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Trump cannot make, change, or repeal laws by executive order. Therefore, he cannot ban mail ballots or require proof of citizenship by executive order. True, he can try, but courts can, will, and have invalidated Trump’s efforts to regulate federal elections by executive order.
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The Court reached the right result for the right reasons. It moved expeditiously. Three conservative justices applied the Major Questions Doctrine as a direct limit on presidential claims of delegated authority. The Court is not a reliable ally, but last Friday, it did the right thing.
Some commentators claimed the tariff decision was an illusory victory, a victory for big business, or that conservative justices would not apply the same rationale against Trump if he attempts to assert presidential power over federal elections.
We need to learn how to take a win.
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The seven opinions by nine justices are unnecessarily complicated, but at root, the majority agreed that the Constitution means what it says (Congress has the authority to impose duties and taxes) and that a statute that does not mention tariffs does not authorize the president to impose tariffs.
Good news to start our weekend! The Supreme Court invalidated Trump’s illegal tariffs in an opinion that reasserts the separation of powers, the primacy of the Constitution, and the role of Congress in making law. Clear-cut victories are rare; we should celebrate!
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But Trump cannot abide anyone getting attention that could be diverted to him. On Thursday, Trump gave a speech that was a frat-boy special: He asked his friends to “hold my beer” while he showed them how to dive from a third-floor balcony into the shallow end of a swimming pool. He flopped. Bigly.
Democrats are gleeful over the prospect of billionaires, creeps, and white supremacist Cabinet members explaining to voters why Trump’s Ponzi-scheme-RICO-enterprise administration is helping Americans who are struggling to buy groceries, as they fear that AI will replace their jobs.
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One of their brilliant ideas is to dispatch members of Trump’s cabinet to key congressional districts to defend the administration’s handling of the economy, immigration, healthcare, and the Epstein files.
We can only hope that the administration follows through on this monumentally bad idea.
Trump’s handlers know that a blue wave is swelling in the distance, timed to crash on the Republican Party on November 3, 2026. In panic mode, they are “spitballing” ideas to convince voters that things aren’t as bad as they seem.
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A brilliant piece that everyone should read. Ignore the sniping in the comments about who showed up first / was right all along. Buckle is right: Millions of Americans raised the alarm and were dismissed and ignored. No more. Stop fighting old battles and confront the one that matters: Trump.
if centrists admit resit libs were right, they should stop dismissing & disparaging us
my latest for @newrepublic.com
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I hope that Anderson Cooper will explain why he really left CBS--which appears to be for the right reasons. But slinking out "to spend more time with my kids" fails to meet the moment. Otherwise, he will be remembered as the Susan Collins of Journalism. All of the concern, none of the conviction.
Don’t be Anderson Cooper. Don’t make up excuses for doing the right thing. Like Anderson Cooper, we are being called to choose where we stand in the defense of American democracy. Be proud to tell your children how you came to the defense of your country. That requires us to speak the truth.
Anderson Cooper quit CBS’s 60 Minutes with a gracious note explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his kids—when we all know he quit because he could not abide the editorial control over 60 Minutes by Trump's financial backers and Bari Weiss.
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On President’s Day 2026, we have every reason to be hopeful, but no reason to be complacent. Trump is weak and unpopular. Pro-democracy forces are winning more than they are losing. That formula spells inevitable defeat for Trump and his MAGA agenda.
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Social media companies notified users that if they don’t seek a court order, the companies will turn over personal identifying information to Homeland Security about users who have done nothing more than exercise their First Amendment Right to criticize ICE.
The administration took the next logical step in the stunning capitulation of social media giants to Trump. It has convinced them to rat on Americans who criticize ICE.
Without a peep, major tech companies have complied.
See NYTimes, www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... (Gift link)
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Against Trump's onslaught, the people of Minneapolis showed us the path forward: Show up, stand out, make your voice heard, do not surrender, and care for your neighbor.
In that simple, powerful, beautiful mix of everyday actions, the people of Minneapolis forced Trump to retreat.
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Pam Bondi gave a performance for the ages. And not in a good way. She was partisan when she is called to be impartial. She was vulgar when she is called to be professional. She was callous when asked to show empathy for victims. She placed Trump's interests above all else . . .
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This point, standing alone, justifies the steadfast refusal to fund DHS. To do otherwise would amount to amending the Constitution by fiat. In that sense, the fight over funding DHS is a defense of the Constitution, as to which there can be no compromise.
Democrats must stand firm on this point. Compliance with a protection present at the birth of our republic should be “non-negotiable.” If complying with the Constitution is intolerable, ICE must be abolished and replaced with an agency that views the Constitution as its charter, not an obstacle.
On Tuesday, Stephen Miller rejected as a “non-starter” a demand by Democrats that ICE obtain judicial warrants based upon probable cause. Got that? Complying with the Constitution’s foundational procedural protection is a “non-starter.”
The requirement of a warrant based on probable cause to enter a person’s home is a touchstone of the Bill of Rights. According to John Adams, the British practice of issuing “general writs” authorizing unbounded searches of homes led to the “first Act of opposition” in the Revolution.
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You owe it to yourself to read Rebecca Solnit's latest essay from Meditations in an Emergency--a prodigious piece that chronicles the many ways we are defeating Trump. It is comprehensive, but worth every word. As always, it is a pleasure to read the work of such a gifted writer.
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But there is no situation that Trump cannot make worse. He is about to do so with the cover-up of his involvement in Epstein’s child rape and sex trafficking criminal enterprise.
Trump is aiming for a trifecta never achieved in American political history: Converting his campaign’s top three winning issues into political liabilities of epic proportions. He has already done the heavy lifting, alienating voters on the economy, immigration, and the Epstein files.
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Democrats spend too much time worrying about threats by Trump & GOP, and not enough time on offense. Hillary Clinton is demonstrating the type of pushback Democrats should use every day. On Thursday, Hillary effectively told GOP Rep. James Comer, “Put up or shut up.”
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How we get there is a legitimate question, and abolition is a reasonable path. It may be out of reach at the moment, but let's not surrender before we have the conversation. And, yes, people are angry and upset. That is the appropriate human response to seeing citizens murdered in the streets.
