@southdemsc.bsky.social

Blue dot in a red state 😑 Lawyer and cat dad. Views my own.

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3 months ago
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The Texas gerrymandering case is a test of the Supreme Court's integrity Do the justices have any rules they won't let Republicans break?

Do the justices have any rules they won’t let Republicans break?

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6 months ago

This is *literally* what some district court judges have said in opinions! The bad things the Supreme Court is doing through the shadow docket aren’t too difficult to figure out if you take apart each piece of the legal process and describe what it is supposed to accomplish.

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6 months ago

Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system.

As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.

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6 months ago

I wish somebody would ask him to specifically list the "seven" or however many wars he claims to have ended and then hand him a map and ask him to show us on it where the wars were.

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🚨Epstein survivor Chauntae Davies:

Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest brag forever was that he was a very good friend with Donald Trump. He had an 8×10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them

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Job openings dropped to 7.18M in July, undershooting expectations.

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DeSantis Declares War on Woke Sidewalk Chalk He says it’s about safety, and if you believe that…

In the world of MAGA politics, all considerations come secondary to the culture war

And even basic decency towards LGBTQ Americans is suspect www.thebulwark.com/p/desantis-d...

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SC education superintendent releases statewide school scores South Carolina students are making progress to meet expectations in English language arts and math skills, new comprehensive test scores show.

The numbers are out

#SouthCarolina #scpol #sced

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Justice Department Has Demanded Voter Files from at Least 21 States The administration’s attempts to collect sensitive voter information on a massive scale pose risks to voters and election officials.

South Carolina is one of the states DOJ is asking for voter data.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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6 months ago
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Politics may have spurred August purge of 5 veteran FBI agents Details are emerging about the possible motivation behind the firing of five senior FBI agents.

"When we start purging agents for doing their jobs, instead of toeing a partisan line, we weaken our defense against everything from violent crime to foreign threats, and that makes us all less safe," Warner said. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...

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6 months ago

They specifically uploaded the 'NUMIDENT' file. This record includes your name, social security number, your birth date, your birth place, your parents' names and social security numbers, gender, and immigration status. The security threat is profound.

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6 months ago
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Trump’s Angry New “Dictator” Rant to Media Alarms Experts: “Wake Up!” As Trump’s ugly ramblings about his militarization of cities get worse, prominent legal observer Joyce Vance explains how and why this is all heading to a very dark place—and what we must do to stop i...

Trump’s Angry New “Dictator” Rant to Media Alarms Experts: “Wake Up!” newrepublic.com/article/1991...

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8 months ago
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ICE employee quits: "Had to make a moral decision" Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney, quit the legal department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month, The Atlantic reported.

ICE attorney Quits: 'Had To Make a Moral Decision'

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10 months ago

This is why I hate the emergence of a legal literature that undermines the plain text. The Citizenship Clause was created precisely to moot the debate. These newly fabricated theories and deeply problematic histories of citizenship were a central part of what the 14th Amendment was intended to stop.

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When a professor kicks open the door and boldly claims they've learned 1,000 years of legal history in 3 months and that they have discovered something that has eluded academics for generations, it is fair to ask if it is serious historical work, and the onus is on them to answer questions.

~fin!~

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10 months ago

Well, this is horrifying.

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BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, the Associated Press reports.

Enough is enough. Hegseth must resign NOW!

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Trump is lying about egg prices

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“Pro-life”

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10 months ago
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Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left There are a few ways to think about Elon Musk’s announcement this week that he’s stepping back from DOGE. The first is that he’s leaving a job he officially doesn’t have. Th…

I wrote about how Elon Musk is pretending he's leaving a job he supposedly doesn't have to return to the job he supposedly never left, and how basically everything about him is made up nonsense.

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/e...

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Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, AP reports

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1 year ago

NBC NEWS
Breaking news
now
Trump shifts on trade again and says the
U.S. may place reciprocal tariffs on dairy and lumber from Canada as early as
today

Trump has no clue what he’s saying at any moment and is literally and constantly just responding to anything that happens with what he’s feeling at the moment — and yet this is what we, and the world, have to deal with right now. This is really not sustainable.

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Oh snap!!!!

The Green Bay, Wisconsin school board voted that it will not remove DEI policies from their district and will disregard Donald Trump's bogus executive order.

The comments from board members are amazing:

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

apnews.com/article/trum...

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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A critical point.

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