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Biden drops out of 2024 race
What happens next: Joe Biden wants to pass the baton to Kamala Harris. Here’s how that might work
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I’m scared. Really, really scared.
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I think it’s fine. I think that the idea that the phrase “presumptive nominee” has legal weight is silly.
I’m curious to see if Harris can bring it properly, but if not, the convention happens in public and should be less horrifying (but still frustrating) than the RNC event. Instead of a parade it will be much better for drawing in eyeballs. The Republicans have decided on the unity of idiocracy but the U.S. is not that.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4785076-manchin-considers-harris-challenge/
Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.V.) is considering running against Vice President Harris for the Democratic nomination.
A source familiar with Manchin confirmed that the West Virginia senator is considering reregistering as a Democrat to seek the nomination.
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Yes please.
Cynically I suspect it really is “to galvanise Democratic voters” – I think they save issues like this specifically for elections and intentionally stay inactive on it the rest of the time.
One would think, immediately after the debacle of Trump’s first reign of terror, or the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, or any number of more recent shenanigans, that the party would put in the effort to unfuck the Supreme Court (and pass laws guaranteeing rights the Court refuses to protect).
Progressive congresscritters have been trying to update the number of Supremes since at least 2021. It’s not fixed at 9 by the Constitution, it has been updated a few times by Congress in the past. But the efforts have been ignored…
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I can see this actually happening, provided it was a solidly liberal court with republicans in power.
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It used to give a title and description of the segment. I don’t know why they stopped. Klick this box for the show:
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President Biden Attempts SCOTUS Reform
After a tumultuous Supreme Court term that included the presidential immunity opinion and reporting that showed Justice Thomas received undisclosed gifts and favors from a GOP megadonor, President Biden has proposed changes to the court, including term limits and a code of ethics. Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine and host of the podcast, “Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal,” and author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (New Press, 2022), offers legal analysis of the reforms, and talks about how much of a long a shot it is that any of this would make it through Congress.
If you don’t know Elie Mystal, this is a good introduction to him.
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I realize “it’s a long shot” but you can’t take any shot at all if you don’t present any remedies for review. Then you take aim at the roadblocks.
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Not sure what to think of that. I’m sure Republicans far and wide will get outraged, but then, so what? 
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Before November, I thought he shouldn’t pardon Hunter, just to show how Democrats differ from Republicans, and especially Trump. When Trump won, I immediately changed my mind. I think he had to pardon him. The Trump Justice Department would have gone after Hunter hard, and done everything they could to lock him up for years. Biden had nothing to lose here. Sure, the usual suspects will eviscerate him for it. So what?
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