Ethan Kaplan

Thank you for this. Really.

And it evidently also doesn’t mean giving Nazi salutes at rallies, praising parties like AfD (which regularly praise Nazi leaders) and dining with people like Nick Fuentes who deny Nazi mass murders. Project Esther is a thinly veiled attempt to shift the Overton window on freedom of speech.

I was on the Good on Paper podcast at the Atlantic discussing a paper joint with Cody Tuttle and Jorg Spenkuch:

Also, its not clear to me that it would be a net negative. Different from prior shutdowns by Republicans, the Democrats were not asked to negotiate at all on this bill. Maybe that is too difficult to effectively communicate but maybe it isn't.

Gee. Who could have ever guessed that 15 years after the Supreme Court decided to allow unlimited independent expenditures, a presidential inauguration would be surrounded six of the wealthiest people and the un-elected world's wealthiest would be slashing the federal government budget?

In fact, that was precisely addressed by Hamilton in Federalist 78 but not included in the constitution until the courts grabbed that power in Marbury v Madison. It has always seemed to me that judicial review at all much less specifically by original public meaning is profoundly anti-originalist.

For sure though the constitution is maleable only insofar as those who interpret it are maleable which right now means only maleable in a right wing direction. By the way, where in the constitution does it state that the Supreme Court has the rights to review policy? (1/2)

It would be great to see this in average retweets per Musk tweet in regression discontinuity formulation.

Or maybe he uniquely resigned immediately despite having the weakest case because a damaging report was about to released later that week or the following week about his involvement in sex trafficking and illicit drug use.

So that's where I would have been more judicious. I would have gone for the J6 federal and the Georgia state prosecutions. Unfortunately, the US doesn't have good political institutions to deal with anti-democratic participants in elections. Maybe it should adopt safeguards from Brazil?

This is pretty standard in politics. Also, I would imagine that Trump didn't come up with it but rather one of his advisors did. A side benefit: it helps make his point to his base that he needs to be able to make recess appointments and that Thune <<< Scott (Rick).

Also, it allows Trump to push back against the criticism he has gotten from his "MAGA" base on choosing Rubio for state.

I think this is exactly Trump's "logic". That and doing a favor by giving an out to his loyalist who was about to have an investigatory House ethics report released about his sexual misconduct with an underage minor - a report that given his resignation for the position will not have to be released.