Brendan Nyhan: Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.

Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.

And not enough explainers on SCOTUS overturning Chevron, which will affect every single one of us for decades to come.

Yeah, I wrote an article on that as a layman Canadian because I don't think people recognize how that ruling fucks us ALL. Like, globally. The United States saying 'fuck you, I do what I want' with regards to regulations is terrifying.

I hate that we’re such bad global neighbors, that our judicial & legislative processes are so beholden to Big [Name of Industry/Lobby].

why is this so hard for these people? Alito just says it

Seriously, fuck all that. Roberts and his fascist cadre just put a knife in the back of the American body politic. They have no legitimacy and they should be tarred and feathered

Connect the dots! Impeachment of the President for "High crimes and misdemeanors" no longer exists? SCOTUS decisions can/must be reversed, but impeachment/conviction for dariliction of duty by certain justices needs to happen. They are blatantly violating their oaths to defend the Constitution.

i’ve heard no mention of the text of the impeachment clause or federalist 69 in major media. it’s so obviously completely groundless. i think it’s important to scream about how this decision is an affront to the methods conservative justices say they follow

What is there to analyze but “this is a naked power grab by bad actors”

The other part of this is that critiques should only be head-on and dismissive. None of this, it gets this or that precedent wrong. That takes these decisions as good faith arguments, which they aren’t. They are a weapon of power, not an academic treatise on the nature of sovereignty.

It really does sound like The Onion's joke news report on the shrieking white-hot sphere of pure rage that turned out to be incredibly prescient. Just acting like it's all completely normal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjon...

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If you or I deliberately failed so hard at our jobs as the SCOTUS Six, we'd be immediately fired and sued.

They didn't fail. They delivered exactly what the Federalist Society and their bankrolling oligarchs put them there to do.

"Constitutional Calvinball" is my new word of the month! Let's all use it, people!

“Constitutional Calvinball” is a memorable coinage. I even took a swing at memorializing it, late on Independence Day. With emojis. I’d see myself out, but the historic echo to the Enabling Act of 1933 has been dogging me all week. History’s rhymes ring atonal.

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“Hyperbole is a temptation. But I cannot recall a more shocking decision from the Roberts court than this one.”- @donmoyn.bsky.social “it opens a Pandora’s Box of corruption and abuse of the Presidential office in ways we can scarcely imagine.” open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Strongman, Weak Stateopen.substack.com The dispiriting vision of American governance offered by the Roberts Court

It is impossible to get a man to understand something etc

The episode of @fivefourpod.bsky.social on this is very good

its their job all pundits can do is bloviate

Based

People point out inconsistencies and contradictions in the decision like it’s a gotcha. They’re the point!

You are so right.

Thank-you.

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