Sorry - the election is in November for a term beginning in January.

Thank you - that was careless of me.

The sheriff is a she and she’s up for reelection in January, 2027.

Vought: history and poli sci (Wheaton)

Impressed by the Agnew reference (but don’t try that in class).

They’re not making an omelette, they’re just throwing eggs on the floor.

Moreover, Bondi doesn’t have the authority over DHS or ICE to make the deal.

As Charlie Sykes calls it, a United Nations for misfit toys.

Except when the EC defeats the popular vote. It also gives a handful of swing states the power to choose the president and renders essentially powerless those who don’t share their state’s choice.

This was always going to be the problem with electing (and I use this term kindly) an ignoramus. His supporters used to say, he can hire smart advisors who will give him sound information. At some point, however, a president has to know enough to ask good questions and exercise sound judgment.

An attack by the United States on Greenland would be in violation of at least two treaties that the US is party to, treaties which are the supreme law of the land (Art. VI). Absent an attack on the US, Trump does not have the authority to invade Greenland.

The administration had insisted that Article I was “fake news.”

There is not an honor on earth that has not been dishonored by one or more of its recipients.

Why post the AP story without the video?

We have to convince the observers, and the decline in approval of Trump’s immigration tactics suggests that’s possible.

On Martin Luther King’s birthday, I think we should remember that peaceful resistance isn’t necessarily “ineffective.”

No, authoritarians retain power not by canceling elections but by having elections that appear legitimate but aren’t. So, for example, they change postmarking procedures so that ballots aren’t postmarked the day they’re mailed.