@emzanotti When was 5 or 6 I would stare really hard at the moon, looking for the astronauts, or maybe a dust plume from their moon buggy. Despite my best efforts, I never saw them.
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Tom Ludden
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Tom Ludden
@ludden_tom
Michigan husband, father and attorney.
Michigan Katılım Ekim 2022
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My kids are outside screaming that they can see the rocket and you know what, whatever, let them believe it. It’s that kind of day.
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@alexthechick @cavsdan WHAT !?!?!?!?!? Oh, impressed with myself that I figured it out in less than 10 seconds.
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@cavsdan Capitalizing the THE is that extra bit of perfection.
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Introducing our proposed name for Cleveland’s new WNBA team… THE Ohio Wolverines.
The Midwest work ethic is a real thing. As someone who has spent a lot of time on both sides of the lake, I can tell you that Ohio and Michigan have far more similarities than differences.
We’re hoping Detroit follows suit with its WNBA franchise and embraces that same spirit of regional unity by naming its new team the "Michigan Buckeyes," as Cleveland and Detroit grow the game together from the shores of Lake Erie, the Midwest’s own Mediterranean.
Be sure to grab your official Ohio Wolverines merch—available online at ohiowolverines.com within the next 60 days. Use code APRILFOOLS to receive 15% off your first order.
So… how do you like the name? We love it!
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How? How is Trump listening to oral argument intimidating the Justices?
I really do want an answer to that question.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett@RepJasmine
D.C.’s biggest bully just pulled up to the Supreme Court to try to intimidate the justices into ending birthright citizenship. No sitting president has ever attended oral arguments — but this one thinks the Constitution is optional and that the Court must bow down to him.
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@VecchTweets I’ve never seen a party at counsel table in an appellate court (once had one sitting in the courtroom). But so much with President Trump is unique.
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@ludden_tom Clients don't sit at counsel table in the Supreme Court.
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I had no cell as I was at the Court today with President Trump, Robert Deniro, AG Bondi, Howard Lutnik, Chief Counsel David Warrington, @DeTahmineh and SG John Sauer as well as John Eastman. Only the last three said hello. Slightly different take from @ishapiro in the thread 🧵
Ilya Shapiro@ishapiro
When President Trump left the courtroom midway through this morning’s argument, he was signaling what all of us following the argument were feeling: the administration was going to lose this one. Of course, that was the conventional wisdom going in, which is probably why Trump was so negative on the Court in a press conference yesterday. But that’s where most of the conventional wisdom ran out. For example, despite all the punditry about “off ramps” that would allow the Court to avoid deciding whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors, it very much looks like the justices will rule squarely on that constitutional issue. Very late in the ACLU’s argument for the challengers, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked about a potential resolution on statutory grounds—that President Trump’s executive order goes against existing law, implying that Congress could change birthright citizenship rules—but there seemed to be little appetite for that kind of split-the-baby solution. In the end, the administration is likely to lose 7-2, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito in dissent. But there will be plenty of concurrences on the finer points of ratification debates, precedent, and statutory interpretation. President Trump won’t like that at all, but it could be a winning issue for Republicans in the midterms, energizing not just the MAGA base but those many independents for whom immigration is a decisive issue.
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@VecchTweets Okay, I’ve sat in the counsel section once and can now picture it.
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@ludden_tom On the front bench of visitors behind the visiting lawyers like me. In the middle with a good view and ability to exit quickly.
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@VecchTweets I’ve only attended one argument in person (Frank v Gaos) and am still impressed with myself for having done that and then leaving through the big doors. Also did some research in the reading room the day before.
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Once in a lifetime experience to be 20 feet from the President and 12 feet from Robert Deniro while a case is presented. Still jazzed.
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@alexthechick @physicsgeek I didn’t until today. Where is it? The section for counsel in front of the bar is incredibly tight. And we can’t bring our phones or car keys in. (I think arguing counsel can bring some electronics in).
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@physicsgeek I thought everyone knew that there is always the chair for the President there.
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@SubcommanderT @MuseZack TOS probably had a JFK worldview, which is now called classical liberal and may have been progressive in the early 1960s, but that viewpoint differs a lot from what is now considered “woke”.
