sababausa.bsky.social
30-something Jewish đşđ¸ đŚđš dual-citizen biologist patent lawyer who grew up in South Jersey, Delaware, and Geneva đ¨đ. Now in Northern Virginia
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2018 audition was to win over the GOP establishment & interest groups by showing absolute commitment to the policy goal of ending reproductive autonomy
2025 audition is to prostrate oneself to Donald Trump personally and the total debasement of the law
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Diarrhea Donald,
poop president
colitis king
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Yea, Iâm on board with doing whatâs necessary to fix SCOTUS, but I might be even more on board with fixing the circuit courts & district courts (which is where the real business of the judicial branch happens)
Shouldnât be as much of a political lift, people donât care and are bored as hell by it
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Anyway, when Obama was sworn in as president there were still Eisenhower appointees on the federal bench, and there was a Lyndon Johnson appointee with an active docket until early 2021
Idk why these cryptkeepers are so allergic to retiring
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There are multiple circuits now that are sufficiently ossified that the only ways to flip the overall balance of the circuit would be to hold the presidency more-or-less for 50 straight years, or for some sort of, letâs say, act of god
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Pretty much the entire federal appellate bench is now partisan enough that to a man they all restrict retirement announcements to co-partisan presidencies
The only way to âflipâ a judgeâs seat is via ill-timed deaths,
just as the framers intended
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Maybe thereâs something to the idea that modern Christianity is, compared to other faith traditions, *unusually* flexible & adaptable in its interpretations & expressions
Itâs a curious fact that the same root tradition has led people to both extreme asceticism AND the Prosperity Christians
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Folks, Donald Trump was sworn in as president just 87 days ago
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âI sure hope itâs not naĂŻve to believe the executive branch will not descend into lawlessnessâ is the sort of lament a federal judge would only ever put in a written opinion if the executive branch had indeed already descended into lawlessness
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Last month I got new passports for infant daughters done, and the system seemed to operate normally cromulent rather than unusually craptacular
We submitted application at the end of February and received the passports on March 31
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âIf Republicans do this, the Democrats will be able to do the same and we wonât have any recourse to the law or to public opinionâ
Where has Jeff been the last 15 years? Republicans pull hypocritical stuff off all the time
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Theyâve dug themselves in deep enough & publicly enough that even taking the generous mulligan from Boasberg of stipulating to jurisdiction would be a huge climb downâit would spoil the whole âno jurisdiction whatsoever over foreign custodyâ gambit
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Getting the masses to just give up their past fandom could be quite hard to achieve, but I do think conditions may be ripe for the HBO Harry Potter reboot to be a total flop
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Also Barrès: âIntellectuals, this whoâs-who of the elites, who would not want to be counted part of it? They hold a licenseâŚaristocrats of thought who insist on flaunting that they do not think like the vile multitude.â
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Anti-Dreyfusard Maurice Barrès: âI donât need to be told why Dreyfus committed treason. . . . That he is capable of treason, I deduce from his race.â
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We also opened three Coca Cola bottling plants in Algeria as part of our mobilization in the North Africa campaign and by the end of 1945 the military had deployed over 60 Coca Cola plants overseas
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The bill authorizing the charter of the Second Bank of the United States was signed into law by James Madison himself in 1816 and included 25 directors, 5 of whom were appointed by the President & confirmed by the senate, but not removable by him,
so yeah they should have to contend with that
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Itâs like the 5th-most preposterous detail from the tweet but ppl really underestimate how hard it is to get the feds for civil rights violations
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âThe government should write you a nice big check as an apologyâ
May I point you to the last 50 years of Bivens litigation and Republicansâ refusal to expand the civil rights act of 1871 to cover federal officers
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(Idk about joinder of all 37 plaintiffs; case may end up severed. The complaint makes it seem a few individual plaintiffs have stronger case than others bc of personal medical needs and that ADX Florence lacks necessary medical support)
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The complaint illustrates how Trump2.0 corrupts: all 37 inmates were given perfectly ordinary evaluations process through February; then Trump orders redo of each inmate *by name*, they do a 2nd evaluation by putatively same protocol but suddenly arrive at different result: solitary for all of âem
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I have no idea of likelihood of success. The statutory case is strongest IMO: Trump violated the protocol set up by Congress for Bureau of Prisons to follow
The 8A case is probably not going far. Bill of attainder usually really hard to prove, but then again Trump is unusually corrupt
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the complaint allegesâ
â˘Trump & Bondi violated statute by cutting off Bureau of Prisons reassignment procedures, or at least violated APA
â˘sending to ADX Florence violates 8A
â˘Trump order was intended to be punitive and specifically to punish Bidenâs commutation, so itâs an ex post facto attainder
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How many goddamn âtop membersâ could there be?
bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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I bet if you searched Westlaw for the last 40 years in the circuit courts of appeals youâd find in each circuit fewer than 10 writs of mandamus issued, maybe none in some circuits
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A petition for writ of mandamus is a request that a court *specifically order a public official (judges included) to do a specific thing*
Itâs not just âwe want your take on the law,â itâs âwe want you to demand Boasberg to rescind his orderâ
Mandamus almost never happens
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Fondly remembering 2012â13 when conservatives pretended to be apoplectic about a fake version of this
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/u...
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Supporters too, though
And some still-lurking Reaganites and Nixonites have gone full MAGA
Itâs a curious mixâŚ
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David Bowie wrote the perfect song about Vance
youtu.be/a7vvclrK2HQ
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SCOTUS held 4x that Bush unlawfully restricted habeas rights of âenemy combatantsâ
And yes Bush, to our shame, intended to & did restrict detaineesâ rights
This aim wasnât directed into the heart of the domestic sphere and the litigation strategy was not open mockery of a system of ordered law
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I hope heâs happy with his choices
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Jesse Singal squarely in the useful-idiot-zone: reactionary enough to be followed & read by reactionaries & exploited by / useful to reactionaries, but not enough to invited in
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Hell, they might be privileged-waived witnesses
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There definitely was hostility on the left-of-center towards addressing the Dreyfus case, at least for the first few years
It was regarded as an electoral loser to question the army, and socialists thought Dreyfus was only getting attention bc heâd come from a family of wealthy Jewish merchants
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âWoke with right-wing characteristicsââŚ
âŚfrom a guy who constantly complains about what he perceives as political misuse of language