“Martin’s nomination was derailed after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Judiciary Committee considering the nomination, balked at [Martin’s] views on the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.” How’re Pirro’s views any better than Martin’s? https://t.co/3AWSebVyIA
Here’s why Sean Duffy cannot block MTA’s congestion pricing scheme. TL;DR: A deal’s a deal. USDOT cannot rescind on a whim the contract that USDOT made w/ NY. As for Duffy’s threats to cut off grants unless NY surrenders, that’s unconstitutional extortion. https://t.co/6Up9I0ytzY
@GrahamGreeneEsq Realpolitik might motivate a narrow remedy (eg, no nationwide injunction, just relief for the importer who sues). Unless SCOTUS is ready to declare that statutory standards raise non-justiciable political questions, however, it is hard to duck and cover here.
@nicholas_bagley@stevenmazie IMHO (emphasis on humble here — only experience will reveal how voters will react to different sorts of executive defiance), defying a direct order from a court will be much more salient to voters than executive “interpretation” of a precedent to permit executive action.
@bfurnas If only there were some way to get City government to compare costs and benefits of proposed decisions rather than assume that any cost incurred from change automatically requires reversion to a stupid status quo. https://t.co/MUhVKgZ4ka
“…’every DOJ attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States. Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences,’ Bondi said.” But DOJ’s defiant stone-walling loses cases: That’s incompetent, not “zealous.” https://t.co/n04LbMksbQ
Just curious: Do I have TDS? Because it strikes me as really weird that a DOJ attorney just told a judge that their client (DHS) refuses to give adequate answers to the attorney’s requests for information or follow the attorney’s advice? https://t.co/dEDohhTf5p
This weird line in Trump’s EO is a tell that MAGA folks really believe in and care about whiteness and blackness. The idea that “race is not a biological reality but a social construct” was the mainstream “color-blind” conservative view prior to MAGA.
In case you were wondering, yes, foreign intel can crack Signal’s encryption and monitor Signal texts. That’s how European police have busted drug gangs. Our govt’s discussions of war plans are visible to any hostile power w/ a half-decent intel operation. https://t.co/Tekfj1idvy
Trump’s top-level defense team accidentally included a journalist on a Signal text chain discussing plans to bomb the Houthis. They were counting on an encryption app to safeguard nat’l security, but they didn’t double-check the recipient list. https://t.co/L7xfby4T7C
DHS apparently based decisions to abduct Venezuelans and send them to El Salvador prison on guesses about the meaning of tattoos and sign language. As @IlyaSomin and @steve_vladeck note, procedural due process, was totally absent here: Kafka couldn’t concoct such buffoonish evil.
My essay on Xi’s move away from the Hu-Wen regime’s more liberal brand of authoritarianism. Hypothesis: China’s inability to systematize the CCP’s succession of leadership impedes the CCP’s ability to protect dissenting voices and free flow of information. https://t.co/CjLF1yBkp3