Quinta Jurecic

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I write about law, democracy, and the internet. I'm a senior editor at Lawfare, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Washington Post's Book World. It's KWIN-ta.

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Quinta Jurecic

So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Andy Craig

ah I've failed to keep up re ballot access! thanks for the correction.

what! about! campaign funds! and! ballot access!

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...

La Marseillaise Casablancawww.youtube.com YouTube video by Andrew Barbin

when I read Munro's "Train" I thought it was the most striking depiction I'd ever come across of how this kind of trauma can ruin a person. "Things could be locked up, it only took some determination" harpers.org/archive/2012...

oh man www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with himwww.thestar.com In the shadow of my mother, a literary icon, my family and I have hidden a secret for decades. It’s time to tell my story.

oh man www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Ann M. Lipton

how many of the latter category have there been, though? a handful of first-term blue dog types in swing districts, right?

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Elon Green

that's my guess at this point, just from the tea leaves

in part because they seem totally orthogonal to where various dems land on the political spectrum from center to left. there's no pattern that I can discern to which dems are calling for biden to reconsider, other than that the leftier flank (squad etc) has been notably quiet

at this point i've given up guessing what will happen or what the best outcome would be and am just fascinated by the intraparty dynamics here

whoa, schiff www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Rep. Adam Schiff says Biden needs to ‘win overwhelmingly’ or ‘pass the torch’: Full interviewwww.nbcnews.com Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.) exclusively joins Meet the Press to talk about the state of President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.

whoa, schiff www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

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Andy Craig

and they seem to consider politics to be something that is by nature dirty, unprincipled, and beneath them (McDonnell, Snyder, the Bridgegate case, etc)

this is consistent with my general sense that many of the justices really, really don't understand both how much they are disliked by an increasingly fervent and expansive segment of population, and the extent to which those people are now paying attention in a way they weren't before

competing theory of john roberts from @stevenmazie.bsky.social: maybe roberts is still trying to play the institutionalist game but has lost his read on how the court is perceived by the public x.com/stevenmazie/...

Bloomberg/Morning Consult is not a super highly ranked poll on the 538 rankings so I wouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves here projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-rat...

Lmao

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

honestly the people I want to hear from rn are disability theorists

my takeaway from a lot of this—substantive "what should the dems do" questions aside because I have no idea—is that people are incredibly weird about aging and disability

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Jonathan Bernstein

my takeaway from a lot of this—substantive "what should the dems do" questions aside because I have no idea—is that people are incredibly weird about aging and disability

which is not exactly news, but still sort of mind-boggling to watch in action

jesus christ I can't take another week of this

note that warner's spox doesn't deny

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Sen. Mark Warner seeks to assemble group of Democratic senators to ask Biden to exit racewww.washingtonpost.com Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to go to the White House on Monday and ask that Joe Biden exit the presidential race, according to two people with dir...

under Roberts's opinion, I'm not sure you could use the show as evidence of bribery. maybe you could use re-airings of the show as evidence. maybe you could use the AV Club's summary of the episode as evidence. maybe you could only use the AI aggregation of the AV Club summary as evidence...

If Trump is reelected, his new weekly show "Who Wants To Buy a Pardon?" is going to be a commercial smash.

you know what looks really bad in retrospect? SDNY's decision not to move forward with a prosecution of trump on FECA charges

ah good, the return of the "I barely know him" tweets

The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus

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Robinson is hardly the only Republican using language like this. At this point it's pretty close to the official position of the party to call for their political opponents to be arrested, jailed, subject to military tribunal, beaten up, or killed. They're not being subtle about it.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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right, I think it's useful as a way of explaining how roberts sees himself

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Indiscreet Function

not saying that anyone is infallible, but it's a useful data point imo

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Flying Mezerkis

Baude is an originalist

Baude who, by the way, clerked for Roberts, and whose read on what the hell is going on with the conservatives is worth a great deal

ignore the hed, this is extremely harsh criticism from the very measured Will Baude of the Court's rulings in the 14th Amendment and immunity cases www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.

"the court sees itself as trying to save the country from other institutions’ disproportionate responses to Mr. Trump ... When dealing with Mr. Trump in particular, the court is so sure that our other institutions cannot be trusted that it fails to look in the mirror."

ignore the hed, this is extremely harsh criticism from the very measured Will Baude of the Court's rulings in the 14th Amendment and immunity cases www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.