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Josh Chafetz

3 years

If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you!

Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers

www.amazon.com

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

2 years

Nothing in the Constitution requires Congress to pay for Supreme Court clerks. Or secretaries. Or air conditioning.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

Amazing that national guard can be deployed to police communities of color in advance of a jury verdict but not to protect the Capitol in advance of an insurrection for which there was advance notice.

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3 years

Rep. Massie: "I'm selfish and stupid, but at least I respond to incentives!"

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

This is almost literally the opening scene of the Arrested Development pilot

Steven Bognar

@Bogs4NY

4 years

NEW: Law enforcement source tells @NBCNewYork Steve Bannon was arrested this morning on board a boat off the coast of Westbrook, CT #nbc4ny

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Josh Chafetz

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2 years

The “protest at the Supreme Court, not at the justices’ houses” line would be more persuasive if the Court hadn’t this week erected fencing to prevent protesters from coming anywhere near it.

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6 years

This is everything.

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Josh Chafetz

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5 years

So ... Dems take House + a bunch of governorships + pass a bunch of left-leaning ballot initiatives + lose fewer Senate seats than they had any right to based on the map. Why is the developing narrative that "welp, it wasn't a blue wave after all!"?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

Look, I don't wanna tell anyone how to do their job or anything but maybe a second bulldozer?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

People should visit southern American plantations the way they visit Auschwitz, not the way they visit Disney World. And the reason many American whites don't understand this is because of a conscious historiographical program of white supremacy, beginning in earnest around 1890

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Josh Chafetz

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6 years

Guys, this is BAD. When we allow public servants to forego a salary, that raises the expectation that they will. And that, in turn, privileges candidates who can afford to.

jordan

@JordanUhl

6 years

#NYGovDebate moderator just asked @CynthiaNixon if—since she's in @DemSocialists —whether she would forego the Governor's salary if elected. Her answer? Yes.

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

My god the man has played an ENTIRE YEAR OF GOLF in 3 and a half years of being president.

Jim Sciutto

@jimsciutto

4 years

President Donald Trump has arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia at 9:52am according to the pool report. It is the 365th day he's spent at one of his properties and the 273rd day he has been to one of his golf clubs.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

Is there anything sadder than powerful old white men whining (and lying) about how they're "not allowed" to say "Merry Christmas"?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

To my mind, this is the most revealing passage of the sentencing memo: ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ probably ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ light treason ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ in the banana stand. ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ huge mistake.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

yes that's literally the second article of impeachment

CSPAN

@cspan

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President Trump: "We have all the material. They don't have the material."

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

Well, there's this study finding that Texas is literally the hardest state in the nation in which to vote ...

Senator John Cornyn

@JohnCornyn

4 years

Who says voting in Texas is hard? #vote

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Josh Chafetz

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2 years

I am once again *begging* people to understand that there are hundreds of thousands, of people in the world (including me) who can nominate someone for a Nobel Peace Prize, and that being nominated is neither an honor nor newsworthy.

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

It is just unbefuckinglievable that anyone would even consider throwing out 100,000 votes cast in good faith by eligible voters.

Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

4 years

Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan Republican judges in the entire federal judiciary. This is alarming.

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

Nothing signals just how much the rest of the world hates Trump more than the tweets from foreign leaders congratulating Biden before Trump has conceded.

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Josh Chafetz

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3 months

Trump was just fined more than the *inflation-adjusted* cost of the Louisiana Purchase.

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Josh Chafetz

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5 years

Hey, has anyone heard from Susan Collins in the last 48 hours?

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Josh Chafetz

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5 years

Congrats to Boris Johnson, who was prime minister for 4.1 Scaramuccis before losing his parliamentary majority.

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

Just so we're all super-clear: This is racism. This is just straight-up racism, and there is no way to defend it short of saying, "well actually, racism is good."

