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Also wait, what do they mean, pass a voter ID law so the mail-only states can’t comply? There are states that already do both! I think Georgia requires absentee voters to write down their drivers license number.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

If they can’t, that’s revealing in its own right

I don’t like it either but I do wonder how many people clock her age without being told

Russ Vought, aiming a shotgun directly at Virginia's economy: vote for me and/or I shoot
Virginia voters: and/or?
Russ Vought: did I stutter?
Virginia voters: no we just don't actually know how to negotiate with that

Maybe! I think the shock of being arrested while on Guard duty will do a lot of that work on its own. That’s not something they’re trained to expect.

Honestly don’t even think it matters how long they’re in there. Let them go after 24 hours with a warning. The point is to prove that you can get them.

Ideally this is not how you want to start a hearing

I mean if Illinois can get a court order to stop this and they still don’t leave, arresting them becomes practically mandatory

I maintain that NG troops who operate in another state without permission are just some guys who can, and should, be arrested by the state government

Did I miss a news item or is this just a response to the usual bluesky anxiety?

I mean imagine if the GOP balked at attacking the Afghanistan withdrawal because it was a 70-30 issue against them.

I think there are parallels between the Afghanistan withdrawal and the immigration crackdown because both issues ostensibly polled well on paper (especially the former) before the messy reality revealed that may people’s preferences were loosely-held

Lmao

In seriousness, go ahead. Press flag burning charges, watch them get thrown out instantly. Rinse, repeat.

He didn’t say anything about throwing a sandwich at the flag

If the administration thought they were going to win, they would have appealed on the merits a lot more quickly. They might have even asked for emergency relief.

You ever feel like these guys are desperately trying to recapture the magic of their dying cult leader?

I’m assuming if these are actually made they’ll end up as collector coins (that Trump will somehow try to profit from) because if you try to put these into general circulation a huge number of people will think they’re fake

They are not brave enough to pass a nationwide abortion ban on a party-line vote.

I’d be a little worried about them trying to pass some national election stuff but they’d probably talk themselves into a national voter ID law that wouldn’t help the way they think.

Sean Spicer and Russell Vought lose lawsuit against Biden administration over Naval Board dismissal The former government officials filed an injunction to block their removal from the Naval Academy Board of Visitors last year.

To be fair Biden fired him anyway, Vought sued and lost: www.politico.com/news/2022/07...

Seems easy enough to take the funding away! Just say their grades are still inflated or something

No one is worried about an immigration judge throwing out a case because of unconstitutional entry

There is an appeal, and they can also go to federal court. Most immigrants don’t because they lack the means, or a team of lawyers willing to take things that far.

I believed this before and then I started practicing in immigration court and I’ve never believed it so strongly.

The Fed carve-out to the unitary executive theory doesn’t make a ton of sense, but you have to admit it’s a little funny

Not that I think this will happen again but I’ve never forgotten how Republicans were (correctly) blamed for the 2013 shutdown, leading to a brief spike in Democratic approval polling that had long since vanished by the time the 2014 midterms rolled around

“I don’t think the Democrats want to shut down either,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. “Their concern right now, and it’s a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we’re not going to spend them there?”

“If you’re a Democrat — even just like a mainstream Democrat — your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism,” said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. “Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?”

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.