Nathan Richardson

Ah, I didn't even know about the City Canal, other than vague knowledge that the entire SW/Tidal Basin area was low-lying wetland. On the other hand the image has some elevation to it (notably the bridge) that doesn't really fit topographically. I really don't know!

This is clearly one of the alternate realities from "Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe"

If it is on the C&O (as inclusion in the Federal Triangle pamphlet suggests), then my best guess is at the Tidewater Lock end where the Watergate is now. That area has changed radically.

Alexandria Canal (Virginia) - Wikipedia

I bet this is not the C&O Canal but the (long since filled in) Alexandria Canal on the other side of the river. It doesn't look like any spot on the C&O I can imagine. If it is then fill has radically changed the area now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

In other words the post is a weird kind of dormant judicial supremacy.

The part I don't like is the elision from "no court will enforce this law" (correct) to "law is irrelevant" (incorrect). If 51 senators or 51 million people think presidents shouldn't have the power to make war, it is not illegitimate (much less irrelevant) to frame that argument in legal terms.

I understood the piece in purely descriptive terms, as if to throw his hands up at the whole thing, rather than an assertion that pure presidentialism is good or inevitable. Though even if that understanding is correct then the shot at Congress at the end is something different.

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

Discovering departmentalism in the dumbest way possible

I like hazys and I think it's way too much

Surely an insult later co-opted as a badge of honor by a little known separatist movement in Picardie.

Seedlings of hope sprout for Ocklawaha River restoration | Opinion A local environmental advocate reports progress as Florida lawmakers push to restore the Ocklawaha River by breaching the Rodman Dam.

Retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and outdoor enthusiast William McQuilkin wrote an op-ed for the Florida Times Union after his time on the Ocklawaha River during the drawdown: www.jacksonville.com/story/opinio...

Deponent GOAT

Madison: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"

Madison: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"

Two amicus briefs I enjoyed reading in support of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court:

@kewhittington.bsky.social’s: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

@evanbernick.bsky.social and @jedshug.bsky.social’s: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

I highly recommend them if y’all have time.

The unitary executive strikes again.

Starting to think the future is less super-MQD and more that the doctrine gets subsumed into general textualism, becoming at most yet another canon. Doesn't mean it's not arbitrary or dangerous, they all are when abused. But it's not operating outside of textualism. I think this is ACB's view?

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

never forget what they took from us

The long 2010s are finally over

This sounds good, but doesn't it just open the market for Kalshi/Polymarket prop bets that the state can't regulate because they're federally-regulated CFTC derivatives?

To the tune of Funkytown

This works best if read in engaged Anakin voice

"popular knapsack with many different locations" energy

a basketball player wearing a lakers jersey throws the ball ALT: a basketball player wearing a lakers jersey throws the ball

I know it's not JR but this is the NBA equivalent of a 47 page solo dissent:

He's like Albert Belle or Theo Fleury or JR Smith. Only room for one of them on the team, for sure, but they do add value.

I believe there should be a severe reputational cost for giving *this* man their seat. And I believe judges should know that when deciding.

That’s not a thing I believe in normal times, but I do now.