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Retired lawyer, dad, baseball fan. From Colorado. I don't argue online.

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COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · Dec 14

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” - Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357 (1927) (Brandeis, J.) #freedomofspeech #freespeech #civilliberties

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not sure if you were responding to my comment or not. I think Sen. Sanders should not have run for reelection after his first term; he was too old to serve even then. But water under the bridge. He should certainly retire now.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 8h

The Constitution forbids the entry into an unconsenting state by troops from another state. But Americans, by and large, are either ignorant or apathetic about the Constitution's mandates and don't seem to care much about the real threat to everyone's freedom that sending TX troops to invade IL is.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 9h

Blue state governors are still pretending that the courts will save us. They are, so far, unwilling to use their authority to do anything to protect the people of their states from the invasions by Red state forces that are now underway in California, Oregon, and Illinois. It's lethargy and naivete.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 21h

Mr. Jeffries, statesmen find solutions. They don't play the blame game. I agree with the goal of preserving affordable health care access. But it is irresponsible of Congress - everyone in Congress, regardless of party - to allow this shutdown. It's an abdication of duty.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 21h

But Trump, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Noem, Bondi, Vought, Miller and everyone else who is a Trump crony thinks they are. We are on the brink of catastrophe. And what are senators doing? Nothing.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 21h

Every state and city where there is a Democratic governor or mayor is now at risk of invasion by military forces from hostile Red states. Residents of those Blue states - innocent people - are certain to be assaulted and murdered in these invasions. If Dem governors and mayors won't act, then what?

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 21h

I want to live long enough to see Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, Noem, Bondi, Miller, Vought, and everyone else who is involved in murdering people in the Caribbean, terrorizing people because they have different ethnicities, hiding the evidence of involvement with Epstein, etc. in prison cells.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 21h

But if that's the extent of a "taking," then why has SCOTUS pushed, at times, the idea that limiting use of land via regulation is a "taking"? Clearly, those guys don't think that a "taking" has to involve only a physical seizure of land.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I would start with this paper, which argues that the Framers' main goal when they included the Takings Clause was to require compensation for physical seizure. If physical damage isn't in that ballpark, then what is? scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcont...

scholarship.law.georgetown.edu

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't matter if the Democrats get elected again. The Biden admin. proved, with Garland's lackadaisical attitude, that no Republican can or will ever be held accountable for law-breaking.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

Charge, convict, imprison.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

So Pritzker let the invasion happen with no opposition. Courts will not save us. Courts do not, and cannot, stop dictators. And the deployment of TX NG troops to IL without IL's consent is flagrantly unconstitutional.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that government, through its police, can destroy or damage your home under the guise of a warrant, and that's not a taking under the 5th or 14th Amendments, strikes me as fundamentally ahistorical and anti-constitutional. This is judges, even if they do rely on precedent, dodging the law.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not voting for any candidate who is 70 years of age or older. Period. I do not care what you did earlier in your career or where you stand on issues. When you reach the age of 70, it's time to retire. Period.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

Forget 85 years old. If you're 70, you should be required to leave public office, just as judges are in many states.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

No. Just no. She's 77 years old. Go home. Too old for public service.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

State authorities must arrest this officer and charge him with assault and battery. If they don't, they are abandoning their duty to protect their state's residents and encouraging lawlessness among the ICE stormtroopers.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

If @govpritzker.illinois.gov does not prevent, with force if needed, the invasion (yes, invasion) of Illinois by Texas NG troops, then he is betraying the people of his state. Order unfederalized Illinois NG and state patrol to prevent the TX NG forces from leaving their aircraft and block vehicles.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not impressed by these claims by members of Congress that they are having their pay voluntarily withheld during the shutdown. Most of them are millionaires and do not need their salary and, in any event, they'll get paid. Our civil service may not. Do your job, Congress. Get the gov't open.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm very happy about this reunion.

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 2d

Geddy and Alex firing up a Rush celebration tour with a drummer who isn’t a dude? Chef’s kiss right there.

Rush Sets Reunion Tour for 2026; Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Discuss the ‘Difficult Decision’ of Finding a New Drummer After Neil Peart’s Death

Rush will head out on a reunion tour in 2026, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson joined by a new drummer. The tour will pay homage to the late Neil Peart.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

@colorado.gov, what is Gov. Polis' plan to prevent the deployment to Denver of other state's National Guard units? I assume the governor has not consented and will not agree to those deployments. The regime in DC will not respect the courts. And, if it does, SCOTUS will use shadow docket.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

You should advise Gov. Kotek to order all non-federalized members of the Oregon National Guard, and all Oregon State Patrol officers, to forcibly block the entry into Oregon of National Guard soldiers from other states. Do not allow an invasion or occupation.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

A presidential order to federalize and then deploy one state's National Guard into another state, without the second state governor's permission, is flatly unconstitutional. Read Article I and Article IV.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 2d

You, Gov. Pritzker, and other governors must order your state AGs, or at least encourage them as much as you can, to file state criminal charges against ICE agents that assault and, yes, kill residents of your state. And also pursue charges when they endanger children or treat them with cruelty.

COwriter @hlacey.bsky.social · 3d

But that would require state officials with courage and principle. There are very, very few of those.