#appointing president

[empiricalscotus]

Are the Justices Still Party Players

All Article III federal judgeships start at the same place — with a presidential nomination. This procedure played a large role in the first several decades of statistical studies of judicial behavior, where researchers found that the party of appointing president was a strong predictor of judicial votes.  While not looked at as frequently anymore, the party of appointing president still yields…

[historical-fashion-polls]

[mandy-malady]

Like to make everyone aware of this little Bill that is super important to reinstate checks and balances after that fiasco earlier this year.

Please call your senators to vote in favor of this bill.

Here's some petitions about it too:

[mnemosyne-xiv]

I'm sorry but his smile is just so--lord give me strength

[badgopher]

One of those weeks where everything's been about a foot and a half off from where it seems like it should have been.

The surprise work dinner on Tuesday was neither good nor bad. The boss was in town to meet with people about a thing and wanted to get together for dinner, so that's what we did.

In 4 weeks I'll be in Kansas. In 4½ weeks I'll be 43; in Arkansas. In 6 weeks I'll be in Vancouver, BC. Lots of new stuff. Thinking about a trip to scope out Richmond in February. Thinking about driving into the mountains to hide from the world for a while. Options.

Wholly forgettable uptempo music that distracts the part of my brain that decides we're doing side quests today instead of, like, the actual work I need to get done. This week was a lot of digitally imported nightcore. It doesn't work all the time but when it does it's amazing. I got more work done in the last 4 days than I have in the previous 3 weeks.

💚, etc.

[deadpresidents]

Trump is saying he wants to skirt the senate confirmation process for recess appointments and he won't support a Senate majority leader that doesn't agree. Do you think the senate will actually give up their power so willingly?

I think there are still enough legislators (at least in the Senate) who believe in separation of powers and aren't willing to give away their branch's role as something close to an equal partner in governing that they will not give that away so easily. I think that's why the Senate Republicans probably ended up choosing John Thune as Majority Leader today. However, they are so beholden to the cult of personality that the MAGA movement has built around Trump that the only reason Thune ended up winning is because the Senate leader was chosen in a secret ballot. If those votes were public, I guarantee Rick Scott would have been elected Majority Leader today.

[jazzhaaaands]

The only way to abolish the electoral college is to vote and then file ballot initiatives to remove it from the system and replace it with ranked choice - mandatory - voting.

Obviously we should then make it easy to vote, including issuing a picture identification card when someone registers to vote, or just bring back motor-voter regulations so we can just be done with this whole fucking stupid ass "talking point". Talk about red herring, "the illegals are voting" so like the ones that are unable to register to vote? Circles!!

She will do her best to meet the people in the middle, voting for the president is shopping for a reliable used car, something to maintain your life in a predictable way - no matter how fun the flashy car might seem, it is a siren song for the police and the insurance isn't worth the cost, like at all... even a little.

If you don't vote in this election, you will lose the right to complain, and vote, going forward.

[hyperlexichypatia]

I am begging people giving U.S. politics commentary to have, just, a basic, basic, 6th grade citizenship class level of understanding of the relationship between the branches of government. Please. You will not get icky electoralism cooties if you learn that "Whoever is the president right now is responsible for decisions the supreme court hands down right now" is nonsense.

[jjkyaoi]

“as a trans person i find neopronouns to be offensive and making a mockery of our community!!” “as a trans person i don’t like people who headcanon characters as trans because it just doesn’t make any sense!” why are you riding that terf dick so hard genuinely

[eatyourdamnpears]

probably gonna fuck off from social media today and throw myself into writing. I don’t think I’ll be able to deal with all the doom postings today

[anotherpapercut]

the girlbossification of ruth bader ginsburg has to be one of the most just plain annoying aspects of white liberal feminism. like it's not as actively harmful as a lot of other shit obviously. but it is soooooo annoying. if I never see another notorious rbg tote bag as long as I live it will be too soon

[chrispineofficial]

some of you aren’t trying to have even the most basic working grasp on how the us government functions

[divorcedwife]

my teenage cousin is soooo serious about school... i asked her when she was available to do something fun with me and said "hmm, maybe after my exams, let's say late june" GIRL

[kazu-naito]

where is the lie

[thekidsarentalright]

feel like people sometimes forget you arent just voting for the president for Now (though what they actively do in the present is Obviously incredible important) but also the president who may damage the future the least as it often takes years and decades for their actions to be felt thoroughly through the country and the world. like. the current state of things is so fucked Because of older generations Not considering how their vote would impact things in the long term

[dez-wade]

He's decorating the office for Niki? That's so cute what :(

Right? And he did it so quickly and it turned out to look pretty cute.

I also think it's funny that he sees a jobless girl on the server and immediately wants to give them a job.