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Just law and politics and trying to be reasonable. Usually pestering (relatively) smart people making bad arguments.

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@mike_frags No Dem senator would deny this. The takeaways from this exercise reflects very poorly on the President. And they reflect very poorly on those who would debase themselves and the judiciary by refusing to tell the truth in order to cling to a nomination.

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@dilanesper Yglesia’e comment isn’t really about parties—it’s a comment on how his usual ideological illiberalism can be weaponized against his interests. The “in-group” here isn’t republicans, it’s whatever an illiberal plurality or majority might be.

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@EWess92 @PolitiFact @hinsonashley You know full well that “sex change” is understood to be surgery.

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@Vibutler_ Does the current test for overturning cases not suffice to you?

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@AaronCSmith1 @EWErickson Let me speak slower so you understand:

Woman like dance. But woman’s boyfriend no like dance. Or woman just want dance and not be hit on. So woman call friend(s) to go dance. Gay bar good and safe for this because no straight man to hit on woman. Woman feel safer. Woman happy.

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@AaronCSmith1 @EWErickson Sometimes straight women want to go dancing with their girlfriends or gay friends. Often times straight (and particularly conservative) guys don’t want to dance like women do.

And hanging out with people open to and accepting of a variety of experiences is quite enjoyable.

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@AaronCSmith1 @EWErickson It’s a relatively safe place for straight women to go out dancing with their friends. They should try it some time.

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@Faj1791 The Ossoff “O” is giving Obama.

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@DerekPederson3 If we are ever to bring to the Supreme Court back into balance short of court packing, Dems must control the Senate or the presidency for the next 6 to 8 years at least. It is imperative we appoint Alito’s and Thomas’s replacements and be in a position to replace Sotomayor.

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@EWess92 This is maddening. Judge K is far and away one of the most activist judges. Legal libs can admit when Dem appointed judges are out of line (e.g., Talwani). If legal cons can’t criticize Judge K, then they won’t criticize any GOP-appointed judges reaching conservative results.

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@DerekPederson3 It’s relevant, too, because it helps explain why it took Dems and liberals so long to see material cognitive decline. I thought Biden was showing his age, but I didn’t buy the cognitive decline argument for a long time because the examples were always overblown or misrepresented.

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@smmarotta That’s what opposing counsel’s briefs are for.

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@EWess92 @TheJusticeDept I’m not certain it’s in your interest to endorse such an overbroad definition of disqualifying bias for public lawyers based on their social media posts.

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@ASFleischman Oh man that’s nice.

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@greggnunziata Equally culpable? A recommendation, when Schumer was not even in leadership, and there is no indication the caucus agreed? You spend so much energy trying to justify the GOP’s actions. You need to learn to accept that the GOP made the most significant escalation to date.

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There are plenty of reasonable objections one could raise about the Court’s behavior in apportionment cases. But this isn’t one of them.

The US Supreme Court hasn’t nullified anything in this case.

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@AndrewCFollett @CentristMadness @DianaMezger “failed to publish a single law review”

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@Greg651 @beyondreasdoubt Do defendants not successfully move for the names to be unredacted?

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@Greg651 @beyondreasdoubt Is that true? In a federal criminal case with a protective order, a court won’t order the DOJ to unredact names? Not my area of practice, but sounds extreme.