Political Science PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, studying APD, constitutional change & democratization. Proud member of GEO-3550. Semi-retired Jewish organizer. Thaddeus Stevens was right.
real marked difference between a country with a recent experience of dictatorship and one blithely convinced It Can't Happen Here, We're Too Special and Good
SCOTUS is gonna say in like July that "well of course former presidents don't have immunity that would be silly" while functionally letting him get immunity by delaying it until he's within shooting distance of being president and able to order DOJ to dismiss his own case
The big tell about abortion politics imo is that the conservative interviewers who get access to Trump - who are, generally, interested in him getting re-elected - don't ask about it.
Notice how, if we followed Alito's reasoning that religious beliefs can never serve as a basis to strike a juror, we'd instantly run into a collision with jurors who believe, on religious grounds, that the death penalty is wrong.
Anyone want to guess how Alito would rule on that? Yeah, exactly.
Alito suggests that a trial court violates the free exercise and equal protection clauses when it allows an attorney who represents a gay client to strike potential jurors because they express overt bigotry against gay people.
The successful democratization of the anti-democratic institutions Republicans constructed in the midwest after 2010 is a hugely important story in American politics.
JUST IN: Governor Tony Evers signed new legislative maps for Wisconsin.
Maps give Dems a new shot at winning majorities in WI, undo GOP's hyper-gerrymander.
They were proposed by Evers after state supreme court struck down the gerrymander. GOP passed them last week to avoid court coming back in.
once again: blanket obstructionism is clearly the correct strategy if you control a house of congress while the other party has the presidency. it's a flaw in the our system but low-info voters (who are the ones up for grabs!) do not understand that the president is not a king
The compromise, bipartisan border legislation was killed by Republicans with Trump's encouragement. So here's who Americans blame. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
After this case there is no longer any need to even pretend that a single justice is motivated by the original meaning of the constitution, any justice who says so should have to raise their voice to be heard over the instant cacophony of laughter bsky.app/profile/rick...
It seems pretty clear from the questions from Roberts, Kavanaugh, Kagan, that the Court is likely to rule that states cannot disqualify federal officers under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, at least without congressional legislation.
This has been said before, but it is striking how much Trump resembles the "classical" demagogue--a figure who would have been intelligible to both the founders and the greeks/romans they drew on for inspiration.
Cornell West's decision to run as an independant for President (forsaking even the threadbare institution of the Green Party) really shows how powerful the anti-party, anti-institutional siren song is.