Jason S. Campbell

@JasonSCampbell

4 years

Glenn Beck on Texas demographics: "Houston is almost Mexico now. And it looks like Mexico, it kind of acts a little bit like Mexico - maybe it's just me - but there are parts of it just feels like I'm in Mexico"

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

Bears are infrastructure

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

oh god please someone ask him what he thinks he should have been impeached for

Jim Acosta

@Acosta

4 years

Privately, he's stewing. Close adviser says Trump is somewhat taken aback that his actions toward Ukraine are ultimately what led to his likely impeachment: "Frankly, I think he's a little surprised it's the Ukraine thing that's done it." w/ @kaitlancollins and @Kevinliptakcnn

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

Senator Murkowski, you up?

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Josh Chafetz

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10 months

Supreme Court's Fourteenth Amendment: - DOES NOT allow for race-conscious measures to remedy widespread structural discrimination; - DOES allow bigots to refuse service to minority groups so long as the bigotry is sincere

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

Everyone understands that the Jen O’Malley Dillon “bunch of fuckers” brouhaha is pure sexism, right? When men (Rahm Emanuel, John Boehner, et al.) curse, it’s a sign of toughness and authenticity. When women do (Rashida Tlaib, O’Malley Dillon), it’s a breach of decorum.

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6 years

How can I put this in terms you'll understand? .... Imagine that 85% of people who make illegal campaign contributions don't get caught. You still might want to refrain from doing so, since something that happens 15% of the time is in fact an extremely possible outcome.

Dinesh D'Souza

@DineshDSouza

6 years

And just like that, an 80 percent chance for Democratic takeover of the House goes to 50-50. Nate Silver’s polling operation can’t survive a second embarrassment of the magnitude he suffered in 2016

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

Your Twitter bio literally says "Congresswoman-Elect".

Lauren Boebert

@laurenboebert

3 years

Just a daily reminder that there is currently no “President-Elect”, and our current President is Donald J. Trump.

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

Hey folks, when you call Lindsey Graham "Lady G," you're not insulting him. You're just advertising your own homophobia and/or misogyny. And I say that as someone who has almost nothing but contempt for Graham.

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Josh Chafetz

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6 years

The ... the Alabama Secretary of State is unaware of *any time in the history of the state* when qualified voters were denied the opportunity to vote. In the history of the state. The state of Alabama.

John Merrill

@JohnHMerrill

7 years

@GDouglasJones Counselor, there is no confusion. The confusion has been created by these trolls who are trying to change the conversation. I am not aware of any time in the history of the state where any individual has been denied the opportunity to vote in the general election if qualified.

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

so, this is a hell of an investigation

131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest

The judges failed to recuse themselves from 685 lawsuits from 2010 to 2018 involving companies in which they or their family held shares, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. “I am mortified,”...

www.wsj.com

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Josh Chafetz

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7 years

And what's truly amazing is that both claims are false.

Peter Baker

@peterbakernyt

7 years

Trump complains few bills are being passed due to filibuster, then boasts that he's passed more bills in 7 months than nearly any president.

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Josh Chafetz

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2 months

Gotta admire the discipline of whoever was sitting on this to drop it the day after the primary

Sam Stein

@samstein

2 months

Mark Robinson, newly minted NC Gov. candidate, in 2020: “I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote.” via @jbendery

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

Got the official notice of my tenure from Georgetown today! So I guess we’re doin’ this thing ...

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

I ... you know there has to be a power for there to be abuse of power, right? No one is claiming that he lacked the power to pardon Flynn. They’re claiming that he exercised his power in a manner inconsistent with the purposes for which it was granted—that he *abused* the power.

Rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan

3 years

The Constitution expressly grants the President pardon power. Anyone calling President Trump’s pardon of Michael Flynn an “abuse of power” is mistaken.

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

I’m so confused. Was Karlan’s offense noting that Trump has a child named Barron? Because lots of news stories have noted this. Or was it noting that the name does not constitute a title of nobility?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

We ... just attacked Mexico?

Chris Sherman

@chrisshermanAP

5 years

US Border Patrol has just launched tear gas into Mexico. Breeze carrying it hundreds of yards. Parents running away with choking toddlers. #migrantcaravan

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Josh Chafetz

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1 year

This is silly. All of campaign finance law consists of activities one could do legally but for the fact that one is a candidate for office.

