@pdwschmidt
Political scientist @MacalesterCollege: American law, comparative and historical constitutionalism, architecture, and...just curious about everything. Moot Court coach. Rarely refuses an opportunity for a dad joke.
That opening... "Courts cannot tell the President what to say..." It's certainly got flair! How does one learn to write so dramatically?
Oh...this is Abhishek's background:
And throw in a threat to start a war against Cuba, too. Crazy days.
With rising oil prices and declining jobs, there would seem to be a risk of the dreaded stagflation.
I don’t like this race to the bottom but if you get a head start i don’t think you get to complain if you get overtaken
This statement by Chalamet is giving "the Beatles are bigger than Jesus" vibes.
Ah, but because Claude is guilty of war crimes for targeting civilians, Anthropic can argue that it is keeping it enslaved "as punishment for crime" and so there's no violation of the 13th Amendment!
I don't want to travel internationally right now because I would spend the entire time shamefully apologizing to the rest of the world, on behalf of Americans.
They’re stealing our jobs!
"I liked that homegrown stuff because it didn't knock you back. Now with this purity, the effect is too intense. We gotta get this shit under control."
Remarkable framing.
Alt: "Trump's Terrible Judgment of Character and Utter Lack of Management Skill Leaves Him Fighting Fires Everywhere".
That's sensible strategic thinking. This administration does performative masculinity for social media consumption.
The constitutional foundations of 1787 are gone.
Representation in national bodies should have no relationship to states qua states. Untie representation from states and then we don't need to play games with how to create states.
This might be a confirmation hearing for the ages, friends.
Trump's position on the necessity of expertise in the cabinet is clear and consistent.
It does feel like a bad horror movie.
"Not gonna lie, Donny and Ben had a strong start, and we were off our game, but we came back strong in the second half and showed them that we know how to lob missiles in. We belong in the big boy league."
Doctor's Associates v. Casarotto (1996). Not exactly scintillating stuff (whether a Montana first-page notice requirement was pre-empted by the Federal Arbitration Act).
Meaning, they're probably true but they are trying to condition the media to assume they're too wild to repeat in print.
"We're in it" matters when troops are on the ground and in harm's way.
It doesn't make sense when all you're asking is to stop dropping bombs with no clear goal to begin with.
They wail.
When your office's lawyers can't accomplish the administration's objectives without getting disbarred, perhaps the real problem isn't with the state bar?
It's all part of MDA&T: Management Discussion, Analysis, and Tweets.
The moderate position might now be "extradite Pete Hegseth to Iran in 2029 so they can try him for war crimes."
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
The first thing that goes when an appellate court has high caseloads is the page count: they write shorter opinions and fewer concurrences and dissents.
But if the quality of reasoning is the reason not to do this, this Court is squandering that, esp. in the shadow docket w/o opinions.
The Supreme Leader is dead; long live the Supreme Leader!
It is just breathtaking to me how far from "respect the experts" the baseline of American society and politics is right now. In the U.S. government, there is barely a cabinet department today that is headed by someone who forty years ago would have qualified for that office.
