Deborah Pearlstein
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Director, Program on Law & Public Policy, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Charles & Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law & Public Affairs. Still teaching Con law, still aiming to get out of the new social media market.
Reposted by Deborah Pearlstein
MORE: The pardon language is extremely broad and could apply to many others too, since it covers anyone who advocates for the false elector slates or who investigated 2020 election fraud.
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
MORE: The pardon language is extremely broad and could apply to many others too, since it covers anyone who advocates for the false elector slates or who investigated 2020 election fraud.
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Blanche is genuinely indignant about having these Art. III judges "literally telling the president, the executive, what he can and cannot do." These judges are of course otherwise known as the independent judiciary. But for DOJ as it now stands, they are the other side in "a war."
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November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Blanche is genuinely indignant about having these Art. III judges "literally telling the president, the executive, what he can and cannot do." These judges are of course otherwise known as the independent judiciary. But for DOJ as it now stands, they are the other side in "a war."
Hmm. Daily Beast has a story on the same meeting that makes it sound somewhat different. Either way, why would SecDef and SecState go to Congress just to say they don't (yet) have any legal basis to attack? Smacks a bit of not everyone being on board w/starting a new war. One can hope...
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Hmm. Daily Beast has a story on the same meeting that makes it sound somewhat different. Either way, why would SecDef and SecState go to Congress just to say they don't (yet) have any legal basis to attack? Smacks a bit of not everyone being on board w/starting a new war. One can hope...
Not sure this quite works across the board. Federal district court judges have been indispensable. Congress very close to useless.
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Not sure this quite works across the board. Federal district court judges have been indispensable. Congress very close to useless.