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Appellate lawyer, president of Third Circuit Bar Association, former prosecutor, fellow of American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Views here: just mine.
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My view remains: the main focus needs to be on why sending in the military is bad, not whether federalizing is legal. (Not least because Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett get final say on the latter, and on their timeline.)

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

What do you mean the Ninth Circuit motions panel is Katsas Rao Walker?

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Or against Obama having a second term. Or the normal prerogative of a President to nominate SCOTUS justices.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Fight for democracy now with even half the determination that McConnell fought against health care.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

When DHS Secretary Noem suggests "liberating" populations from their elected officials, and you're polite enough to only ask a question rather than shouting "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????" and you're still taken down to the ground. @padilla.senate.gov

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

submitted 15 hours ago • 53 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 14 hours ago • 60 comments

If they must be wicked, let them at least be dumb.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

LIVE: Right now, I led a march to Leader John Thune’s office — he’s refusing to meet with the House Democrats, who are demanding answers on what he’s doing to protect @padilla.senate.gov.

submitted 13 hours ago • 105 comments

Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.

submitted 14 hours ago • 102 comments

I think California needs to start arresting Feds. drastic but we’re there.

submitted 16 hours ago • 186 comments

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

submitted 15 hours ago • 101 comments

There’s a point where I think all of us, senators to nobodies, have a decision to make. If we use whatever voice we have, whatever power we have, to oppose what’s happening now, it might damage our future. Might land us in a prison. We accept that risk, or we don’t. I submit that point is here.

submitted 15 hours ago • 19 comments

Respect to Senator Padilla @padilla.senate.gov. He showed courage and we need a lot more of it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

But the important thing is they haven’t said they’re defying a Supreme Court ruling, so no constitutional crisis, right @schumer.senate.gov?

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

submitted 15 hours ago • 159 comments

Lots of folks are sliding into fantasy about the all the tough things the Dems should do when they reclaim power. Those schemes may be soothing, but right now I wish that energy went into protesting instead.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump's military moves - the political Fort Bragg speech, L.A. troop call-up, tanks in D.C. for a Kremlin-style parade - aren't 'a distraction' It's the essence of his regime, and he's pulling a slow-motion coup to crush all dissent and take control My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/coup...

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Practice tip, endeavor to avoid this

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