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Jennifer Allison

@jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social

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Editor, indexer, owner of https://www.manuscript-spa.com/. Librarian. Likes: the Constitution, kindness, justice, the rule of law, women's rights, the Fourth Amendment, due process, organized labor, and soccer (I mean football). Californian in Boston.

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · Mar 24

Evergreen.

hillary clinton is sitting at a podium with her hand on her chin and looking at the camera .

ALT: hillary clinton is sitting at a podium with her hand on her chin and looking at the camera .

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling this in my whole soul tonight.

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 5d

The "I would never be at peace" part is really telling. Work addiction has always been encouraged by capitalists as a way of productively weaponizing our own misery and loneliness for their profit. Don't fall for it

Fortune @fortune.com · 5d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 2d

I just watched some hockey and ate some pizza and drank some wine for about 30 minutes, and now I am back at my desk, working. I am just recording this moment in time so that I can remember what this feels like. It's time to make some changes in which I work a lot less and enjoy life more.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 3d

So I am flying to Salt Lake City for a conference on Wednesday, with a layover in Chicago. Is it weird of me to feel slightly uneasy about that? I mean, we're all kind of still going about our business like everything is normal, right? But things sure don't feel normal right now.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 3d

I deliberately skipped it when I saw that he was the one who wrote it. That guy has absolutely nothing to say that could possibly be helpful at this point in time.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

THAT PART RIGHT THERE.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

Allowing POTUS a couple of bad-faith bites at the apple with the armed forces on American soil before we determine the constitutionality of his conduct is anathema to our constitutional tradition. Prof. Wurman is wrong about the judicial power, but he's also abandoning our most cherished values.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

Any possible explanation of what he is trying or intends to argue is nothing more than a reason for reasonable people to hate law and lawyers even more. The specific precedent says the president has to act in good faith. If courts cannot determine that, or, I guess, if only SCOTUS can, we're cooked.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

If you need some laughs (and don't we all), enjoy the responses to this post.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

As soon as I read the words “ass clown factory” I had to double check it was the real FBI director’s account and not some parody.

It’s real.

FBI Director Kash Patel ×
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon...
MSNBC has no facts and no audience
In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved.
& Barb McQuade • @BarbMcQuade • 15h
DOJ policy prohibits "perp walks," in which arrestees are paraded before the cameras. x.com/ jesserodriguez...
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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

That was beautiful.

Also, the ICEs' lack of skills made it clear that, in that outfit, it really is amateur hour when the rubber meets the road. Those guys were clearly not trained AND not great at their job. Looking forward to more of the same from that 🤡 show.

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

But can we also post about things that are actually okay? Like I just had a big bowl of my favorite food (vanilla greek yogurt with dried cranberries) and I feel so much better now. Don't forget to breathe, eat, hydrate, rest, and do non-terrible things for yourselves, friends.

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

There is a Supreme Court case that requires the president to act in good faith if he deploys US troops domestically. Sterling v. Constantin, 287 U.S. 378 (1932), might be all that can save us now. Hopefully it will be enough...

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

Justice Dept. attorneys on brief in the Oregon case got their JDs from Wake Forest, Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, and Georgetown. It's not just the Harvard and Yale folks. I know it's their job to make these arguments. I just hope they're thinking everything through very carefully.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

Judge Immergut ("always good" - what a fabulous German name that is) cited Sterling and the good faith requirement as the appropriate legal precedent and standard. See pp 17-18 in her order, storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us.... Much of our law does, indeed, turn on "good faith."

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

Don't just believe conservative people. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Specifically, the President can only exercise this power if he is doing so in a way that is "conceived in good faith." Sterling v. Constantin, 287 U.S. 378, 389-400 (1932). supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

"Tort law is not a shield against the impulses of a wananbe tyrant."

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 📣

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

The problem is that unless those ads run on Fox News and are plastered all over social media sites that attract older conservative people like Facebook, the people who need to see them...won't. They will also really need to be dumbed down.

The conservatives won the propaganda race a long time ago.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

All of the $5 words in the world cannot make this statement sound constitutional, or decent. The law (and I'm saying this as a lawyer and law professor) needs to do much, much better.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 4d

I hope we find out, some day, which people (men) at the highest levels of the American government (in all three branches) were compromised, and how, and for how much. Thinking about this is one of the only things that is helping me get through these times, no lie.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 5d

All of these false equivalencies are getting so, so tiresome. Do better.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 5d

a mascot for the boston bruins is dancing on the ice

ALT: a mascot for the boston bruins is dancing on the ice

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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully we're going to get rid of a lot of dumb laws (like that one especially) after this is over. It's really the only silver lining to the cloud of doom that has settled over the United States.

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 5d

Come on now. Stop talking about The Hague. We cannot depend on the international legal community to clean up our messes here. We have 100% ownership over (*waves hands wildly*) all of this, and we're on our own.
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Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · May 22

This picture is from the UN Treaty Series, showing the US's 2002 communication on this issue. US officials will never be charged in the International Criminal Court because we do not recognize its jurisdiction to criminally charge US citizens. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat... (2/2)

Text from United Nations Treaty Series of US declaration of 2022: "This is to inform you, in connection with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ... the United States does not intend to be come a party to the Treaty. Accordingly the United States has no legal obligations arishing from its signature on December 31, 2000."

Jennifer Allison @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 5d

So Trumpy's ME peace plan would create a "Board of Peace," with himself as the head, responsible for "govern[ing] ... the temporary transitional governance" of Gaza. What does this even mean? Sounds like they want to take the Trumpian (Millerian) power trip on the road. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan in full

Hamas has responded to the US peace plan - it says it will release remaining Israeli hostages but wants talks on other aspects.