Rambod Behboodi
@genevatradelaw.bsky.social
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Lawyer and law prof, former Canadian diplomat, aspiring scénariste of Persian legendary history.
I have no views about things I know nothing about.
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"Federal programs that Trump and Elon Musk like to bash are essential for many of us in rural America."
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I’m a farmer in Ohio. Trump’s tariffs are devastating.
American farmers deserve better.
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"The Purge" is not a phrase staffers want to hear, but working in this White House, it's entirely on-brand:
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Trump Is Plotting Shock-and-Awe ‘Purge’ of White House Staff
Mike Waltz’s ouster as national security adviser could be a sign of trouble ahead for White House staffers.
www.thedailybeast.com
Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."
Words fail.
Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."
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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
Last year I wrote in the
@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social about the corrupting bargain the conservative legal movement made in Trump 1.0. We can debate how that worked out. But in 2.0, the scales rapidly tip away from ordered liberty and we must wake up to the threat.
thedispatch.com/article/the-...
@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social about the corrupting bargain the conservative legal movement made in Trump 1.0. We can debate how that worked out. But in 2.0, the scales rapidly tip away from ordered liberty and we must wake up to the threat.
thedispatch.com/article/the-...
The Conservative Legal Movement Got Everything It Wanted. It Could Lose It All.
Trump-era advances in jurisprudence came at a deep civic cost.
thedispatch.com
My take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.
If I were the one who had made up the title of this episode, I would have added “—Or Not” to it. And with some emphasis on the “not.”
