Scott Lemieux

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

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Invoking Holmes's hoary quote while leaving out the 'falsely' is an ironclad guarantee that you're being set up for a terrible argument for restricting speech on nakedly viewpoint-based grounds, and Bobo's op-ed is certainly no exception www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/the-...

As a connoisseur of clueless "The New York Times visits the provinces" articles, I can't believe I was unaware of this eternal classic of the genre until now: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/the-...

If you believe this, you should definitely vote for RFK Jr., the true conservative in the race

The reason why people lived in constant fear of violence during the English Civil War was because of the Crown's ability to legally enforce subpoenas

It's striking how since his MAGA turn Taibbi's prose has steadily devolved into the kind of muddle of inapt cliches and mixed metaphors he used to make fun of Thomas Friedman for

To be Scrupulously Fair Alito has told much bigger lies than this before:

You will be shocked to learn that Sedition Sammy is also a huge liar nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...

Post a perfect album from 1989, no rules

post a *perfect* album from 1989, no rules.

"The Free State of Florida" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Life During DeSantis www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/05/life...

Life During DeSantis - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com The near-total ban on abortion in the nation’s third largest state signed by Governor Freedom (TM) went into effect today: When she walked into the abortion clinic Tuesday morning, Kristen thought she...

To anybody who isn't as amoral as Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump, forgiving debt students got stuck with after being swindled by these cons is the easiest of easy calls: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/u...

Biden administration forgives student debt accrued at for-profit boiler rooms: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/05/insi...

Inside the Higher Ed Scam, debt forgiveness edition - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com In one of her many appalling acts as Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos refused to forgive debt for students swindled by for-profit colleges. Game recognize game, after all. The Biden administration ...

I recommend this @steve_vladeck post in its entirety, and especially the point that by deciding things it doesn't need to decide the Court is not only providing de facto immunity to Trump but creating a roadmap for future presidential misconduct: stevevladeck.substack.com/p/78-writing...

As badly as Burger handled it, Nixon v. US did two crucial things: 1)allow the immediate case to go forward and 2)leave questions of executive privilege to mostly be sorted out by future cases with actual facts. The Roberts Court seems poised to bat .000 here

Shorter Republican elites

Bill Barr: Is attempted autogolpe even a crime? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/bill...

Bill Barr: Is attempted autogolpe even a crime? - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Trump’s falanginst estranged consigliere Bill Barr is voting for Trump, because uncle Joe Brandon is the real threat to democracy, because, um, whoops, look at the time, need to work on that brief abo...

Update on the new, populist, working-class Republican Party: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/repu...

The past, present, and future Republicans want

Basically all Republican governance in 2024 is based on this premise [why can't we do more to replicate the miraculous success of the socioeconomic system of Mississippi] www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/toda...

Supreme Court Republicans: "when Congress said 'or,' it actually meant 'and' [if the statute might apply to a Republican]" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/the-...

Curious how a purple state like Arizona has a Supreme Court packed with right-wing fanatics? Because Republicans packed the hell out of it is why: politico.com/news/magazin...

Arizona Supreme Court sends women back to 1865 www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/ariz...

Both Trump and the anti-abortion lobby are completely open that the "states' rights" line is pure kayfabe. The latter will not tolerate women having reproductive rights anywhere in the U.S. If you don't know this it's because you don't want to know www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/o...

At this point reporters falsely claiming that Trump came out against a national abortion ban aren't so much marks as in on his con www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/see-...

Turning leftover Easter roast beef into daube #poliscicooks

I can't believe the libs are worried about obscure, powerless figures like Donald Trump and Sam Alito instead of the immense power of...uh, whoever this guy is

The dreamlife of a misogynist reactionary www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/the-...

S B-F would never have gone to prison if Trump didn't win in 2020

Bank man fried www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/bank...

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Scott Lemieux

"Let the Men Decide: the jurisprudence of Samuel Alito" nymag.com/intelligence...

Hamilton's defense of the Electoral College in Federalist 68 now makes some students in my presidency class laugh out loud

All this nonsense post-2016 about how Trump's victory illustrated the dangers of the democracy when most people voted against him. Twice now. Meanwhile the holy institutions we're all supposed to be praying to and prostrating ourselves before have saved or elevated him at every opportunity.

What the reporter fails to point out is that if there is no Electoral College majority the election is thrown to House *state delegations,* which means Trump would win 100% of the time and no third party would have an iota of leverage over the outcome

The NO LABELS plan to influence the outcome of teh election is absolutely moronic nonsense that shows no understanding of how the electoral process works www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/no-l...

As Sotomayor and Jackson point out, this is straightforward nullification:

Supreme Court allows Texas to intervene in an area of plenary federal jurisdiction www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/supr...

I don't know where all this is coming from and please never tell me

How dumb is the idea that Trump would do more to restrain Netanyahu? So dumb America's Wrongest Pundit and the "American culture has no external influence" guy believe it

Donald the Dove's final solution: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/are-...

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ryan cooper

"How will keeping Republicans from controlling the executive branch prevent them from implementing their explicit plans for what they'll do after they take over the executive branch?"

New York Times doing their best to manifest the Trump with whom they can justify selling horse race nonsense

All of which is the appropriate context for ACB whining about the "stridency" of the justices willing to put their name on their opinion in defense of the justices who weren't:

As @jbouie.bsky.social observes, the majority's claim that the federal judiciary cannot enforce Section 3 is particularly farcical in light of its nullification of Congress's explicit power to enforce the next Civil War Amendment in Shelby County. Just pure Calvinball: bsky.app/profile/jbou...

And the majority's holding that Section 3 is not self-executing because Congress is given what is plainly the concurrent and not exclusive authority to enforce it is transparently wrong:

As the joint concurrence observes, the majority's holding that Section 3 can only be enforced by specific legislation has the intention and effect of "insulat[ing] all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office"