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MariposaRosa@mariposa17.bsky.social |
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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Boston Review
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We published a 3,000-word digestion of the 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” yesterday, here:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
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MariposaRosa
@mariposa17.bsky.social
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It is the weaponization of the mundane. The consequences could not be more dire for our country and the world.
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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When Chief Justice Roberts was nominated, many "wise people" in DC said that Democrats should be re-assured, because John Roberts was "an institutionalist before he was a partisan." If that ever was true (and I doubt it was), it is not true today. Today's Trump decision is pure partisanship.
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Popehat
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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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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Kevin M. Kruse
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I wrote a new piece for MSNBC on the ahistorical arguments the right is using to push religion in public schools.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.
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MariposaRosa
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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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Brendan Nyhan
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Vince Mpls
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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Robert Reich
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SCOTUS has ruled that presidents are essentially monarchs who can commit crimes, bribery is legal, federal regulatory agencies have no authority to keep us safe, and homeless people can be punished for being homeless. Is it any wonder why public approval of this court is so low?
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Yeah, it’s not just that he consistently dismisses very valid criticism of his insane opinions; it’s that he does it with a wholly unwarranted sneer of condescension.
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Don Zeko
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Sotomayor points out why this distinction between absolute and presumptive immunity that the majority introduces is essentially meaningless.
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Prisonculture
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Beyond his obvious problems, Biden is the worst possible person to be President in this historical moment. He doesn't speak about Supreme Court corruption because he's a supposed "institutionalist," he convened a "commission" which came to nothing, he has absolutely no fire to rally the country, etc
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people
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Helen Branswell
@helenbranswell.bsky.social
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As I said earlier, numbers could change — and they have. Minnesota has detected #H5N1 #birdflu in a 7th dairy cow herd. Brings the cumulative national number to 140. www.bah.state.mn.us/hpai
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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Kashana
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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”
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Nicholas Wallace
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
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Jamison Foser
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Also if you are 48 years old you have lived *your entire life to date* under the authority of a Supreme Court majority appointed by Republican presidents. It's a clear violation of the principle that governments derive legitimacy from the consent of the governed. Happy July 4th Week!
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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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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Pwnallthethings
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Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
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Max Kennerly
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Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.
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Miles Grant
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Continues to kill me that centrist and OFFICIAL BIDEN CAMPAIGN SURROGATE Gov. Maura Healey refused to say Biden should be the Democratic Party presidential nominee If centrists won't stand by the *sitting Democratic president*, there is no fight they will not slink away from
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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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always already time for the Judicial Reform Bill of 1937
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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Hannah Walser
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The Court has purported to strip us of all legal recourse for crimes committed by the most powerful person in the nation. Each and every one of us is now, effectively, at the mercy of an autocrat, who could order our death if he simply made the pretense of connecting it to his official duties.
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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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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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Jason Bailey
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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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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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MariposaRosa
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Radley Balko
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Good on MSNBC, here. (And my mistake, it was NBC, not MSNBC, that ran the original piece.)
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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The New York Times
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News Analysis: President Biden’s executive action to temporarily close the U.S.-Mexico border to asylum seekers is a “stunning reversal for a president and a party that spent years arguing that America was a country of immigrants,” Michael Shear writes.
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Karl Bode
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every time musk targets a female journalist like this he does it with complete awareness it will result in death threats sent to the reporter and like most fascist influencers that utilize this tactic he'll then pretend he's not responsible for the behavior of his weird little cultists
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Prisonculture
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I think of this every time the cops use gas on protesters:
"Tear gas is widely used by law enforcement, even though it may cause spontaneous abortion [ie miscarriages]"
and I wonder why the anti-abortion folks aren't up in arms... [i don't wonder]
www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...
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Nikhil Shah
@grandmastershah.bsky.social
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James is of America’s leading authorities on asylum and immigration law.
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Perry Bacon
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
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"Organizers, not only in Minneapolis but across the country, have symbolically linked policing as an institution with violence and managed to disrupt its pipeline of enforcers," writes @michellesphelps.bsky.social. Really good piece.
newrepublic.com/article/1818...
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Betty C. Jung
@bettycjung.bsky.social
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N95 respirator gets top billing in stopping SARS-CoV-2 viral leakage into the air www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/n95...
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Marc Elias
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We now know Donald Trump committed crimes to win his first election. We know that he committed crimes to try to overturn his second election. We are five months from the next election. Why would it be any different this time? Except that now, the GOP is his willing accomplice.
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Osita Nwanevu
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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.
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Fuck You I Quit
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I personally want to congratulate Donald Trump for finally winning a popular vote
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Anil Dash
@anildash.com
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this was always true
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Kate Starbird
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And now the "rigged election" rhetoric shifts to fully embrace — and perhaps even be replaced by — the "rigged courts" refrain.
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Joseph Fink
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Oh god that's the stuff
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