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December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Are they also illegally employed? The Hatch precludes federal employees from membership in "any political organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government." Doesn’t the Republican Party fit that description, practically by its own admission?
October 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Are they also illegally employed? The Hatch precludes federal employees from membership in "any political organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government." Doesn’t the Republican Party fit that description, practically by its own admission?
Trump Bible rewrite of Exodus 33: “Now Moses would take a tent and pitch it outside the camp, calling it the ‘tent of meeting.’ ... And whenever Moses schlopped out to the tent, all the people rose and stood before their tents, watching him until he entered the tent and said, ‘I want a ballroom!’”
August 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump Bible rewrite of Exodus 33: “Now Moses would take a tent and pitch it outside the camp, calling it the ‘tent of meeting.’ ... And whenever Moses schlopped out to the tent, all the people rose and stood before their tents, watching him until he entered the tent and said, ‘I want a ballroom!’”
He’s not holding his hand up to the thugs, who seem to have snuck past him. Whoever drew this either missed the class on perspective, wants us to lose ours, or has put one over on Hegseth.
May 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
He’s not holding his hand up to the thugs, who seem to have snuck past him. Whoever drew this either missed the class on perspective, wants us to lose ours, or has put one over on Hegseth.
How does the two-doll limit apply to Russian stacking dolls? Did Trump just get himself into hot water with Putin?
May 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
How does the two-doll limit apply to Russian stacking dolls? Did Trump just get himself into hot water with Putin?
Strange indeed. But the penguins beat China to the punch.
April 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Strange indeed. But the penguins beat China to the punch.
The same goes for imposing massive tariffs under the IEEPA, enacted post-Watergate to block just such abuses of executive power. That usurpation is grist for the major questions doctrine. I hope you let the public know. The sooner it sinks in, the likelier the Court will be to do the right thing.
April 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The same goes for imposing massive tariffs under the IEEPA, enacted post-Watergate to block just such abuses of executive power. That usurpation is grist for the major questions doctrine. I hope you let the public know. The sooner it sinks in, the likelier the Court will be to do the right thing.
I hope we see more compelling explanations of the case, and quickly. It makes two terrific arguments for narrowing IEEPA’s delegation: 1) the major questions doctrine; and 2) the post-Watergate context of its enactment. The sooner Wall Street prices in a win, the more it will tie SCOTUS’s hands.
April 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I hope we see more compelling explanations of the case, and quickly. It makes two terrific arguments for narrowing IEEPA’s delegation: 1) the major questions doctrine; and 2) the post-Watergate context of its enactment. The sooner Wall Street prices in a win, the more it will tie SCOTUS’s hands.
Please explain the case better than AG Bonta did to Chris Hayes tonight. It makes two great arguments for narrowing IEEPA’s delegation here: the major questions doctrine; and the post-Watergate context of its enactment. The sooner Wall Street prices in a win, the more it will tie SCOTUS’s hands.
April 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Please explain the case better than AG Bonta did to Chris Hayes tonight. It makes two great arguments for narrowing IEEPA’s delegation here: the major questions doctrine; and the post-Watergate context of its enactment. The sooner Wall Street prices in a win, the more it will tie SCOTUS’s hands.
The New Yorker reports on a legal challenge to the China tariff by a conservative think tank on behalf of a small business owner. It invokes both constitutional and statutory grounds. The former should sing to conservative justices, the latter across the board. Expect more from all quarters.
The Conservative Legal Advocates Working to Kill Trump’s Tariffs
The New Civil Liberties Alliance is mounting a constitutional challenge to one of the biggest policy questions of our time. Will others follow?
www.newyorker.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The New Yorker reports on a legal challenge to the China tariff by a conservative think tank on behalf of a small business owner. It invokes both constitutional and statutory grounds. The former should sing to conservative justices, the latter across the board. Expect more from all quarters.
