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Crazy to think that these people were doing actual jobs that might have been important
I am candidly pretty surprised by this news! The Florida bar has tilted hard toward the GOP recently
The House just defeated the Massie-Khanna War Powers Resolution on Iran.
Crosses, reportedly, were-
R's voting yes: Massie, Davidson (R-OH)
D's voting no: Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, Vargas
The need for congressional approval to declare war is “something of a brake on the process of entering into a conflict”—and “this weekend’s attack on Iran smashes through those limits altogether,” Quinta Jurecic argues.
FWIW, Orwell never said that
Depending on how the Iran War supplemental is framed, the administration may argue it serves as legal authorization for ongoing hostilities and thus dispenses with the WPR’s 60-day clock.
The War Powers Resolution sets a 60-day clock for the end of hostilities that runs out on May 1
Why this war is illegal, and how the Constitution's checks on war powers broke down
Highly recommended by @arashtehran.bsky.social
“According to this person, the operation is to be led by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (known by its Kurdish initials PDKI), whose leader, Mustafa Hijri, spoke by phone with Donald Trump yesterday.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The autopen investigation continued after Mr. Martin was removed from the prosecutor’s office and replaced by Ms. Pirro, but it suffered from several crucial problems, according to the people familiar with the inquiry, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss deliberations that are supposed to remain secret. Investigators were never quite clear what crime, if any, had been committed by the Biden administration’s use of the autopen.
that would be a crucial problem, yes www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
And see: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Well if this ain't just the 10th amendment fact pattern from hell. I don't see how the federal government can require a state to continue permitting someone to practice before its own courts consistent with the principle of divided sovereignty. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-04390.p...
If you have an opinion about Tina Peters's sentencing, you are not a swing voter
I genuinely do not understand who the audience for this is
I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.
did someone say "potential electoral repercussions of decreased tourism at new jersey beaches"
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
poster for The Unknown Known by errol morris
might be time to rewatch this one
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
the ethical irrationality of the world in action
I had missed that Richard Lawson, who for a while was the only person litigating these cases for DOJ, left government sometime in the last few months
I would be very interested to know how the economics of all this have shaken out both for the firms that fought and the firms that caved
what a long, strange trip it's been
Paul Musgrave O @protmusgrave Around the department: Americanists: how bad can it be really? Comparativists: dictatorship, purges International relations: nuclear war 2017-01-12, 9:18 AM 708 Retweets 944 Likes Paul Musgrave © @profmusgrave • 2017-01-12 Replying to @profmusgrave Americanists: haha but seriously IR and comparative: who is joking LI89 · 194 Jacob T. Levy @itlevy- 2017-10-10 Replying to @profmusgrave Theorists: "We will go and view the city of tyranny, and once more take a look into the tyrant's soul." 172 Daniel W. Drezner © @dandrezner - 2017-01-12 Political theorists: oh, so now you want to talk to us, do you? Paul Musgrave © @profmusgrave Around the department: Americanists: how bad can it be really? Comparativists: dictatorship, purges International relations: nuclear war L109 O230
Feeling vindicated in my decision to bring this printout with me when I changed jobs
I wonder if part of what we're seeing is various cross-pressures that are no longer countering each other in the same way—the "adults in the room" are gone, but trump is also increasingly cut off from his own base and less likely to realize that there's no public appetite for this kind of thing
