Jeff Lazarus

The MAGA #SCOTUS is "happy to completely disregard the express, codified will of Congress, allowing their preferred president to neutralize agencies’ regulatory functions by firing people willy-nilly" but when the President is a Dem "use the major questions doctrine to strike their actions down."

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

One of a few reasons close primary elections hamstring the nominee in the general.

Best movie he's in: Saving Private Ryan
Best Hanks performance: A League of Their Own

They've got a five year plan.

MAHA is serous about dragging us back in time to when graveyards all had lots and lots of tiny little gravestones without names.

Making it harder to get formula means more dead babies. that's it. That's all it means.

You can't be pro-life and anti-formula.

Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO

You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.

New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

US SouthCom a few tweets way from using a Sonnenrad patch in their imagery.

This is more than unconstitutional; it does active violence to the fundamental structure of constitutional power as intended by the framers and practiced for the past 240 years. It seeks to undo the Constitution.

Oh, and obligatory President Fanucci

This practice is known in Trump's industry as "wanting his taste."

No, Calvinball is complete unpredictability. Whatever comes to mind in the moment is what you do.

Calvinball is the wrong analogy for Roberts' long term judicial project. The right analogy is "Heads I win, tails you lose." He's constructing a system where Republican presidents can do whatever they want, but Democratic presidents are subject to strict checks and balances.

When I teach the Take Care clause I have my students think about what it means when their parents tell them to "Take care to" do something. Is it giving them some freedom, or is it giving them a chore?

It's definitely a chore.

Your kids' right to survive to adulthood supersedes your religious liberty. I really don't care what the legal theory says.

A bit rich for the dude did not one but two VERY enthusiastic Nazi salutes on national television to use “Nazi” as a pejorative.

Oh damn.

Anyway, party ID is a hell of a drug.

He also tried to engage me in conversation about how great RFK's changes were going to be for HHS. The man's a MD.

Last year my general practitioner who I'd been with for more than 10 years told me I didn't need a COVID vaccine and this year I have a new GP.

Went back and checked the original, it was "To beat the champs you gotta knock them out." Same same.

Chris Collinsworth straight up plagiarized Joe Davis with "If you want to beat the champions you have to knock them out." Word for word.

"Admit" is doing a lot of work in the headline.

Never in a million years. It would mean giving up his (IMO tainted) home run records.

"I know you are but what am I?"

My personal position on Barry Bonds is that he and MLB should strike an agreement where he admits steroid use and MLB invalidates his stats after 2000 & inducts to the Hall on the basis of his pre-steroid career (which he deserves).