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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:17:56 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Laffy

   This is it. In this thicket of details from @GottaLaff is our constitutional crisis. It’s here. https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114184317848985596

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:19:07 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Heidi Li Feldman
     • Laffy

     @GottaLaff And here @heidilifeldman gets to the heart of it in one sentence:
     https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114181735484983482

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:20:26 JST Paul Cantrell

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     The other explanation besides what Feldman said is that maybe the people in charge are just colossol nincompoops.

     This is not mutually exclusive with her theory. Nor is it mutually exclusive with their strategy working.

     None of these problems are going to fix themselves.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:27:21 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Heidi Li Feldman
     • Laffy

     @GottaLaff @heidilifeldman
     And yet needs restating, repeatedly and often

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:27:22 JST Laffy

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     • Heidi Li Feldman

     @inthehands @heidilifeldman Well that's obvious, yes, in every court case.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:30:46 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Heidi Li Feldman
     • HarriettMB

     @HarriettMB @heidilifeldman
     They •should• be concerned. Whether enough of them •are•, well….

     Roberts will drag his feet to the bitter end, but like you, I’d bet on him ultimately trying to restrain the admin, however weakly. Does that get us to 5 in case after case after case? Not so sure about that.

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     HarriettMB (harriettmb@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:30:47 JST HarriettMB

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     • Heidi Li Feldman

     @inthehands @heidilifeldman I’m not so sure he’ll get the answer he wants. Justice Roberts has issued a statement, about contempt of court, and the rule of law with regard to politicians and judicial decisions. I suspect SCOTUS is now becoming concerned that they will also be powerless as POTUS administration ignores various laws. They brought this mess about by giving him criminal immunity.

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:38:39 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     • Laffy

     @GottaLaff With respect, this is more true in this case and Perkins Coie v. Trump than the rest, because Trump has cloaked himself in these two cases with claims of acting to serve national security, an interest the Roberts Court is especially protective of. 1/ @inthehands