Dave Lundeen

“Proxy war” is such a dumb characterization of this conflict. Proxy wars happen between proxies where the principals won’t directly clash-but this is a war between an aggressive principal belligerent with no proxy (Russia) and a country fighting a defensive war against same (Ukraine). No proxies.

Don’t worry, this is Bluesky, readers here will chew you out for being insufficiently committed to the Extremely Online Revolution, or something.

60 Minutes has some really good elements but it has honestly been pretty dispensable for some time. E.g. its utterly credulous propagation of the made up Havana Syndrome, supposed government UFO coverups etc.

I don’t know or care about the person referenced, but Don’t Be an Asshole is a pretty good platform rule. The problem for some is there’s no move in the particular Extremely Online Game they play that doesn’t entail being an asshole.

Plus one. Am a lawyer, have worked hard not to have lawyer brain.

Say what you will about the New York Times, and I have plenty of criticism-they’d have retracted the piece and canned the authors, if they hadn’t shut it down pre publication.

Yeah. She’s the worst.

Call me Ishmael. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Somewhat ironically Bessent worked for George Soros when he broke the British pound. Guess he’s working on doing that to the dollar.

Hegseth couldn’t assistant manage a Quiznos franchise

The SecDef DUI hire just pulled a “do you even lift bro” to his whole command.

Such an immensely stupid take.

Typical American obsession with safety. This is why we’ve gotten bad at everything, no appetite for risk.

Good point. We should call him Major Asshole to distinguish.

Right up there with the national crisis of Barack Obama wearing a tan suit.

He was many things, not all of them consistently.

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And then of course the anonymous authors got their way as a matter of national policy in 1800, rendering these citations somewhat ahistorical.

It’s really not. The proto Confederacy was citing the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions in defense of fugitive slave retrieval, and George Washington accurately predicted they were documents of disunion.

He and Jefferson were certainly proto-Confederate in their assertions of state sovereignty in those anonymous documents and elsewhere (including over the slavery issue); of course the mature Madison changed his mind again when he was President, so it really depends on which one you ask.

Proto-Confederate slop invoked in defense of freedom, interesting

I think Hegel did the OG pro Napoleonic take and we’ve all been suffering it ever since.

They did prosecute those criminals when they were in power.

Perhaps. Though as you alluded earlier it’s likely this would be punted or disposed without reasons on the shadow docket. I doubt there’s a single state or federal court in California, DC or anywhere else that might have jurisdiction that would sustain such a law against challenge.

Yes. And an unconstitutional state law isn’t the correct solution to bad federal policy.

Well sure but the thing about the California law is that it’s just not constitutional and they wouldn’t be wrong to strike it down on the merits, which wouldn’t be a failure to protect.

I see. Well the thing is specific legal questions are how such cases are going to be generated. So if for example someone wanted to sue ICE and claim that police masking violates the due process clause or something like that it might actually be the right kind of test case.

In what way? Please be specific. Who is “they”?

Welcome to Bluesky, where the impotent and histrionic online left will pounce on anything that smacks of law or process as evidence that you’re a shitlib who wants to help authoritarians take and keep power.

That’s not what the issue before the court would be. It would be whether states can give orders to federal officers, which they can’t.