Heidi Kitrosser

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

My new book explains how trump has used contrived emergencies in an effort to consolidate power w/out limits of a kind claimed by 17th century monarchs. His unilateral war in Iran is part of this effort & the failure of Congress to respond is constitutional failure: www.rienner.com/title/Above_...

Seems like a thing more people should be mad about

Honestly one thing that really cheered me up this week was every time I went to an exhibition about the end of Reconstruction it was a useful reminder that, yes, progress goes backwards, things do get worse. Just gotta keep trying to make things better in your own time.

4 years ago, I was dealing with a health insurance barrier that’s all too familiar to US pts: denied, fought w/ insurer, ensnared in both insurance and hospital bureaucracies that led to a delay that incited collections. My book Coverage Denied shows this system is no accident but destabilizes many.

That *is* rad!!

I just read this and found it surprisingly gripping. He says no doctrine would seem “more sinister and alarming than that a President [...] can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the Nation’s armed forces to some foreign venture.” (p. 642)

Thanks! I realized too late that I should have said "Justice Robert Jackson!"

Indeed. He also 100% understood that his job as SCOTUS Justice was different than his job as FDR's AG. (He had a great footnote to that effect in Youngstown, as you might know).

100% And to think that it was Friedrich's draft-dodging (in Germany) that inflicted the Trumps on the U.S. in the first place.

It’s obscene to have this draft dodger whose children *never* served and whose father never served and whose grandfather was kicked out of Germany for dodging service, wheezing platitudes about the unnecessary deaths he caused to other people’s children who did serve their country.

Maybe JD Vance read Youngstown as a law student. Though if he did, any significance to him would be dwarfed by his cravenness and hunger for power. Plus, who are we kidding … he spent his law school time sucking up to Peter Thiel and Amy Chua and writing his execrable book.

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

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"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Time and again, the story of the successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism is in the strength and courage of individuals, often at great personal risk, set against marked cowardice by institutions and elected officials in positions of actual power.

The unitary executive!

Corruption and Cruelty. It’s this administration’s brand.

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

These assholes are really gonna go with “war is peace, actually.”

Terrifyingly Orwellian. With the added kick of lapdog GOP House members weighing in.

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

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If we had a remotely responsible Congress that placed the interests of the country first, it would be no-brainer to impeach Donald Trump. It would have been a no-brainer a month ago too. And the month before that, and the month before that ...

But alas.

This war is dumb and illegal

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

This entire administration is one big embarrassing 12-year-old's idea of what being a man means.

'The lack of any effective legal constraints on the president isn't just a problem for the balance of power & national security of the United States. It is a problem for the world...a kind of int'l authoritarianism in which the president can unleash the most powerful military in the world on a whim'

It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness.

When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.