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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

22 Nov

Earlier this month, Darrell Brooks, the suspect in the Waukesha crowd killings, was arrested for intentionally running over a women in a gas station parking lot after a fight. He posted bail and was released from Milwaukee County Jail on Nov 16th.

2/ The county DA now says the $1,000 bail was "inappropriately low." In the previous two years Brooks had been charged a total of three times with recklessly endangering the safety of others, including the gas station attack. jsonline.com/story/news/cri…

3/ And for clarity: Yes, you're reading that right. Brooks got out on bail a week ago for intentionally running over someone else.

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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

19 Nov

A few thoughts on this verdict. It’s probably obvious I think it was a bad verdict. But I think we have to look more broadly at the result. People disagree. Juries make bad decisions. There’s nothing new about that. But what we have in the country right now are three factors.

2/ One is highly permissive self defense laws. In some cases the statutes are ok but they’re interpreted too heavily or entirely in the defendants subjective perception of danger. In other stand your ground type cases they’re just bad laws. But the upshot is the similar.

3/You also have a situation where any yahoo is now allowed to bring a high capacity fire arm into an already tense or potentially violent situation. Usually they come with a chip on their shoulder or a political agenda. Then if they get scared they can start shooting.

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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

11 Nov

@clcboats

This is the 30th anniversary catalog of @clcboats. I have no relationship with the company but I’d like to take a moment to sing its praises. Back in 2014 a conversation with my son got me thinking and wondering how hard it would be to build a boat.

2/ Or more specifically I started wondering how hard it would be for a 45 year old man with no experience boat building or woodworking or really building anything. I was about to find out. I starting researching how to do it. And I eventually decided to buy plans - essentially ..

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3/ blueprints - from an outfit down in Maryland called @clcboats. They also sell kits where you get all the parts precut. But I decided just to go with plans. It was an amazingly rewarding experience. One thing it did was get me started with woodworking, which has since …

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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

8 Nov

Curious to see the book on which this essay is based. It is right inasmuch as Justice Marshall and others have argued that the Civil War amendments amounted to a refounding of the constitutional order. Something far more than mere amendments. nytimes.com/2021/11/02/opi…

2/ But the arguments about Lincoln, moral, historical and analytical are extremely dubious. Just no other way to put it. There are numerous instances of this. But I'm struck by the first - in which Feldman argues that Lincoln violated the constitution by going to war to ...

3/ preserve the union. The evidence of this is that Lincoln's predecessor, James Buchanan, and his AG, concluded that the US had no authority to stop the seceding states from leaving. Buchanan was a notorious Doughface, a then current word for a Southern ...

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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

6 Nov

okay gonna go do some woodworking. please keep sending tweets from reps explaining why they support roads, bridges and broadband but voted against it.