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unavaleable.bsky.social
Also another thing about that senate is really funny is that the actual ratification politics are totally nonsensical because everyone had completely borked idea about demographic trend. You had some of the smallest southern states oppose equal apportionment, because they'd have explosive pop growth
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d
How can you be a political analyst and think the senate operates like this
purrtah.bsky.social Ben McAdams Memorial Act(THE NECROMANCY ARCH) @purrtah.bsky.social · 2d
Underrated aspect of killing the filibuster is making pundit hacks at Cook Political p-p-p-piss their pants
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
twincitiesdsa.org
Congrats MFE59! Now the ratification process begins! We will continue working with you in solidarity to ensure that MPS becomes a destination district!
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
gothamgirlblue.com
My idea is to basically (legally) torture him into resigning. But we should also maybe discuss recalling Senators, which was floated by someone from the NY delegation during the ratification discourse.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
langdongrant.bsky.social
Honestly the whole "retroactive appointment" and "ratification" gambit by Bondi only seems to draw the court's attention to just how vulnerable DOJ is on the issue. I guess they're in "throw everything at the wall and hope SCOTUS will let something stick" mode.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
oliviertesquet.bsky.social
Ce plan de rémunération de Musk n’est pas seulement un signal économique ou une marque de loyauté : c’est la ratification d’un ordre du monde dans lequel il est seul dépositaire du futur. Dangereux délire démiurgique.
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
amyhoy.bsky.social
that would require a constitutional convention and ratification
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
astruckpersonn.bsky.social
woke federalist society when? if they can get nonsense like originalism in the supreme court, we should be able to get 9 judges who say repealing ratification is absurd
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
uptecwa.bsky.social
Details about the agreement and a timeline for ratification will be released shortly. Congratulations to all of our members, leaders, and allies who made this possible! 2/2. #UC #UnionStrong
November 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
onwardandupward.bsky.social
Hallo from your friendly neighborhood Union Steward who successfully ran a Contract Ratification election this morning and is VERY happy that’s over with. 🙂‍↕️
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
emptywheel.bsky.social
The section on ratification is genuinely interesting, legally, if you ignore how ridiculous it was that Trump's corrupt AG tried to do this on Halloween.

But don't ignore that point. It makes it funnier.
In any event, Section 3288 would not allow the government to reindict Mr. Comey if the indictment were dismissed. The grace period is triggered only if an “indictment is found,” 18 U.S.C. § 3282; but here, the purported indictment was void ab initio. And the government cannot “grant itself a six-month extension of the statute of limitations . . . simply by filing a patently defective and meaningless charging document.” United States v. Gatz, 704 F. Supp. 3d 1317, 1330 (S.D. Fla. 2023). Moreover, Section 3288 states that “[t]his section does not permit the filing of a new indictment . . . where the reason for the dismissal was the failure to file the indictment . . . within the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations, or some other reason that would bar a new prosecution.” Id. (emphasis added). That proviso applies here. Using an illegal appointment to procure an indictment days before the statute of limitations expires—thus depriving a person of repose—is precisely the type of “reason” that must “bar a new prosecution” under Section 3288. Indeed, Section 3288 expressly precludes reindictment when the first indictment was filed after expiration of the statute of limitations. To give that provision meaning, the statute must also bar new prosecutions when a void purported indictment is secured simply to prevent the statute of limitations from expiring. Any other reading would “obliterate the statute of limitations.” United States v. Clawson, 104 F.3d 250, 252 (9th Cir. 1996).
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
chancethelawyer.bsky.social
ratification is the new backdating
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 7d
Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has retroactively appointed former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan as a "special attorney" for DOJ and has "ratified" all of her actions to date, including her presentations to the grand juries that indicted Trump's foes.
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
emptywheel.bsky.social
But that means Pam Bondi's ratification of Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's actions could not have reviewed her actions at all.

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In addition, based on my review of the grand jury proceedings in United States v. Corney and United States v. James, I hereby exercise the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U.S.C. § 509, 510, and 515, to ratify Ms. Halligan’s actions before the grand jury and her signature on the indictments by the grand jury in each case.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
emptywheel.bsky.social
Here's how Tish James addresses Pam Bondi's Halloween time machine -- by calling it one.

Again, as a NAL, it would be a super cool assignment for law school to compare these responses.
Because this indictment violates both the Appointments Clause and Section 546, the Court must dismiss this case. After Attorney General James filed this motion to dismiss, Attorney General Bondi undertook a series of novel maneuvers to attempt to clean up the mess of Ms. Halligan’s unlawful interim appointment. See Gov’t Ex. A, ECF No. 43-1 (Oct. 31, 2025 Appointment and Ratification Order). But Attorney General Bondi does not have a time machine. None of Attorney General Bondi’s actions change the fact that when Ms. Halligan brought this indictment before the grand jury, apparently entirely on her own, she was not a government attorney. Attorney General Bondi could not, on October 31, 2025, appoint Ms. Halligan to a new prosecutorial position effective September 22, 2025. The government cannot point to any case indicating that so long as the government allegedly “intended” to vest the relevant official with the proper authority, an invalid appointment can be excused. Br. 21. It is what the Attorney General did, not what was in her mind, that determines whether the appointment was proper. All parties agree that “any government attorney can present a case to a grand jury or sign an indictment.” Gov’t Br. 2 (emphasis added). The problem is that Ms. Halligan brought this indictment as a private citizen with no authority to litigate on behalf of the United States. No amount of ex-post maneuvering can rescue this unlawful indictment from dismissal.
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
kenburnside.bsky.social
This country had 185 years where managers were assumed to be male, from the ratification of the Constitution of 1787 to 1975.