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

1 year

Trump is being prosecuted charged because he paid hush money to a mistress, something it's inconcievable he would have been charged over if he were never a candidate for office

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

this works really well in Alexis-from-Schitt’s-Creek voice

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

It’s not fair that I’m being Impeached when I’ve done absolutely nothing wrong! The Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats have become the Party of Hate. They are so bad for our Country!

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

6 years

Students. Are. Not. Customers. They’re students, dammit. Not everything is reducible to the logic of the marketplace.

The Verge

@verge

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Jeff Bezos is going to create schools where "the child is the customer"

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3 years

Isn't there an episode of The Office where Creed thinks he's blogging but he's just typing into a Word doc?

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

I’m still like 40% convinced that if Pelosi held a press conference to announce her view that Trump is too stupid to have demanded that Ukraine investigate Biden in exchange for aid, he’d just blurt out a confession.

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Josh Chafetz

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5 years

Black Friday Cyber Monday Giving Tuesday Leave Me the Eff Alone Wednesday Seriously Stop Sending Me Emails Thursday I Will Cut You Friday

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

This is a solid point. At no point during his presidency was Barack Obama ever subjected to disrespectful treatment.

Laura Ingraham

@IngrahamAngle

5 years

What would the media/Left’s reaction have been had such a chant ever been directed at Obama in any bar?

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

who's going to tell him?

Anthony Sabatini

@AnthonySabatini

3 years

If Socrates was out philosophizing in American society today, he would be cancelled real quick

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5 years

The return of the Gorka character was not a plot twist I saw coming tbh

Josh Lederman

@JoshNBCNews

5 years

Just in: Sebastian Gorka is traveling with @SecPompeo to Europe, @Abs_NBC reports. He was seen getting into a State Department van headed to Joint Base Andrews for departure

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

westlaw is down There Is No Law EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

We are past the point at which Republican elites' refusal to condemn Trump's pathetic attempts to steal the election--largely by attempting to disfranchise Black voters--has rendered those elites ineligible to readmission to polite society.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

Some personal news: as of July 1, I'll be a professor at @GeorgetownLaw !

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

If those votes are thrown out, I can think of no reason to pretend that Texas has held a free and fair election worthy of being treated as legitimate by other political actors.

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Josh Chafetz

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6 years

Two consecutive presidents. Of the same country.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

Again, it is *bad* when public officials don't take a salary, because it reinforces norms that limit offices to the independently wealthy.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President. I donate the entire $400,000! It is my honor to give $100,000 to @NatlParkService to help repair and restore our GREAT National Monuments. So important to our American History! Thank You!!

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

I wish more people used "i.e." and "e.g." correctly. They are not synonymous.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

tell me you don’t see it

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

2 years

So many scholars, myself included, have written so much about why this view of the filibuster is absolute total and complete bullshit.

Chad Pergram

@ChadPergram

2 years

Manchin on the filibuster. Says it's been "The tradition of the Senate here in 232 years now..we need to be very cautious what we do..That's what we've always had for 232 years. That's what makes us different than any place else in the world.

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Josh Chafetz

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5 years

Trump: It is I, Donald, son of Fred, from the castle of Mar a Lago. King of the the Jews, defeater of the the recalcitrant Danes, Sovereign of all Greenland! Peasant: Well, I didn't vote for you. Trump: Here's the thing about the electoral college ...

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

A Bad Habit

The Accountant

@LinkedHD

3 years

What do you call this?

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Josh Chafetz

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6 years

Moderators shouldn’t be asking candidates this, and, more importantly, candidates when asked should take the opportunity to say no and explain what values are at stake in treating political office as a hobby for the wealthy.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

"First we'll commit mass murder, then we'll get destroyed" is actually a pretty good slogan for Trump 2020 ...

Brad Parscale

@parscale

4 years

For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc. In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time.

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Josh Chafetz

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2 years

I would like to once again remind folks that no one has to take Jonathan Turkey seriously

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Josh Chafetz

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5 years

I'm honestly not sure what the GOP's game is here. Every time they object to Democrats' using "unparliamentary language," they just wind up ensuring that language gets repeated more times.

