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southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social |
Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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Reki Variede
@rekivariede.bsky.social
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Oh hey, it's the first part of Project 2025!
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Carcinization Station
@desmigeo.bsky.social
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I'm just a smol bean, but isn't this what White House counsel has traditionally been used for specifically so DOJ doesn't have to be the President's lawyer?
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Dan B.
@freezed00.bsky.social
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As he *in*tended to do.
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Benny6Toes
@benny6toes.bsky.social
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So good old Gym Jordan is going to shut down his bad-faith weaponization of government thing now, right? I mean, the USSC just said it's perfectly okay to do so. So, surely, Gym will shut it down and apologize.
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@conantheyossarian.bsky.social
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Good catch. The the last 4 years of myopic information is going to come to a head at some point.
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Slick Sharkey, Esq.
@slicksharkey.bsky.social
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OAKCDROM.SYS
@xar.ph
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Does this retroactively mean Nixon did nothing wrong?
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Semi-feral Post Monger
@dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social
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This is like the Fourth of July sale emails I get from all the brands. Click through and one finds that Democratic exceptions apply
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Lauowolf
@lauowolf.bsky.social
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Damn, they must really believe Trump's going to win Or at least, take office
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C.V. Danes
@cvdanes.bsky.social
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A tiny nit, but why is 'care' capitalized in that sentence?
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Nerdahedron
@nerdahedron.bsky.social
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This also empowers Trump to go after his enemies (and simultaneously undercuts Trump's own line that Biden is in any way corrupt).
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Alfonso Adriasola
@aadriasola.bsky.social
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Merrick Garland is AG. Biden is president, what now
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Virogenes
@virogenes.bsky.social
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eeéeeee33³33³³3
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Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
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Did anyone ever claim that the Constitution *required* DOJ independence? Keeping hands off DOJ has only ever been a choice that Presidents usually made (for good reason). But Constitutionally, the DOJ is no more “independent” of Presidential control than the departments of Defense or Education are.
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The Book of the Void
@eddyrobinson.bsky.social
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Jim Jordan on suicide watch
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PKPs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elmo' 🙄
@powerfromspace1.bsky.social
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Impeach SCOTUS while u still can
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@leonceg.bsky.social
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"The *president's* chief law enforcement officer?"!!!!
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amdiamanti
@amdiamanti.bsky.social
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“Don’t bother coming to us when Project 2025 comes to life because we’re on board with it.”
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JeannetteBlue
@jeannetteblue.bsky.social
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Quoting a dissenting opinion, why?
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Victor Ha
@victorha.bsky.social
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So am I getting this right: if the president declares (to his cabinet behind closed doors) that Americans should be assassinated, he is immune from any laws? So Suoreme Court has just destroyed everything that makes sense about America. Everything.
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ricky cilantro
@rickycilantro.bsky.social
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I’ve always known he’s a partisan hack but jesus christ I didn’t realize until right now just how bad a lawyer he is
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Katherine E. Davis
@kakeeweezie.bsky.social
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Wow wow wow
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Rick Kane
@paintingsurfer.bsky.social
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I think I’m gonna puke. I can’t believe this.
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Mark Hamilton
@gmarkham.bsky.social
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That seems to potentially give Biden the power to do what the GOP has falsely accused him of: to direct the AG and DOJ officials to prosecute those who oppose him.
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Nathan Beary Blustein
@rhapsodyinblu.bsky.social
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If only Biden knew of his unfathomably broad leeway to direct the justice department however he saw fit like, three weeks earlier.
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Baja Arizona
@bajaarizona.bsky.social
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Just deadly.
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Chris Parker
@crs1.bsky.social
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all those people who had "law is a fiction rich men agree to punish only others with" in the pool please text me so I can Venmo your winnings
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Reid Rivenburgh
@reidrivenburgh.bsky.social
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Some of them seem malicious, but some like Roberts just seem so strangely clueless about the big picture.
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Just here to chill
@garbagearsonist.bsky.social
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Does kinda put the lie to the "no, you don't understand, Garland and the DOJ HAD to take its sweet time with the Trump investigation" argument, huh
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@ricardocabeza.bsky.social
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Dread Scott merely said African Americans couldn't be citizens. Trump 2.0 could murder millions of undocumented or let them starve in his concentration camps.
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Catherine Smith-Smythe Smith
@catzies.bsky.social
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Chief Justice confirmed the DOJ and the SC are now Trump's personal law firm. Finally, he got lawyers he doesn't have to pay.
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Stryder
@stryder.bsky.social
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That's just dicta and not binding. Fuck Roberts et. al. regardless.
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Expel the Sedition Caucus
@oldsourpuss.bsky.social
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I’m having a heart attack and brain aneurysms at the same time.
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Frank Lynch
@fplynch.bsky.social
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Can't begin to tell you how many RWers whine about "Joe Biden's DOJ"
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Frank Lynch
@fplynch.bsky.social
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"I hope you'll go easy on Mike Flynn"
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In An Octopus’s Garden…
@cephaloctopi.bsky.social
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How does this ruling impact impeachment? Are there now no high crimes or misdemeanors?
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John Tyrrell
@cjohnt.bsky.social
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So when Trump continually whines that Biden is ordering the AG to prosecute him, he's just pointing out that Biden is doing his job? 😅
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Q. H. Stone
@qhstone.bsky.social
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Remember when it was a terrible crime for Bill Clinton to have a brief conversation with Loretta Lynch on an airplane tarmac?
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Neon Chinchilla
@neonchinchilla.bsky.social
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Mike B
@madhominem.bsky.social
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laws be faithfully executed, people be faithfully executed, no real difference here
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@nefertitties.bsky.social
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If Trump could compose a clear sentence, he couldn't have written it better himself.
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Speros
@speros.bsky.social
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🤦♀️🙏💚
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Trevor Bartel 🇺🇲❤️🇺🇦
@curiouscloud.bsky.social
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How does this affect the Posse Commitatus Act? Seems it could only ever be an official act, and now breaking it is meaningless? Am I thinking through this wrong?
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KC Momkin
@kc-momkin.bsky.social
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So if Judge Cannon decides Jack Smith was not appropriately appointed, Garland can just step in because there is no need for distance between the executive and the independent counsel? Clarence decided to weigh in on an unbriefed issue not B4 the Court
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Jay Marose
@jaymarose.bsky.social
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He found his Roy Cohn. The Barr / Roberts security blanket is complete.
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Christine Green
@whitehorsemews.bsky.social
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God Help The USA
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maraleia
@maraleia.bsky.social
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Fuck him
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maraleia
@maraleia.bsky.social
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Fuck this Supreme Court to hell.
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@jdllama.bsky.social
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In the abstract, a Pres talking to the DOJ about enforcing the law is fine. But, in the context of this case, where Trump attempted a coup, it is downright terrifying. 44 previous presidents, including (and I can't believe this) Nixon, didn't need this level of immunity that SCOTUS granted
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Tom Higgins
@interestedparty.bsky.social
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Chief Justice Roberts' decree grossly violates the separation of powers, kneecapping the executive. We should dismiss his decrees as fanciful DICTA regarding a non-justiciable matter.
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Eileen Wilson
@glensidetwo2.bsky.social
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Fascist takeover of the USA just given license. Terrifying for the rest of the world tbh
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North Easton
@north-easton.bsky.social
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Jesus
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