Don Dechert

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant.

No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

He's still going, while also making excuses for pete's lack of a tab lol

University general counsel, university trustee, university president

And so it begins

Cover of Labor Evangelicals: Faith, Authority, and Resistance at Work by Ken Estey, published by Palgrave with a picture of Bethlehem Steel

New book: It's an ethnography of white evangelicals in a union in Bethlehem, PA, and Black evangelicals in a number of churches in Moncure, NC. Ken notes that while his subjects view God as an authority, so too did they consider their union and labor contracts too. cc @davidmislin.bsky.social

Oooh. I wonder what a contracts professor's review would look like about the place of contracts in the lives of the ethnographic subjects?

Coast Guard. No pay.

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I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Several Presidents suffered debilitating illnesses and injuries. For weeks and months at a time, the country was left without effective or accountable presidential leadership. Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 provided for the Vice President to step in when the President had an “inability to discharge [his] powers and duties,” but it provided no decision-maker, no procedures, and no definition of “inability.” Nor did it make clear whether the Vice President would act as President only until the President recovered, or instead would become President for the duration of the term. No Vice President wanted to seem like a usurper. In practice, power was never transferred and presidential inner circles typically concealed the President’s condition. This pattern came to be seen as increasingly irresponsible with the advent of nuclear weapons during the Cold War; the nation needed a fully functioning presidency at all times.

Well, the drafters of the 25th Amendment apparently contemplated a Weekend at Bernie's use of the president for a significant amount of time. Or assumed norms + a crisis point that an inner circle couldn't conceal.

Let's focus on the the different targeting strategies that Ukraine and Russia are utilizing. A 🧵. 1/

Huh. There's a reading of Smith's Wealth of Nations that envisions a common polity of Britian & the colonies. The common polity idea seemed viable prior to 1776.

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It's arguably the most important sentence in the entire Constitution!

DC mini libraries just hit different

I think we will look back, if not already, and say the Kavenaugh confirmation was a turning point. Granted, that might be recency bias as I don't remember the tone of some of the grillings of GOP appointees & their defiance during the Reagan years aside from snippets of Ollie North.

This case, however, is about hate crimes, not hate speech. Violent physical assaults are “not by any stretch of the imagination expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment.” Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476, 484 (1993). And it is well established that Congress may account for racially discriminatory motives when penalizing criminal conduct, as it did in the hate crimes laws at issue here. See id. at 487–88 (upholding a law that imposed enhanced penalties for crimes committed “because of” race). While Hudak was entitled to possess despicable Nazi symbols, the jury was entitled to consider that fact when deciding whether he assaulted J.D. and J.S. because of their race, color, and national origin. How much meaning to assign the Nazi memorabilia was ultimately a question of weight, not admissibility. But we see no abuse of discretion in the district court’s conclusion that Hudak “opened the door to it[],” regardless of whether it would initially have been admissible. Birchette, 908 F.3d at 61.

4th Cir. holds it was no prejudicial error for jury to consider evidence of Nazi memorabilia possessed by a man accused of racially motivated assaults on a Mexican-American man and a black man, particularly after defendant mentioned his collection on the stand.

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Burbank Airport air traffic control tower goes unmanned for hours amid government shutdown There were frustrating delays and cancellations on Monday evening at Burbank Airport as the government shutdown triggered a shortage of air traffic controllers.

Hey SoCal‼️

“Burbank Airport air traffic control tower goes unmanned for hours amid government shutdown

From 4:15 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday, there were no air traffic controllers in the Burbank tower

operations were run remotely by SoCal TRACON, an approach and departure team out of San Diego.”🤬

Yeah this is true for the whole crew

And running the pipeline of anti-woke(?) military 501(c)(3)s. Where do these people come from?

everything else aside it is very funny that as subtext this dork thinks military academies (whether service or SMC) are the ultimate way to produce officers when the reality is there's basically no quality difference between them and ROTC grads in the aggregate

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

Former OMB associate director on personnel here: This is blatantly false and inexplicably undermines Congress's authority. Congress made extremely clear in 2019 that furloughed feds are to be paid, full stop, period. There is no question, except why the Speaker would make such a statement.

Pretty good thread that they really don't go over in law school (or at least didn't at mine). Legal theory schools of thought didn't really pop up in between learning rules and holdings, except maybe in property, torts, snd contracts class. And Public Int'l Law.

It gets better because he's been in a multihour argument with a bunch of fellow travelers who (rightfully) pointed out his words didn't even make sense from their (and his) perspective

Trump to exercise monarchic whim and illegally re-direct appropriations is how the headline should read.

Just again, spending and appropriations is a core power of Congress, not subject to the Executive's whims.