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Austin, Texas. Rice Grad. Attorney; Board-certified in Civil Appellate. Huge USWNT fan. DS9 remains as the best Trek ever.
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AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

submitted 7 hours ago • 149 comments

I would like to point out that the executive branch claiming the power to mete out life/death sentences seems like a separation of powers issue as well

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

Absolutely brutal

submitted 1 day ago • 1362 comments

What is the source of Trump's legitimacy? He was elected POTUS as that office is defined in Art. 2, but if he trashes the Constitution (as he's repeatedly doing), then what is the basis of his claim to power? He was elected to carry out the rule of law not to destroy it.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

submitted 1 day ago • 733 comments

What a pathetic little man

submitted 1 day ago • 1317 comments

Murphy: When you see the 10-year bond exploding… when you see markets moving like a sine curve—that’s the opposite of stability. A strong dollar is in our national interest. What we’re seeing now is the opposite of that.

submitted 1 day ago • 251 comments

The devaluation of the dollar and spike in bond yields are 100% why Trump paused the tariffs and is soft-pedaling the idea of an indefinite pause. Someone finally explained to him what would happen if he went through with it and the thing is it is too late to undo. It cannot be undone.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments