AnnieGTMD

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Retired heart surgeon, current metalsmith, COO of the fam
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It is almost as if we need oversight over the judicial system.

An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections. www.propublica.org/article/judg...

Even When Big Cases Intersect With Their Families’ Interests, Many Judges Choose Not to Recusewww.propublica.org Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.

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god if only you could use grifting insincerity as a power source, you could power Texas

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Biden's proposals for judicial reforms will surely bring up objections that it's political suicide because of what happened with FDR's court-packing plan, so let me repost this recent CAMPAIGN TRAILS post about how those comparisons are completely misplaced. kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...

Unpacking the Courtkevinmkruse.substack.com In recent months, the breathtaking radicalism and brazen corruption of the current Supreme Court has reignited the longstanding debate over reforming the Court by expanding the number of Justices. As ...

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Mike Masnick

Same plan for Congress!

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Julia Azari

Abraham Lincoln was pretty sure he would lose reelection in 1864, some historical accounts suggest. The Union still kept fighting the fucking civil war. We can keep our fainting couches off the internet.

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seems like a good time to re-up this:

The Supreme Court is Donald Trump's real running mate. Democrats should act like it. (By me.) www.findinggravity.net/p/trumpthoma...

Trump/Thomas 2024www.findinggravity.net Nearly 30 years ago, Democrats chose a rhetorical running mate for their Republican opponent. That playbook could be the key to winning in 2024.

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a deeply damaged movement led by a deeply damaged man

President Biden tried to call the widow; she wouldn't talk to him. Trump didn't bother. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/p...

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NEW: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is a Trump appointee who rules on the bench exactly how Donald Trump expects his appointees to rule: for him. Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/cannon-dis...

Judge Aileen Cannon does Trump's bidding in dismissing Mar-a-Lago casewww.lawdork.com A day bookended by reminders that Donald Trump expects and rewards obedience — from Cannon's Florida ruling to Trump's VP pick, J.D. Vance.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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Helen Kennedy

Without ill will what’s left in the Trump church?

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Helen Kennedy

A perfect encapsulation of why this assassination attempt will have no lasting effect on the election

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A great passage from Gabriel Winant, historian at University of Chicago, on JD Vance in n+1. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/pol...

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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You are living inside it. No way back, for better or worse. Either fight to win the future or concede to fascist tyranny taking over our country, the world's largest economy and mightiest military.

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The Fig Economy

The key is going to be motivating Dems to turn out, I think, not swinging the tiny number of undecided voters out there.

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I don't know about the rest of you but when it comes to Trump's VP nominee I'd put good money down on him choosing A Complete Piece of Shit.

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Really struggling to understand why both the mainstream media and Democratic leadership are finding it so hard right now to express what I think is a fairly basic point. Political violence is bad and a second Trump presidency means more of it. www.garbageday.email/p/yet-anothe...

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TRUMP: I'm going to be a dictator on day one DEMOCRATS: Trump wants to be a dictator! REPUBLICANS: Hysterical Dems are endangering Trump by saying he wants to be a dictator

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Hell yes humiliate them all one by one

NEW: Marco Rubio has been informed that he is NOT Trump’s VP pick, two sources tell Politico

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The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A preview of government of, by and for a subset of ‘the people’www.washingtonpost.com That Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case wasn’t surprising tells us a lot about how government might evolve over the next four years.

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4 years ago, the sitting president was doing this on social media during his re-election campaign.

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I have some additional things to say about Sen. JD Vance (R-OH). He, like Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley & Ted Cruz, is a cynical opportunist happy to ride a fascist wave into power. I will not even give him the cred of being "hard right conservative" because there is nothing beyond personal ambition.

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“Millions of kind-hearted compassionate people agree that immigrants are vermin poisoning the blood of America, or at least are compassionate enough to get past someone saying that.”

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

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Chuck Wendig

Thank you, that helps. That well photo is WILD

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The Founders anticipated all of this, and that is why they buried throughout the constitution various secret hints and rules that would, centuries later, make it illegal to notice or get mad when a powerful and extremely dumb guy repeatedly commits obvious oafish political crimes.

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Finally put my thoughts down about the Supreme Court's decision in the Netchoice cases. It's a tremendously important decision on the First Amendment issues, and boy this Court does not like facial challenges to even blatantly unconstitutional laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Curate Speech, As We’ve Longwww.eff.org Social media platforms, at least in their most common form, have a First Amendment right to curate the third-party speech they select for and recommend to their users, and the government’s ability to

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We have had NINE YEARS to know what Trump is like as a presidential candidate and president. Yet many reporters and analysts and pundits continue to hold out some weird hope that this time he'll change, this time he'll emerge as someone the complete opposite of who he's consistently shown us he is.

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WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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Yep. There's a lot of wiggle room in law, a lot of places where a judge's general attitudes about law, politics, governance, etc, will sway them to reach one of many potential outcomes. That is not what is happening now. What is happening are hacks and lunatics deliberately misapplying the law.

I'm a big fan of the attitudinal model of law, but I also think it's possible for judges not to be total partisan hacks. The thing is, literally no institution could survive if its leaders were taking bribes and its major positions were purposely filled with irresponsible lunatics for decades.

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Reminder for no particular reason that no one knows how this election will turn out, no one can foresee how an event today will impact voters’ choices four months from now, and it is still incumbent on all of us to fight fascism and not acquiesce to doom.