.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Radley Balko
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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Seth Cotlar
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Here it is. www.youtube.com/live/vtc_n4T...
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Seth Cotlar
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Biden’s statement was really good, IMO. And very effectively delivered.
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Coach Finstock
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Gotta say, even my largely politics-is-not-for-me relatives on Facebook are having a fucking conniption over the SCOTUS ruling. My uncle posted "We left England because we don't want a King. Charles is an inbred." I'm not sure what one has to do with the other, but he's right.
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Eric Rauchway
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I wrote a quick note about the time Roosevelt prepared a speech in which he proposed to fight a Supreme Court ruling. 🗃️
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history
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Benjamin Dreyer
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Good for her. Do it.
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Asher Elbein
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On the other hand: this is usefully clarifying. No more fucking around. I will be voting for Biden in November to block Trump from re-ascending to power. No kings in America.
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Chris Hayes
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Yes!!!!! Exactly this!!!
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Greg Pak
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Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.
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Jonathan Ladd
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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.
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Larry Glickman
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Where are the stories about the anger of ordinary people having their rights taken away by a rogue Supreme Court? I’ve read thousands of articles about Trumpist anger over the last eight years—but very few about the anger that the majority in this country have felt and continue to feel.
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Mary Lewis
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When is the mass demo against the SCOTUS? This is completely outrageous.
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Jonathan Ladd
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Larry Glickman
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Fair enough. But there is some urgency.
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Jonathan Bernstein
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Key point, exactly correct:
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Adam Bonin
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Thurgood Marshall's final dissent, June 27, 1991. And it's far worse than he imagined.
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Larry Glickman
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Where and when are the protests? Please report if know of any. There were massive protests just a few hours after the Dobbs decision was announced.
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Seth Masket
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Oh look a country where people strategically try to prevent the anti-democratic party from taking power
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Adam Serwer
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Larry Glickman
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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Yes, the consistent background assumption of the conservatives is that the cases against Trump are retaliation for ordinary presidential behavior and not an attempt to hold the former president accountable for aberrant and illegal behavior.
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Charles Gaba
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I realize this may seem a wee bit tone deaf today of all days, but under the circumstances this actually seems more relevant than ever:
#Blue24 June 2024 Fundraising Report: Up 79% vs. May; up 87% for the cycle!
blue24.org/24/07/01/jun...
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Larry Glickman
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And yet Trump and MAGA are full of grievance and anger and victimization. The rest of the country—the majority that didn’t want these extremist Supreme Court appointments made by presidents who lost the popular vote— should rightfully be angry over this undemocratic taking away of our rights.
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Jacob T. Levy
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Not one more minute of defensiveness from the Biden campaign, please. Not one more question answered about age or debates. All day, every day, a referendum on Trump's criminality and assault on the constitutional order, on what he would be like with blank check for his lawlessness.
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Don Moynihan
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction
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Larry Glickman
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Protests against this incredibly dangerous ruling should be as numerous and large as those against the Dobbs decision of 2022.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...
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Cooper Lund
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You heard it from NPR - this election is now a referendum on if Donald Trump can do crimes or not. Time to hammer that home to the American people!
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Hunter Walker
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We probably ought to have a conversation about a partisan court declaring Trump above the rule of law that is at least as intense as the one we've had about Joe Biden being very old.
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Daniel Gilmore
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It really is an indictment of the warpedness of our political news media institutions that the Dem Party doing something very precedented is considered this unconscionable aberration & the GOP doing something completely unprecedented is considered normal to the point of not even meriting comment
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Larry Glickman
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An analysis of how we got here is certainly reasonable, but it is worth noting that it is exceedingly rare for a party to reject the incumbent, and it is more anomolous that the GOP chose a multiply-indicted candidate who lost the last election and fomented a coup.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/u...
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