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Jul 18, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
1/ A great piece on the gutting of DHS, so that it's now "a department staffed with Stephen Millers." Two things to note especially: (i) Trump thinks it's ok for the USG to break the law ,,,

@juliettekayyem
nytimes.com/2019/07/16/mag…
2/ ... and even promised Nielsen he'd pardon her in order to encourage her to do so.

(ii) None of the more sane officials who've been forced out--from Kelly and Nielsen on down--are willing to now publicly call out the President and Miller for what they are.
3/ They remain complicit, even after they were ridiculed, overrun and effectively forced to resign (or in some cases removed). When they served, they could at least say (or tell themselves) that their involvement prevented things from being worse. What's their excuse now?

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I can't overstate what an achievement this is--and, much more importantly, a great read, overflowing with revelations, deep insights (and warnings) about Chuck, about rock & roll, about St. Louis, and about America, then and now. (1)
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@JaneMayerNYer @samuelmoyn can correct me if I'm mistaken, but his critique appears to be predicated on three assumptions that (IMHO) aren't warranted:
1. That the US conflicts with AQ, et al., have violated the Charter/the jus ad bellum;

@DavidColeACLU
@JaneMayerNYer @samuelmoyn @DavidColeACLU (2) that there is a large anitwar consensus lurking out there that would have insisted upon this illegality and worked to end those conflicts, if only ...
(3) Obama, HRW, etc., had not worked so hard to humanize the conflicts by protecting prisoners and civilians, ...
@JaneMayerNYer @samuelmoyn @DavidColeACLU ... which had the effect (not necessarily the intent) of bamboozling the antiwar consensus into neglecting the fact that the war itself was illegal, thereby suppressing the 1972-like resistance that would otherwise have occurred.

Each of these three premises strikes me ...
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Jan 9, 2021
Ok, yes, I'm genuinely grateful that all of these people are coming out now in favor of removing the dangerous blight on our political system and our nation. But would they have been insisting on his removal if he had said *the very same things* on Wednesday but the crowd ... [1]
... hadn't breached the Capitol? Where were they when Trump said these same vile things--& much worse (e.g., all of Volume II of the Mueller Report; the Zelensky call; "good people on both sides"; the call to Raffensperger; 10,001 grotesque tweets)--for the past 5 years? [2]
And the constant, corrosive outright falsehoods about the electoral process and so-called "fraud" that have led almost half the nation to lose all trust in that process? When these same Trump-inspired crowds threatened to kidnap & kill Michigan officials ... ? [3]
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Oct 20, 2020
Perhaps the most important thing to realize about last night's 4-4 split in the PA ballot case is that the Democratic Party of PA begged the SCOTUS to not simply rule on the stay motion but instead to grant cert. "and summarily resolve this case ..." [1]

supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/2…
... in order to provide certainty concerning legal questions that have assumed critical importance in light of the extraordinary circumstances attending the upcoming election."

The four dissenters could have done so, but chose not to. [2]

@rickhasen
And therefore the ruling wasn't a final assessment of even the legality of PA ballots that arrive between 11/03 and 11/06.
It saves resolution of that question for later--for after the ballots have been received.

That sent a clear message to the Trump campaign, to wit: [3]
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I think Lyle is exactly right here. This wasn't a decision on the merits, and we should assume that when the Court grants cert. and reaches the merits just before or after 11/03, a very real possibility is that all late-arriving ballots *will not be counted.* [1]

@rickhasen
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