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Josh Chafetz

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6 years

It just doesn't make good strategic sense to give up this sort of leverage so early in the process, to be honest.

The Independent

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6 years

El Chapo promises not to kill jurors in New York trial

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5 years

Anyway, this is just to say that if you're going to a plantation for a Scarlett O'Hara moment and are *horrified* that some mean interpreter wants to explain that this was the site of horrible brutalization and dehumanization, you are definitely the one in the wrong.

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Josh Chafetz

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3 years

So, here's the thing. Contempt of Congress is a federal crime. Now, obviously, when a chamber is going after the *current* administration, that administration won't prosecute itself, a problem I've banged on about ad infinitum. But ...

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Josh Chafetz

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6 years

Dear @nytimes , I too am a law professor who would like to sell copies of his book. I think my neighbors mostly like me, but I'd be willing to start a feud for just one gauzy profile!

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Josh Chafetz

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6 months

folks, it happened

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6 years

Because the very concept of ownership is meaningless without a whole host of supporting institutions that can only arise in the context of a political community?

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5 years

Reminder that declaring an "emergency" is a gesture of weakness, not one of strength, and it won't result in Trump getting his wall.

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2 years

As always, @jbouie is right on, and this passage in particular should be shouted from the rooftops.

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3 years

This is absolutely contempt of Congress, in case anyone's wondering ...

Cliff Levy

@cliffordlevy

3 years

At a Turning Point USA event in December, Rep. Cawthorn, a NC Republican, encouraged attendees to “call your congressman and feel free — you can lightly threaten them.” “Say: ‘If you don’t support election integrity, I’m coming after you.”

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Josh Chafetz

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5 years

This is correct, and should be coupled with the observation that if the Dems give in on this made-up procedural point, the White House and its defenders will just make up a new one.

Felicia Sonmez

@feliciasonmez

5 years

Asked why the House doesn't hold a vote to formally open an impeachment inquiry, Schiff says of Republicans: “They don’t want to discuss the president’s conduct. They would much rather discuss process.”

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

7 years

Students are not customers. They are students. Not every relationship is reducible to market terms.

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

7 years

Opinion: Students should be treated as customers, writes @BetsyDeVosED

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

And if they say no: "Do you hereby release any reporters with whom you might have talked anonymously from their obligation of confidentiality?"

Oliver Darcy

@oliverdarcy

4 years

Good follow up question to Republican lawmakers going on TV and slamming anonymous leaks to press: Have you ever provided information anonymously to a reporter?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

"sir, this is *not* an Arby's ..."

New York Post

@nypost

4 years

Missouri church leader tried to pay for sex on Grindr with Arby's card

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

So, media outlets are right to cover and interview Alan Dershowitz at the moment, because he’s a player in the major news story of the day. But can we please all agree that no media outlet should treat him as a reasonable expert on anything ever again?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

7 years

One. For. Every. Damn. Occasion.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

12 years

Interestingly, the hurricane may now be a disaster for Obama's reelection because of his grandstanding.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

6 years

Kavanaugh wasn't at that party. If he was, he didn't do anything. If he did, it was just "horseplay." And if it wasn't, he shouldn't he be held responsible for something he did so long ago. His defenders really need to settle on one story.

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Josh Chafetz

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3 months

Still having trouble wrapping my mind around the end result of all this being Democrats getting all the foreign aid they wanted without the border stuff that they didn’t.

Andrew Desiderio

@AndrewDesiderio

3 months

Sen. Hawley says after the lunch that he thinks there will be enough Republicans voting for the foreign aid package to get it to 60 (Hawley is a no)

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Josh Chafetz

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4 years

The thing about McConnell's "rejection" of aid to states and municipalities is that it's going to become very clear very soon that Republican-leaning states are going to need money at least as badly as Democratic-leaning ones.

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Josh Chafetz

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7 years

"The thing is, Amazon actually does collect state sales taxes where applicable. And there's no such thing as an 'internet tax.'"