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@MuseZack Good thread. I think original Star Trek had political moments but it usually emphasized realism over idealism…
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The "Star Trek was always woke" discourse is difficult to parse because people so often misremember the original series, which was largely written by WW2 generation writers & reflective of post-Kennedy liberalism, so you got messages like "Vietnam is regrettable but necessary."
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@bonchieredstate @RyanGirdusky ACB is so many dozens of conservative wins above the Justice she replaced that we should be grateful for her appointment and confirmation.
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Republicans, especially evangelicals, ran to her defense after Sen. Feinstein attacked her for being religious. By moving from knee jerk reaction to knee jerk reaction, we let the left pick her
Real Political Data@RealPData
Amy Coney Barrett is utterly useless.
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@jpodhoretz My of my fraternity brothers at Dickinson was named Leibowitz, but he said that Fawn was not a relative.
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She was busy making a pot for Eric Stratton, who had been damn glad to meet her.
mass ave curmudgeon@mass_ave
WOUNDED DEER, Massachusetts – Emily Dickinson College sophomore Fawn Liebowitz died suddenly last week in a kiln explosion on campus. Liebowitz, 20, was a sociology major from Fort Wayne, Indiana. 5/31/62 💐
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@bethanyshondark Moritura te saluto? (maybe, I’m much better at reading than composition).
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RIP Bethany Mandel. Killed by her preteen son after she informed him she’s signed him up for a Latin class next school year.
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@AlisonSomin I don't have a precise count but I think about 15% of the Michigan student chapter is married. Of course, Federalists are non-conformists in many ways.
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4. Trying to start a family when you are in school or studying for a difficult exam presents real challenges! Declining to do those things isn't entirely young people being prissy or neurotic about imaginary problems.
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1. A lot of conservative discourse on this topic is concentrated on telling people to get over their anxieties about marrying early and just accept a few years of being poor (or relatively poor) while young and building a life together. I am not necessarily opposed to that...
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Marriage decline is concentrated among working class women not the most professionally ambitious. slowboring.com/p/yelling-at-a…
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@AlisonSomin You also don’t need to spend three months and a few thousand dollars to pass the bar exam. I spent much less time and maybe $5,000 combined for the 3 exams I’ve passed, and the last one was more than 30 years after the second one. I’ve included bar exam fees in the money spent.
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6. Nor is it some iron law of nature that you need to spend three months of your life and a few thousand dollars on a test. Wisconsin has widespread diploma privilege and has no higher rates of malpractice than nearby comparable states.
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@emzanotti Rogue 1, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and maybe Return of the Jedi.
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@TKratman @WDE2011 @MarkSeddon1962 Thanks. I vaguely recall Curtis-Wright from Con Law class, but that was spring of 1987.
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@ludden_tom @WDE2011 @MarkSeddon1962 Goldwater v. Carter, 444 U.S. 996 (1979)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 (1936)
Note that the first case merely dismisses a suit by members of congress to stop Carter from terminating the defense treaty with Taiwan.
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Does he not understand that NATO members are under no obligation to aid the US in an unprovoked illegal attack on another country?
Department of State@StateDept
🚨 SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement. That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
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@TKratman @WDE2011 @MarkSeddon1962 Don’t suppose you have citations handy? Or case names? Not to double check your work but because they might be interesting to read.
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@WDE2011 @MarkSeddon1962 Long settled supreme court precedent; the president is our sole face to the outside world and fully empowered to terminate any treaty on his own say so. No, advice and consent of the senate is required to ratify a treaty, not to terminate one.
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@jadler1969 @lexlanham When I was a 2L at Michigan, a couple undergrads in the row behind us were complaining they couldn’t see the game because we were standing. In the student section. During the rather epic 1988 game against Miami when it was coached by Jimmy Johnson.
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my student went to a bruins game over the weekend & right after she sat down the guy in front of her turned around & demanded that she stop talking b/c "i paid a lot for these seats & i want to enjoy the game in peace & quiet"
a bruins game???? bro
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@BlakeKellii @James_Beckmeyer They will be 2,000 miles further from Earth than the furthest Apollo mission, so they will be 2,000 miles further than any human has flown from Earth.
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To be fair, they’re not going to the moon…yet. Wednesday, they will launch for a lunar flyby, similar to the route (accidentally) taken by Apollo 13. This is in *preparation* for a moon landing, sometime in the next two years!
Everyday Astronaut@Erdayastronaut
I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!
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