gordonbloem.bsky.social
Lifelong liberal Dem eager to join hands with principled conservatives to save this republic from Trump’s authoritarian threat. Proud Central Michigan University and Wayne State Law alum. Go Detroit Tigers!
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Trump sends marines to Los Angeles over the objections of state in local authorities? MAGA says hell yes. Lincoln tries to rep provision a federal fort? MAGA says it sounds like an invasion to us.
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And immigration law was largely nonexistent before the triumph of nativism.
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Protest movements must learn that civil disobedience aimed at an unjust law, reveals the folly of enforcing that law. Civil disobedience aimed at common sense laws (traffic regulations for example) does the opposite.
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And the MSM needs to stop calling him an anti-vaccine skeptic. A skeptic is fact based and subject to persuasion.
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He isn't a skeptic. A skeptic can be persuaded with facts. He is simply a non-fact-based anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.
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I spent most of my career representing indigent criminal defendants. Far too many were mentally ill and getting almost no treatment. They frequently became a source of sadistic entertainment for their cellmates.
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It was a well intended bipartisan disaster.
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I keep returning to this.
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Trump tariffs make “The Big Rock Candy Mountains” real! youtu.be/NMAPOQedRxA?...
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I think a year would be good for at least half of the college students I taught. Let them take a year to drink too much, chase their choice of sexual partner, and, in general, learn how to behave reasonably without parental monitoring.
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Talking to a GOP politician about what this bill does is way too much like the Monty Python argument clinic sketch.
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Hegseth and Trump are seemingly unaware that true heroes like Medgar Evers fight against fascists in Europe and in the United States.
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I wonder how closely it will resemble this.
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How bad does it need to get before a court issues an order directing her, in legalese, to STFU?
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If the SCOTUS wants to do the work of the trial courts I say we should make them ride the circuit.
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I’m pretty sure the maximum sentence for the alleged crimes doesn’t include indefinite detention in a Salvadoran gulag. If that is to happen to Mr. Garcia, the Salvadoran government will be the state to impose that punishment.
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And if convicted, he will face punitive measures established by legislation. Those measures will not include indefinite detention in a foreign gulag.
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I’ve been saying it since 2016. It is why, even if we survive Trump and replace him with a virtuous president, our allies will shy away from us. They know they cannot trust the American voter.
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It seems as if they’ve hired the dumbest, most aggressive, Barney Fife like officers available.
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Hey judge, why does my client, charged with OWI 3rd enhanced to habitual 4th, have so many more convictions than his teetotaling neighbor?
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Because he approves of those threats.
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My emotional response after listening to your conversation? Run Rahm run!
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You and John Heilemann really need to do a limited run podcast on the music of the 70s and 80s. I’d listen.
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He was a much different kind of criminal, there were principled conservatives in the Republican Party who spoke truth to Nixon, and the SCOTUS was conservative but believed in the rule of law.
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🤔
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When Elian was being unlawfully withheld from his father.
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Department of Grift, Insanity, and Evil.
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We have become so ahistorical in our thinking that roughly half the country believes in laws that would have kept their ancestors out.
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Closely related to the “barbershop savant”. A species so annoying in the Trump era that I have prevailed upon my wife to cut my hair.
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It is all an intra-squad fight over strategy.
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At least half of the criminal defendants I represented said the same. The judges, most of them Trump supporters, were unsympathetic.
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I don’t think it is coincidental that the two justices who actually spent time in trial courts and therefore understand how this decision, even if the plaintiffs ultimately win, will harm real people in real ways, dissented.
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Am I wrong to conclude that even if the court tells Trump he has behaved unlawfully, permanent harm incapable of reversal will already be done?
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They knew he wasn’t serious is my guess.
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I’ve always said it was a murder plot not a kidnapping plot.
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If their families could afford Trump crypto coins, the pardon would already be signed.
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Pulling cars over to write a ticket is a hazard for the driver, the officer, and all other drivers.
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A much safer way to encourage compliance with the speed limit than pulling folks over and writing a ticket.
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Please listen to George. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t.
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Can their relatives afford to purchase Trump crypto or a ticket to a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser?
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I’ve looked high and low and I have yet to find a Republican in 2025 with the integrity of these two men.