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Peter
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no this is normal
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37296 followers 200 following 1169 posts
No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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no this is normal
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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bzzt bzzt (i’m a little bee in the K Hive)
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Peter
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i’ll admit i thought he had the juice for the campaign until the debate, because he pulled it together every time he needed to. Every debate, every state of the union, etc. was always prefaced by people saying Biden didn’t have it and being proven wrong. but they were bound to be right eventually.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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in 2020 “Biden is too old” was a big narrative going into the first debate with Trump, but he performed well and shut the concerns down. Ever since then, concerns about his age have had a boy who cried wolf element to them, and i think that’s part of why so many people were caught off guard.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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if you are killed you can seek a declaratory judgment finding that you shouldn’t have been killed.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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if you’re asking what my solution to the ascendance of fascism is i don’t have one. if you’re asking what’s better than larping and nihilism I’d say literally any form of political organization.
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Daniel Feldman
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies
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5-4 Podcast
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🚨 EMERGENCY EPISODE: Trump v. United States 🚨 By a 6-3 decision, we live in a monarchy.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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“i cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about this” is so perfect
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Peter
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this basically serves the same purpose as QAnon shit on the right. it projects itself as an aggressive form of political engagement, but it’s really just a retreat into fantasy and nihilism
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Peter
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the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
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Peter
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right. the narrow version is something like: Roberts held that the direction of the DOJ is a core power, as are communications with executive branch members about official business. Everything else is theoretically in the air.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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there’s a narrow reading where it’s untouched: The Court says there’s immunity if the President is acting within his powers, and Youngstown reflects a limit on those powers. in practice I don’t know how you square Roberts’ articulation of executive power with Youngstown.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the modern American right has always been the sludge that Nixon left behind, so it makes sense that their courts would eventually exonerate him in some form or another
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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I know this is tongue in cheek, but the point is that the limitation is the scope of the office as the Court sees it. within that scope, it’s open season. so under the majority’s logic, for example, there’s really no limit to what the president could use the military for.
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Peter
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the simple way to think about it is that the office of the presidency is a gun. the Court has held that when you become the President, you have an unfettered right to use that gun any way you please. an insane decision.
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Peter
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reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.
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Peter
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throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one
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Peter
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i'm not the first to say this, but this is very similar to the "generic democrat" effect (in polling, an unnamed democrat or republican will often do better than actual politicians because there's no associated baggage). people are hyped on "someone else" but not on anyone in particular.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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i really don't know what to think about the biden situation, but i have a few friends who are gung ho "biden needs to resign" types and it's funny to watch them all get hyped up and then immediately deflate when i say "so, kamala?"
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the thing about legal scholarship is that it’s much more fake than even soft sciences, so there’s a colorable argument for just never citing people you hate
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Peter
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half of the responses sharing my dread and the other half immediately jumping in to point their fingers. it’s gonna be so rough.
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Peter
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see what i mean folks
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Peter
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the finger pointing between the left and the center if Trump wins is going to be unbearable
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Peter
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I’m not really interested in defending biglaw partners but this is very obviously much worse behavior than the average biglaw partner and is on par with the worst partner behavior I’ve ever heard about
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Peter
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the gist of this story is that Robbie is a powerful and successful liberal attorney who is also an abusive boss. Lithwick is using her pretty considerable platform and influence to defend her because they are friends.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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Dahlia Lithwick’s defense of Robbie Kaplan makes me a little sick. Contrast Dahlia’s tweets with some excerpts from the story she’s referencing.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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sure, but that doesn’t change the point. Biden’s actions exist in a vacuum to a lot of people, and that might change as Trump gets more prominent
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Peter
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if you’re a low to medium information voter who cares about Palestine, your calculus is basically “Biden hasn’t handled this well, I’m less interested in voting for him.” Trump’s express racism on the issue might change that calculus.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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i don’t think anyone serious has suggested that Trump would improve the lives of Palestinians, but i do wonder how many Biden-skeptical folks will return to the fold once they’ve seen more of Trump’s rhetoric about Gaza
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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San Francisco politicians, for instance, made a big stink of this. “The 9th Circuit is saying we have to let homeless people camp in public!” But that was never true, they were only saying you have to provide the people you displace with a place to sleep. A pretty basic requirement!
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the 9th Circuit never said that you can’t, e.g., bust up homeless encampments. They just said that before you do, you need to provide shelter beds, otherwise you’re just being punitive and cruel. An extremely basic a call for decency, but many West Coast city leaders were outraged
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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one element of Grants Pass is that it’s not just about whether you can enforce anti-camping laws against the homeless. it’s about whether you can enforce those laws **even when you haven’t provided adequate shelter beds**
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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it’s a long shot, but it would basically guarantee a Biden win if sometime between now and the election he became the Jeopardy champion
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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95% of the “Biden must step aside” argument rests on wishcasting a perfect storm: Biden steps down gracefully, there’s minimal fallout for Dems, Kamala steps aside, a talented young gun steps in and performs well. It’s not impossible but to act like it’s a layup is nuts.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the end of Chevron deference is another manifestation of the fact that the Roberts Court doesn’t view itself as part of the constitutional order as much as lording over it
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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i don’t mean to judge but i feel like a lot of you would benefit mentally and emotionally from simply not watching presidential debates
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Nathan K. Hensley
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
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the bill says that Palestinians will get no aid if they try to report war crimes
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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for years i toiled at a biglaw firm, working long hours and stressing over every little issue. but now i can finally enjoy the spoils: i’m buying a lightly used honda accord
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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my post was genuinely hampered by the character limit because the list of things you’d need to satisfy them that something is a bribe is too long
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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it’s not just that, e.g., Clarence Thomas loves to be bribed. the conservatives really believe that spoils rightfully accrue to the powerful, and that exchanges of money and power are a natural and just part of politics
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on corruption is basically at a point where the only thing that counts as a bribe is someone handing a public official a giant bag of money with a dollar sign on it while saying “this is a bribe” out loud
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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this is the season of deep and insurmountable contradictions (hot outside, chilly in the supermarket)
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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not doing anything unethical just trying to make fun of Eric Adams
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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is there a free or affordable tool for replicating celebrity/politician voices with AI?
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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everyone in town gathered around the kissing couple at the end of the movie doing the tomahawk
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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when we first launched 5-4, a serious concern was what to do when we run out of terrible Supreme Court decisions. in retrospect it is very embarrassing that we were ever worried.
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