@SIfill

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Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

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This is great. Something to celebrate.

first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...

The American Climate Corps officially kicks offgrist.org This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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I don't know how you lose running against a Court that wants to prosecute the pregnant and preemptively pardon that perpetrator.

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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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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

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Is there a name for the law by which gallows humor gets less funny in direct proportion to how close the actual gallows are?

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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.

Just unreal.

"He didn't chain himself to the desk" is the actual democratic standard in my inbox right now

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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction

A grotesque and hideous distortion of the rule of law from the highest Court of the world’s most powerful democracy. This is a national and global catastrophe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

www.supremecourt.gov

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The crux of this is that these people feel sincerely entitled to a president who fits their personal preferences, rather than just trying to get the least fucked-up and harmful option in a busted system where bad interests have lots of power

The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

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mhhhh

Los Angeles’s Mayor Was Contemplating a Mask Ban. She Just Got Covid.newrepublic.com Karen Bass floated banning masks for protesters days before coming down with Covid-19.

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As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, “The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power” — and the justices are “making a laughing-stock” of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It’s Not Funnywww.rollingstone.com The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators.

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

So many unserious people are holding platforms that demand sober judgment, patience and careful analysis. They couldn’t take a deep breath and reflect. But no, THEY KNOW what should happen. I wouldn’t be so upset if they weren’t the same ppl that consistently get it wrong.

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Trying to say this carefully: the kind of “administration and party leadership that would be *capable* of having an incumbent President step down for a younger replacement” is so far away from this current moment that you might as well be imagining a parliamentary system of governance.

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Hear, hear: “In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?”

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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Pleasantly surprised at how many people on C-SPAN Washington Journal wanted to talk about Loper Bright and Chevron this morning. Of course a self-selecting audience, but I expected the callers to be otherwise-focused. Here’s my Law Dork report on the decision: www.lawdork.com/p/forget-the...

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Kagan is reading from her dissent. Here's a key part:

www.politico.com/story/2012/1...

Not debatable: Obama stumbleswww.politico.com He struggles to shake off the rust.

www.politico.com/story/2012/1...

How Obama's debate plan bombedwww.politico.com The president allowed Romney to set the terms for much of their Wednesday night face-off.

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A man was suspected of fatally shooting five people and critically wounding a 13-year-old girl at two nearby apartments in North Las Vegas on Tuesday morning. The police said he died by suicide after ignoring commands by officers to drop a firearm.

Man Fatally Shoots 5 in North Las Vegas and Kills Himself After Manhunt, Police Saywww.nytimes.com The man, Eric Adams, was also suspected of critically wounding a 13-year-old girl in shootings at two nearby apartments.

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Fair question.

Agree. And still I’d like to hear about any other assets….

On this website, we celebrate wins. This is a massive W. Goodbye, Infowars. Enjoy being broke, Alex Jones. apnews.com/article/alex...

Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assetsapnews.com A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets.

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Let the record show that it’s not that hard though

True meritocracy

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"The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law...a hardline and sometimes covert operation" www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza warwww.theguardian.com As the Gaza war rages, Israeli funds target US college campuses and push to redefine antisemitism in US law