Lucy Haines

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And they’re also not going to care. They’re gonna come for anyone they want to come for.

They're gonna come for birthright citizenship.

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Pretty much confirms my suspicion that the Biden-Is-Old news cycle was mostly a product of summer doldrums, which is a pretty fucked up thing given that there has been plenty of other news in the last month.

Your job should be harder.

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But it really strikes me as missing the point. If Trump wins the case is over as soon as he wants it to be. If Trump doesn’t win there’s no likely path that doesn’t end in SCOTUS (at least as presently constituted) saving him on some bullshit. What, are we going to run out of vulgar Winnebagos?

Josh just asked me about this and will again on the show this week. My sense is that though the 11th Circuit will reverse if they ever get it, they won’t use this as an excuse to remand to a different judge.

The day of the immunity decision, I resigned myself to Trump not facing legal consequences for any his political actions (including the NY criminal case). A part of me felt it was hyperbole to think that, but I'm not sure.

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As bad as this is, I cannot imagine what stunts James Ho and Kyle Duncan are gonna pull to try and establish themselves as Trump’s Supreme Court frontrunners again

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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Yes. But to what end? He’ll get rid of it if he wins and the current SCOTUS will get rid of it if he loses.

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy

awfully presumptuous

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Yep. There's a lot of wiggle room in law, a lot of places where a judge's general attitudes about law, politics, governance, etc, will sway them to reach one of many potential outcomes. That is not what is happening now. What is happening are hacks and lunatics deliberately misapplying the law.

I'm a big fan of the attitudinal model of law, but I also think it's possible for judges not to be total partisan hacks. The thing is, literally no institution could survive if its leaders were taking bribes and its major positions were purposely filled with irresponsible lunatics for decades.

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

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In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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This is a good point. She could have waited until after the election, or after a jury is empaneled. It smacks a bit of mask-off triumphalism, a sort of HA WE ARE WINNING TRUMP 4EVER BITCHEZ, which may be an accurate perception of the drift of things, or not.

The only thing that surprises me about what Judge Cannon did is that she did it this soon, on grounds this likely to be overturned.

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Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

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Imagine writing a NYT piece talking about how the court, actually, is good right now. But Will Baude did it! Essentially, saying that all they get wrong was the Trump cases — and then insists, sort of, IDK, that even that was for what they thought were good reasons. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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Citizenship can be stripped if someone lied on their immigration paperwork, which gives me an idea for something Biden should fast track

Watch Elon Musk Talk About Being an ‘Illegal Immigrant’ in Video From 2013gizmodo.com Musk called his immigration status a 'gray area' while discussing the 1990s.

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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It's a ratfucking op, it's a ratfucking op, it's always been a ratfucking op.

I’m starting to think the DSA does not have our best interests at heart

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I live very close to the Cincinnati area fbi building that that idiot attacked and tried to nail-gun because he was mad about the mar a lago raid, there are definitely people in this country who would take a six figure government salary for the privilege of obeying Trump when he says: do crimes

Years before this ruling, that was the defense trotted out by the Calm Down types: they didn’t do it! Too many people said no, I won’t commit crimes for you, Trump. They fail to realize there were multiple who were willing! If he’s reelected how many Jeff Clark’s do you wanna risk him appointing

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run a coup attempt in america and the supreme court is like whoa hang on that might be fine give us several months

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even bolivia gets it. bolivia. cia is like damn dude guess they learned

BREAKING: Bolivian general who appeared to lead a failed coup is arrested after an attorney general opened an investigation against him.

Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt failsapnews.com Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup.

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Big hello to all the new folks! I’m so glad to see our legal skeeter community is growing. I’m an appellate lawyer & skeet about that & biglaw practice and #LadyLawyerDiaries, but also a lot about fly fishing, orchids, my work with disabled veterans, and my furbabies Lady Bird & Molly. Welcome!

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Want to write new law but worry you don’t hold office? No problem! Just hire some lawyers. Invent a case. File in TX. Voila! *this only works if the law you want is appealing to Fed Soc goons.

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Rob Honeycutt

What's awesome about the current SCOTUS is... we don't know which of you is right! Maybe they apply long-settled, well-reasoned precedent! Maybe they make up some brand new shit, like the cross case! Maybe they outright lie about the facts, like the football prayer case! bsky.app/profile/skip...

There's a time when I would have sort of laughed this off as a clearly fruitless exercise by Louisiana. (While lamenting the waste of their citizens' money.) But that time is long since gone. Your scenario feels scarily plausible.

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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.

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happy belated 5-year anniversary to what is, for my money, the greatest political post of all time

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Congratulations to the researchers who found a lot of microplastics in dicks. It was weird that you were looking there but I guess you have been vindicated

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Yep, and this one is easier still: it's in Louisiana, which means the Fifth Circuit, which routinely flouts precedent. If they allow it, the six GOP SCOTUS Justices can just deny cert and let it stand without getting their hands dirty.

if you think this is definitely going to be held unconstitutional, please note that in 2019 the Supreme Court held that a giant cross on public land did not violate the Constitution

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if you think this is definitely going to be held unconstitutional, please note that in 2019 the Supreme Court held that a giant cross on public land did not violate the Constitution

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana becomes the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms.

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If you are looking for someone who compromises with Republicans, I'm not your guy. There is no middle ground between an arsonist and a firefighter.