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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 4h

Appeals court rules Cannon must release the rest of Jack Smith’s report on Trump stealing government classified documents.
“By suppressing the document she is undermining accountability and the law.” She has 60 days to release them.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
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'Undue': Judge Cannon slammed by appeals court after Jack Smith's report on Trump delayed

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to stop delaying the release of the remaining parts of special counsel Jack Smith's report on President Donald Tru...

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

In doing so, the court brushed aside that for nearly all of our history, presidents have assumed themselves bound by criminal laws.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

Failing to heed this warning, today’s court determined that an astonishingly vast scope of immunity for all but purely unofficial acts was necessary to avoid “enfeebling” presidents in an endless “cycle of factional strife.”

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

The Constitution “diffuses power the better to secure liberty.”

Danger, he warned, lurks in an expansive interpretation of the executive’s exclusive domain, “for what is at stake is the equilibrium established by our constitutional system.”

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s use of the Justice Department against his opponents is a logical result of the court’s extremely broad interpretation of the president’s exclusive constitutional powers.

“Properly conceived, the president’s constitutional protection from prosecution is narrow.” Justice Amy Coney Barrett

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

It also signaled that the president need not fear criminal liability for charging a political enemy with a crime, even where the facts and law do not support it, in violation of that person’s constitutional rights.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court’s immunity decision enabled this boldness on two fronts.

It perversely helped to legitimize the idea, embraced by Mr. Trump, that as president he can do pretty much anything he wants — even try to overturn the results of a free and fair election.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

Previously there were internal rules limiting the White House from communicating with DOJ prosecutors about whom to investigate and prosecute criminally.

Now Trump has openly called for the prosecution of his perceived enemies and forced out his own appointed prosecutor for standing in the way.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

Between the court’s dissolving potential liability for bogus fraud investigations and Mr. Trump’s neutering of executive branch rules governing the independence of the Justice Department, the court has left the president free to target anyone he wishes.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s direction of the prosecutions of his perceived enemies — notably James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general — has illustrated the folly of Chief Justice Roberts’s rationale.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court Enabled Revenge Prosecutions

Chief Justice John Roberts said sweeping immunity was necessary to avoid a president who would “prosecute his predecessors."

In the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, the court has unleashed it.

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Opinion | How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions

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luannasheridan.bsky.social @luannasheridan.bsky.social · 4h

a poster that says vote blue and has blue hearts on it

ALT: a poster that says vote blue and has blue hearts on it

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Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 @lonsj.bsky.social · 4h

Local groups showed drivers the truth about Mike Lawler

Thank you Indivisible Yorktown NY, CCHOPE, Putnam Progressives, Peekskill Progressives

If you haven’t voted yet, remember to VOTE BLUE

IndivisibleYorktownNY @indivisyorktownny.bsky.social · 14h

We were out today because we have had enough and we need to let more people know how #NY17 Rep. Mike Lawler continues to hurt our families here in the Hudson Valley. It is time for him to fix this crisis he created. Stop cutting our neighbors healthcare and access to food assistance!

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luannasheridan.bsky.social @luannasheridan.bsky.social · 5h

Oops! Sure did!

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

Pennsylvania Supreme Court:

The PA Supreme Court currently has a 5-2 Democratic majority, but three of those Dems face retention votes next week.

If Dems lose two, Republicans could take control of the court before the next presidential election.

Things we can do together right now.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

Virginia and New Jersey elections:

To hold this regime in check, Dems have to win governorships and as many state legislative seats as possible, and in Virginia specifically, they have a chance to build a Democratic trifecta right in Trump’s backyard.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

Proposition 50 in California: This is the California response to GOP state gerrymandering. The results could directly determine which party controls the House after 2026 midterms.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

3. Yes, we still have elections, and we need to win them.

Remember when we kicked Elon Musk’s ass (electorally) in Wisconsin for that Supreme Court election?

This week’s elections give us another chance to send a massive message about the electoral consequences of Trumpism nationwide.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats are holding the line in the Trump Shutdown fight to support you, so it’s especially important for your Dem Congress Person to hear your appreciation this week.

If you’ve got a Republican Member of Congress, you should ask why the hell they’re shut down and blowing up your health coverage.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

The Big Ugly Bill gutted Medicaid and killed subsidies that made health insurance affordable.

Millions of Americans are seeing health insurance bills jump to unattainable prices.

One third of Rural Hospitals will close.

This will start a Health Care “death spiral” that hurts us all.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

1. Spotify capitulated to the regime by running offensive ads for ICE, but we can make them reverse course.

Organize to Boycott and cancel service with Spotify. Pull a Disney/ABC/Kimmel on them.

2. Trump destroyed American Healthcare for Millions of Americans.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 5h

Ezra Klein's Plan To Remove Dictator Trump

History tells us removing a Dictator needs more than one-day protests.

I want to focus on what we can do right now to build on our momentum.

Spotify, healthcare, and off-year elections: what we can do to keep building momentum.

Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action

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luannasheridan.bsky.social @luannasheridan.bsky.social · 7h

I feel the same way about them! I spent over $9,000 on Ebony for 3 surgeries and 2 types of Chemo treatments because I love her so much. I would have done the same thing for ToTo if he had needed it🥰 It won’t let me add their pictures for some reason🤷‍♀️

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Amarie @humanwolf.bsky.social · 7h

Dear Humans, PLEASE be extra mindful for the next few weeks as #wildlife and all of us adjust to #DaylightSavings
#TTDS

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luannasheridan.bsky.social @luannasheridan.bsky.social · 9h

The list of registered voters is available to anyone who can afford it. You can bet that he will demand it free! I have friends, some even Veterans, who changed their voter registration to republican so they wouldn’t be attacked by Trump and his administration. Sad that it’s come to this🥲
#OneV1

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