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Moira Donegan

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Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Real piece of work.

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Getting kind of Weimar-y

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San Francisco! I’m excited to be at Booksmith on July 24 at 7 PM for the launch of Sarah Manguso’s LIARS—the most riveting and incendiary divorce novel I’ve ever read. Join us! www.booksmith.com/event/mangus...

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I missed him so much.

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They’ve certainly apportioned enough policymaking power to themselves that a Democratic President won’t be able to reverse many of their choices. But at least two, maybe three of the Republican appointees are eager to retire.

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Monte and I have been reunited and we are very happy to see each other.

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Honestly a dream come true?!

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We’ve graduated to IRL friends; btw you’re my emergency contact on everything now, hope that’s chill

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So John if the president sends Stanley Tucci to silently strangle you in a gay porn theater is that constitutional or

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Watching “The Pelican Brief” with John Roberts and making him tell me of every plot point is legal or not

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I wrote about the Supreme Court’s Trump immunity decision. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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Linda, what law?

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Thinking of the (now deceased) mentor who kept badgering me to to go law school, and how I would counter that it would be like getting a degree in the dodo bird.

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I mean if the president has the authority to order assassinations without fear of prosecution then I have some suggestions

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waiting for the torment box to tell me if i'm ruled by a god emperor

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

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If anything the Times article undersold the gravity of the cooperation with Cuomo. She didn’t just give him generic advice; she specifically told him to go ahead with an illegal retaliation scheme against one of his accusers.

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It would also be the kind of thing that would draw a real contrast between the parties, if only because it’s precisely something that Trump would never do, and which Republicans could never countenance.

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I don’t think Biden stepping aside would guarantee anything about the ultimate result of the election, but I do think it would be a genuinely, rarely honorable act of self-awareness and self-sacrifice for a greater good. He could spin it as a Cincinnatus gesture with some justification.

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Okay but also you really do exist in the co text of all that exists and that which came before you.

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The case for Harris in a nutshell. I’m not a big Harris fan but she is not only comfortable on abortion—an issue whose salience Biden has squandered—but she does an excellent job linking abortion and democracy. Plus, she’s the only possible replacement with any claim to democratic legitimacy.

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Tomorrow I will be reunited with Monte.

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After the past 18 hours I am now back to being mentally ill.

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Roberts, overruling Chevron with incredible and unearned hubris: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."

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The court’s recent abortion decisions illustrate what the conservative justices think their real responsibility is: improving Republicans’ electoral chances. I wrote about EMTALA. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump is a uniquely weak candidate: he has felony convictions, innumerable scandals, a bad and recent track record of governance, and what’s uniformly recognized as an odious, repugnant character. But he has something Biden doesn’t: the ability to campaign. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Gretchen Whitmer doing push-ups on the floor of her office while this plays in the background

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Can’t believe I forgot to mention the fennel!

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Just one? I’m going to need more cherries.

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Mom come pick me up they’re excusing the Supreme Court by understating their cynicism again

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Yesterday in Mendocino this raven perched on a shed near the bench I was sitting on and squawked at me indignantly until I gave him one of the cherries I was eating.

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Need someone to bottle the smell of California’s north coast. Cedar, eucalyptus, and salt water. Just walking outside feels like taking a deep whiff of extremely expensive soap.

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"But corruption, influence-peddling...are more subtle and complicated than this in practice. For an example, we need look no further than the conservative justices of the supreme court itself, who have become notorious...for accepting lavish gifts and chummy intimacy from rightwing billionaires."

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Well I mean, I’m the media and I think it sucks.

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Not to be grouchy but this was a calculated political move on the part of the court designed to produce exactly these kinds of headlines, and it’s frustrating that it worked.

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This is not what they ruled; they ruled than an injunction can stay in place while the case proceed through the lower courts. This headlines makes it sound like the Court vindicated the right to an emergency abortion; they did not.

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I wrote about Snyder v US, and how the Supreme Court yesterday legalized vast swaths of corruption for state and local officials of the kind that just happens to look a lot like their own personal conduct. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The best sandwich in New York (in California)

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But that’s not no-fault; the person who said they had an affair would be financially punished by the court in the resolution of the divorce. It also doesn’t allow for unilateral divorce—I.e., an escape when one person wants out and the other doesn’t.

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"Between 1976 and 1985, states that passed the laws saw their domestic violence rates against men and women fall by about 30%; the number of women murdered by an intimate partner declined by 10%; and female suicide rates declined by 8 to 16%."
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Could really be a generationally disastrous case. I’m sincerely a bit flummoxed as to why plaintiffs decided it was worth it to seek cert here.

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The Supreme Court will hear a case challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender affirming care for minors—and in the process, could severely curtail the application of the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause to sex and gender equality claims.

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