Scott Lemieux

@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

2799

Followers

342

Following

802

Posts

What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.

Posts Replies Media

The Heritage Foundation and John Taney Roberts: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/if-t...

If the left allows it to be - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Some context for the Roberts Court’s reversion to monarchism: KEVIN ROBERTS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT): In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We’re in the process of t...

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism

She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

Let’s be frank: the polling is awful www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/lets...

Let's be frank: the polling is awful - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com The conclusion you want to draw from this is up to you, and you can try to UNSKEW THE POLLS if you want, but I don’t think the data is ambiguous at this point: Donald J. Trump’s lead in the 2024 presi...

Robert Towne www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/robe...

Robert Towne - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com The great screenwriter, script doctor and director passed away: Robert Towne, whose screenplay for Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” won an Oscar, and whose work on that and other important films establish...

Hyperpartisanship and nihilism: how the Republicans on the Supreme Court learned to love being Donald Trump’s personal valet www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/hype...

Hyperpartisanship and nihilism: how the Republicans on the Supreme Court learned to love being Donald Trump's personal valet - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Two phrases from the majority is Trump and His Executive Council v. American Democracy are more telling than they mean to be, First, from the conclusion of Roberts’s opinion for the Court: The Preside...

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Can we maybe get this bullshit updated?

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

The Framers: *literally wrote many, many passages that you would swear on your life were prophetic visions of Donald J. Trump, and how such a figure must be guarded against at all costs* John Roberts: surely what they wanted is for this uniquely lawless figure to be placed above the law

"...this opinion depends on an implicit belief that the only person who would act so brazenly is Trump, and that because the majority of the justices on the Court support Trump and want him to be president, he must be shielded from prosecution."

The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Oh look a country where people strategically try to prevent the anti-democratic party from taking power

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

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

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

i don't want to read a thing about Ralph Nader unless it concludes with "he was survived by his cats."

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Reply to

Popehat

/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.

Good thread. (And worth noting again that the holding that official acts cannot even be used as evidence is so extremist and pernicious ACB wouldn't join that part of the Court's opinion)

There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Yes, maybe there's some clever version of hardball Biden's team can come up with, something that doesn't involve ordering assassinations. But one thing he *should* be able to say is "I reject the idea that the president is above the law, and I vow never to use this illegitimate 'immunity' defense."

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

My new one @Slate: "Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy" Is the Supreme Court obtuse or disingenuous? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

It's not an 'extreme hypothetical' if the guy promises to do it in literally every stump speech he gives.

"This case involved flagrant crimes that at least one of the spouses of of the justices who voted in the majority actively participated in, while another spouse advertised her support for those crimes contemporaneously with their commission." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/with...

Without ethical or legal restraints - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com A few notes on today’s SCOTUS decision: (1) John Roberts’s opinion legalizes, in every practical sense, military dictatorship. The opinion states that presidents have absolute immunity for all officia...

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Reply to

Jacob T. Levy

He accuses the dissent of "extreme hypotheticals," then, instead of recognizing Trump as uniquely corrupt and criminal, speculates that the charges against him portend a future in which presidents "cannibalize" one another with criminal charges -- despite two centuries of that not happening.

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

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.

John Roberts and the Republicans on the Trump Court massively fail the test even Warren Burger was able to pass www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/john...

John Roberts and the Republicans on the Trump Court massively fail the test even Warren Burger was able to pass - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com One of the most entertaining chapters of The Brethren described Chief Justice Warren Burger — a pompous windbag who considered himself a Machiavellian genius but whose manipulations constantly failed,...

"This is worse than Dred Scott. This is the darkest day in the long and infamous history of this institution. Richard Nixon’s claim that if the president does it it’s not illegal is now official Supreme Court doctrine" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/trum...

Trump immunity decision - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com 6-3, Trump has absolute immunity for all his actions under his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority, and presumptive immunity for all his official acts. TL;DR: No 1/6 trial before Novemb...

Fantasies about a chaos convention undermine the case for Biden stepping down www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/fant...

Fantasies about a chaos convention undermine the case for Biden stepping down - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com There are three things about the Democratic presidential nominee discourse I still find frustrating. Like Paul, even if you think that Biden staying on remains the least bad option, I think it’s pure ...

Reposted by

Scott Lemieux

Everyone has noticed how radical Mike Lee has become in recent years, but not enough have noticed how dumb he is.

Macron’s folly www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/macr...

Macron's folly - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Above: Lyon, 22 Juin Well, the initial projections (generally accurate in French elections) are in. I said when it happened that I had no idea what upside there was to Macron calling a snap election, ...

Old man look at my life www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/old-...

Old man look at my life - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Ezra Klein takes a predictable victory lap on the should Joe Biden withdraw from the race question, and points out that, to the extent that Biden should be pressured to drop out, the Democrats have a ...

Rishi Sunak to the courtesy phone please

these numbers are basically vindication of one of my points in the NYT conversation, which is that whoever is the nominee inherits Biden’s position for the simple reason that they will be standard-bearers for the Biden administration.