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Dan McLaughlin
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Senior Writer . Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, New Yorker, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the ex-Cardinals broadcaster.

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Remind yourself every day: Any day spent talking about Donald Trump is a day Republicans are losing. Any day spent talking about Joe Biden is a day Democrats are losing.
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This is a losing if not totally lost battle, but I agree with Tom on this.
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Not so long ago, America had one "president as a time" and only the holder of the title used it, as is proper for a "presiding" officer. It's why the Senate president is only president on the podium. Calling all former presidents "president" is a mistake. /2
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A fair point: this is a liberal jury pool but not as NYC-centric as what the Manhattan DA draws from.
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Again it’s not a “Manhattan jury.” It’s a SDNY jury which includes Upstate counties. twitter.com/baseballcrank/…
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I'm fine with the former. But it's obscene that the two things got the same sentence.
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Reminder that a Jan 6th protestor was sentenced to 10 years for assaulting an officer cnn.com/2022/09/01/pol A BLM protestor was sentenced to 10 years for burning a man alive. The prosecutors begged the judge for leniency. washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecuto
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This is Weekly World News levels of disconnected from reality. It's the inability to even comprehend that your opponents have ideas.
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Thomas apologists who say his critics are whining about trivial ethics violations because we don’t like how the legal landscape has changed don’t seem to understand. The “trivial ethics violations” are the explanation for why the legal landscape has changed.
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Which goes a ways to illustrating why they did a poor job explaining the reasoning of that decision, as well as many others with far less defensible outcomes.
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Of the justices who decided Brown v Board, only one had been a judge: Warren--Gov CA Reed--DOJ SG Black--US Sen AL Frankfurter--Harvard Law, FDR WH Douglas--SEC Chair Jackson--US AG Burton--US Sen OH, Mayor Cleveland Clark--US AG Minton--US Sen IN, Judge Seventh Circuit twitter.com/jmart/status/1…
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It's fine not to release it, but only if this is done pursuant to a consistently-applied rule to never release mass shooter manifestos nationalreview.com/corner/if-you-
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There have been press reports that the authorities consider the manifesto to be “astronomically dangerous.” They may be unsettling and even dangerous, but the question is the right of the authorities to keep such evidence from the public and the press... jonathanturley.org/2023/05/05/nat
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Sad ending. Remember when we used to look forward to Harvey Day. Truly dominant in 2012-13. 2015 World Series ninth-inning failure wasn't his fault for staying in too long, ruined a wonderful outing.
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Former Mets star Harvey ends 'dream' career #Mets dlvr.it/SnZmkn
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In the yrs since my lil dust-up w , the large # of academics caught falsely adopting identities hugely favorable to their careers suggests professional status/tenure incentives are by far the dominant force, and quirky psychodramas in the aggregate irrelevant.
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Replying to @joshtpm @AliceFromQueens and @JamesSurowiecki
The idea that this is reducible to “get better jobs, win more awards” is ludicrous. These people abandon their own families to live lives of dishonesty that could be destroyed at any moment by someone asking a perceptive question.
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So, they're gonna have the show written by...the books?
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‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER’ Season 2 will continue filming without the showrunners and any other writer-producers on set. (Source: variety.com/2023/tv/news/r)
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Like Ronald Reagan, got to see a Bo Jackson special when he guested in the booth.
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Today In 1993: Mr. T drops by the Milwaukee #Brewers broadcast booth just in time to watch Chicago #WhiteSox outfielder Bo Jackson throw out Dave Nilsson at the plate! #BoKnows #MLB #Baseball #History
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I've been waiting to see if he'd try this, as opposed to getting a federal court to enjoin the prosecution. I'm skeptical that prosecution for actions taken as a candidate for federal office qualifies for removal.
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Trump To Remove Criminal Prosecution To Federal Court. Unlike removal under the regular removal statute, removals under 28 U.S.C. § 1442 can be appealed. reason.com/volokh/2023/05
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