Lloyd Caesar

Places and facts. Mad about maps and the lines that connect and divide.

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

I've been playing a lot of fantasy constitution recently. It's fun but frustrating to admit thst not much is likely to come of it. @ConstitutionCtr started by doing that but has now moved on to proposing five amendments that could get the bipartisan support needed to become law.

[National Constitution Center @ConstitutionCtr]

As part of @ConstitutionCtr's commitment to convening Americans of different perspectives to engage in civil dialogue, teams of conservative, libertarian, and progressive scholars convened and drafted five proposed constitutional amendments.

https://t.co/JjOig3DBh2

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@MG051503 @jamesanthony_us @EdWhelanEPPC The power to consent is a dead letter if it excludes the power to withhold consent from nominees whom the Senate deems unsuited to the task.
Now, of course, presidents deserve to staff their administrations. The Senate should not reject candidates for mere political differences.

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@darkpete @MattZeitlin It really is. Cornell is almost half public anyway.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

You could literally use this argument to justify the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

You don’t see anyone saying “the Rwandan Patriotic Front brought the genocide on their own people by invading from Uganda in 1990.”

You would rightly regard them as depraved if they did

[David Moore @ppolitics]

The 2024 elections *could* have been the 7th run with a national vote-by-mail option, early voting, fewer gerrymandered districts, a public campaign financing program for Congress, and no dark money.

But Dems did not bring up these bills in the key 2009:

https://t.co/y7E3kJcAUp

[ProRep Coalition @ProRepCoalition]

Some interesting ideas here.

And a great quote of Chamberlin and Courant that we wholeheartedly agree with: "each individual has the right to as satisfactory a representative as is possible, consistent with the satisfaction of the equal right of others."

https://t.co/J2PYId19zE

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@fanged_desire @jdcmedlock No, he's saying it's good public policy but the good people of Nebraska would not take that into consideration

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@CrimPracMan @AeonCoin @jdcmedlock Given his views otherwise, why would we expect him to understand the Federal org chart?

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@weakinstrument @jdcmedlock Wow, you don't hear much about damnatio memoriae as a punishment in the modern era.

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@NaqiyNY Wait, CDTA has more ridership than Niagara Frontier? In that case I was my light rail too lol

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Dems are like, “we take institutions seriously so we’ll nominate Merrick Garland who will be meticulous and slow so no one will ever suspect him of political bias” and GOP is like “LOL MATT GAETZ AS AG”

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@JoshRaby @Politics1com He'd be overseeing the Office of Legal Counsel, which is good. They interpret the law, and he knows all about statutory.

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@kissphoria Silly man thought the once and future prez would be impressed by a little securities fraud. That's nothing compared to what Gaetz is into.

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

USA, truly the land of opportunity where anyone can make it

[Adam Smith @asmith83]

If Matt Gaetz can be nominated for Attorney General of the United States, you can apply for that job you don't think you're qualified for.

[Théo Landsman @TheoLandsman]

The thing that I wish people understood here is that the difficulty of ranking is just asking voters to do explicitly what all single winner or candidate centric systems ask them to do implicitly (vote on the coalition they want to see rather than the faction they want to boost)

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@HeerJeet They are definitely excessively touchy, but you shouldn't need an explanation of why.

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@Diacritic @ChrisOldman4 @besttrousers As a NYS resident, I wish such a proposal had that effect lol

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@scottsjackson84 @whstancil No, what he's saying is that it's 1938, we've emerged from the Depression thanks to the New Deal, and people are complaining that FDR never did nothing for them.

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@TwinkRegimer @jake_jmc20985 @ArmandDoma A bunch of stuff, TOD at commuter rail stops, bans on NIMBY rules, minimum growth zoning requirements, a state planning/zoning appeals board
It failed because she started a fight with the legislature (also Dem, of course lol)

[Lloyd Caesar @0ctav1uz]

@TwinkRegimer @jake_jmc20985 @ArmandDoma Hochul is pretty useless, but her housing plan a couple of budgets ago would have made NY one of the best in the nation, probably better than California