LawDawg

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Sometimes I post about law. Mostly, I yell about sports.

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Hey wait a minute shouldn't this say, "In Ukraine, Damage to Public Health Infrastructure Amid Ongoing Fighting?"

When you are very good at sports metaphors and electoral politics.

I hate it here

Dembele looks like the only player who actually wants to win this game.

Leao and Mbappe both taken off before the end of extra time? Inexplicable.

Rafa Leao looking like the best attacking player in the world right now.

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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

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no. roberts wrote the immunity opinion because he is a movement conservative and always has been. he seems "moderate" to dimwits because his method is to operate slowly, doing his damage with paper cuts and false humility while embedding the next step in each ruling.

This a "he joined the majority to write the opinion and try to limit the craziness" view?

"Millions would watch" kinda gives the game away. These people don't care about the country, they care about their ratings and clicks.

the difference been pundits who have spent too much time huffing gasoline and journalists who are actually thinking through this with seriousness is whether they think having a contentious, brokered convention is less problematic than just going with biden's elected successor.

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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

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

Not as useless as Admin Law, though.

Constitutional Law may now be the VCR Repair of a 1L's core curriculum.

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the New York Times has descended into total nihilism; it doesn't give a damn about the truth, only about damaging Democrats and helping Trump. So it presents a video it acknowledges to be misleadingly edited as evidence for its thesis.

Setting the particular topic aside for a second, this is a truly spectacular case of the Times' pathologically incompetent "Where there's fire, there's smoke" theory of writing up high-stakes investigative stories

Jared Golden will happily be the guy who gives "bipartisan" sheen to an American versions of The Enabling Act.

real asshole right here www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...

Donald Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just finewww.bangordailynews.com “Democrats’ post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject the premise.”

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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Nytimes politics desk is just overtly pro Trump at this point. bsky.app/profile/jaco...

A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.

American decline on full display today, from the courts to the pitch.

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The thing about people who cite the "Cass Review" is that they don't care about science at all. All they want is tools to hurt trans people and the "Cass Review" is just that.

A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Carelaw.yale.edu A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

If he doesn't address the justices by name (no hiding behind titles or "the Court") it's chickenshit. This Court shouldn't be afforded any niceties; they should be addressed a John Roberts, Sam Alito, etc. They're just goons, not actual jurists.

*BIDEN TO DELIVER REMARKS ON IMMUNITY RULING AT 7:45 PM ET

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“Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say.”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

‘It’s Like Christmas’: Team Trump Stunned by Massive Supreme Court Immunity Winwww.rollingstone.com Conservatives are planning to use the Supreme Court’s immunity decision to help them implement Trump’s extreme policy agenda, sources say.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

He loves two things: making sure black people can't vote and letting republicans do crimes.

john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history

It's always fun when, as you understand and get closer to our legal system, you quickly figure out how much of it is just fake.

Sorry to all my lawyer friends who spent a bunch of time learning how law works in the US. I had friends who were Flash developers and things turned out alright for them after they pivoted to C# or whatever. Hopefully there's an equivalent for our national legal system

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

The Law has never been real. Only power is real.

Just replace con law textbooks with “whatever our most cartoonish billionaire fascist wants”

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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

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The words in the constitution don't give the president immunity, nor was that the intention of the authors. But you must understand that the meaning of the constitutional vibes have evolved over time in a way only I can detect. Now there are penubras and emanations that tell me he is in fact immune.

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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.

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Legal pundits over time Dec 1, 2023: SCOTUS will reject Trump's appeal on an expedited basis Dec 22, 2023: They are letting the DC Circuit handle it to not even dignify it. Feb 28, 2024: The are taking the case on appeal but will completely reject the claim. June: SCOTUS says Trump is your God/King

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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.

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“In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” -Justice Sotomayor, dissenting www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...