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Finally, some healthy snacks
Everything they say about not getting to the movies as much if you're a new parent is true. But I'm having a solid Dudes Rock year with the stuff on Criterion and Tubi.
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going to channel @nikobowie.bsky.social and Daphna Renan here and note that this piece conflates the court's horizontal review of congressional statutes (highly controversial and politically contested throughout American history) with vertical review of state law and enforcement of federal law.
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"Court-packing would create a slippery slope to the destruction of judicial review...To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering. There are also better remedies for various other shortcomings of the Court," writes @ilyasomin.bsky.social.
To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering.
The scale is so obviously different (Burisma would be a Trump family rounding error) and it feeds an actual Democratic message: Trump is focused on himself, not you. He's focused on this stuff, not costs.
There is no overlapping message for "Trump old." Rs don't mind rebutting that.
Gonna piss people off with this take but: I don't see the strategy for Dems who bring this up. Trump is not (whatever he says) running for re-election. You are running against Vance or Rubio in 2028. Voters think "old president" and say "oh like the zombie you pretended could serve until age 87?"
You can see the soul leave Scalise's body as he says this
