"legal niceties" is what happens to "the law" when you are trying to reduce a power grab to using the wrong fork at teatime... - ThreadSky

dahlialithwick.bsky.social • 23 days ago

"legal niceties" is what happens to "the law" when you are trying to reduce a power grab to using the wrong fork at teatime...

Reposted from Brendan Nyhan

Not "legal niceties." What they are doing is illegal! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

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ikcugob.bsky.social•23 days ago

NYT has really hired a boatload of euphemism writers.

drspmayer.bsky.social•23 days ago

Of all the developments of the past couple of weeks, Congressional GOP acquiescence in the face of Trump's lawlessness and disregard for separation of powers is perhaps the most disquieting. And the media's soft-pedaling by talking about "legal niceties."

nywonk.bsky.social•23 days ago

The @nytimes.com, ladies and gentlemen.

The Gray Lady prostituted herself to trump for clickbait.

studiomala.bsky.social•23 days ago

People are just railing the times- what’s going on there?

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•23 days ago

There are no standards for Trumo in the New York Times. None.

thornyopinion.bsky.social•23 days ago

Well, the Legal Niceties Article in the constitution says you can do this.

dahlialithwick.bsky.social•23 days ago

it's right next to the Statutory Oopsies Clause

maryeb2.bsky.social•23 days ago

It took years for @nytimes.com to use “lie” to describe what Trump said. How long will we wait for them to use ”corrupt”?

joshuaaengel.com•23 days ago

"Legal Niceties" is simply treating lawyers, parties, witnesses, and the courts with common courtesy

Treating the law as a “game” in which the party with the most
overtly aggressive action and lawyers will prevail regardless of the merits of the claim is disrespectful to the entire legal system