A future President should determine that sexism is an existential emergency to the country and mandate that 80% of all publicly traded firms need all women C-suites.
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
nafnlaus.bsky.social
(This was the one that could make Elon a trillionaire)

Proposal 5: Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as . ... Accounting Firm

Passed, but irrelevant.

Proposal Six: Eliminating supermajority voting requirements

Not passed. This is actually good - the requirements limit Elon's power.
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
indubitable1955.bsky.social
This simple ratification to end the filibuster by either party will be the law that destroys American.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
maddenifico.bsky.social
Throughout history, self-absorbed gluttonous slobs like Trump have laid waste to their nations. Sadly, America chose a bad time to have the dumbest, most ignorant and apathetic populace in the 237 years since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
coe.int
The European Convention on Human Rights turns 75 tomorrow! 
 
The @coe.int’s foremost convention is the cornerstone of all its activities, and its ratification is a prerequisite for joining the Organisation. 
 
📸🔙 Throwback to 1950 when the #ECHR was opened for signature in Rome!
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
maximecombes.bsky.social
Non. PAs de ratification par le Parlement français pour la partie commerciale de l'accord.
Renseignez-vous.
Lire cette note ? www.collectifstoptafta.org/IMG/pdf/vfin...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
mefletcher54.bsky.social
The Constitution was a compromise document. There were good parts. It was not a first attempt per se, but they had little to go on. Also, slavery, the concessions appeasing States to gain ratification, and hard-coding white male patrician dominance (EC, Senate) into the document were no help. /2
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
jeffmcmahon.bsky.social
But she did the hand gestures and wore her Ratification Cloak and everything
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
sjoyner1965.bsky.social
What’s funny is that Harris campaigned for the full ratification of the ERA, which would make women get drafted.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
gabrielmalor.bsky.social
The words "timely filed indictment" are doing a lot of unsupported-but-loadbearing work in DOJ's argument that AG Bondi can ratify Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan's indictment against James Comey notwithstanding her appointment problem.

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Comey may respond that a ratifying principal must have been able to take that action “at the time the ratification was made,” FEC v. NRA Political Victory Fund, 513 U.S. 88, 98 (1994), and the statute of limitations for his offenses (but not James’) expired before the Attorney General’s October 31 ratification order. But when a timely filed indictment is “dismissed for any reason after the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, a new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment.” 18 U.S.C. § 3288. Because the Attorney General could personally obtain a new indictment using that grace period, she may ratify Comey’s existing indictment.
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
emptywheel.bsky.social
DOJ says you can't dismiss the Comey and James indictments bc Pam Bondi retroactively appointed Halligan.

This was signed, perhaps appropriately, on Halloween (after James and Comey submitted their motions).

🤪

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ORDER NO. 6485-2025 APPOINTMENT OF LINDSEY HALLIGAN AS SPECIAL ATTORNEY TO CONDUCT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA AND RATIFICATION OF CERTAIN ACTIONS IN THAT DISTRICT On September 22, 2025, I exercised the authority vested in the Attorney General by 28 U.S.C. § 546 to designate and appoint Lindsey Halligan as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. See Att'y Gen. Order No. 6402-2025. For the avoidance of doubt as to the validity of that appointment, and by virtue of the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U.S.C. § 509, 510, and 515, I hereby appoint Ms. Halligan to the additional position of Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025, and thereby ratify her employment as an attorney of the Department of Justice from that date going forward. As Special Attorney, Ms. Halligan has authority to conduct, in the Eastern District of Virginia, any kind of legal proceeding, civil or criminal, including grand jury proceedings and proceedings before United States Magistrates and Judges. In the alternative, should a court conclude that Ms. Halligan's authority as Special Attorney is limited to particular matters, I hereby delegate to Ms. Halligan authority as Special Attorney to conduct and supervise the prosecutions in United States v. Corney (Case No. 1:25-CR-00272) and United States v. James (Case No. 2:25-CR-00122). In addition, based on my review of the grand jury proceedings in United States v. Corney and United States v. James, I hereby exercise the authority vested in the Attorney General by
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
rebalynn.bsky.social
(2018) Dolly Parton sings about the Women's Suffrage Movement which culminated in the ratification of the 19th Ammendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote in 1920.
#MusicSky
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27: The Most Perfect Album | Dolly Parton | 19th Amendment (MUSIC VIDEO)
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November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM