Retired from US Cts - 30 yrs as crim defense investigator, 6 as writ clerk (think habeas petitions but by the 100s). So 36 yrs on Team Due Process.
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Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general.
Here's why: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-senate-should-not-confirm-this
In 1869, Congress increased the number of seats on the Supreme Court from 7 to 9 to protect the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments.
In 2029, Congress will need to increase the number of seats from 9 to 13 to save them again.
But, hey, the fed court system had 9 circuits then & has 13 now; it's all good.
To be clear, I don’t think Trump will pull off another coup—I think we can remove him from office the way Orban and Bolsonaro were removed from office.
But, I also don’t think we should plan on him doing anything other than what he seems intent on doing.
Ms. Rachel just visited kids with parents detained by ICE in Delaney Hall:
"They just want their parents home again... Why are we traumatizing kids?"
Let's get Albanian.
No disrespect to the real Spurs.
If true, I have serious concerns about this being a war crime.
Under the laws of armed conflict:
Proportionality: the military advantage has to outweigh the anticipated civilian harm.
Hard to see what military advantage would outweigh robbing 20k people of drinking water.
🚨‼️ Breaking News in Epstein Case‼️ 🚨
Comer has agreed Todd Blanche must appear in @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social.
We’ve got Bill Gates in front of Committee today answering why rich and powerful men like himself continued to hang out with Epstein even after he was convicted of sexual crimes.
That is the framework we must work with if post-Trump Reconstruction is to build a lasting constitutional settlement and not just be another pause before we're right back to square one with the next traitor and tyrant. And that can not happen with his judicial enablers still in unchecked power.
Last time Congress messed with the number of SCOTUS seats wasn’t over mundane policy disputes in normal cases. It was to defend Reconstruction, the settlement of a literal civil war, from any Johnson appointments.
It’s not flippant hyperbole when we describe the post-Trump agenda as Reconstruction.
