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southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social |
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Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail.
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The New York Times
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Breaking News: The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, HBC, is said to have agreed to a $2.65 billion deal to buy Neiman Marcus, further consolidating luxury retail.
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Seth D. Michaels
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if only Federalist 69 were just, in its entirely, Hamilton saying super clearly “sure, this constitution has one executive leader, but I can’t stress enough that it’s different from a king because a President is accountable, including to criminal law” avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
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James Downie
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If only a Founder made this exact point, in the Federalist Papers, to explain separation of powers.
Oh wait that's exactly what Madison wrote. "It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government." constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
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post malone ergo propter malone
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doesn’t count unless he earned the Medal of Honor himself
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southpaw
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He should have done events. Oh okay, he did events, but he should do them without a prompter. Oh okay, he did some of them without a prompter, but he needs to take questions in the form I specify. There is not going to be any end to this series because you’re not inclined to be persuaded.
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southpaw
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This is also not true, Max. The events the night of the debate were not on prompter and obviously the time he spent with voters at the watch party and the waffle house weren’t either.
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southpaw
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Except he did do a bunch of events? That night and the next day.
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ApocalypticaNow
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Imagine the high the nation's columnists would feel if they could push out not just another president, but THE president.
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Oden
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This is what they really want, isn’t it? Entertaining politics to write about. They beg for a brokered convention almost every POTUS election cycle. They want drama and clicks and to be relevant.
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Enron Hubbard
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why do they think normies want interesting politics? that was, you know, one of the knocks against the Trump admin: that the news was chaotic and awful every day!
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.
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southpaw
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“Politics would be interesting again,” is a hell of a thing to say generally and also, for these commentators, obviously untrue. Nothing about any replacement process will be as arousing to them as the prospect of forcing the renominated president out of the race with enough poison pen columns.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.
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Popehat
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Yes, I didn’t consider the ludicrous possibility he could appeal because angry tweets are official acts. My vestigial connection to humanity occasionally impairs my ability to predict FedSoc arguments.
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Michael Hobbes
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Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Freya
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Same.
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southpaw
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Moreover, if the president then fails to set you free, you’d be entitled to another court order that says he’s a very naughty boy but the Founders didn’t want us to ruffle a hair on his naughty little head.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Gerry Doyle
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I say this while assiduously trying not to cast aspersions on any person or outlet in particular but if you beat a particular drum for months; see a particular event as vindication for doing so; write piles of panicky copy as a result; then see polling contradict you... ... maybe take a knee?
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Seth Cotlar
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This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.
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darth™️
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google there is a simple solution right in front of u also u could google it and u would see the problem the simple solution would fix
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Hunter Walker
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Before Being Disbarred Rudy Tried To Blame His 2020 Lies On ‘Postelection Stress’ talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Catbus
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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Dr. Holly Walters
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Don't forget the Sharpie.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary…
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Joshua J. Friedman
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NEW: Judge Merchan postpones Trump's sentencing till September (full letter via Tyler McBrien, Lawfare)
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Kashana
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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.
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Bloomberg
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BREAKING: Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush-money criminal case is delayed to Sept. 18
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Philip Bump
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CNN's new poll doesn't establish some failsafe alternative to Biden for Democrats. But it does run against the twin ideas that the debate itself doomed Biden and that Harris isn't a viable alternative. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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southpaw
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Paul Crider
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Douglass speaks urgently to our crisis. "It was an honest president backed up by ... people ... who regarded society as superior to its forms... They resolved to save the country with the Constitution if they could, but at any rate to save the country. To this we owe our present safety as a nation."
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southpaw
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I don’t put much stock in election prognostication. We don’t actually know what will be popular. But the argument is not that it’s a can’t-miss electoral strategy for Democrats, but that all Americans need an effective federal policy to deal with this burgeoning authoritarian movement.
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Spencer Ackerman
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I don't know how many years of my life I've been writing Close-Guantanamo-Before-It's-Too-Late stories and while this would be a highly ironic end for Liz "The al-Qaeda Seven" Cheney the joke won't be funny for very long
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southpaw
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After the Court’s decision yesterday, I think there’s an argument from necessity for Biden seizing Trump and trying him by military tribunal, given the sudden unavailability of Article III courts. Plus, itʼs just the sort of thing they’ve authorized an active and energetic chief executive to do.
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southpaw
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What a strange question. It matters because he has been a major figure in New York politics, a major surrogate for Trump who is kind of an important, though abnormal, political figure, and a major conspirator in an effort to overturn a valid election.
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southpaw
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Giuliani disbarred www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/n...
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ryan cooper
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I suppose no surprise in a fascist movement, but wild that *this guy* is their heroic ubermensch, and the crisis worthy of destroying 250 years of democracy is ... uh, some historically meager immigration and trans people drinking a beer?
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southpaw
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Not so. The law, in its majestic equality, … www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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southpaw
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As part of an official televised event to raise awareness for unhoused issues, sleep outside in public in Grants Pass, Oregon.
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Boyds Historical Society
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What's *conservative* about a decision that actually the Founding Fathers did kinda intend for the president to be a king? What is this decision conserving?
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southpaw
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ty
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southpaw
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Can we maybe get this bullshit updated?
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Gavin Newsom would drown his mother to be president so the fact that he’s not open to any ballot-overhaul schemes should tell you a lot about whether that has a ghost of a chance of making him president
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southpaw
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But that’s table stakes. This Supreme Court would also send him to prison.
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Shiv Ramdas
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the fact that the left and centre in France have both said that the third place candidates will drop out is getting basically no play in a US press going full apeshit over Round 1 results and yes it is so that you think fascism is inevitable globally so why not here
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Jacob T. Levy
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Can't be impeached because presidential impeachment has been a dead letter since parties came into existence. Can't be disqualified from office. And can't be prosecuted for crimes committed under color of office.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.
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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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Pwnallthethings
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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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