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Radley Balko
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Has he not heard of hot dog meat?
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16083 followers 442 following 1031 posts
Journalist. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
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Radley Balko
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Has he not heard of hot dog meat?
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CJ Ciaramella
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Latest: federal appeals court rules that foreign students who enrolled and paid tuition at a fake Michigan university run by ICE can sue the government for breach of contract reason.com/2024/07/03/i...
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Miles Grant
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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf
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Radley Balko
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
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The Appeal
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In a ruling Tuesday, a judge identified "glaring deficiencies" in Angola prison's heat-related labor policies. Plaintiffs say they're often forced to work outside in extreme temperatures, including on the Farm Line, which is "akin to 19th century slavery." @elizabethweill.bsky.social has more:
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Radley Balko
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He's correct. My error. Deleting the original.
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Radley Balko
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You're right -- my mistake!
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RawrTigerlily
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One thing about the Trump immunity ruling that was really galling to me... this is same SC who rushed to make sure states could complete *executions* while Trump was still in office. No consideration. Then took ages to carefully craft hurdles to Trump being held accountable for crimes we WATCHED.
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Kevin M. Levin
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In an 11-6 decision, the Tennessee Historical Commission has, once again, voted down a request from Middle Tennessee State University to rename a campus building that honors Nathan Bedford Forrest.--a slave trader, Confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the KKK. đď¸ wpln.org/post/for-a-s...
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Adam Bonin
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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons.
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Radley Balko
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Radley Balko
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"fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals"
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Radley Balko
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Radley Balko
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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people.
reason.com/2024/07/01/s...
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Radley Balko
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Jackson is also very good. But yes.
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Radley Balko
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I intended it!
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Matt Novak
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When you're worried there might be a pride flag at semiquincentennial parade
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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK
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"Authorities are not ruling out racist motives."
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Radley Balko
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The Aristocrats!
www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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yep, itâs the obvious next move
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Radley Balko
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We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.
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Radley Balko
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(as most of the kind, principled, and genuine people will tell you)
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Radley Balko
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I've done reporting in and about Mississippi for 20 years. I've met some incredibly kind, principled, and genuine people there. It's also a deeply fucked up place.
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Radley Balko
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If you subscribe to a newsletter but later change your mind, just email the author and ask for a refund. Most of us will give you one. Really tired of people canceling by filing "fraud" disputes with their banks over a $6 charge. I get charged $15 for each dispute, whether I win or lose.
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Radley Balko
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CJ Ciaramella
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Well, the Missouri Attorney General is also opposing a local prosecutor's motion to vacate a death sentence based on DNA evidence that excludes the defendant. So he's that kind of lawyer. apnews.com/article/miss...
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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Catbus
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Therapist, naively: Toilet Cup isn't real, it can't hurt you Toilet Cup:
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Bruno J. Navarro
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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Jacob T. Levy
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At the risk of being tiresome in reposting my own writings on the separation of powers and executive accountability, since prominent scholars are now in the news saying "habeas corpus will still be OK"â Montesquieu's insight was precisely that it won't be.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a âthreat to national securityâ and has you deported, citizenship or not, thereâs nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Popehat
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I havenât believed this for a while. Other than âI prefer to be alive and not deadâ and âI like pudding,â I do not share values with these people.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back
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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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Justin Ling
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researching this week's newsletter and came across my new favorite wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Glen Jackson
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The Criminal Justice System Is Being Positively Kind to Donald Trump and MAGA Insurrectionists
Yet they are playing victim while showing no concern for the abuse ordinary Americans endure..
@radleybalko.bsky.social
#TwoTieredJusticesysten #NooneIsAboveTheLaw
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Popehat
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which arenât actually horrific anyway.
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Jacob T. Levy
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If Trump were to personally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue: Not immune. (Probably. Maybe.) If he were to order the army to massacre thousands on Fifth Avenue: Immune. (Very clearly, under the decision.) But from a constitutional perspective, the latter is the grave danger to guard against.
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Mark Chadbourn
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Radley Balko
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His reimbursement of Cohen was in 2017.
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Radley Balko
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. Itâs also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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Jason O. Gilbert
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In awe of this tweet, which truly captures everything bad about mainstream journalism in 2024
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Radley Balko
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Looks like theyâre going to try.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/n...
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amdiamanti
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I would joke that they've declared the Declaration of Independence unconstitutional, but it doesn't feel like a joke. These were all "official acts" as well.
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Radley Balko
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Pretty sure the payments to Daniels were in 2017. Or at least the reimbursements to Cohen. But seems clearly âunofficial.â
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Radley Balko
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One thing I havenât seen â does the decision today apply to state criminal charges too? Hard to see how the majorityâs crappy reasoning wouldnât apply. The NY convictions seem pretty distinctly âunofficialâ conduct, but the Georgia charges?
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1. Biden deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks says he's "scared as shit" by the Supreme Court's ruling giving Trump immunity
2. Biden deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks says Biden deeply respects the Supreme Court and refuses to use any power he has to challenge it pic.twitter.com/9ukHEV8EZA
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Seth Cotlar
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Trump "re-truthed" this meme yesterday. But look, whatever you do, don't call it fascism.
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