Josh Chafetz

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Essays like this leave me aghast. She seems to want credit for supporting the evisceration of state capacity *except* when that evisceration directly and negatively affects her. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

1/2 Trump should absolutely not be able to fire Lisa Cook. But this is because he should not be able to fire anyone with statutory tenure protections.

Trump really going out of his way to ensure that the Iran war and ICE shootings stay in the news which ... is some kind of strategy, I guess.

Based on the fact that I just received a free copy of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution that I most emphatically did not order, as well as the fact that it's been out for nearly a year ... I'm guessing it's not selling as well as Heritage hoped?

Spouse: Well, the recipe doesn’t call for cheese. Me: The recipe also probably doesn’t say you’re supposed to breathe oxygen while you make it …

1/ Actually, the zombie senator has a really good textual point. Art. II and the 25th Amendment explicitly contemplate that the "death" of the president devolves the powers and duties of the presidency to the vice president. But ...

just the most pathetic, amateur-hour nonsense

I don't understand the use of "but" in that second sentence