Buckley v. Valeo: The Supreme Court Decision at the Root of Our Dysfunctional Democracy On January 30, 1976, the Supreme Court decided Buckley v. Valeo, a case concerning the post-Watergate amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), the law that regulates money in federal el...

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one of my conservative-coded opinions is at Roe may be one of those overbroad steps from the Court. We’d have gotten a national law allowing many abortions by now if not for Roe.

Sometimes rewriting the Constitution is required. But the way Alito has used Janus to harm unions and Roberts has blown up the VRA and Obamacare and Chevron with novel doctrines are bridges too far.
The Court should decide limited legal questions.

But I disagree with this.

The Court is doing too much. It has for a century or so been a super legislature that has too much power. It should be made into a more limited body that does not choose its own cases and then make sweeping legal findings that effectively rewrite the Constitution.

The Court is corrupt, and a core part of fixing the Anerican republic is reforming the Court

Right. Heller v DC, where Scalia and Roberts made up a wholly new second amendment, was not just wrongly decided.

The Court did not decide it honestly.

Scalia and Thomas were both taking bribes from pro-gun billionaires. That decision was corrupt and we should not accept it.

Very funny that we had the weed style of company in the aughts talking about “don’t be evil” and “we are ohana” and now we have the cocaine style of company talking about “Nazis get a bad rap”

I blocked a few ppl who were personally insulting, otherwise left things up.

Deleted a thread, there were some good rebuttals. Sorry.

Thank you. Deleted.

This is why primaries matter.

Please give your social media person a bonus. This is excellent work.

Please consider supporting Noah’s work. No one does what he does.

exactly

Oh yes we all should be

It’s true that Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand control the election money and many D Senators are unhappy about that

I still remain astonished that despite it written into black letter law that the USIP was not an executive agency the judiciary just sort of let it be absorbed and gutted by the executive.

the dynamics of this race are so weird.

i do think that the republican senate PACs are more cutthroat and have better command of media than the DSCC and aligned PACs. But this isn’t just Mills, babe in the woods of Maine, running against Platner by herself

Can’t rule it out, but we shouldn’t assume these are amateurs

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the Golden/popularist/WelcomePAC/status quo way is a recipe to get to fascism, gradually

Jared Golden is THE example the moderation/status quo donors and pundits have held up.

Golden bucking the party was supposed to be his key to success and everyone was supposed to follow his example. But not only did he lose his district badly this way, he’s stopping needed Trump accountability.

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She is clearly coordinating with Schumer’s operation. This is the whole DSCC running the oppo. These are not amateurs

Yes. And it’s notable that what Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and the Roberts Court did in Heller was to allow more guns into homes. Very explicitly.

John Roberts and the Republican SCOTUS have put many families at risk.

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

A Harvard study, which Vought hand waves away as "false and ignorant information," found that hundreds of thousands of people have died because Trump and Vought shut down USAID.

People are insisting that Cowen and Ross Douthat, who's peddling the same nonsense, are not stupid.

Well, the only other option is that they're deliberately pushing this mendacious, ignorant nonsense. Either way, this "Orbán is no authoritarian / democracy was never in danger" shit is disqualifying

But the publicity will help get to truth and reconciliation

I don’t want a movie I want jail sentences