J. D.

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J.D. et cetera. Generic litigator but dabbles. Chicago and adjacent. Unreformed liberal artist. Unrepentant elder millennial re: craft food and drink. Pro-sports and the arts and nature. Anti-judicial corruption until I get nominated.

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I wish our media would for once point out that "the values of Western civilization" and "fewer immigrants" are definitionally and diametrically opposed to each other. It's like profiling a group of vegans who make an exception for eating pig, and normalizing that view as the one "correct" one.

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

This man is younger than me and looks like Mr. Burns trying to lighten up the mood on casual Friday at the plant.

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

I know dinner's ready, babe, but just a sec. I'm proving the moral superiority of my theocratic political strategy by admitting to federal crimes on TikTok.

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

He's redoing the bigoted Know Nothing Party bit from the 19th c. without any sense of irony or likely awareness of that particular movement.

even trump’s campaign staff (i assume he didn’t write this) knows that the reactionary, authoritarian agenda that’s project 2025 is going to be unpopular with the average voter.

Prosecutors literally exercise discretionary state police power. They're more cop than a lot of uniformed personnel with police department titles.

A perfect 10.0 English skeet (derogatory, but charmingly so).

I gotta tell you, if I'm Joe Biden there's one of two scenarios here: one is that I have a legitimate health concern and am strategizing a resignation, and the other is that I don't, and I'm spending zero time reading anything from anyone who thinks the vice president lacks "democratic legitimacy"

Another asinine 'solution' to the Biden Problem, this time from Yascha Mounk. Again, these people think their *entire job* is political strategy and predicting poll numbers. Yet they somehow think that spending months drawing attention to their own party's weaknesses is a good strategy!

Happy 4th of July, the 5th Circuit is liberating the judiciary from being the Federal Library Police!

UPDATE: Jonathan Mitchell and Kyle Duncan get another go at the First Amendment, as the Fifth Circuit this evening announced — after business hours going into the holiday weekend — that they're taking the Llano County library books litigation en banc. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Republicans doing their best to prove all that "states rights" federalism small government falderal they indulged for decades was, in fact, falderal. Now it's max state power, baby. Strap yourself in and feel the Gs.

There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons. ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

The difference between intelligence and wisdom is a 70-something comfy con law professor still unironically going along with the kayfabe and hand-waiving away the occasional jail stint for unruly subjects.

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Truly impressive that this self-proclaimed news organization created a narrative that it now speculates will be perpetuated for up to four months. It's cute that there are probably still true believers in there who think this is just good ol' sleeves-rolled-up journalism.

In the aftermath of Biden’s Thursday night debacle, Democratic members of Congress have largely stood behind the president in public. That could change – very quickly – if post-debate polling and research show that Biden’s debate fallout is likely to cost Democrats the House come November.

Frustrated Democrats watch for debate fallout as Republicans pounce on Biden’s poor showing | CNN Politicscnn.it Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat whose seat is crucial to maintaining his party’s slim Senate majority in November, faced a new attack ad Sunday from GOP challenger Dave McCormick’s campaign — ...

Fox running an ad where Pulisic says "gotta prove the doubters wrong" after the men's team definitely didn't prove the doubters wrong is certainly a choice.

On today's edition of Lousiest Americans, Gregg Berhalter somehow only finishes 7th in the ranking.

You all scoff at the idea of AI judges and Code as Law, but be honest: whose hallucinations would you have rather had this term, SCOTUS's or ClaudeLawBot's?

Pack the court, schmack the Court, just invite the right six current ones to the Oval Office to cordially discuss their immediate resignations.

When we said SCOTUS should revisit qualified immunity this was not what we had in mind.

Ah, so Supreme Leader Biden will be sending the troops to Mar a Lago any moment now, yes?

I would not call myself a "huge fan" of the guy as he was not my preferred candidate in 2020, but he is a very good politician and a good President when you account for what the President actually can and should control. He's like LBJ 2.0 (explanatory, non-derogatory), and people *hate* it.

I feel like the main political divide on this website is between “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I hate him” and “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a rancid ham sandwich against Donald Trump” very few people are actually huge fans of the guy

The political media feels aggrieved that they didn't get to do realistically contested primaries from either major party and is taking it out on the party more likely to cave and give them something to cover this summer. That's more or less what's going on right now. They know it's dumb.

❌️While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach... ✅️ The 2024 Honda Odyssey *is* Private School America's Family Vehicle of the Year!

❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness ✅ shit was mid

This poll relies on self identification of web surveys for political party affiliation and the crosstabs show 6% of Democrats reliably voting for Trump regardless of which Dem is nominated, with fewer self-idenfitied Republicans defecting to the Dem candidate. Lol.

Interesting. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/...

Make America Great Again by redoing the 1920s only now everyone has microplastics in their genitalia, the oceans are dying, and the killing machines are more efficient. Oh well is the line going up?

Calvinballs and Calvinstrikes.

Roberts, overruling Chevron with incredible and unearned hubris: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."

Am I a neurologist? No. Am I going to diagnose cognitive decline on social media based on observations from a poorly produced television program? Oh, absolutely.

Our Beltway political-media class sucks so bad that I would trade them all for England's and be willing to throw in future second-round picks to complete the deal.

Trump just called the sitting President a Manchurian Candidate in response to a question about God knows what and it won't make a dent in the news tomorrow because our media sucks ass, starting with the moderators of the failcircus.

Not ideal that we have a country where angry, stupid, and lying can beat boring, intelligent, and right.

When do they reveal themselves as Kodos and Kang

I can't believe we found worse television than the Trump-HRC debates, but I've seen enough 15 minutes in.

"Small government!" Gets whiff of power. "Yes, yes! Let the state murder young mothers because of my feels!"

Ok, I need everybody to read Section III-A of Alito's dissent in the Idaho abortion case. He says - explicitly and specifically - that in cases where the amniotic sac breaks before the 24th week of pregnancy, abortions should be prohibited. HE SPECIFICALLY NOTES THE DANGERS. He points out that...