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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
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one of my absolute favorite one shot one kill sniper pieces in the law review canon
9 pages. click through now.
9 pages. click through now.
December 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
one of my absolute favorite one shot one kill sniper pieces in the law review canon
9 pages. click through now.
9 pages. click through now.
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A Democratic Party not having an explicit platform of reforming the Judicial Branch after today is not a party I want to vote for.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A Democratic Party not having an explicit platform of reforming the Judicial Branch after today is not a party I want to vote for.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
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No member of Congress should vote for any appropriations if the whole exercise is a non-binding farce.
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
No member of Congress should vote for any appropriations if the whole exercise is a non-binding farce.
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Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
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One of the most embarrassing opinions in recent Supreme Court history was Clarence Thomas insisting that when the post-slavery Congress protected “freedmen” they were protecting a “formally race-neutral category”
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One of the most embarrassing opinions in recent Supreme Court history was Clarence Thomas insisting that when the post-slavery Congress protected “freedmen” they were protecting a “formally race-neutral category”
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Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House.
He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo.
He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up.
And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!
He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo.
He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up.
And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!
lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
September 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House.
He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo.
He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up.
And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!
He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo.
He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up.
And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!
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And then, at long last, the absurdities of representation by single-member districts will be on full display, and the case for proportional representation will be crystal.
Now: Imagine if Democratic governors could just be up front and say something like what I just said.
Now: Imagine if Democratic governors could just be up front and say something like what I just said.
IL already has the most aggressive Dem gerrymander, but if you're really determined to throw pretense to the wind, it's entirely possible to make it 17-0 instead of the current 14-3. Chicago has plenty of votes to spare if you don't mind attached a bunch of ridiculously narrow rural strips to it.
ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): "If they're gonna cheat, then all of us have to take a hard look at what the effect of that cheating is on democracy . And that means we've all got to stand up and do the right thing. So as far as I'm concerned, everything is on the table."
August 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And then, at long last, the absurdities of representation by single-member districts will be on full display, and the case for proportional representation will be crystal.
Now: Imagine if Democratic governors could just be up front and say something like what I just said.
Now: Imagine if Democratic governors could just be up front and say something like what I just said.
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Hakeem Jeffries again declines to endorse Zohran Mamdani, saying "I don't know him well."
CHRIS HAYES: Why are you not endorsing the guy that won the democratic primary in a contested election in your backyard?
JEFFRIES: I didn't get involved in that primary election, and I don't know him well.
CHRIS HAYES: Why are you not endorsing the guy that won the democratic primary in a contested election in your backyard?
JEFFRIES: I didn't get involved in that primary election, and I don't know him well.
July 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hakeem Jeffries again declines to endorse Zohran Mamdani, saying "I don't know him well."
CHRIS HAYES: Why are you not endorsing the guy that won the democratic primary in a contested election in your backyard?
JEFFRIES: I didn't get involved in that primary election, and I don't know him well.
CHRIS HAYES: Why are you not endorsing the guy that won the democratic primary in a contested election in your backyard?
JEFFRIES: I didn't get involved in that primary election, and I don't know him well.
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Justice Jackson is annoying the Republicans on the court and going beyond her fellow Democrats in making very sharp criticisms of recent rulings by the court's right-wing majority. That's leadership. She is the rare Dem in a powerful role meeting the moment. newrepublic.com/article/1975...
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Heterodox Critiques of SCOTUS’s Right Wing
The newest justice has emerged as the court’s left-wing iconoclast, unafraid to break unwritten rules in challenging her conservative colleagues’ ideological project.
newrepublic.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Justice Jackson is annoying the Republicans on the court and going beyond her fellow Democrats in making very sharp criticisms of recent rulings by the court's right-wing majority. That's leadership. She is the rare Dem in a powerful role meeting the moment. newrepublic.com/article/1975...
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i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews
Will Meet The Press ask random other white politicians to condemn Trump's antisemitic language this weekend? Or does that only apply to Mamdani?
"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews
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I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
July 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
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Opinion | Zohran Mamdani expects New Yorkers to hand him the mayor's office in November. But no one deserves to get an important job without working for it.
by Chris and Andrew Cuomo
by Chris and Andrew Cuomo
June 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani expects New Yorkers to hand him the mayor's office in November. But no one deserves to get an important job without working for it.
by Chris and Andrew Cuomo
by Chris and Andrew Cuomo
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Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
Garland v. Texas Top Cop Shop
www.scotusblog.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
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Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
For locals still pissed about this - there's a 3pm protest planned at the Rotunda on federal overreach and university autonomy.
June 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
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This foreshadows an end of the Voting Rights Act's majority-minority district strategy. After 60 years, the legal framework that increased minority representation has reached its limits. If so, now what?
BREAKING: In an unusual move from the Supreme Court, it will not issue a decision on the constitutionality of Louisiana's congressional map today. Instead, the Court will rehear the case next term. More to come.
SCOTUS Will Rehear Louisiana Redistricting Case Next Term, Signaling Major Ruling to Come
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This foreshadows an end of the Voting Rights Act's majority-minority district strategy. After 60 years, the legal framework that increased minority representation has reached its limits. If so, now what?
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This decision has implications for 2-3 House seats and determine who controls Congress in 2026. Same voters, same preferences, but judicial whims decide how votes add up. Democracy by dark magic - identical voters in, different majority party out. Presto, change-o.
NEW: The Supreme Court's morning ends with a surprise — the justices announce that Louisiana v. Callais, a case about a congressional map that the Louisiana Legislature adopted last year, will be re-argued next term.
June 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This decision has implications for 2-3 House seats and determine who controls Congress in 2026. Same voters, same preferences, but judicial whims decide how votes add up. Democracy by dark magic - identical voters in, different majority party out. Presto, change-o.
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Expect this litigation to get back to SCOTUS quickly, in some form or other.
Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland
June 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Expect this litigation to get back to SCOTUS quickly, in some form or other.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor reading dissent from bench:
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
June 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Justice Sonia Sotomayor reading dissent from bench:
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
“The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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Appreciate this Mara Gay oped more than the embarrassing @nytimes editorial. But there is some performative distancing going on. The “dinosaur wing” of the Democratic Party doesn’t dominate by some kind of magic. Her own Ed Board is propping it up! (1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
Opinion | Cuomo’s Candidacy Is a Symptom of a Bigger Democratic Problem
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Appreciate this Mara Gay oped more than the embarrassing @nytimes editorial. But there is some performative distancing going on. The “dinosaur wing” of the Democratic Party doesn’t dominate by some kind of magic. Her own Ed Board is propping it up! (1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
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What a contrast:
On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.
On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.
On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.
On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.
June 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What a contrast:
On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.
On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.
On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.
On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.
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From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...
May 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...
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Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
May 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’