David Robison

Planner (AICP), veteran, Old Grad. War Eagle!

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

Had some time this week to polish my memo up. I'm not a lawyer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express, but the more I read and think about this, the more convinced I am that this opinion is a grotesque and shameful display of professional misconduct. https://t.co/dFseFZfDw5

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The Massey argument about competition is the one worth extracting: “Republicans are stronger when the Democrat Party is vibrant and viable. Competition makes you better, y’all.”

That is a constitutional argument dressed in Southern vernacular and it is correct. One-party dominance doesn’t produce better governance. It produces atrophy, corruption, and the institutional stagnation that eventually collapses the whole structure. Massey is saying this out loud in the chamber where the gerrymander is being voted on.

He will probably lose. McMaster called the special session. Indiana just told five Republican senators what happens to the holdouts.

“It’s not going to be because I surrendered it.” That sentence stays in the record regardless of how the special session votes.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

This would culminate in the Alabama constitutional convention of 1901, whose purpose according to one prominent leader, was to "have white supremacy" but without the fraud and violence, and rather to "establish it by law-not by force or fraud."

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

Tommy Tuberville and the Alabama GOP just relied on a Jim Crow-era law to have a lawsuit challenging Tuberville's eligibility to be on the ballot dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

The purpose of this statute seems obviously to prevent courts from interfering with this election fraud.

[Damon Linker @DamonLinker]

I don't want this soldier punished while higher ups in the WH are making a fortune doing the same thing with all Trump announcements that impact the markets.

[Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal]

“The rule of law is not self-executing.”

Judge J. Michael Luttig on why defending the Constitution requires courage—especially now.

Read his remarks from @UWSchoolofLaw: https://t.co/gb3yzHLTbq

[David French @DavidAFrench]

What’s worse than blasphemy?

Telling transparent lies about blasphemy.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

@triciajanzen @ScottButtram What it's going to take is money to pay people to do the work.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

@aldotcom, @aldailynews, @1819news, @ALReflector

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

Well it looks like the Alabama legislature is on track to give away money to private companies HB542. The senate amendment expands the hose bill to explicitly cobbler cities and counties. Surprised @AlabamaCounties and @AL_League, among others, aren’t fighting this harder.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

Is diverting money away from roads in Alabama the right policy choice? That's what HB542 would do. https://t.co/ksyr0YI9RV

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

@jaynordlinger Had a debate with a friend who is now MAGA-tech-bro-ish. His take: this isn't new - President's have politicized the DOJ this since JFK and Nixon, if not before. Trump won, he gets to have his appointees implemnet his priorities - the priorities of "the people."

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

Here’s the amendment. https://t.co/3Q8zMOB3ko

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Crime pays. I worry that the American public is too numb -- or too addled by propaganda outlets -- to care.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This is shameful toadery and you will be remembered for it.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

@EPoe187 @DavidAFrench It’s learned and chosen.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Trump's installed leads at the SEC are actively blocking the enforcement division from investigating insider trading tied to the Trump family.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

@EricDaMAJ @CynicalPublius In my experience, it's usually an idea found in the mouths of enlisted and warrants, due to bad experiences or general ressentiment.

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

@EricDaMAJ @CynicalPublius Based in part on some random bullshit that was popular at the time: https://t.co/lJ5XQeNijm

[David Robison @JDavidRobison]

@EricDaMAJ @CynicalPublius But also the biases of Leonard Wood during the Plattsburgh Movement: https://t.co/64A4xfNGhp