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@StevenJDuffield
Husband, father, lawyer, policy advocate. Former Senate leadership, Exec Dir GOP Platform, SLF/Crossroads. @UChicagoLaw @Georgetown. Alaska. From San Diego.
A brush fire near one of the Hudson River Tunnels has suspended NJ Transit rail service into and out of Penn Station New York. cbsloc.al/49cS48b
People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability. This is adding to our national debt. If there needs to be a settlement, the administration should bring it to Congress to decide.
NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens discusses the historic Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years.
ICYMI: Rs believe that enough of their members will vote for a Dem amendment related to the weaponization fund that it will be adopted into the bill ๐ They could theoretically try to get ahead of that by putting something in the base bill but very TBD what that would be
Apart from online delivery none of this is new. As a young college grad factory worker/journalist in the mid-1980s, my diet alternated between homecooked Top Ramen and pasta with margarine, cheap meals at low-end/fast food joints, and whatever happy hour eats I could scrounge.
Our current system puts judges in a position where they can control who appoints their successors (and sometimes, given the leverage their potential retirement carries, even influence who is picked to replace them). As shown by this exchange between @greggnunziata and @mike_frags, that puts judges in the awkward, politicized position of being asked to implicitly endorse or reject the president's values and judgment via their retirement decisions. I've written that the best way to get judges out of this fraught political entanglement is to decouple retirements from appointments. There may be no better evidence of the value of doing so than this moment. cato.org/blog/how-stop-โฆ
Conservative judges who love their country would be wise to pause before retiring or going senior when the White House is occupied by a Constitutional arsonist with a demonstrated hostility to the very idea of law
Cher will be 80 years old next week.
Yuval Levin is great here: we have a weak Congress because Senators and Members of Congress do not believe in the institution, as shown by their refusal to exercise the legislative power that the Constitution provides. Blaming "polarization" or "social media" is a way to distract from that Member failure. #agenda-item-plenary-session-2-legislation-confirmations-and-oversight-working-and-succeeding-in-a-legislative-legal-role" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fedsoc.org/conferences/inโฆ