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

2 years

So much implicit sexism here. A politician could drop twice that on sports tickets and no one would care.

Brent Scher

@BrentScher

2 years

Breaking investigative exclusive w/ @Kredo0 : @KamalaHarris dropped nearly $600 at boutique Parisian cooking shop E. Dehillerin, an impressive haul that includes this lovely $375 oval dish.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

Incompetence and laziness nearly always trump malevolence in the Trump White House.

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

5 years

Remember how much press this got? Trump ordered the revocation of John Brennan's security clearance. "But the White House never followed through with the complex bureaucratic work it would have taken to strip the clearance..."

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Josh Chafetz

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1 year

I am once again begging people not to write excitedly about absurd bills that are introduced in a state legislature without giving any indication of whether those bills are going to go anywhere at all.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

Meat fan here, but ... how the hell are they doing this for meat but not for Covid testing?

Geoff Bennett

@GeoffRBennett

4 years

NEWS: President Trump is today expected to sign a Defense Production Act executive order compelling meat processing plants to stay open, sources tell @kwelkernbc , @carolelee and me. The order will also provide additional liability protections. Bloomberg News first reported.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

PORCUPINE HARANGUING! I swear I’m getting closer to figuring out how this game is played

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

RIP irony

Matt Lee

@APDiploWriter

4 years

. @secPompeo meets with Tiananmen Square survivors at 2:30 pm today, per @StateDept .

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

In particular, the Senate is the final judge of Senate elections (see Art. I, sec. 5, cl. 1), and election disputes are determined by majority vote. If Dems take a majority and Cornyn claims to have “won” an illegitimate election in TX, there’s no reason they should seat him.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

Hey reporters: the next time an interviewee uses the word "socialist" to describe an opponent, can you ask for a definition? And if they manage to give one, can you ask follow-ups about farm subsidies, Medicare, and Social Security?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

And, more commonly, if you go there and basically what you get is the Scarlett O'Hara moment, then the plantation is perpetrating a mistaken *and malicious* version of history.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

Wait wait wait wait wait ... His *response* to claims of chaos and disorganization is that they can’t be true because his White House has almost no staff left?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

I just watched a Fake reporter from the Amazon Washington Post say the White House is “chaotic, there does not seem to be a strategy for this Shutdown. There is no plan.” The Fakes always like talking Chaos, there is NONE. In fact, there’s almost nobody in the W.H. but me, and...

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

Yes, I wish Gillium and Abrams had won (and O'Rourke, too, but I never thought he really had a shot). But "some of the things that the most fervent Democratic partisans really really really wished for didn't happen" ≠ this wasn't a wave election for the Dems.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

shit just got real

Shimon Prokupecz

@ShimonPro

4 years

MGM Resorts will close buffets in Las Vegas effective March 15 due to coronavirus concerns

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

As someone who went to law school with Hawley, I can confirm. He’s not a moron; he’s an unprincipled, shamelessly opportunistic hack.

Olivia Nuzzi

@Olivianuzzi

3 years

As I just reported on @cnn with @JohnAvlon , a Republican official tells me that part of why establishment types are so angry with Josh Hawley is because they think he knows better. As the official put it: “He’s not some moron like Louie Gohmert.”

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

7 years

Monocausal explanations for complex socio-political phenomena are why Trump won.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

3 years

How is it that Cuomo and de Blasio are each worse than the other?

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

1 year

Regular reminder that it's just insane that one pissant federal district judge can purport to enjoin enforcement of a federal law or administrative action nationwide, and it's not really clear why the other branches should acquiesce in this exercise of power.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

4 years

Just a reminder that Alan Dershowitz has adhered unfailingly to one principle throughout his entire career, and it is that Alan Dershowitz must be promoted at all costs.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

2 years

Because people who only ever argue in bad faith just assume that everyone else does the same, my tweet above is a (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) response to a very long run of judicial self-aggrandizement, not a response to just one decision. And I've been saying it for years.

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Josh Chafetz

@joshchafetz

5 years

I checked like 3 times, and this isn't a parody account

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...

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