Shawn P. Leary

lawyer. reader. radio fan. #blacklivesmatter

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

Cool how in his first campaign commercial, Tim Walz talks about growing up in Nebraska.

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

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[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

“God bless America, the hope of the future, the hope of our future.” 4/4

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

My suggested Kamala response to debate question: Why would you be a better President? "I've never been convicted of a felony. I've never been convicted of sexual assault. I've never taken bankruptcy and screwed all the small businesses I hired. 1/4

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

“I think hope and unity are the way of the future for this country, and that divisiveness and disfunction are the way to get nothing done. We need to move forward, not back. I alone will do that." 3/4

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Still true.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely.

Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt.

The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“The Constitution imposes the disability, and only a supermajority of Congress can remove it. But under the Supreme Court’s reasoning, the meaning is inverted: The Constitution merely allows Congress to impose the disability, and if Congress chooses not to enact legislation enforcing the section, then the disability does not exist. The Supreme Court has effectively replaced a very high bar for allowing insurrectionists into federal office — a supermajority vote by Congress — with the lowest bar imaginable: congressional inaction.”
https://t.co/521F2cQ9Hn

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

“'If someone has five embryos left and they decide not to have any more kids and want those embryos destroyed — and someone in that physician’s office hears that, could [the doctor] be criminalized for being an accomplice in a crime?' Lincoln asked."
https://t.co/DE4Vv8oetO

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

“‘Their complete lack of contrition and remorse border on the pathological,’ Justice Engoron wrote of Trump and his co-defendants in the case, including his two adult sons, Eric and Don Jr..” https://t.co/mB70dyTkRT

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

In response to the interviewer’s comment about Tucker Carlson’s failure to ask Putin about Navalny and assassinations, Tucker Carlson actually says, “Leadership requires killing people. Every leader kills people. Sorry. That’s why I wouldn’t want to be a leader.”

[Media Matters @mmfa]

Q: In your interview with Putin, you didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia, you did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations

Tucker Carlson: Leadership requires killing people

https://t.co/sVhsX52ynP

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

Also because Putin & Russia felt encouraged to do “whatever the hell they want.”

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

They killed him, because even in jail he threatened a regime that thrives on lies and secrets https://t.co/gk6c3aBqJJ

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

This is the core of the reasoning, on pages 40-41:

“At bottom, former President Trump’s stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches. Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the Judiciary could not review. We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter. Careful evaluation of these concerns leads us to conclude that there is no functional justification for immunizing former Presidents from federal prosecution in general or for immunizing former President Trump from the specific charges in the Indictment. In so holding, we act, “not in derogation of the separation of powers, but to maintain their proper balance.” See Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. at 754.

[Craig Rozniecki @CraigRozniecki]

Budget Deficit (numbers in parentheses mean surplus)
Under Jimmy Carter
1977: $54B
1981: $79B
Change: +46.2963%

Under Ronald Reagan
1981: $79B
1989: $153B
Change: +93.6709%

Under George H.W. Bush
1989: $153B
1993: $255B
Change: +66.6667%

Under Bill Clinton
1993: $255B
2001: ($128B)
Change: -150.196%

Under George W. Bush
2001: ($128B)
2009: $1.413T
Change: +1,203.91%

Under Barack Obama
2009: $1.413T
2017: $665B
Change: -52.937%

Under Donald Trump
2017: $665B
2021: $3.132T
Change: +370.977%

Under Joe Biden (thus far)
2021: $3.132T
2023: $1.70T
Change: -45.7216%

Average Change
4 Democratic Presidents: -50.639575%
4 Republican Presidents: +433.80615%
https://t.co/vF5as4jz8v
#RepublicansAreTheProblem #VoteBlue

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump https://t.co/Am3ZAxgrZS

[Shawn P. Leary @ShawnPLeary]

Fascinating analysis of a curious question. https://t.co/JM4rUxndaP

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

But you've got to keep having babies we won't help you care for, Texas women.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

If Trump wins, 40 million people could lose their health care, and insurance companies would get to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

If Biden wins, that…won’t happen.