@ClarenceMaximus Cruel and unusual ooops we respect people rights how dare we
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Katılım Ağustos 2025
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I’ve been trying to explain my thoughts on this excellent Thomas solo opinion, and I have basically just realized that our death penalty jurisprudence is the single most indisputably botched area of Constitutional Interpretation that we have. Thomas is 100% correct once again, but it’s very hard to explain why Atkins is wrong without also explaining why like twelve other death penalty cases are also wrong.
Eric W.@EWess92
Justice Thomas calls to overturn the precedent that people can be too dumb for the death penalty. "As this case shows, though, Atkins has bred only confusion and absurdity. Nothing in the text or history of the Constitution supports Atkins. It should be overruled." 👀
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@lesliedouglasx Someone pays both sets to do something. Just a weird value judgement about what is and isn’t work
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At first glance, this seems like a division between the working class and the managerial class, but it's not quite that simple. There are engineers and surgeons on the Republican side. What we're really witnessing here is a split between those who work (miners, engineers, surgeons) and those who mostly pretend to work (yoga instructors, film industry workers, social scientists).
Emil Kirkegaard@KirkegaardEmil
Most left vs. right wing occupations in USA. (Measured by donations.)
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kinda looks like dan hentschel
horse dentist@equine__dentist
some guys are afraid to moan but i be in my girl’s ear like
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@MZHemingway @NormOrnstein word not doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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@NormOrnstein The hatred of deranged left-wing activists toward Alito is one way you know that Alito is a remarkable jurist. Alito is not swayed by pressure campaigns from dark money groups and their lackeys who attempt to destroy rule of law in America with their assaults on the courts.
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@MikeJShowalter I mean this Ted Talk was a sales pitch? How much do you think Neal was paid by Harvey developers?
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Harvey is emailing BigLaw partners about Neal Katyal’s TedTalk
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This is what "making fun of both sides" has always looked like, btw. Lightly jabbing the Left while utterly demonizing the Right.
They literally don't have a frame of reference beyond this.
ZFlawless 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌉@ZFlawles1s
this image gets truer and truer every single day
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Yes, the Left are retarded and demonic. This is known.
Therefore, I ask why the Right aren't having their own galas at art museums, celebrations of beauty and creativity. Why have we abandoned the hill of culture to demonspawn without a fight? Why do we allow our pundits to say say "art is stupid" rather than "those people are stupid, clearly the bar of competition is pathetically low, let's make our own art and do it better"?
Retard Finder@IfindRetards
Celebs are so damn retarded. Why do people gush over this crap?
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Under the Electoral College, the President is elected by the states and it is the states who choose to run popular elections to select electors. This is actually an integral part of the longevity of the union, because the great compromise ensures that small states are not subsumed by a national policy driven be the population advantage of large states. Remove this framework and why would a state like Wyoming stick around and be dictated to by a government that only represents the coastal enclaves?
Dream for America@DreamAmerica_
PETE BUTTIGIEG: "What if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College?"
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Don’t worry, you’ll get your old life back in Syria, Algeria, or wherever else you fraudulently entered the United States from. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
New York Magazine@NYMag
“Last March, a fog took hold in my head and never left. It settled there somewhere between the moment a DHS agent asked me, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ and the moment I realized that I would miss the birth of my first child,” writes Khalil. A year ago, the Trump administration unlawfully arrested Khalil at his home and detained him for 104 days. “I walk free now, only after an army of lawyers sued the administration for targeting me because of my pro-Palestine speech. But the government is relentless in targeting me,” he writes. “So when I walk, I watch my back.” “When strangers approach me and ask, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ — the same words in the same expectant tone the DHS agent used before the handcuffs — I do not know if they want to shake my hand or spit in my face. I do not know whether they will say, ‘Thank you for what you're doing,’ or follow me through midtown aggressively shouting, ‘Am Yisrael Chai.’ Both have happened. At first glance, I can never tell them apart.” In a new essay, Khalil writes about grappling with these two truths: “That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen.” Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/tM03B5
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@ClarenceMaximus isn't the point it matters sometimes, but not when it is bad?
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Many claim that we are a “common law society” where deference to precedent should matter, but Kagan here embodies our ACTUAL national tradition regarding precedent: cite it when you like it, overturn it when you don’t.
Jimmy Buffett Fan, Esq.@jimmy_esq
Justice Alito has clearly lost patience with Justice Kagan's cynical stare-decisis schtick. She has never relied on stare decisis to reach a result she disfavors in a case where her vote would impact the outcome. So when she sings its praises, take it with a grain of salt.
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The idea that there are literally any legislatures anywhere in the entire country who are going “I want to racially discriminate just for sheer love of the game, but I’m gonna PRETEND it’s actually just to benefit my party” is so absurd I don’t even know how to address it.
