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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 2d

Presidents have gone over the heads of governors before on this issue--rarely, but they have--but not to violate the law, which is what the judge has ruled Trump is doing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 2d

I guess the real argument--not looking to supposedly fundamental values of the 1790s--would invoke judicial review as enshrined in 1803, avoid the history argument about ideas underlying the founding, and identify a violation of the law. Which I think is what the plainitiffs and the judge did.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 3d

The "fundamental values" argument is always weak.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 3d

It's also true that Wurman, whom I take to be an enthusiast of Hamilton's and Washington's thinking on this (I'm not), is correct in noting that the already flimsy judicial-oversight provision was repealed in 1795.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the founders were concerned about excessive power in the executive and the tendency of standing armies to suppress the public; others were concerned that not enough power lay there and were forever trying to boost it.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 3d

Washington wanted Randolph (when he was Atty General) to bring indictments against people who had attended anti-excise meetings and signed petitions. Randolph demurred.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 3d

Contra Mifflin, Hamilton argues that the Militia Act was passed precisely to enable troops not only to quell insurgency but also to police the citizenry in times of unrest: break up meetings and assemblies formed solely to oppose a law (he means protest).

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 3d

The dispute in correspondence between Gov. Mifflin and Hamilton (writing for the sidelined Randolph) in the summer of '94 has a lot of resonance right now.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 3d

A problem is that President Washington got a bad-faith bite at precisely this apple in 1794. Edmund Randolph, then Secretary of State, objected to the rubberstamp certification by Justice Wilson, to no avail. John Yoo and others have looked there when defending the unitary executive concept.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

Allowing POTUS a couple of bad-faith bites at the apple with the armed forces on American soil before we determine the constitutionality of his conduct is anathema to our constitutional tradition. Prof. Wurman is wrong about the judicial power, but he's also abandoning our most cherished values.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 5d

Appropriate usage here would be the passive "was thrown to the ground by"

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 5d

"Landed" is active; "was pushed" is passive.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 9d

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12d

Ezra Klein is really out here claiming that the "Basket of Deplorables" speech was a bit of exclusion and intolerance that showed the Democrats had abandoned the broad inclusive vision of Barack "They Get Bitter, They Cling to Guns or Religion" Obama

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12d

The text of the speech, in which Hillary Clinton said that half of Trump's supporters felt let down by the government and just wanted "some hope that their lives will be different," is freely available online

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12d

Here are two of the most influential people in liberal media, David Remnick and Ezra Klein, telling each other outright lies about what the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said because years of exposure to conservative grievance media pounded the original facts of the case out of their skulls

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Linda Monk @lindarmonkjd.bsky.social · 19d

Jefferson refers to newly passed amendments to Constitution in letter to GW on 9 Sept 1792 as "the bill of rights." #sschat
founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 14d

The thing about the problem of beauty is that it solves itself over time.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14d

Jane Birkin possessed a mysterious charisma and a seemingly effortless sense of style. Both obscured her relentless, often painful search for meaning.

How Jane Birkin Handled the Problem of Beauty

She possessed a mysterious charisma and a seemingly effortless sense of style. Both obscured her relentless, often painful search for meaning.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 16d

But some of the founders wanted royal-like powers for the executive. I take their reticence about talking during ratification about the extraordinary powers they did give the office--which the Federalists as a party really ran with--as largely a function of disingenuousness.

William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 16d

Yes, that's what Hamilton wanted--plus some royalesque powers (which Madison wanted too), like a veto with no recourse for the legislature. The "unitary executive" was present in embryo at the founding.

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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 17d

The problem is not people talking past each other on BlueSky, the problem is the DNC asking Ezra Klein what Sally wants.

Micah @rincewind.run · 17d

it is true that you cannot reach Jim with his 17 MAGA hats and his qanon tattoo, and you shouldn’t try

it is also true that you can reach Sally who didn’t like inflation and was vaguely nostalgic for pre-Covid times, and he won the popular vote off a decent number of people like Sally

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 17d

Speaking of talking free speech when you're out and suppressing speech when you're in.

William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 17d

The Jefferson administration encouraged state prosecutions of newspaper editors who were critical of it.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 17d

Jefferson also did what he could to subject the judicial branch to the will of the executive branch.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 17d

The Jefferson administration encouraged state prosecutions of newspaper editors who were critical of it.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 20d

I think if we can't see that authoritarian tendencies were very deliberately worked into our very founding, we can't understand authoritarian tendencies now.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 20d

From that post: "Regionalisms always played roles. They didn’t play the roles that liberalism, looking back obsessively through the lens of the Civil War, in search of explanations for Trumpism, wants them to."

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 20d

It's more or less straight from her bestselling book Democracy Awakening. Wrote about it here: williamhogeland.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump and the Insurrection Act

It’s sickening to be talking about what Donald Trump might do as a re-elected president. I fervently hope that all such discussion becomes utterly irrelevant to events, but the fact remains that the w...

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 20d

Nouns in apposition do a lot of misleading work here: "The Constitution established a representative democracy, a republic..." As the delegates expressly agreed, the purpose of the convention was to defeat democracy and strictly limit representation.

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