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Whenever I see this argument I think of it in the context of Brown v. Board of Education.
again, the supreme court did not write the constitution (or the declaration) and—despite what you may think—they don't have the monopoly on the interpretation of those documents.
the people have a say, and if the court is out of step with the people, that's a problem for the court, not the governed
the people have a say, and if the court is out of step with the people, that's a problem for the court, not the governed
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Whenever I see this argument I think of it in the context of Brown v. Board of Education.
Not sure this is correct. The reason for the redrawing was partisan, which is constitutional. The actual gerrymander was based on race, which is supposed to be unconstitutional. The SCOTUS majority ignored that second part.
To be fair, the justices are not technically wrong that the standard here, which the district court reviewed, was that if the gerrymandering was for partisan reasons, it's legal. It's only illegal if it was for race. But that allows the justices to just out & out say "THIS IS FOR PARTISAN REASONS!"
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Not sure this is correct. The reason for the redrawing was partisan, which is constitutional. The actual gerrymander was based on race, which is supposed to be unconstitutional. The SCOTUS majority ignored that second part.
Are we at the point yet where we begin hiding people in our attics?
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Are we at the point yet where we begin hiding people in our attics?
Sleepy Don.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Sleepy Don.
Still at it with the fantasy math.
Trump claims he's slashing drugs prices by "200 percent, 300 percent, 400 percent, 500 percent, 600 percent, 700 percent, 800 percent. Nobody has ever heard of it before."
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Still at it with the fantasy math.
Yup
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment - Sentinel Colorado
'His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him'
sentinelcolorado.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Yup
Let's just add this to the very long list of impeachable offenses.
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Let's just add this to the very long list of impeachable offenses.
And there you have it. Trump and Bondi will block the release of the Epstein files.
Bondi on the Epstein investigations that Trump demanded: "We're not gonna say anything else on that because now it is a pending investigation in SDNY"
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
And there you have it. Trump and Bondi will block the release of the Epstein files.
This should be front page news. DOJ doesn't release files of ongoing investigations. Bondi opening a new investigation prevents the Epstein files from being released.
They just found a way to redact whole sections of the DOJ file from public release
Breaking News: Pam Bondi assigned a prosecutor to look into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats including Bill Clinton, at President Trump’s urging.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This should be front page news. DOJ doesn't release files of ongoing investigations. Bondi opening a new investigation prevents the Epstein files from being released.
Neither Trump nor anyone around him understands what numbers mean.
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Neither Trump nor anyone around him understands what numbers mean.
Trump stole the Resolute Desk.
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Trump stole the Resolute Desk.
Did not realize that Maggie Hassan had been in a coma for the past year.
Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Did not realize that Maggie Hassan had been in a coma for the past year.
Hey, Jeanne, this isn't "working together." This is giving in to the other side without getting anything in return. That makes you a doormat, not a Senator.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Hey, Jeanne, this isn't "working together." This is giving in to the other side without getting anything in return. That makes you a doormat, not a Senator.
Reposted
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
Dem voters: We want politicians to fight like hell.
Chuck Shumer: I'm too old and too tired for this so I'll just throw in the towel. No, I want to keep my job, I just don't want to actually do it.
Chuck Shumer: I'm too old and too tired for this so I'll just throw in the towel. No, I want to keep my job, I just don't want to actually do it.
no one has ever been better than chuck schumer at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dem voters: We want politicians to fight like hell.
Chuck Shumer: I'm too old and too tired for this so I'll just throw in the towel. No, I want to keep my job, I just don't want to actually do it.
Chuck Shumer: I'm too old and too tired for this so I'll just throw in the towel. No, I want to keep my job, I just don't want to actually do it.
Sooooo... Pam Bondi lied to a federal judge.
Tyler Lemons Narcs out Pam Bondi: She COULDN'T Have Ratified Lindsey Halligan's Actions
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/t...
Tyler Lemons Narcs out Pam Bondi: She Couldn't Have Ratified Lindsey Halligan's Actions - emptywheel
According to a new filing from Loaner AUSA Tyler Lemons, Pam Bondi couldn't have ratified the things Lindsey Halligan did in the Jim Comey grand jury on September 25, because the only transcript that ...
www.emptywheel.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Sooooo... Pam Bondi lied to a federal judge.
Add this to the very long list of impeachable offenses.
“Allen received notice of his termination from the White House after he made efforts to provide key information to prosecutors…The information he turned over was constitutionally required, two of them said…”
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
Exclusive: Trump moves to fire watchdog of US housing regulator involved in crackdown, sources say
The internal watchdog for the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency is being removed from his role, four people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the housing regulator is playing a role in President Donald Trump's targeting of perceived political enemies.
www.reuters.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Add this to the very long list of impeachable offenses.
Hey @60minutes.bsky.social ,
Why did Norah O'Donnell fail to mention the pending Paramount merger that was approved after this bribe was paid to Trump?
Why did Norah O'Donnell fail to mention the pending Paramount merger that was approved after this bribe was paid to Trump?
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hey @60minutes.bsky.social ,
Why did Norah O'Donnell fail to mention the pending Paramount merger that was approved after this bribe was paid to Trump?
Why did Norah O'Donnell fail to mention the pending Paramount merger that was approved after this bribe was paid to Trump?
Kristi Noem continues to say that assaults on ICE agents are up 1,000%.
DOJ is deliberately prosecuting these frivolous cases to gin that number up, and they want to use it as a pretext for deploying the military in US cities.
DOJ is deliberately prosecuting these frivolous cases to gin that number up, and they want to use it as a pretext for deploying the military in US cities.
“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | A jury of my peers agreed that the feds wrongly charged me for watching ICE
I believe that filming what federal agents were doing that day counted as basic human decency.
www.msnbc.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Kristi Noem continues to say that assaults on ICE agents are up 1,000%.
DOJ is deliberately prosecuting these frivolous cases to gin that number up, and they want to use it as a pretext for deploying the military in US cities.
DOJ is deliberately prosecuting these frivolous cases to gin that number up, and they want to use it as a pretext for deploying the military in US cities.
European baseball fans are waking up to watch the end of this.
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
European baseball fans are waking up to watch the end of this.
This game will end with an inside the park homer because the left fielder fell asleep.
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This game will end with an inside the park homer because the left fielder fell asleep.
They're trying to provoke a violent response so they can send in the troops. Watch.
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
They're trying to provoke a violent response so they can send in the troops. Watch.
Trump will eventually put a larger chair in the room for himself to show that he is the Most Special Boy in the room. Will it be an actual throne?
we are witnessing a genuine decline in the taste of american elites
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Trump will eventually put a larger chair in the room for himself to show that he is the Most Special Boy in the room. Will it be an actual throne?
Hegseth is certain the leopards won't eat HIS face.
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hegseth is certain the leopards won't eat HIS face.
As impeachable offenses go, this is pretty freakin' high up the ladder.
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
As impeachable offenses go, this is pretty freakin' high up the ladder.