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Douglas Kelso
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Legal research guy.
Mine was the Super-Spectacular with Wrath of the Devil Fish and reprints of the Trial of Star Boy and the Super-Stalag of Space.

I was hooked.
January 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
All statements involving use of force from this administration should be presumed false until confirmed by a reputable source.
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Good.

Beyond that, Democrats need to introduce legislation NOW to disband the Department of Homeland "Security" by returning every agency to its former home, and to abolish ICE entirely. The bill won't go anywhere this year, but you need to be ready to move on it as soon as you're back in power.
January 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
ICE must be abolished. We don't need armed jackbooted thugs to enforce our immigration laws.
January 8, 2026 at 12:29 AM
The DHS budget should be zero. DHS should be disbanded, and every agency sent back where it came from. And ICE should be abolished. We don't need jackbooted thugs to enforce our immigration laws.
January 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Defund. Abolish. Prosecute.

Not one more penny to ICE in future budgets. Democrats in Congress should have no trouble drawing THAT line in the sand.
January 7, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Under the Constitution, courts have NO legislative power, nor may they amend the Constitution under the guise of interpretation. Which means that when they don't agree on what the law requires, a majority vote shouldn't have the force of law on anyone except the parties to that particular case. 3/3
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
"So even a single dissenting voice means the question remains open, and the majority can be disregarded?" Yep. The Civil Rights Cases (1883) and Plessy v Ferguson (1896) were spectacularly wrong decisions that gutted the 14th Amendment. Only Justice Harlan dissented both times. But he was right. 2/3
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
When Dems are back in power, they need to modify stare decisis. Require unanimity to treat a SCOTUS opinion as a definitive statement of American law. Anything else should reflect an unresolved legal question that lower courts may disregard when the SCOTUS majority got it wrong. 1/3
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
I keep myself going by daydreaming about the world we could have in just a few years if we could somehow elect politicians who cared more about their voters' wellbeing than their donors' wealth.
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Please PUSH HARD for impeachment over this. If the whole Democratic caucus supports impeachment, you may splinter off a few Republicans to get it to the floor. Even if it loses, it forces every Republican to go on record supporting an inevitably unpopular war.
January 4, 2026 at 4:30 AM