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My hot historical take is that the truly dangerous electoral "road map" is not Trump's from 2020. It's Madison's from 1787.The Electoral College is a more inevitable danger to democracy.

The Court question should be disentangled into at least 2 questions:1) What is the right size for a Supreme Court?(Is it 9? No.)2) What is the right method for judicial

Thread: A president under investigation for impeachment has never appointed a Justice. Not Nixon, not Clinton, not Andrew Johnson. Never. Democrats should make clear that if the GOP destroys this

Here’s a bizarre coincidence:1. @NYTimes notes that Apollo CEO Leon Black inexplicably stood by Jeffrey Epstein, recently giving him $50M.2. Apollo lent the Kushners $184M while Jared was facing his

I just voted in our primary, and I discovered I was officially an “inactive voter” because I “had not completed the census.”I 100% filed my census online last spring.Yet I

Here is a clear signal that:1) Trump fired US Atty Berman in bad faith2) @jonathanturley will turley.Clayton’s term expires in 2021, according to SEC website. He doesn’t need a new

The argument "The Constitutional Oath Requires Originalism" is ironic.Because its anti-pluralist/orthodox view of oaths is inconsistent with the original public meaning and constitutional text on oaths.Start with @GGKrishnamoomoo

This is a major development. Gleeson was a widely respected judge with no patience for destroying the DOJ.Barr’s shameless hackery could backfire:Judge Sullivan appointed him “to investigate whether Mr. Flynn

If you're reading @alexberenson & his reckless Covid-19 denialism, you need to see his errors on Ohio.He can't/won't construct a fair timeline about how @GovMikeDeWine moved faster than almost every

It seems to me the Supreme Court got it right on the Wisconsin primary:1) right on the narrow issue of a last-minute change to basic election timing2) right on the

In which @BritHume suggests “NY’s fatality numbers are inflated” because an epidemiologist... [checks notes] ... oops sorry, a Dunning-Kruger-Epstein investor/anti-China conspiracy theorist read a letter and has thoughts about medical

One of the most incisive paragraphs written in the Trump era. By @Dahlialithwick.Where are we going to be next Thanksgiving as a country? Where are we going to be, literally?