Dan Canon

Dan Canon

@dancanon.bsky.social

Civil rights lawyer & law prof. Past: won a big case at SCOTUS, wrote a book called PLEADING OUT, was a hired-gun guitarist in a million bands. Present: Externships & civ pro, studies election violence, writes appeals, raises kids. He/him. Fascism is bad.

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here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

Rubio's word is bond, bruh

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Zelenskyy says that "Starlink is still limited, but secretary [Rubio] told me that he will work with his team on this to unblock this. God bless, it will be done."

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Independent courts channel the most heated political grievances into nonviolent resolutions. If an apex court abdicates that role by disenfranchising voters, institutionalizing clientelism, & shielding executive lawlessness, it removes the pressure valves that keep democratic competition peaceful.

truthout.orgSCOTUS Is Undermining the Rules That Have Kept US Elections Peaceful for DecadesThe Roberts Court has dismantled guardrails preventing a president from turning state agencies against political rivals.

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"Roberts Court decisions on voting rights and executive power are not technical footnotes; they are structural shifts." "If unprecedented violence does not attend the next few U.S. elections, it will be in spite of this Supreme Court, not because of it." #USA #Courts #Voting

truthout.orgSCOTUS Is Undermining the Rules That Have Kept US Elections Peaceful for DecadesThe Roberts Court has dismantled guardrails preventing a president from turning state agencies against political rivals.

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JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

mississippifreepress.orgKohen Wiley Shooting ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi AG SaysThe police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s…

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Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

truthout.orgChuck Schumer Hasn’t Said a Word About Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan OmarEthics lawyers say the raid violated the Hatch Act. Schumer has been silent.

Dan Canon reposted

So here's what you do with early vote numbers 1. Put them all in a spreadsheet 2. Print the spreadsheet out 3. Use the printouts to line a cage 4. Slaughter a chicken in that cage 5. Read the entrails 6. Now you've done as good a job at predicting election results as by using early vote numbers

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: DOJ sues California, as signaled earlier this week, over allegations of "likely noncitizens" getting sent vote-by-mail ballots. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

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As I said to someone else recently, I eagerly look forward to a time when I never need to think about Rahm or Gavin again. (I get that, as governor of California, that’s not an option right now as to Newsom.)

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

He's relatable, the Everyman, just like you and me

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room, anybody, anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting right over there. She's a housewife. But she's very good…She perhaps knows more than I do, but I actually don't think so."

This is wild. I'm an only child and I don't understand sibling dynamics, but I have 3 kids and I would be mortified if they all thought one was my favorite.

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Attention: I no longer wish to be restrained by place, time, or resources. If you are one of the people or entities trying to do this to me, you're on notice.

I give advice for a living and I am here to advise as follows: if you're thinking of paying extra for a hotel because you have a virtual hearing and you think the higher price means better wifi, your wifi will suck no matter what and you should just do the cheaper room. Like and subscribe for more

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Replying to @annekosseffjones.bsky.social

Hard to beat "it's a [racist] scam" as a baseline assumption, from policing text to police tech.

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Putting my bag down in a spilled pint of Guinness at the Dublin airport is not doing anything to quell my Truman Show-related suspicions, I can tell you that much

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There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

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"hey did you guys see that Darth Vader came out in favor of ubiquitous surveillance cameras? No I don't think it was the real Darth Vader; this is sort of like the trash-can-head guy who's probably going to be the next Prime Minister of the UK"

It's like me trying to speak French. Except I am not TRYING to say stupid shit

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social

He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"