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i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
At Supreme Court, a Once-Fringe Birthright Citizenship Theory Takes the Spotlight
“It is these constitutional obstacles to a tyrannical president that have made America the greatest nation on Earth for almost 250 years, not the fallen America that Trump delusionally thinks he’s going to make great again tomorrow,” J. Michael Luttig writes:
The End of Rule of Law in America
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.
“It’s clearly a signal to tell analysts throughout the intelligence community: ‘you tell the truth, you provide objective analysis, as you’re supposed to be doing, you are running the risk of getting fired.'"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard fires intel officials who oversaw memo contradicting White House claims on Venezuelan gang
Democratic lawmakers criticized the firings, suggesting they were punishment for providing information that didn’t support the administration’s agenda.
"John Eastman, a California law professor,"
i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...At Supreme Court, a Once-Fringe Birthright Citizenship Theory Takes the Spotlight
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...Wait, it gets even WORSE. ICE was interested in this family because an agent wanted retribution against the father of the baby, who apparently had honked at the care of an undercover ICE agent the day before who had cut him off.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...well, when they want to. They didn't want to!
bsky.app/profile/prof...Chief Justice John Roberts: "In recent years, we've been able to move expeditiously [to resolve pressing matters]."
Me: STARES IN TRUMP V. UNITED STATES
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Wow, Alito is really telling on himself with this question. ("judges have disease that makes them think they're the smartest person ever")
She’s in her AUTHOR ERA!
It’s publication day for LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes!
As a forever book nerd, I had so much fun writing this-I hope you have fun reading it! Get it at your local bookstore today!!
bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...my last thought on this is that i remember very clearly how republicans handled george w. bush, a world-historically terrible president who was the object of a mild cult of personality for nearly a decade — they just pretended like he didn't exist! and it worked!
given the overwhelming number of targets with the trump administration and the republican majority in congress, it is actually bonkers to think that democrats have anything to gain from litigating biden. let the guy disappear and focus on the stuff that is unpopular with voters!
the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition
i think your typical democratic voter will respond much better to "they hate this motherfucker in the white house as much as i do" than endless flagellation over biden, especially since the latter looks weak and reinforces all the worst stereotypes about democrats!
political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
whenever i travel to speak to audiences — in places as different as green bay, wisconsin and durham, north carolina — i get more questions about why the media won’t call a spade a spade with trump, than i do about biden being old
and honestly, the obsession over “we should have said more about biden being old” starts to grate when the currently serving president is very obviously impaired by age and cognitive decline, to crickets from the press
the text of the constitution, the legislative record, the common understanding — literally all available evidence points to a single conclusion, which is why the hacks defending trump’s order have had to turn to unrelated esoteria to make their argument
The text of the Constitution is so clear on birthright citizenship that SCOTUS should rule for it. But even indulging the bad faith and pretending there’s something to adjudicate is not great.
The arguments against birthright citizenship aren't credible exercises of intellectual exploration; they are anti-constitutional themselves.
The purpose of the Citizenship Clause was to end the debate. Entertaining anything other than citizenship by native birth is an attack on the 14th Amendment.
Endless navel gazing media coverage about Democratic strategy never addresses obvious stuff like:
Nominate fewer lawyers, MBAs and career politicians who sound boring. Nominate more people who look and sound like working class members of their districts who enjoy mixing it up.
Sauer keeps saying the amendment was suppose to apply to "former slaves" but the actual text of the 14th amendment is "all persons born or naturalized in the united sates," i thought conservatives were big text guys
one of the many infuriating things about this is that if the authors of the amendment wanted it to apply exclusively to the formerly enslaved they had the capacity to do so! they would have written it that way! they didn't!
Sauer keeps saying the amendment was suppose to apply to "former slaves" but the actual text of the 14th amendment is "all persons born or naturalized in the united sates," i thought conservatives were big text guys
I'll never get over the coverage Clinton, Biden, and Harris were subjected to when this man does crimes, falls asleep on tv, and speaks in word salads.
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
its genuinely insane to see the press on a "democrats must self flagellate over biden being old" when this shit is happening
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
Highly recommended thread. Just wanna say something about originalism right quick.
There is no plausible originalist argument for anything that the SG said today. None whatsoever.
Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!
JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.
like what the fuck is this
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Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
The acting head of ICE couldn't believe that I would question his agency's use of masked, unidentified agents to sweep up student immigrants during *police week*. Have I no sense of patriotism????
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...Here's the original article, by the way, gift linked.
wapo.st/3Feat8F
Opinion | Is that guy with a gun an ICE officer — or just a guy with a gun?
Masked federal agents aren’t exactly Trump’s secret police. But they are hiding from accountability.
Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry
Holy mother of God
What exactly is a freak-off? Josh Barro and Ross Douthat drop by to explain.
Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump running a multi-billion dollar crypto scam from the White House, both men tested the limits of presidential propriety.
In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, biscuits and gravy at Bob Evans, and then down to the old municipal airport to accept half-billion dollar aircraft from a morally dubious petro-state. But now the woke mob wants to take all that way.
Trump's gift of a plane from Qatar raises serious legal questions, namely: Will he be flying that plane to a private fishing lodge in Alaska? And will there be an extra seat available?
by Samuel Alito
Opinon | We must welcome white South Africans with open arms. One of them could become the next Nazi-sympathizing libertarian billionaire who gets rich from government subsidies and then tries to kick people off of Medicaid.
On June 27, 2024, Joe Biden gave the worst debate performance in history. And then it became my job, as a DC reporter, to foster conventional wisdom that a feeble president with sane policies was surely worse than an energetic president with racist, economically incompetent, kleptocratic policies.
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"The largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history"
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit
The figure is expected to intensify a national debate over spending and tax levels as President Donald Trump tries to push the legislation through Congress.
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ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
