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Protective Hen@protectivehen.bsky.social |
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Policy mediator/facilitator, former newsperson. Power to the people.
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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What's odd to me these days is the way people use generational descriptors as categories of condemnation. Maybe because of my family's poor/working class background, I've always thought of class, ethnicity, gender as more defining than age in terms of people's politics and attitude toward power...
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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The opinion is bad, but not that bad. He wrote private checks in the Oval Office, an entirely private act. There is no way that was part of even the "outer perimeter" of presidential power. Plus Norm Eisen said he already tried to appeal on immunity on this case so a 2nd try can't move forward...
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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Well, he lost in 2020, didn't he? That mattered for shit. Democracy takes work - freedom is a constant struggle - etc. etc.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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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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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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regarding someone so sociopathic he can't comprehend what the Constitution is and means and can't therefore carry out his oath of office...just mind-boggling and a seeming play for power...
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Popehat
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/2 Motive being irrelevant means that the President can do a thing for expressly lawless reasons so long as the thing is within the extremely broad range of official acts. So question isn’t “can the President conspire to defraud,” it’s “can the President call a state official about an election.”
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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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Chris Dunham
@mainegenealogist.bsky.social
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"Only one candidate is celebrating today's ruling, and he is a convicted felon."
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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I saw some pushback via nitter that this vote was already scheduled before the debate - it is required in order to get Biden on the Ohio ballot, re that whole threat to keep him off the state's ballot because our convention would be too late.
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Rima I Anabtawi
@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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A pro-Kremlin influence operation run by a former Florida cop who's now based in Moscow, which uses AI to create fake news websites like DC Weekly or Chicago Crier, is beginning to shift its focus from disparaging Ukraine to the upcoming US election.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Rima I Anabtawi
@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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Thousands of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel packed a major hall in Tel Aviv, for the biggest conference since October 7th that calls to end the war on Gaza and the occupation, to return the hostages, and to advance towards Israeli-Palestinian peace.🕊️
www.standing-together.org/english
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David Noll
@david.noll.org
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Justice Sotomayor points out that--surprise!--the majority is deciding a made-up case.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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rereading the Colorado disqualification case and noticing for the first time that it turns at a critical point on the Supreme Court's misreading of 14(5) in Boerne v Flores. Because the Court invented a made-up version of 14(5) that was narrow and "remedial" rather than a new freestanding power...
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Kevin Carson
@kevincarson1.bsky.social
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I went to bed expecting a 6-3 vote with Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas in the bag for Trump. I figured Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett at least wouldn't be unhinged enough to grant a president utter immunity from legal consequences for murdering his political enemies or arresting Congress.
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Jacob T. Levy
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It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.
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NutMeg
@casuallychaotic.bsky.social
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Also, saying the 'hypothetical scenario' that a leader may use their powers to further their own ends while ruling on a case where a leader used their powers to further their own ends and coming to the conclusion that such a thing could never happen seems a little disingenuous too.
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I've made a bit of a hobbyhorse out of Nikolas Sarkozy's criminal prosecutions, and the multiple dimensions by which a similar case would be impossible in the US
I now have a new overarching grounds to add (president = god-emperor)
bsky.app/profile/saba...
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Radley Balko
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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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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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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Shorter Supreme Court this term: criminal law is for little people.
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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YES. THANK YOU for this! We need to carve out that hope...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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If Jefferson had just ordered Madison to kill Marbury and then pardoned him for it, then his problem would’ve been solved and the courts wouldn’t have gotten involved.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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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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Matt Salomone
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Textbook propaganda in Coley's definition: rhetoric that invokes an ideal in the service of undermining that ideal. "Separation of powers!" but demolishes checks and balances "Religious liberty!" but privileges one religion's illiberalism "Originalism!" but completely misses the framers' intent
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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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Taniel
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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Protective Hen
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Super interesting: Roberts SCOTUS: as radical as the Dred Scott court, but FAR more powerful
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Protective Hen
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How "originalist" of them...😒
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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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My article for @newrepublic
“The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.”
newrepublic.com/article/1833...
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Protective Hen
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And said Bibi should just go whole-hog and wipe Gaza out and his son-in-law said it should all be redeveloped into luxury condos (I'm sure not for Palestinians)...
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southpaw
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Can we maybe get this bullshit updated?
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Jeff Yang
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The Supremes ruled that a POTUS has immunity for actions directly related to his office, but not personal actions (without defining what those are) so Trump is trying to erase his felony convictions by claiming that paying porn stars hush money for sex is “official POTUS business,” as expected
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waxmonkey
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damn straight, take the flag back as a symbol of what we want it to stand for especially with the trumpies flying a bunch of weird flags of their own
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Protective Hen
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They've been willing to lick his toes precisely because of all the power he is going to give them. But we are not totally focked - we can all vote for democracy like our lives depend on it. We ARE the majority. We just need to get our shit together & stop acting like losers.
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Protective Hen
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Yeah, it's all the Federalist Koch (toxic waste magnate) $$$$. Though I've also wondered about the massive over-representation of Opus Dei Franco-style Catholics on this small body...
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Kai
@kaikronfield.bsky.social
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It feels like we live in a different country after this morning. This feels seismic.
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Quinta Jurecic
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
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Quinta Jurecic
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Trump will not stop pushing if you give him a slap on the wrist; he will push as far as he can possibly go. We've already seen this in action when the House failed to impeach him over the Mueller report and he immediately embarked on extorting Ukraine
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Quinta Jurecic
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now he is seeking a second term knowing that whatever he does, any criminal prosecution will be hung up for literal years in court if it ever gets off the ground in the first place. what do you think he is going to try to do?
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Pwnallthethings
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"how dare the president say something from the white house in his official capacity about SCOTUS saying the president is above the law, why won't someone arrest him"
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Protective Hen
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It's no longer the nation's great paper of record. It's a small cabal of whiny, defensive ego maniacs bent on vengeance for being denied an interview.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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"President Biden, who seemed fully conscious and did not drool on himself, warned that an asteroid would wipe out all life in three days. Though he's been long dogged by questions about his physical and mental stamina, the president remained upright as he briefed the nation on the coming apocalypse"
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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Sheldon Whitehouse had a good thread on nitter today about dark $$$$ (and I would add oligarchy) being behind a lot of today's US problems, and making that a campaign focus. It will take many of us joining together to take US back from that secretive 1%.
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Protective Hen
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Reform SCOTUS 2025
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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Explain how this all works with the state nomination and fund-raising process. From what I understand, other candidates can't raise $ until they get on state ballots & Biden-Harris $$$ can't go to another candidate. stephaniejones2.substack.com/p/the-biden-...
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Eric Rauchway
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For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
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Protective Hen
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We are Germany 1932.
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Protective Hen
@protectivehen.bsky.social
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And as an institutionalist, he won't act that way.
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Tom Nichols
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The Court has saved Trump, kneecapped Smith, and set up the conditions for an elective monarchy.
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