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Brian Murphy

@burrite.bsky.social

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Historian writing about the founding of Paterson, N.J. and the Passaic River. Brennan Center fellow studying state constitutions. Jersey guy, got a scar at Action Park. StateConstitutionsLab.org

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 1d

First hour of Morning Joe with McCaskill and Harold Ford begging for an invasion to stop free buses

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 5d

They have a narrative to set and they’re going to stick to it no matter what.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 7d

Never mind found it. Iowa provenance huh

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 7d

Wait whose auction is this

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 7d

Use of unnecessary violence has been approved.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 8d

It’s like the end of the Blues Brothers

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 11d

Of course his replies are off. Snowflake.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 13d

Right behind Donald not getting a good enough seat at a Vanity Fair gala in 1988

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 13d

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 13d

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money

apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 14d

Our local dem org is completely demoralized and demobilized by the national climate of Dems rolling over while they punch left. There was a street fair last weekend and they asked for Sherrill signs. Nobody ever called them back.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 14d

All I see his guys doing is punching at Mamdani and random lefties. They don’t even mention her.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · Aug 1

One of my graduate students holding the floor at our constitutional studies “summer camp” mock state ratification convention at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social with @quilldir.bsky.social and cohorts from four American universities

@law.rutgers.edu @sasn.rutgers.edu @rutgersgsn.bsky.social

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · Jul 22

3d Cir. holds, 2-1, that New Jersey's ban on contracts for private immigration detention violates the supremacy clause because it directly regulates federal government activity.

www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232...

C. AB 5207 directly regulates the federal government
by banning contracts that only the federal government can make
Applying the functional approach that intergovernmental
immunity demands, this law directly regulates the federal government. True, its text does not apply to the federal government. But we can easily see the law for what it really is: a regulation “laid upon the contract of the government.” Dravo
Contracting, 302 U.S. at 149. The law prevents the federal
government from choosing how and through whom it will
carry out a core federal function. It does so by banning private
parties from selling immigration detention when “the only
entity in the business, so to speak, of [buying private] immigration det[ention] is the federal government.” United States v.
King County, 122 F.4th 740, 757 (9th Cir. 2024) (striking down
a ban on deportation flights as violating both prongs of intergovernmental immunity). Only the federal government has the
power to decide whether, how, and why to hold aliens for

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · May 25

The thing is nobody is hearing about this. People I talk to have no clue any of it is happening.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · May 15

You watch Joe Don Baker movies?

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · May 12

This is a juvenile understanding of corruption that you’d never apply to other officials or candidates.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 9

Ummmmmm

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · May 9

BREAKING: Radar screens at Newark Airport went black early this morning.

Air traffic controllers told a FedEx plane that their screens went dark around 3:55 a.m.

They then asked the aircraft to tell their company to apply pressure to fix the problem.

abcnews.go.com/US/radar-scr...

Radar screens at Newark airport went black again overnight

Radar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning.

abcnews.go.com

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · May 1

I’m not selling an official act you can just write something on a piece of paper and slip it under my hand when I’m signing something. Doesn’t matter what it is. Just give the money to Don Jr.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · May 1

His view of trade is “you took my money and all I got in return is this stuff but I want to keep the money too”

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · May 1

Got this from them today

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · Apr 23

Cc @joshtpm.bsky.social

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · Apr 23

“federal taxes owed by the state as an employer, federal employment taxes withheld by the state on behalf of the federal government, offsets for federal debts, backup withholding of federal taxes, and federal grant repayments”

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · Apr 21

And that role is probably never more weighty when you only read that headline before you hit a paywall or pop up nightmare

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · Apr 21

It feels like we are living in a moment of brain rot and exceptional stupidity among headline writers who both sides or punch left and fundamentally mislead readers

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · Apr 19

“I meant to do that” ffs