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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 13:17:11 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Heidi Li Feldman

   I can only half-follow what @heidilifeldman is saying in this thread (IANAL), but this much is clear:

   - There’s going to be a showdown over whether Congress still has the power of the purse, and over whether the Trump admin has to follow •any• court orders, ever — essentially, did the SCOTUS in fact make the president a king, or not?

   - Roberts is trying to delay that confrontation as long as possible, pinging technicalities between courts and avoiding the substantive stuff.

   - It’s probably not going to work.

   - The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

   - The judiciary, and our democracy, are hanging by a thread. https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114110656844812980

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 13:25:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Heidi Li Feldman
     • JG

     @StephanieMoore @heidilifeldman
     …which comes shortly after circumstances finally yank Roberts’s head out of the ostrich hole he’s stuck it in. What a time.

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     JG (stephaniemoore@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 13:25:29 JST JG

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     • Heidi Li Feldman

     @inthehands @heidilifeldman yep, basically this is when SCOTUS confirms whether or not we are in a constitutional crisis

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 23:27:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Danny the Weary

     @pinsk
     I was just going for the general vibe of the Yeats quote; best not to parse it too finely.

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     Danny the Weary (pinsk@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 23:27:10 JST Danny the Weary

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     • Heidi Li Feldman

     @inthehands @heidilifeldman are you placing CJ Roberts in the "best" category here? Because... yikes

     "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 23:29:22 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     @inthehands You followed just fine!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 23:29:22 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Heidi Li Feldman

     @heidilifeldman
     If I did, it’s only because you do such a nice job of contextualizing details and conveying the big picture!