This should be obvious, but the Heritage Foundation proposal for government-funded "marriage bootcamps" is not about building happy families but about social control
How do I know? I've lived it
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1/2 ⚖️ In the recent tariff ruling, Justice Brett Kavanaugh lamented that the refund process is likely to be a “mess.” He may be correct - but his dissent overlooks the fact that it was the Court’s conservative majority that caused this mess in the first place.
How many of these Dunkin' feedbags are there going to be at the Boston No Kings this month now? www.masslive.com/entertainmen...
Kavanaugh on tariffs: "The refund process is likely to be a mess" [so now we have to leave them in place regardless of constitutionality]"
I seem to remember a mechanism for avoiding exactly this kind of mess that you and your buddies got rid of in Trump v. CASA ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/tarif...
Such a good point. So much good work on this kind of approach on specific issues, and more generally, I wish everyone would read @ruha9.bsky.social's Imagination: A Manifesto
This is making me think about the way we constrain our political imagination based on what we've known, without really asking why. Like, we accept that closed borders and immigration strictures are fundamental to nationhood. But are they? That's not how things work in Europe, or...
lol called it www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-supr...
Shorter Justice Sutherland: You rubes are looking to the Constitution to determine the president's war powers?? No no, the president got those directly from the king 🙃
The Blue States Getting Creative to Protect Their People from ICE noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/blue-state...
1/2 👉The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war - but a long line of Supreme Court decisions has expanded presidential authority to initiate military action without clear congressional approval. @skennedy2504.myatproto.social
"In typically Trumpian fashion, these actions are shocking to the common understanding—and the intent of—the U.S. Constitution, while also representing the natural endpoint of conservative jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs"
The Elected Officials Defending Prison Sexual Assault
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Fair point!
Here's @skennedy2504.myatproto.social on the 90 years of Supreme Court precedents enabling Trump's war in Iran
No authority but it provides funding and logistical support for some major events. Scouting America just folded and sold out trans scouts for that access
Blue state AGs get lots of coverage for suing Donald Trump and protecting residents from predatory corporations. But how do they use their discretion when they are called to defend the state in lawsuits brought by the same residents? noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/officials-...
Never expected to do this, but I just started a newsletter on Beehiiv! It will be a place for me to post writing that I am not publishing with other outlets but that I think is important. more about my writing here, and the first post is coming shortly!
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Just got some exciting feedback from the first person to read my new book!
It’s a biography of my hero, Justice Anita Earls. This is an inspiring story that needs to be told. You can read the (revised) first chapter and help me tell this story. www.kickstarter.com/projects/206... #ncpol
The fact that he refuses to apologize at all, even in some mealymouthed way maintaining that he didn't know, really makes me feel like he knew. Like my six-year-old knows that it doesn't matter if he meant to hurt his siblings or not and that he still needs to have some empathy and apologize
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Between this and the contempt orders, maybe it's finally starting. Lots more options on the table! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The absolute most charitable interpretation of Sarah Isgur's Supreme Court analysis is that she is embarrassingly lazy, and Steve walks through all the numbers that her "the principled conservatives are Doing Law, Not Politics" thesis conveniently omits
I was working on something from my own experience, but I'd love to hear from others to get a sense of how common my dad's specific department's issues were from cop's kids' perspectives. I was actually going to reach out to you for the broader perspective if you would be interested!
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anyone who was actually interested in "disability fraud" would look into injury claims like this and why it is exactly that NYPD officers dive more than FIFA players
Ok now VA actually rescinded the rule which means something vs just making a pinkie promise not to enforce it
The entire CT government's aversion to transparency is such a big problem
Would any fellow children of cops be interested in being interviewed for an article giving an inside look at the culture of victimhood and paranoia in US policing?
Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.
