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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 6h

I know this wasn't exactly your point, but I feel like what you wrote really encapsulates a lot of what we've observed over the last decade. Lawmakers who don't take their responsibilities in interpreting the constitution and their role in it seriously.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 6h

Question on the end note of your article - do you think anyone in Congress is even taking the time to assign reviewing the Schmitt report to their staffers?

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 6h

This should be plastered all over any impoundment litigation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We're getting rid of problems that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like. We're terminating those programs. And they're gonna be terminated on a permanent basis."

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 8h

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 literally says that all persons “can “make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 11h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah I support Pete generally but that's a big swing and a miss here.

Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 11h

Completely agreed. The amendments specifically give authority to Congress on this.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 11h

It's wild that following Brown v Board of Education, Courts repeatedly used race-based remedies for de jure and de facto segregation. But the position of SCOTUS now is that remedying racial discrimination using these same tools is unavailable to Congress and the President.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 11h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 11h

It has struck me for a long time as another example of judicial aggrandizement. Under these rules, only Courts can remedy racial injustice.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 11h

It's wild that following Brown v Board of Education, Courts repeatedly used race-based remedies for de jure and de facto segregation. But the position of SCOTUS now is that remedying racial discrimination using these same tools is unavailable to Congress and the President.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 13h

Ok well I posted this before the latest two entries. A real banger today from @beaubaumann.bsky.social. "[A] document this unserious is an indictment against Congress’s capacity for internal legal deliberation."

Highly recommended read.

www.yalejreg.com/nc/who-speak...

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 1d

To our patriotic civil servants: this evil cannot last.

We need you. And we will keep fighting for you.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 1d

Breaks my heart. I don't know how these people directing this and executing this sleep at night.

In Virginia, when his daughter learned to count to 10 before she turned 2, he prayed she would grow up to work for NASA as a scientist.

He wonders what his three-month detainment has done to his kids, both U.S. citizens. They sometimes refuse to eat now, and his daughter no longer sleeps through the night. When they ask where Dada is, E doesn't know what to tell them.

The first time they visited him at the detention center, his son, a toddler, climbed atop the table and pounded his small fists into the glass that separated them.

"Open it!" he screamed. "Open it!"

Afterward, H asked his wife not to bring them back for a while.

Now, his mind returns every day to what an investigator told him just after the arrest.

"What will happen to my wife and kids?" H asked.

"Don't worry," he said the agent replied. If the U.S. government sent him back to Afghanistan, it would send them, too.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 1d

Easy. Enrico Fermi.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a little shocked that the Yale Journal on Regulation, whose Notice & Comment Blog I really enjoy, is running a 'symposium' on administrative law that so far is nothing but poorly cited opinion pieces.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure her extensive expertise in creating engaging TV shows will be a huge asset.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 1d

This letter to the editor from a senior person at Radiant Energy to Wyoming is unhinged. Like, what is the purpose of a 'letter' like this?

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Letter To The Editor: Why We Chose Tennessee Over Wyoming For Our Nuclear Generators

Dear editor: This week we had to make a very tough decision to site our first factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee instead of Wyoming. We must build where the…

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 2d

"infusing"?

What illegal repurposing of funds is the administration doing to help the Republicans continue the shutdown?

We need to know about military pay too.

States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 2d

JUST IN: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an apparent end point.

via Shauneen Miranda
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/nutr...

Nutrition program for women, infants and children to stay afloat through end of month

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an appar...

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 2d

But great piece. Thank you for doing what you're doing.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 2d

If they're not ready to give a fulsome opinion on what the law is, they can simply leave lower court orders in place like they do for almost every legal dispute that takes place in this country.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 2d

The other thing is that Barrett and others are not acknowledging that they don't have to be giving this relief at all. Emergency relief like this is supposed to be an extraordinary remedy yet they're doling it out in high profile cases with no consideration of factual findings in lower courts.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I'm constantly seeing things like the NVIDIA's StyleGAN from thispersondoesnotexist.com. Where I go "wow, that's weird and incredible they can do that. I bet I can use this in a presentation or something."

And then I can never think of a situation where I would actually use it.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 2d

That's what I keep coming back to with AI video. I don't disagree the technology is impressive, but I just don't see what the end result is that people would want to spend their time watching.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Well-Regulated Onion @onionbroth.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry gotta finish up Hugo's House of Horrors first.