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9/9: This may seem hypertechnical, but it underscores the broader point I made in "One First" about *both* of the Court's grants of emergency relief last night—that the Republican appointees' impatience is leading them to run over settled legal constraints to reach the merits in these cases.
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-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; . . .
Impeach him.
Did the Court in Citizens United and, later, Professor Volokh get the historical meaning of the Press Clause wrong?
In a just published article, I challenge their view as without evidentiary support and misguided.
A Third Possibility: The Press Clause at the Founding share.google/ufWAxr4JjNF6...
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.
Threatening to remove state funding from public schools because students are protesting is...
THE MOST TEXAS THING YET.
The schools are clearly failing to coerce young Texans into believing his Abbott's white, Christian nationalist view of their state.
Criticizing our country is a right afforded to us by the constitution.
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
This is very good
What a terrible day to know how to read
Laughably incredible and cartoonish, but also very dangerous.
BREAKING:
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler held a town hall tonight in Rockland County…and proceeded to have VETERANS thrown out of the venue.
#NY17
For the avoidance of doubt, releasing the names of federal officers who shot and killed an American citizen is not in any way shape or form doxing.
For people interested in Espionage Act prosecutions of the press or their sources --
This is a great tool that I hadn't come across before. It's a database of legal filings in such cases since 1971 (Ellsberg). Thanks to the @knightcolumbia.org
knightcolumbia.org/reading-room...
My first remarks since being arrested last night.
Stop arresting journalists for covering newsworthy events
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
Knight Institute Condemns Arrest of Journalists Reporting on Minneapolis Protests, warns of tightening vise on #pressfreedom.
knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official
"in theater". "Draw down". Hard to blame people for calling it a military occupation when leaders describe it that way. It's your own damn country, act like it.
Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year.
*That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.
Raskin: ICE and CBP — these are not law enforcement entities, and at this point they’re completely lawless. They’re outside of the Constitution.
Also... *More harm
Here's Jefferson: Blackstone has "done more towards the suppression of the liberties of man, than all the million of men in arms of Bonaparte and the millions of human lives with the sacrifice of which he will stand loaded before the judgment seat of his maker."
I've written at length about the rejection of Blackstone in the speech and press context: share.google/JLkzGN14Mxdx...
The strange obsession with Blackstone, a monarchist who hated the colonists and their fight for independence, has long been a focus of mine.
Jefferson said that Blackstone did now harm than the armies of Bonaparte!
Image showing a fugitive slave being captured by four men under antebellum federal law
🗃️ State & local jurisdictions cannot defy federal law but neither can the federal govt order them to enforce every aspect of that law. For some origins of this ongoing tension in immigration federalism, rooted in the history of American slavery, here is a 🧵 on Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) 🧵 1/10
