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- 4/🧵 The pattern diverges from what @mayasen.bsky.social and I found during Trump's first term, when judge ideology strongly predicted case outcomes. What changed? The nature of the challenges—today's cases pose more fundamental constitutional violations uniting judges across partisan divides.
- 5/🧵 Trump's attacks on judges—including Republican appointees—for unfavorable rulings reveals an authoritarian assault that should alarm us all. Demanding judicial loyalty over constitutional fidelity represents a dangerous erosion of separation of powers, the cornerstone of our Madisonian republic.
- 6/🧵 When judges across the ideological spectrum reach similar legal conclusions about attacks on our Constitution, we should see it for what it is: a flashing warning sign that we are facing a clear and present danger to our democratic and constitutional order.Mar 18, 2025 21:32
- This is a stellar thread of concise, compellingly urgent analysis of what is happening and we are just EIGHT WEEKS in. But what if he continues to defy court orders. How will he be stopped. Or maybe nothing can. The devastation to our democracy and our government is already stunningly horrific.
