Michael Adams-Hurta

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Texas appellate attorney with side interests in liberal politics and making the world a better place

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I don't have any issue with people complaining about Biden's age on social media, but the fact that the Trump immunity decision has gone barely talked about in the media by comparison to Biden's age is just bonkers to me. That's still the much bigger news item of the past week.

Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

Last year I spent much of July 4 with my son at the NICU, a medical unit that was largely pioneered not at a hospital but at Coney Island (funded as a tourist attraction). This year, he's happy and healthy at home. God Bless America - a gem of a republic, if we can keep it.

So given the disqualification and immunity opinions combined, what's Congress allowed to do (besides impeachment) if it wants to create a system to bar presidents from running again for using their office for insurrection against the Constitution? A civil anti-insurrection act?

Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Rebroadcasting a game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, obviously.

Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.

Still wild (if unsurprising) that our originalist and textualist SCOTUS majority has almost nothing to say on what it means that an impeached and convicted officer "shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law".

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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court. She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country. National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticedwww.thenation.com Nothing sums up the high-drama, low-substance nature of 2016 race coverage more than the underplaying of a serious speech about the Supreme Court.

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

Today's immunity opinion would be a good opportunity for Sotomayor to announce her resignation in indignation (contingent on a confirmed replacement), then hit the campaign trail railing against Trump and the effects of his SCOTUS.

I said this elsewhere already, but today's immunity opinion is easily one of the most anti-democratic SCOTUS opinions of my lifetime. Probably only second to Bush v. Gore, and I'd accept arguments otherwise.

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Shorter Supreme Court this term: criminal law is for little people.

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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

This is an absolutely crazy op ed but now I'm wondering what history would have looked like if LBJ didn't drop out in 1968.

YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

I've had this same exact experience.

i really don't know what to think about the biden situation, but i have a few friends who are gung ho "biden needs to resign" types and it's funny to watch them all get hyped up and then immediately deflate when i say "so, kamala?"

I wonder if, without Chevron deference, we'll see a push for more specialist Article III courts like the Federal Circuit or the Court of International Trade.

I got off my flight and my timeline is all either the literal dumpster fire gif or people who are proudly proclaiming that they aren't even at the dumpster fire and didn't you know you don't have to be there either?

Maybe Southwest delayed my flight because they don't want me to watch the debate 🤔

Ok I don't really mind people not engaging with my particular skeets, but it is kinda weird that no one on Bluesky has talked about this Texas Supreme Court opinion from this morning?

Specifically, SCOTX unanimously says that not even pregnancy & birth could be considered a compensable injury because the child's life is a "net boon and a gift, not an injury" and pregnancy/birth are "necessary to (and inseparable from) bringing about the child's life." t.co/4qDcDEQ7Ar

Today SCOTX unanimously held that a woman who gave birth after a doctor failed to follow her request to tie her tubes could not obtain any damages for the doctor's alleged negligence other than hypothetical medical costs which (she did not prove). t.co/4qDcDEQ7Ar

https://txcourts.gov/media/1458513/220410.pdft.co

The worst of the pandemic feels so long ago, it's crazy to me that people think it happened during the Biden Administration.

Four years ago today appeared this iconic NYTimes front page t.co/D8XMW1Y3h2

Important story on the police news out of Houston today: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

Who's to blame for HPD's dropped cases? It extends beyond Finner.www.houstonchronicle.com Scandal that has led to ouster of Chief Finner reveals a total system failure, a Chronicle investigation finds.

I just typed in a textual-interpretation question into both ChatGPT and Google's Gemini AI...and I got opposite results.

Bluesky is doing some good news aggregation for me, but I fear this site has become TOO news heavy. I also would like some nerdy conversations just for their own sake, too, please?

I'm finally reading Butterick's Typography for Lawyers and he advocates for end-line hyphenation on documents with justified text. I never actually see that in briefs or opinions I read, though. Any legal writing nerds on here have strong opinions on this?

The kids are alright. (They always were.)

Outstanding statement from the College Democrats. Those occupying more senior positions in the party could learn a lot from their student branch. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Trying to ignore all the bad news by reveling in the schadenfreude of today's political news: 1. Joe Biden spurning the NYT to go on Howard Stern. He should just go on a huge podcast tour. And then finish with Hot Ones. Duh. 2. Oh, also Kristi Noem is literally Cruella de Vil or something?

Between shenanigans at the highest court in our land and the violence of the State imposed upon the campus I basically called home for 7 years... Yep, that's the recipe for doomscrolling. Doomscrolling has returned - we're back baby!!!