Here’s the thing: SNAP’s authorization has lapsed. So even if the $3b (or however many billion the Judge from Motley Rice thinks) exists, the program requiring its expenditure does not. 1/9

https://twitter.com/ewess92/status/1984732872004002011

They don’t cover this in School House Rock but how a bill becomes a law happens twice for a government program: first when the program is authorized and second when it’s funded via appropriations. McConnell is assuming this is all about approps but it’s actually both. 2/9

At the outset of the current Trump administration, I had an op-ed in the WSJ on how law firms who terrorized the Trump 1 were signaling their Trump savvy to clients. I explained why that was a joke. Well, in today’s WaPo it seems some firms got the message. 1/12 Much of my piece involved how Biglaw gave Trump 1 alumni the cold shoulder, but I also discussed how Biglaw’s pro-bono industrial complex had fielded an army against Trump 1 and might do the same this time. 2/12

The Planned Parenthood TRO is probably the most insane judicial action this administration. A TRO directing an appropriation in the face of enacted statute is like Michelangelo-level resistance. Some have argued SCOTUS should reassign the case and there’s a lot to that. 1/x There’s a fascinating article on reassignment from the Stanford Law Review. It starts with a famous sentencing case where CA2 reassigned a case because the trial judge was both resisting and evading review. (Sound familiar?) 2/x

Jeff Flake gave my my start in politics and for that I’m grateful, but his commentary keeps missing the mark. Bc he’s not really in the game anymore he misinterprets what happened to Tillis, gives flawed advice, and downplays the threat of Democrats. 🧵1/21 Let’s start with TT. As I’ve said before in this context, it’s just not right to say that he refused to cling to Trump to win a primary. His problem was that Trump and Leadership wouldn’t let him move center *on policy* for the general election. 2/21