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@ABC News contributor, Advisory Opinions host, @thedispatch editor, putting the R in @LRCkcrw, Texas expat, @Harvard_Law grad, cat/brisket mom.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2009
Let's not forget...Pew Research found that of the fewer than 50 million US adults on Twitter only 6% of those Twitter users account for 73% of tweets about national politics. That means fewer than 1% of Americans are frequently weighing in about politics on this platform.
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🌍 Everything around us is getting smarter. From phones and homes to cities and economies. Now that same wave of intelligence has reached money itself, transforming not just how we move value, but what value truly means.
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Friday at 4pm, @whignewtons @NormEisen and I talk rule of law, norms, guardrails and more at #Democracy360. Join us #txlege @UVADemocracy
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A) Congrats to the Willetts! B) Is the tweeting judge back!!!??
25 years. A million memories. One extraordinary woman. A quarter-century in, and I’m still in awe you said, “I do.” You’re the heart of every chapter we’ve written—and the best pages are still ahead! Ani l’dodi v’dodi li—I am my beloved’s & my beloved is mine. ❤️
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I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the hair and makeup team at ABC as well as my hats, sunscreen, and dermatologist.
George Stephanopoulos looks like a fool after a young lady fact-checks his statement about the Insurrection Act https://t.co/pcNyz4FNME
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4. Nearly half of U.S. presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act. Some (many) more than once. We’ve known about this problem for a long time. Plenty of people pointed it out in 2021 when Dems controlled WH+Congress. But nobody wants to give up power when their team has it.
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3. “Impracticable to enforce the laws” is basically a blank check. The standard isn’t “impossible” or “extremely hard.” If POTUS thinks some federal law isn’t able to be enforced fully, that’s enough.
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2. Very little room for judicial review. “When the president considers” not “when a reasonable person would agree.” Congress gave POTUS the discretion to decide, not a judge.
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1. The Act doesn’t just let POTUS federalize the national guard to protect federal buildings. He can send in active duty military to enforce the law and do civilian law enforcement. MUCH MUCH bigger power.
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The Insurrection Act says: “Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions. . . make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State…he may use the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws.” A couple things to notice…
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SUNDAY ROUNDTABLE: @donnabrazile, @GovChristie & @whignewtons join George Stephanopoulos to discuss all the week’s politics. Only on @ThisWeekABC
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Sutton: Why don’t we create a rule state that if you want relief outside the circuit, you go into a lottery of which court decides the case. Isn’t that a good idea. Breyer: Yes.
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Problem according to Breyer: Court needs to explain its decisions vs Court not doing its best work on a short timeline and getting frozen/locked in too quickly before the merits come up again.
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Breyer quotes top of Gettysburg Address. “…Testing whether that nation or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” It’s an experiment, he says. That’s the point.
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Breyer disagrees that originalism or any ism restrains judges. Take stare decisis: originalists don’t claim that every past decision not decided on originalist grounds should be overturned. Instead only “egregiously wrong” ones. But even that is steeped with value judgments.
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“Often but not always” has to be one of the most Breyerisms of Breyerisms.
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“Major Questions Doctrine has been there since the beginning, it’s just not the whole story.” Justice Stephen Breyer talking to Chief Judge Jeff Sutton
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Americans see Republicans as the party of abundance. That's a big problem.
We checked in on what voters think Democrats and Republicans want for them. The good news for Democrats is that they’re narrowly winning on “feeling stable in your personal life.” The bad news for them is that Republicans dominate on everything else: wealth, marriage, kids, and
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A LIVE recording of @AdvOpinions Podcast with @DavidAFrench and @whignewtons at #freespeechsummit2025
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