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Robert Black
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Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · Jun 3
I have an announcement!!

Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!

This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law

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Introducing: Constitutional Perspectives!
Announcing a new project here at The Evening Constitutional! As I wrote shortly after last November's election, one of my ambitions for this site is to create a library of materials explaining Americ...
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
We're gonna win 286 House seats anyway lol, try 386

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Trump saying this and then the election happening anyway is a recipe for 400 Democrats in the House

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
You destroy Mars though

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Oh it definitely won't change the votes lol

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
So one question is, if Trump and Johnson yell fraud and have their goons bar (or arrest) Democrats, how many congressional Republicans would be willing to just like, show up for work, under those conditions

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Right, it is the House that judges its elections, and he is not the House

Though we're not really doing legal argument as law here, we're doing legal argument as backdrop for a coup with goons

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
I do think there's also a very real chance that Trump purports to issue some kind of CANCEL THE MIDTERMS decree

(Which of course he has no power, legal or practical, to do. But it would certainly plunge us into the Cool Zone!)

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
(Actually, y'know, don't, for environmental protection reasons...)

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Yeah, that's probably right. I dunno if Johnson would try to come up with some way to claim it falls to him, personally, as Speaker, in a way that would get him around having to have like every (outgoing) House Republican onside?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Go do it in the middle of the Sahara, which is MUCH easier, then let's talk

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
No I think it's meant to be a species of Republican, a Republican who panics

Either way it's an abomination

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
It will not be happening at the polling places, though. That much is clear

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Something of that nature, though I expect the drama to be more localized in Congress itself

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
So uhhh, "panican" is meant to be... panic + Republican??

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 3h
Want! The claim is that they want that!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 3h
"The dismantling of the patriarchy" oh, yeah?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 3h
I'm in favor of packing!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 4h
Right lol, this is also my intuition

It sounds a lot like something that certain *advocacy* groups would have come up with

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 5h
No no, for the preferences of the, uhhhh, the people without homes let's call them, themselves

Have people done surveys?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
I remain kind of curious what exactly the basis for that first claim is

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
In figure skating, the map from "what word do we use to describe the number of revolutions" to "how many actual degrees" is literally ill-defined! Most triples are 1080, but a triple axel is 1260.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Unfortunately you would also have to nuke one or possibly two American cities for it to have the full effect

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Even so, I think

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Would never naturally occur to me that "homeless" didn't describe a (potentially) temporary state tbh

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Mmm, people love it when their government says this, famously

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Can we go back in time and do this in 2011

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
YES PLEASE

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Man I'm pretty sure 2028 is going to be about the Trump regime

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Now I should say, I agree that packing will not fix this, not right away at least

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
One problem, of course, is that it's actively bad when things that are not in truth legitimate are made to seem legitimate