noahdahl.bsky.social
Self-deprecating handle (say it a few times fast). Pro-democracy. Focused on SCOTUS and the federal judiciary, but not exclusively so. Upside-down flag is a distress signal.
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He sent a letter to John Roberts about Crystal Clanton and then was like: "Ok, well that's enough".
No follow through.
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I'm sorry, but Bernie is 80+. We can't be talking about him as leader of the party, regardless of your view of his politics.
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That would require that Congress have some ambition (other than hawking books during a constitutional crisis)
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For paint you should be able to get some material that helps it solidify at a hardware store. Then can be disposed of in the regular trash.
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I wasn't sure from just the still image, but yeah, 100% accurate description.
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Hey now...Trump spent a solid 20 minutes talking at his Black supporters...
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It's a deliberate technique called 'strategic ambiguity'. It lets Nazis signal their in-group while allowing for plausible deniability with out-groups (i.e. "just joking")
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That's the problem. Dems could capitalize by painting the GOP as untrustworthy liars. But they won't. They'll just let the voters swing, prodded by some centrist kitchen table messaging.
Rs in the minority will quickly go on the attack and retake the chamber 2 years later.
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Am seeing this touted a lot and it genuinely concerns me. Dem leadership has already signaled they just want to hang back and let the GOP shoot themselves in the foot.
They may win the midterms, but will have made no progress towards a long term majority-and we'll keep whipsawing in America.
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Which is why it concerns me to see people immediately leaning into messages of Republican vote dissatisfaction. Dems don't actually want to have to work to drive a message. They just want to hang back and let Rs fuck up.
That wins them the midterms, but nothing to secure a long term majority.
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Correct. But this is not an argument the Democratic Party is willing to make, while Republicans have attacked it since Reagan.
Teddy Roosevelt instituted the civil service. FDR made the case for an active federal government.
Dems today do little to defend either.
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Yet in the wake of the most divisive and unpopular presidential platform since Hoover, Dems can barely eke out a majority every do often.
This is not a record that Dems should be proud of.
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If Ukaine isn't invited, those aren't 'peace talks'
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But Democrats who don't want to actually do anything about what's going on love this.
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It may unite the Democratic party around the consensus that they don't need to do much, and can just wait until the next election.
I'm not so sure that's a good thing.
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It seems the AP case was assigned to Trevor...
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I don't have those on my list. Thanks for the heads' up!
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âbut in the world where law and politics intertwine, it seems almost a rule for conservatives that principles bend in service to power. And that seems to me the definition of bad faith.
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Originalism itself is, I would argue (as others have), a bad faith premise.
You no doubt have a view of academia where you encounter principled conservative academics who can and do argue positions based on well-articulated principles that are held regardless of the outcome they directâ
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And we can't ignore bad faith reaoning by the courts themselvesâJames Ho, Matt Kacsmaryk, Kathryn Mizelle, Bill Pryor, Reed O'Connor and SCOTUS not least (as detailed by Senator Whitehouse [Knights-Errant] as well as others like Kyle Velte [The Supreme Court's Gaslight Docket]).
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Some names and orgs that come to mind are Ilya Shapiro, Kristin Waggoner, Amy Swearer, Mark Paoletta, John Eastman, Carrie Severino, David Koprl, Adam Mortara, Heritage, ADF, NRA, FIRE, Becket Fund, and so on...
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FedSoc crosses that boundary and is a source of much of it however. And there are others in the constellation of activist orgs who play an outsize role in driving an agenda ostensibly steeped in legal conservatism.
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Hence my comment on different views of legal conservatives. Outside of academia, it looks different than inside, and the most prominent voices are not generally academics (although there are still many, like Barnett, Vermeule, that I think argue in bad faith).
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This balance will likely shift as these move to the appellate courts (or are dismissed). One additional case is pending relating to the AP ban (filed today in DC district court).
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Regrettable that this is necessary. Other news orgs were too cowardly and shortsighted to see that this is a direct attack on all of them.
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Paxton seems like the kind of guy who would volunteer to serve if needed....
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Of the 22 or so cases currently in play, Nichols is the only Trump-appointed judge handling one (unless I've missed someâalways possible).
15 are being handled by Obama / Biden judges, and 2 each Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II
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"...a prosecution that we said was going to be somewhat complicatedâthat line between bribery and just good old-fashioned non-criminal corruption."
If you're making arguments like that to condone Bove's actions in any way, I would argue you've veered well into bad faith territory.
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We are likely thinking of two different sets of individuals, with some overlap.
For a recent example of what I mean though, in discussing Emil Bove's legal abbatoir, Sarah Isgur, a fairly prominent legal conservative, states when talking with David French about the charges against Eric Adams:
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Dems hold policy positions that are popular with 70%+ of Americans, yet can't sustain a governing majority. Stuff like this helps explain why.
Until we demand the better leadership we deserve, we won't get it.