Paul Gowder

A couple more thoughts on this. There is exactly one crime defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason. The first definition is levying war against the United States. Trump is explicitly threatening that. U.S. soldiers are not only permitted, they are *obliged* to refuse an order to commit treason.

Officially prepared for the orange moron's national guard occupation (thanks @raygunsite.com )

The president does not have the power to make laws. That’s literally the first (operative) sentence in the constitution. The president does not have the power to make laws. The president does not have the power to make laws. The president does not have the power to make laws.

cry havoc

reading Richard Epstein update: kill me now someone please (this one short enough that I actually managed to get alt text in for once)

I am trying ONCE AGAIN to get through all of Epstein's birthright citizenship book to try to reconstruct and answer the whole "argument" and it is so agonizing because every sentence requires 20 to explain why it's so horribly confused. A representative sample (sorry for too long for alt text):

Why does Walgreens even pretend to have vaccine appointments when you're inevitably waiting at least half an hour past the designated time. Worse than the DMV

Has anyone bothered to actually sit down and rip up the stupid bonus argument about the word “resides” that the solicitor general trotted out in Barbara? It‘s not hard at all, can be done in a few screenshots of text (to be shoved into a symposium piece soon for your citing pleasure).

I refuse to believe that Alito ever had friends