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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
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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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.)
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.
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He's relatable, the Everyman, just like you and me
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."
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Replying to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
NEW: Statement from Christa Pike's lawyers: ”Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. ... Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.” www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
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Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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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.
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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85 years ago, Charlie Chaplin delivered his famous speech at the end of his first film with dialogue - The Great Dictator. He spoke these timeless words as Nazis rose to power, and the drums of war beat in Europe, echoing across the world. As relevant, and necessary to hear, today as ever #Resist
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It's like me trying to speak French. Except I am not TRYING to say stupid shit
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"