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What Is To Be Done
Don't let your anger cause acid stomach. Kick some ass!
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Chief Justice John Roberts Just Invited President Biden to Pardon Nicholas Roske
Imagine how outrageous it would be for Joe Biden to pardon Nicholas Roske, the man who armed himself and showed up at Justice Kavanaugh's home threatening to kill him. Yet that is precisely what the Republican Justices did in response to an exactly equivalent threat facing Congress, Biden voters, and democracy.
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Preprison Interviews Give Bannon a Chance to Pitch Fascism, Cover-Up His Fraud
None of the journalists who rushed to interview Steve Bannon on his way to prison for blowing off the January 6 Committee thought to ask him about his alleged fraud against Trump's supporters.
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Justice Roberts' Drone Strike on George Washington's Legacy
In an opinion that tries to cloak his power grab with an appeal to President Washington, John Roberts has suffocated the greatest thing Washington gave the United States, the presumption that Presidents would cede to the power of elections.
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Jack Smith's Way Forward
Among other things, Jack Smith now has cause to issue a report of all the core Executive conduct -- like abusing pardons -- that John Roberts just said cannot be prosecuted.
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SCOTUS' Republicans Allow Presidents to Use SEAL Team 6 To Execute Their Opponents
Yes, if the President sics SEAL Team Six on his opponent as an official act, he is presumptively immune from consequences.
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Open Thread: Last Batch of SCOTUS Decisions
The Supreme Court's last batch of decisions for the 2023-2024 term will drop shortly -- I think.
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Don't Let a Biden Succession Crisis Create a Succession Crisis
The calls for Biden to resign the Presidency at which, by most measures, he continues to have historic success, only to leave Kamala Harris without a Vice President are as silly as calls for 71-year old Sherrod Brown to replace Biden on the presidential ticket.
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The "Wow, Pictures!" Tabloid Coverage of Trump's Stolen Documents Is as Bad as Conspiracy Mongering
Last week's filing with pictures from the Mar-a-Lago search did more than simply slob-shame the former President. They showed the chain of custody behind the most important discoveries made in that search.
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NYT 2016: “But Her Emails” NYT 2024: “But His Debate”
Welcome to NYT's 2024 election FUD operation: “But His Debate”
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
Marcy and Nicole discuss this week's SCOTUS decisions and those yet to come including presidential immunity
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Joe Biden: Three Weeks and Four Months
Joe Biden has a choice to make about whether he remains the best shot to beat Donald Trump. And one way or another, Republicans will be stuck with a candidate who vigorously acts unpresidential.
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Supreme Court Makes 18 USC 1512 a Paperwork Crime, But Does Not Address Corrupt Purpose
In a move that will roil hundreds of January 6 prosecutions, the Supreme Court just required a paperwork nexus for Obstruction prosecutions.
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Aileen Cannon Confesses She's Unable to Distinguish between Golf Balls and Nuclear Weapons
Depending on how you count, Aileen Cannon issued three or four decisions yesterday.
The most telling is an order letting Trump have a mulligan on whether his false attacks on the FBI pose a danger to society.
As Jack Smith's team described…
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Final Day* of Term Edition
This is it: SCOTUS will deliver the last* undecided cases of the term this morning. This is an open thread.
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The Day After
In which I tell you to get a fucking clue and check in with reality.
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2024 Presidential Election: First Presidential Debate
The first presidential debate of the 2024 election season will air at 9:00 p.m. ET this evening. Discuss your perspective of the candidates' performance and their messages to us in this open thread.
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The Madness of Macron
Quinn Norton lays out all the reasons Macron's decision to call snap elections is so stupid.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Thursday Edition [UPDATE-1]
The last of SCOTUS's undecided cases drop this morning or they drop tomorrow — will today's include Trump v. United States? This is an open thread.
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How Courts Came to Control Our Rights
We're trapped in the amber of the prejudices of what we hoped was the past.