Justin Levitt

Any FBI agent asked to spend any time at all on the Texas quorum break had better be able to articulate the specific statute enumerating the specific federal crime they’re investigating. And any reporter giving any credibility to alleged FBI efforts had better be asking the same.

I honestly don’t think the national Rs pushing Texas understand how much fire they’re playing with. If they tick off IL enough, and CA voters enough to change CA law, that’s every single member of the Republican delegation gone. All twelve. If there are no rules, there are no rules.

Republican Senators looking at John Bolton: 👀 You know the more momentum this gets, the harder it’s going to be to stop it when it gets to you, right?

Hi. Thought experiment. Let’s say you’re a would-be autocrat with a desire to interfere with elections in LA, Orange, and Riverside; recurring difficulties actually executing on promises; but a strange gift for marketing and a giant megaphone.

A reminder that without a statute that makes the declaration of an emergency the predicate for some specific action, the phrase “national emergency” has as much legal significance as the phrase “unicorn flatulence.”

Last year, I first attempted to place this piece with The Atlantic, because I couldn’t think of a publication that more thoroughly delighted in the genre. Looks like they’re at it again.

That’s only a difference of about 92%. No biggie.

Pro-tip: if you really, really like the status quo and don’t want the left to vote in 2026, the best way to make that happen is to spend the next year endlessly repeating your inner screaming panic that the midterms are all going to be rigged.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the _hypothetical_ present exonerative tense.

Trump: wait til you see this lunatic AI video I just dropped Cuomo: hold my beer

Thankfully, this is the one and only example of bureaucratic paperwork at odds with how people are perceived in the world, and therefore the one and only example of how ridiculous it is to rely on a birth certificate when deciding how to treat someone years later.

Just wait until he announces the plans for the casino on the South Lawn.