Originally published at: How One Appeals Court Has Miserably Failed To Defend The Rule Of Law
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The Dark Ironies of the Emil Rove Nomination The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has slow-rolled a contempt of court inquiry into the Trump administration for so long that the alleged culprit for the contemptuous…
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Fr!!$t?
Evil Bovine has Mad Cow Disease.
What a fucking pickle-puss that guy is, it’s as if The National Embarrassment hired him because he’s almost as butt-ugly and sour-looking as Roy Cohn.
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The majority are willfully blind to the implications of its ruling
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Trump gives Ghislaine Maxwell a ‘get out of jail free’ card.
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O/T:
Stacey Abrams is brilliant on MSNBC this morning, saying “we keep throwing around 30-dollar words like autocracy, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism” and goes on to stress that we need to talk to regular people in effective ways about their own lives and needs.
Don’t miss it, she knows what we need and how to go about it.
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“The new policy dramatically widens the pool of undocumented immigrants subject to detention no matter how long they have lived in this country.”
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Non-stick Pam has got nothing if not head space.
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“Bondi [has a] great [deal of] headspace.”–an unnamed DOJ official speaking about the attorney general’s feelings on the Jeffrey Epstein memo controversy
You can drop things in there and not hear them hit bottom for days.
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And I am thinking of “Head” in the Navy sense of the word.
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I am not a lawyer or a Constitutional scholar, but do have, I hope, some common sense and how the rule of law should work. That said, how best does a concerned citizen effectively make opinions known to the SCOTUS, or to other courts, in general? The Founding Fathers were quite clear on their intentions and curbing power for what we now commonly call a “unitary executive.”
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It saves her from being distracted by points of law and established process and procedure.
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all experiments must come to an end at some point.
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She stops at the gas station each morning to top off the air that leaked out during the night. The pump dings four or five times.
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.he’s talked to in Russian.
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