I have bad news for him about conservatives

I thought they were canonically asleep from ~ the Civil War through WWII to address this lol

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Illinois Republicans are losing their minds at the prospect of… [checks notes] modest residential buildings in residential neighborhoods.

dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden

swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively

there's a moral here, of a sort

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THE MINIONS ON EPSTEIN ISLAND.

What counts as an illegitimate SCOTUS holding?

That's hard! Forces pundits to actually think abt the substance of things--and for the centrist pundit, forces them to actually commit to substantive values other than "in the middle of those guys."

Just counting all defiances the same is easier.

SCOTUS rulings can, in fact, be substantively unconstitutional. Or can reflect a clear violation of separation of powers, which is procedurally unconstitutional.

A POTUS who rejects such SCOTUS holdings is acting very differently from one who rejects legitimate SCOTUS holdings.

I'm more optimistic about future SCOTUS expansion/jurisdiction stripping/etc., but:

This is a good reminder that too many pundits view "rule of law" as a purely procedural commitment, so the substance of what executive defiance is over is largely irrelevant.

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Disney made the movie Frozen so when you googled "Walt Disney frozen", it would show results for the movie instead of the urban legend that Walt Disney cryogenically froze his head

I am NOT reading all of that

He is stretching the timeline on the Vietnam war beyond direct U.S. military involvement so it hilariously sounds like he’s saying: cmon the communist Vietnamese kept it together for decades to win, why can’t u

Trump, who said in the 2024 campaign that Kamala Harris would start World War 3, compares his war against Iran to World War II

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It’s just a matter of whether you believe that level of upping the ante on the lawlessness and rule breaking is justified or not

… IF that happens down the line, legal observers and pundits will invariably say that that Dem prez is defying the courts harder than Trump did and… they’d probably be right, simply because SCOTUS is largely (whether trump admits it or not) in Trump’s pocket.

…face, bigger defiance than what we’re seeing from Team Trump’s constant defiances of the courts, if only because trump is blessed with a Supreme Court that agrees with him on almost everything. So…

I don’t think this even counts as an Unpopular Opinion, but court packing is not happening in my lifetime (prediction) so there’s going to be intense pressure from Dem voters for the next Dem president to defy SCOTUS. If the Dem POTUS does it, it was very likely have to be an even more in your …

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