Josh Chafetz

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The Federal Circuit immediately issues the mandates in the tariffs litigation, rejecting the Trump admin's request for further delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

A minute ago, Trump said the war with Iran would take as long as necessary. "I don't get bored." He is now discussing the drapes he selected for the East Room.

The Court, IEEPA, and the Legislative Veto We're all trying to find the guy who did this

My take on Learning Resources v. Trump: the elephant in the room in Chadha and the legislative veto.

fivepoints.mattglassman.net/p/the-court-...

On some level, I know that if people like us don't buy the first book in a series when it comes out, there wont be second & third books, but on another level, I'm so tempted to just be 5 years behind in my reading so I can read series all at once ...

It's so good, right?

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism.

WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens?

GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

“.. The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

okay, good for you

If by "there" you mean roughly 35 miles away in a different city in a different county, then yes.

what the fuck are you talking about? it's a goddamn restaurant review, which one click would have told you.

The Best New Reason to Visit the Barbecue Capital of Texas

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I suspect there is gender stuff happening too? Honest salt of the earth plumbers with proper views are 100% male, by stipulation.

Senator Tim Kaine to CNN: “I'm on two committees that give me access to a lot of classified information.

“There was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States that warrants sending our sons and daughters into yet another war in the Middle East.”

Texas has some incredible cities, which are just as Democratic as cities are everywhere else in the country, for one thing.

how tedious of you

The Best New Reason to Visit the Barbecue Capital of Texas

want www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/d...

Sorry, I should have specified that the person zooming in in the NYT excerpt is Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas

(FWIW, I tried to find a Dem senator as liberal as Lee is conservative, based on DW-NOMINATE dimension 1 scores. Unfortunately, there is no Dem senator as liberal as Lee is conservative, so I went with the closest.)

Can you imagine if Sonia Sotomayor zoomed into a meeting from Liz Warren's office? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Relatedly, if someone *is* invoking Libya, important to ask whether they are actually implying that the Libya stuff was legal—or are trying to obscure such questions by making some kind of point about hypocrisy.

because it would be stupid to cite an illegal thing as support for an illegal thing.

CNN's @natashabertrand.bsky.social reporting rumored rationale that Iran was about to strike us first, preemptively, is not accurate to US sources she's spoken with.

VERY important because that would be a reason to not go to Congress first - imminent threat to US forces.

But note that the memo explicitly finds that the Geneva Convention *does* apply w/r/t the war in Afghanistan.

I thought they denied that AQ was a lawful combatant. Didn’t Taliban prisoners get treated as POWs?

Does international law specify the wording such declarations must use?

The Constitution just says, “The Congress shall have power … to declare war.” It doesn’t say what form that has to take, and it’s in Art. I, Sec. 8, the rest of which is effectuated through normal legislation.

Honestly, there’s no real difference between something styled a “declaration of war” and something styled an AUMF. The meaningful difference is going to Congress or not.