Amazing lecture by Akhil Amar at @Yale reunion. Only a few balcony seats remain. Topic: “Constitutional Issues in the Age if Trump.”
Hey @jbf1755, Amar just name-checked you. Sorry I missed your lecture yesterday
Erudite and entertaining discussion of how Reconstruction amendments recast the Bill of Rights. Also “This is America. You have a right to have a dog. It doesn’t say that in the Constitution. The day they come for my dog is the day I buy a gun.”
He recommended we read the 1917 short story “A Jury of her Peers” by Susan Glaspell.
Explains that electoral college was about slavery, not about big v. small states.
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Everything we do every day is helping reelect Donald Trump. Everything. All of us. We are all to blame. The numbers don’t care about our feelings, our “better”education, our moral superiority, our nuanced analysis. He is in line to win.
“Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice” — @EricCortellessa @TIME
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@EricCortellessa @TIME “What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.”
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Jerusalem March 1978. Shortly after the Coast Road massacre by the PLO. The purpose of the attack killing 38 civilians, including 13 children was to derail the peace talks between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin.
Several months later, in October 1978 the Sadat and Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize. And in 1979 the two nations (Egypt and Israel) entered into a peace treaty.
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As a result, in 1979, the Arab League kicked out Egypt.
"Finally, I have heard concerns from some about how this important work relating to antisemitism will bear on Harvard’s vital commitment to free expression. Combating antisemitism and fostering free expression are mutually consistent goals."
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"We are at our strongest when we commit to open inquiry and freedom of expression as foundational values of our academic community."
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Counsel for MN voters, @ronfein: is a case of extraordinary importance." Trump engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the Constitution of the United States
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@ronfein 1. Section 3 of 14th Amendment is self-executing. Court has duty to interpret & enforce Constitution
2. MN law requires this Court to regulate ballot excess and exclude ineligible candidates
3. President is officer of US and took oath that is equiv. to "support"
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"Today, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. It holds that race can no longer be used in a limited way in college admissions to achieve such critical benefits.
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"In so holding, the Court cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter.
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"The Court subverts the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society.
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Look. No one really knows when the Department of Justice will charge Donald Trump with federal felonies related to document hoarding and destruction at Mar-a-Lago (and beyond).
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However, all of the legal experts expect that the next indictment is coming in the coming weeks if not days. “Next” — because, in case you’d forgotten, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald back in March on 30 state criminal counts.
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Regarding the feds, the biggest questions now are (1) whether the indictments will come out of the Miami grand jury or the D.C. grand jury or both and (2) who in addition to Donald will be defendants in these cases.
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