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25 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
No. It's unquestionably moot. The cases did not seek retrospective relief, such as damages, but rather only prospective relief—declarations and and injunctions addressing future conduct. But he can't violate the emoluments clause any more, since he's no longer president.
So not only was the Court right on vacating and dismissing as moot, it actually had no other choice, since the federal courts under Article III only have jurisdiction to decide live cases and controversies.
* anymore, not any more
If these cases had sought damages, even if there were no right to damages (and there likely isn't), they would not be moot.

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15 Jan
And Nixon left office with at least some degree of contrition, and some degree of dignity. He was also a competent president, for all his flaws.
Nixon got re-elected, too, and won the popular vote twice. The second time, he won by 23.2%, and won the electoral college 520-17—an actual landslide. In contrast, Trump lost re-election, and lost the popular vote twice, both times by substantial margins.
So really, comparing Trump to Nixon is horribly unfair to Nixon.
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“I was reminded of Hannah Arendt describing the trial of Adolf Eichmann. ‘The trouble,’ she wrote, ‘was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.’”
“She described this as the “banality of evil”—the willingness of otherwise ordinary people to do extraordinarily evil things.
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8 Jan
He riled his supporters up for weeks with mendacious attacks on the election and our democracy. He promoted the gathering in DC for weeks, and said they would be “wild.” He instigated the attack by telling people to march on the Capitol. .
He reveled in the attack for hours. He praised the rioters and said he loved them. He continued to lie about the election.
And only after his White House counsel and others emphasized to him his potential criminal liability, and only after calls for his removal reached a fever pitch, did he pretend to condemn the violence that he had fomented and praised.
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7 Jan
This isn't surprising. He's a narcissistic psychopath. He praised the rioters because he views them as vindicating him, thus providing him with narcissistic supply. He also views them as an instrument of revenge, and as a psychopath (and a sadist), revels in that.
This fits perfectly the psychological profile that countless mental-health professionals identified even before Trump was elected.
In any event, what matters now is that he's desperate, cornered, and more dangerous than ever. What's at stake for him goes beyond assuagement of his narcissistic ego; he understands that once he is forced to leave office, he can be subjected to criminal prosecution.
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7 Jan
This is key. The text is poorly drafted on this point, but when you think about it, it's the only sensible construction.
The importance is that Trump can't just take his powers back immediately and fire all the cabinet officers who sought to sideline him.
Anyway, once Trump objects, the VP and cabinet within the four days can notify Congress that they still think Trump unfit, and that triggers a period during which the VP remains acting president while the Congress decides whether (by a 2/3 vote of both houses) ...
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