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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A widely predicted victory for the far right in France has instead turned into a victory for the left *because people turned out in record numbers to vote.* Defeat is not inevitable and more progressive elected officials means more progressive policies.

In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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Among other questions, I wonder how we got to the point where “separation of powers” means the judiciary can prohibit the executive from holding itself accountable. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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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

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We talk about Tuberville a lot, but this terrible former UConn quarterback becoming a powerful evil person is way more dystopian. We EXPECT a mediocre Auburn coach to become a GOP sen. But there's no pipeline from "6.1 yards per throw in the Big East" to "professionally entrapping homeless people"

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.

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New from me: Where is your "institutionalism" now? radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

Hunter Biden laptop update www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/hunt...

Hunter Biden laptop update - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Finally got ahold of that Clinton Cash book, people: Graphic details about Donald Trump’s alleged “sexual proclivities” have emerged in the latest round of court documents containing details of late p...

Brazil provides model for banana republic to the north www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/braz...

Brazil provides model for banana republic to the north - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Nice to see examples of how a functioning democracy might operate: Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection wi...

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

The violence inherent in the MAGA www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/the-...

The violence inherent in the MAGA - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Say what you will about Mark Robinson, he gets the ethos: Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence in a bizarre and extended rant...

Biden places another bet on his own indispensability www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/bide...

Biden places another bet on his own indispensability - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Ultimately, if Biden wants to stay in the race there’s not really anything that can be done about it, and this is still the choice he’s making: President Biden delivered a brief but animated and defia...

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I learned a lot about Roger B. Taney from Clark RAP colleague and friend Sora Han this last spring. Whew. He's awful (and important) but allow me to recommend her work, which is important and the opposite of awful: www.dukeupress.edu/mu-49-marks-...

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...

Duke University Press - Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition www.dukeupress.edu

No-fault divorce and the reactionary counter-revolution www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/no-f...

No-fault divorce and the reactionary counter-revolution - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Jill Fllipovic points out that a big part of the right wing backlash that’s fueling Trumpism is an all-out attack on the sexual revolution in general, and no-fault divorce in particular: And yet that ...

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

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

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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!"

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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.

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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?"

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Even if the numbers are underestimating Biden's chances, which is possible, I still think the trend within polls has to be considered alarming

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...

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"Field" refers to a bet on anybody not otherwise on the list.

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Can we maybe get this bullshit updated?

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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.

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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."

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

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

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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.

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