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Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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I don't know how you lose running against a Court that wants to prosecute the pregnant and preemptively pardon that perpetrator.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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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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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Is there a name for the law by which gallows humor gets less funny in direct proportion to how close the actual gallows are?

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N. K. Jemisin's avatar N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social
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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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The crux of this is that these people feel sincerely entitled to a president who fits their personal preferences, rather than just trying to get the least fucked-up and harmful option in a busted system where bad interests have lots of power

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Don Curren 🇺🇦's avatar Don Curren 🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social
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As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, “The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power” — and the justices are “making a laughing-stock” of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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These same pundits are unwilling or ill-equipped to do an analysis of options that accounts for the Black vote. Because they never do, even tho Dems can’t win the presidency w/o it.

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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@SIfill's avatar @SIfill @sifill.bsky.social
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So many unserious people are holding platforms that demand sober judgment, patience and careful analysis. They couldn’t take a deep breath and reflect. But no, THEY KNOW what should happen. I wouldn’t be so upset if they weren’t the same ppl that consistently get it wrong.

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Snowden St.'s avatar Snowden St. @snowden.st
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Trying to say this carefully: the kind of “administration and party leadership that would be *capable* of having an incumbent President step down for a younger replacement” is so far away from this current moment that you might as well be imagining a parliamentary system of governance.

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Kathleen Bachynski 's avatar Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
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Hear, hear: “In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?”

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Pleasantly surprised at how many people on C-SPAN Washington Journal wanted to talk about Loper Bright and Chevron this morning. Of course a self-selecting audience, but I expected the callers to be otherwise-focused.

Here’s my Law Dork report on the decision: www.lawdork.com/p/forget-the...

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Kagan is reading from her dissent. Here's a key part:

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The New York Times's avatar The New York Times @nytimes.com
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A man was suspected of fatally shooting five people and critically wounding a 13-year-old girl at two nearby apartments in North Las Vegas on Tuesday morning. The police said he died by suicide after ignoring commands by officers to drop a firearm.

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Agree. And still I’d like to hear about any other assets….

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Jeff Yang's avatar Jeff Yang @originalsp.in
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Let the record show that it’s not that hard though

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law...a hardline and sometimes covert operation"

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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The Washington Post's avatar The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com
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A coalition of groups filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Louisiana’s new requirement to post the Ten Commandments in every school classroom, claiming parents’ rights are violated by the new law.

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S knows that p's avatar S knows that p @sknowsthatp.bsky.social
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This interview is everything. Straight 🔥

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Weird way to say "Right wing engages in misinformation"

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: A Nevada judge has dismissed the criminal indictment against 6 fake electors, saying the case was brought in the wrong jurisdiction. The Nevada AG says he’ll appeal to the state supreme court.

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The Washington Post's avatar The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com
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Breaking news: Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editor.

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A New York judge has dismissed trespassing cases against 30 individuals who were among the dozens arrested inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall during a pro-Palestinian protest in April, with prosecutors citing a lack of evidence.

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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Ohioans, today is a good day to check to see if you are still registered to vote in our state. And if you are not, or if you haven't registered yet, today is also a very good day to do so.

www.axios.com/local/columb...

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will issue a mass pardon of more than 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday morning, one of the nation’s most sweeping acts of clemency involving a drug now in widespread recreational use.

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Justin Hendrix's avatar Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social
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US Surgeon General Vivek Murrhy in NYT op-ed: "It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents." Says social media are not "proved safe." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/o...

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Sean Casten's avatar Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social
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As we approach Juneteenth, 89% of the House GOP voted this week to restore a statue depicting “an enslaved Black ‘mammy’ holding the infant child of a White [confederate] officer, as an enslaved Black man follows the officer off to war” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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