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Greer@thegreer.bsky.social |
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Pilot. Archaeologist. Probably bored. If my opinions differ from yours assume I'm being sarcastic. He/Him
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Greer
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I don't really have an opinion on the current state of play today. I'd vote for a Rabid Raccoon (D) ahead of Trump and I'm skeptical that persuadable voters will turn on NYT opinion masquerading as news. But a transition always should have been the plan and they missed the window.
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Greer
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Not that anyone asked me, but the White House should have announced Harris as the presumptive nominee in late 2022 and been working to foreground her as much as possible since, all as part of Biden's bridge to the new generation of the Democratic Party. But they didn't do that. 🤷
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Greer
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Should really work as a look back, too, at least if Trump's arguments in New York are found to be compelling.
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Greer
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Anyway the next time Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh are condescending blowhard assholes during arguments, Solicitor General Prelogar should--as a member of the Executive conducting a presumptively official act--arrest them on the spot for contempt and obstruction of justice.
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Greer
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Yeah I agree that the GOP shouldn't be nominating an insurrectionist felon rapist.
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Greer
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Force them to do it. Don't surrender preemptively. And also assert that whatever the DoJ does--as a part of the Executive--is presumptively legal under new Supreme Court precedent. Up-to-and-including ignoring Judicial Branch dicta.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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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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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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Desegregation is being unraveled. Separate but “equal” is being reestablished. We can be defensive, or we can step up and ask for more than the preservation of the status quo.
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Greer
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It's time for the more liberal-leaning district and circuit courts to go into open rebellion against the lawless Supreme Court. The conservative 5th Circuit and many of the district courts within it are, albeit in a broadly aligned ideological way, so it's not like the revolt isn't already here.
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Greer
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$100k would mean nothing to the people I hate. $50k would mean a lot to me. Sign me up.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Pwnallthethings
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"This Court has an expansive view of Executive Authority that is at odds with the system of government this country has always had. We are a nation with no need of Kings, and this opinion is there to bring them back for one man who has already vowed to be a dictator. I reject it wholesale"
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Greer
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This is my contention, as well.
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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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Greer
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Notable that the current justices with the best "How Things Actually Work" sense are, of course, the two with trial court experience (Sotomayor and KBJ).
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Paul Crider
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I would like to see Biden give an address to the nation from the Oval Office explaining what the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity means and what its possibilities are. Then hit the campaign trail attacking "the MAGA Court" for shredding the Constitution to give felon Trump license to crime.
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southpaw
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From Jackson’s dissent. I believe the way this works in combination with Loper-Bright is really insidious, but ofc it’s not gonna get the headlines.
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Micah
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.”
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Pwnallthethings
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Don't even need hypotheticals. For Nixon and Clinton they were confronted with POTUS saying "but I'm POTUS and I don't wanna" and the Court said a polite variant of "sit the fuck down, Mr President, you are not a King". But if you want to overthrow the Republic? "Why, yes, your majesty, go for it"
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bsdtectr
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Obviously, won’t go anywhere in a Republican House, but at least she’s doing something. Hopefully, there’s more coming.
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Don Zeko
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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.
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Charles Louis Richter
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biden, in his official capacity as president, can now pack the supreme court with however many justices he feels like without the advice and consent of the senate--what are they going to do, *prosecute* him???
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Pyrito Hedron
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I'm afraid even a dissent like this written in plain language is not enough. I think it's time for KBJ, Sotomayor, and Kagan to draw straws for which of them is going to hold a press conference or even go on the news shows and just say plainly to the American people what is happening.
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Endless Screaming
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AAAHHHHHH
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Greer
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Upside of living in the West Coast: I probably won't have to live through the decisions in real time. Downside of living on the West Coast: There's no way I'll have enough time to get involved in my Daily Routine (and therefore ignore things) before the decisions hit.
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Greer
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Daaaaamn. I have to take HAZMAT training every year explicitly because I *don't* handle it. This is madness. Also this is why we have regulators. And why this corporate-captured Supreme Court is so intent on defanging them.
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Greer
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Freddy Got Fingered is better. Insofar as it's impossible to be as bad.
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Greer
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Cheer up: it gets worse.
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Greer
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Every few years I have to remind myself it exists and is not some fever dream from childhood.
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Greer
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Oof this one is bad. The kindest things I can say is occasionally the make-up is okay and there are moments of so-bad-it's-less-bad.
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Greer
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Esparza's Tex-Mex Cafe in Portland, OR. First place I ever ate ostrich and the place was a cultural and culinary standout for two decades. It was cool before Portland was.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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In a fucked up turn of events, I would use the end of Chevron as the excuse to expand the court and the whole judiciary by pointing out that they don’t have the capacity to hear all the cases they just gave themselves. 27 justices, double the size of the circuits. Huh. Thanks John Roberts.
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The Republic Is Ours To Save
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Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.
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Greer
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I mean it's not all bad. Sure, addressing aviation safety issues may require an Act of Congress, but now if I bust airspace I can get a jury trial.
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Greer
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I mean it's not all bad. Sure, addressing aviation safety issues may require an Act of Congress, but now if I bust airspace I can get a jury trial.
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Gautham FC
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Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government." Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say: "Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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damn. using racist lies about major theft rings to cover up their understaffing, low inventory, and locked-up products didn't work?????
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Greer
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If only...
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Assistant to the Professor
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Oh man, these folks really like making corruption easier.
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Greer
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Greer
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I always enjoyed Lasombra and Ravnos, though the latter have some, ahem, issues.
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Kelsey Atherton
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Good comic on traveling while pregnant in a Dobbs nation. The Supreme Court has seen to it that states can opt-out of life saving medical care and many have, restricting travel and autonomy for anyone possibly pregnant while also imperiling their lives. www.vox.com/life/356448/...
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Greer
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While there is a fair bit of idol *music* I enjoy, I find the live performances sterile, contrived, and boring, even understanding all the work that goes into them.
#weebwednesday
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Greer
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Alito's is not a great long-term plan in a pluralistic democracy. But as a step on the path to fundamentalist, authoritarian single-party rule it's not a problem. ...and I'm not gonna give Alito credit for being a strategic thinker here. But it is a happy (for him) coincidence.
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Greer
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Mmm yeah I don't think it's a new trend. He's always been that way. You have to have legitimacy to get away with decisions like Shelby County.
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Greer
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I think he's just cognizant that the Court has no self-contained power to enforce its rulings and there's a legitimacy threshold below which the Court risks complete nullification. Which is bad for the minoritarian conservative movement, the Constitutional order, and him, personally.
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Greer
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It's impressive that this one is so egregious that the liberal wing defected even though they've in recent history been mostly on-board with the doctrine of Corruption Isn't Corruption Unless You Say Into The Mic, "I'm Doing A Corruption."
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