Tom “T.M.” Wolf

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Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center. Founder/Organizer of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com.

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

Caught Sonny Miles live a few weeks ago in Durham. You should catch them now: sonnymiles.bandcamp.com/track/over-o...

Over & Over, by sonny milessonnymiles.bandcamp.com from the album Gamma

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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more

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If you want to block all the people who harassed Jamelle Bouie off the site at once, this list is handy. Hit subscribe, then block.

Weird Bouie reply guys

List by @hockeybear.bsky.social

What the name says. Some accounts on the list are truly horrible all the time and some just made a muteworthy skeet one time. This list is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Jamelle Bouie or anyone other than myself.

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It’s definitely a pattern, and one everyone on this app needs to think long and hard about before it’s too late.

Wait, the same people who bullied Tressie off of this site have now set their sights on Jamelle Bouie?? As ever, they are so much closer to MAGA than they realize.

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I have been mad at the New York Times more and longer than almost anyone but if you’re attacking its best columnist for the sin of publishing his work in the most influential place he can I would urge you to rethink your approach.

@earlymodjustice.bsky.social and I teamed up to help ABC unpack the historical flaws of SCOTUS's ruling granting presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution. abcnews.go.com/Politics/nat...

Nation's founders pushed against 'elected king' when framing presidential powers: Historiansabcnews.go.com The Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity goes against all of the principles the Constitution's framers pushed for, historians and legal experts argued.

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To watch yesterday's "History Matters" episode on Presidential Immunity, here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7-... All past episodes are on my new YouTube channel (as soon as I finish uploading the earliest episodes): @joannefreeman1755

Presidential Immunity: The Here and Nowwww.youtube.com Welcome to "History Matters (…and so does coffee!) with Dr. Joanne Freeman," presented by the National Council for History Education (NCHE). This series, fea...

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The one silver lining in Trump v. US is that the majority opinion is so sloppy and imprecise that it will be simple to limit. But to do that, we need a new court. Until then, lower courts should aggressively adopt the narrowest readings possible.

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Sending a bunch of based realtors and off-duty cops into the Capitol building to murder the speaker of the house, in my official capacity of President of the United States.

"The Court has basically created a roadmap for future illegality and insurrection." I got on camera with NY1 to explain the deep anti-democracy of the Supreme Court's immunity opinion ny1.com/nyc/all-boro... @brennancenter.bsky.social

Brennan Center director discusses the latest in Trump's caseny1.com The trial wrapped up in May when a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment.

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'We'll kill you if you try to stop us' is terrorism.

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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The Supreme Court's immunity ruling is not a serious opinion for a serious democracy. It is an epochal dereliction of duty. My latest on the Supreme Court's apologia for insurrection @brennancenter.bsky.social www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Supreme Court’s Radical Immunity Ruling Shields Lawbreaking Presidents and Undermines Democracywww.brennancenter.org The Court’s opinion in Trump v. United States is a dangerous attack on the rule of law.

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"Today’s Supreme Court has just recreated one of the most despicable cases in English history, a case that signified the apex of absolutism in British history and was repudiated by a revolution for the damage it caused."

My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

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My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

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If you don’t know @earlymodjustice.bsky.social, her research that eventually convinced Pence about the impropriety of ‘alternate’ electors theory on January 6, 2021. She was a lead authors on the brief that destroyed the originalist case for pres immunity. Here’s her take on today’s decision

My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

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Saying someone is presumptively immune from prosecution then barring the introduction of evidence of their mental state is a neat trick.

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"In Trump v. United States, Donald Trump’s defenders on the Supreme Court repeat one of the most basic principles of American constitutional government: 'The president is not above the law.' They then proceed to obliterate it." - @adamserwer.bsky.social

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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John Roberts: Hold my beer

There's also the delight in perversely misreading history that really isn't contested or poorly understood. e.g. Thomas's insistence that in the 1860s, "freedmen" was "a formerly race-neutral category"

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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable

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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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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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Before SCOTUS' ruling, here's our historian's brief which argues there is no basis in founding era history for the idea that presidents should enjoy immunity. In fact, the founders believed that presidents should be accountable under the rule of law. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Historians' Amicus Brief in Trump v. United Stateswww.brennancenter.org A group of 15 founding era historians represented by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman LLP have filed a brief challenging Trump's claim of immunity.

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Welp. I think we’ll hear about presidential immunity from SCOTUS today. The fact that this is an open question is stunningly wrong-headed. You certainly can’t claim the founders wanted it. Or rather, you can. But you’d be wrong. Here’s a brief explaining why. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Yes I'm fairly convinced that the anti-monarchical American Revolution wasn't so wild about allowing presidents to act like kings!

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The driving forces behind this masterpiece of a brief were @earlymodjustice.bsky.social, Rosemarie Zagarri, @tomtmwolf.bsky.social!