The same grandiosity, poor judgment, and corruption now on display also played a role in Trump’s bankruptcies. Here’s a timeline (and a pictorial summary). Brace yourselves:
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
These appeared in 2010. We should have seen it coming.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
These appeared in 2010. We should have seen it coming.
How Donald Trump went bust and got rich using other people's money
(And plenty of his dad's money, too.)
www.motherjones.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The same grandiosity, poor judgment, and corruption now on display also played a role in Trump’s bankruptcies. Here’s a timeline (and a pictorial summary). Brace yourselves:
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
These appeared in 2010. We should have seen it coming.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
These appeared in 2010. We should have seen it coming.
He is acting as if we voted to become the United States of Trump, raising the grim but timely question of how he managed to bankrupt one enterprise after another. Here are a 2010 timeline and pictorial summary. Brace yourself.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
How Donald Trump went bust and got rich using other people's money
(And plenty of his dad's money, too.)
www.motherjones.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
He is acting as if we voted to become the United States of Trump, raising the grim but timely question of how he managed to bankrupt one enterprise after another. Here are a 2010 timeline and pictorial summary. Brace yourself.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
allmandlaw.com/how-trump-le...
Where's Ned Beatty when you need him? Someone to get it through to Trump that he has meddled with the primal forces of nature, that there is only one holistic system of systems, that he is an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples, and that he WILL atone? Time is short.
Ned Beatty's NETWORK speech-by Paddy Chayefsky
YouTube video by Gart Williams
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Where's Ned Beatty when you need him? Someone to get it through to Trump that he has meddled with the primal forces of nature, that there is only one holistic system of systems, that he is an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples, and that he WILL atone? Time is short.
And don't be too surprised if Putin revises that Lenin prophesy to read: “The capitalists will sell us the dope with which to hang them.”
April 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And don't be too surprised if Putin revises that Lenin prophesy to read: “The capitalists will sell us the dope with which to hang them.”
I’d grow my own coffee and bananas except the hens are taking up the whole living room.
April 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I’d grow my own coffee and bananas except the hens are taking up the whole living room.
Trump’s unhinged paranoia about our trading partners reminds me of Mussolini’s obsession with autarky. Any there there?
April 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trump’s unhinged paranoia about our trading partners reminds me of Mussolini’s obsession with autarky. Any there there?
Stephanie should walk her viewers through the 6 Trump business bankruptcies and point out how his lunatic tariffs show the same reckless mentality that got him there, except this time the US is his business. (I’ve long wondered why Elizabeth Warren, a bankruptcy law professor, never did this.)
April 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Stephanie should walk her viewers through the 6 Trump business bankruptcies and point out how his lunatic tariffs show the same reckless mentality that got him there, except this time the US is his business. (I’ve long wondered why Elizabeth Warren, a bankruptcy law professor, never did this.)
No, but they refuse to buy our eggs.
April 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
No, but they refuse to buy our eggs.
There’s precedent for the guessing about Trump’s view on the operation. Historians know it as “working toward the Führer.” Hitler too took scant interest in the details of governance, leaving it to those under him to figure out what would please him. Chaos often resulted. Good point, Chris!
March 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
There’s precedent for the guessing about Trump’s view on the operation. Historians know it as “working toward the Führer.” Hitler too took scant interest in the details of governance, leaving it to those under him to figure out what would please him. Chaos often resulted. Good point, Chris!
Trump's deluded dodge--everyone else is a cheat but won't get away with it thanks to him--echoes Captain Queeg's opening gambit in the breakdown scene of "The Caine Mutiny." If the press pursues this opening, they may back Trump into shouting something along the lines of "Ah, but the strawberries!"
February 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Trump's deluded dodge--everyone else is a cheat but won't get away with it thanks to him--echoes Captain Queeg's opening gambit in the breakdown scene of "The Caine Mutiny." If the press pursues this opening, they may back Trump into shouting something along the lines of "Ah, but the strawberries!"