The Fifth Column 🖐@wethefifth
David French explains SCOTUS's 6–3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais. Our new episode with @davidafrench is out now.
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@HansMahncke ur right, these people spend careers asking janitors their opinions, excellent insight
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In a sane world, this person would be fired on the spot for doing the exact opposite of what the journalistic profession is supposed to do. She cites an anonymous source, who could be anyone from a janitor to a partisan activist with an axe to grind, not to offer anything insightful, but to deliver a completely platitudinous line. There is not an atom of difference between that and me saying the homeless guy at the bus stop told me it will rain tomorrow, except that he might actually be right.
Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins
Former DOJ official tells me: "This might be the worst case DOJ has filed in my lifetime."
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Proud to have written Missouri’s brief supporting this result at SCOTUS. Lots of political noise in response, but this decision is pretty simple: You can’t treat people differently because of their race during redistricting. As a matter of law and justice, that is surely right.
Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway@AGCHanaway
Racial discrimination has no place in drawing congressional maps. We filed a brief in support of @AGLizMurrill’s case to fight for equal treatment under the law. SCOTUS made the right call.
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@feelsdesperate scotus speedrunning delegitimzation thru use of shadow docket
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The GOP didn't 'pack the court.'
There are 9 justices.
Dems can actually pack the court if they get into power, but then the wheels come off and SCOTUS can be delegitimized as an institution and 60 years of progressive jurisprudence can be fully shredded.
If people like Hasan don't understand that things can get way worse for libs in the future if relative moderates like ACB and Roberts are sidelined by true far right lunatics I don't know what to tell than.
A lot of the assumptions in the lib midwit political calculus Hasan is proposing are woefully underexamined.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan
If the Democrats don't make rebalancing and expanding the Supreme Court a top priority for whenever (if?) they next get into power, then I don't know what to say anymore. The GOP-packed court is the biggest block on progress in this country and has been for a while.
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Just because the DOJ chose not to do a speaking Indictment like Jack Smith did, the left thinks this is a weak case against Comey. Wait until we start to see the evidence during discovery that is leaked, that the DOJ turns over to Comey's lawyers. It is going to be brutal. This was a year long investigation on a relatively simple open and shut crime.
The fact that Comey is a lawyer means that the DOJ had to go through additional steps to obtain search warrants for his email and phone records. Comey was not a defense lawyer so that may be a bit more limited, but still, an extra few steps. I imagine there is a treasure trove of evidence of the crime that he spilled to all his lawyer buddies because he is a Narcissist and an ego maniac.
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@JayTownAlabama @DAGToddBlanche top legal mind at newsman dumber than 1L at coley law
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Before the “legal pundits” claim the indictment against Comey is flawed, keep in mind a few things:
- A Grand Jury disagrees.
- Professional prosecutors disagree.
- DOJ and @DAGToddBlanche disagree.
- Comey made many inconsistent statements about what he thought the shells meant.
- Non-public evidence exists to prove that Comey knew what “8647” meant.
There is no doubt that subpoenas went to Comey’s cell and email providers. Within those returns could be admissions he knew what it meant but perhaps was “just joking”. That sort of reckless disregard of the public perception of the threat is exactly the evidence that takes this BARD.
Also, Comey spent a lot of time publicly pontificating about what “86” means. He called the shell formation “clever”and “cool”. Wondered with his wife what it meant. Menus? Leaving a place? Few North Carolina jurors will consider this even plausible.
Know what else?
COMEY NEVER QUESTIONED WHAT 47 MEANT!
It could be reckless that Comey knew 47 meant “Trump” and knew “86” meant at least getting rid of him in some fashion. It would be laughable that the former FBI Director didn’t stop and wonder if it would be reckless to applaud “getting rid of the President” in some fashion as “clever” or “cool”.
Conscious disregard of an objective threat to the President is a crime.
Also, neither statute requires ANY intent to carry out the threat!
So yeah…not good to be Comey!
And yeah…his Instagram post was reckless.
@TheJusticeDept is treating this case like dozens of other similar cases. That consistency IS legitimacy.
My $.02.
U.S. Department of Justice@TheJusticeDept
🚨TODAY: Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director James Comey for Threats to Harm President Trump “Threatening the life of the President of the United States is a grave violation of our nation’s laws,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “The grand jury returned an indictment alleging James Comey did just that, at a time when this country has witnessed violent incitement followed by deadly actions against President Trump and other elected officials. The temperature needs to be turned down, and anyone who dials it up and threatens the life of the President will be held accountable.” Read more: justice.gov/opa/pr/federal…
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This what 50% of the top 100 albums on rym sound like to me.
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