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NJ Democratic politics
County committee member, president of local Dem Club
East coast cannabis attorney
Intellectual Property litigation
Star Wars savant
Lifelong Mets fan
Suffering NY Giants fan
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Holy shit. Read the footnotes. This one, from Jackson, is jaw-dropping.
The Dual State was published in 1941. Fraenkel was writing about Nazi Germany.
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Oh from Jersey City Manhattan is almost always going to be your best bet.
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It really depends where in NJ you’re coming from, where in Long Island you’re going, and what time and day of the week you want to do it.
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The emphasis on showers knowing the history of showers for concentration camps in Germany is just... I don't even have words.
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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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If the WPA is unconstitutional, then the president has no unilateral authority to initiate hostilities because it is an Article I power. The Speaker probably wants to expand the war-making power to defer to the president's judgment about what is an immediate threat. That's not how this works.
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Sotomayor's dissent is scathing. She accuses her colleagues of a gross abuse of discretion, saying they "interven[ed] to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied."
She's right. The 6-justice majority is effectively endorsing contempt of court.
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If you think that Zohran doesn’t have the experience yet, you back Lander, who does, or Adrienne Adams, who also does. You don’t turn to a washed up sex pest who doesn’t even live here and has a track record of bringing about the deaths of 17,000 New Yorkers bc he wouldn’t stop swinging his dick.
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had to deal with angry people. Supporters came out in droves, too, and it ultimately passed, but it took months for a single street. Things get more complicated for roads that go through multiple towns, because then they’re county roads and the county must be involved. 2/2
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My small suburban town recently dropped the speed limit on a street 10mph and it was surprisingly a bigger deal than I expected. A traffic study had to be performed to determine how the change would impact traffic on the street in question and surrounding neighborhoods. And then the politicians 1/2