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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 7h

I know, but unless they're lying to the court, it's weakness. They're asking the court to intervene and defend them, in part, b/c they lack the courage to defend themselves.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 9h

Why are America's elites so incredibly weak?

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 10h

If there isn’t a fierce and prolonged accountability campaign that leads to the disbarment of scores if not hundreds of Trump administration lawyers, then what’s even the point of having state bars? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case

Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 11h

Subway ad touting “the first AI law firm.“ The firm’s name is rendered in a jumble of serif and sans-serif fonts. The image looks like AI slop. It’s quite a message about the likely quality of the legal work.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 14h

It's a real challenge to understand why crime rates go up or down in NYC or anywhere. But this at least should quiet those who predicted NYC's ruin should we presume to elect someone who wasn't 100% dedicated to business-as-usual.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 16h

That has historically been true. Unless it changes, we're doomed. I'm not a doomer.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 19h

It’s funny: given everything that’s happened that the smart people said would never ever ever happen in American democracy, you would think that the range of things that the smart people think might happen would expand. And yet here we are.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21h

I mean, I guess, if you think that whether something is “unconstitutional” is a matter of logic or reason and not politics. I believe our current Supreme Court has disproven that conclusively.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21h

Congress could create a special court just for that purpose. That power congress certainly has under article iii.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21h

That’s fine. We can build a jail for that.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21h

Like court defunding. Or impeachment. Or, again, making defiance of a jurisdiction stripping provision a crime.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21h

There is no jurisdiction. At minimum, the executive need not enforce any judicial order made in defiance of a jurisdiction stripping provision. But if the political branches have stripped jurisdiction in the first place, they would likely be primed to impose more serious consequences.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not sure what you mean by "interfaces with normal court functions."

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Expansion is the politicized response. Jurisdiction stripping is in the constitution. In any event, if Congress doesn't want to be seen as bluffing, they can make defiance of a jurisdiction strip into a felony.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What does "allow" mean here. Is the court going to send someone to arrest Congress? The executive enforces the court's orders. If the executive signs a bill containing a jurisdiction stripping provision, what do you think is going to happen if the court resists? Nothing good for the court.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anyway, this has already been done. Ex parte McCardle (1869).

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What do you mean "allow?" Is the court going to arrest Congress? It's the executive who enforces the court's orders. If the executive does not enforce those orders, the court is powerless.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah. Tell me again that America's problem is polarization.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Columbia is such a serial embarrassment to itself.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every word of this. I'd go further. America's #1 social problem is its widespread fake Christianity.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To the extent that polarization exists, the left’s part in it is driven, as Bouie identifies, by our refusal to allow racist southern Democrats to be the decision-makers any longer. I don’t think anyone should be advocating that we find some meeting point with the other side on that.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Partly. And also partly b/c some of the people funding the anti-polarization work are centrist Dems who think we should do more talking and are not unhappy if that leads to less doing.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In short, the problem isn't that we fail to listen to one another. The problem is that a big segment of the right wing is breeding vipers. I've heard the vipers' message. I'm not interested in it. I'm interested in crushing the vipers.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The centrist/non-partisan talking shops that have popped up lately like mushrooms are attacking the wrong thing. America isn't suffering from "polarization." It's suffering from right-wing radicalization against pluralism and democracy. Here's a great explainer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwW9...

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Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why must all billionaires spout the kind of dumb bullshit you expect from college sophomores on mushrooms?

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Alito's a midwit, elevated to a position where he has the power to re-order society without accountability--a mistake that Congress could remedy by stripping away the supreme court's appellate jurisdiction.)

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(I mean, the absence of critical follow-up to Alito's ridiculous idea that there's no reliance interest at stake w/r/t Roe. The idea of control over one's body is "abstract"?)

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I went to law school with Jan, so it pains me to say this. But reading this puff-piece and watching the linked video, it's clear to me that she's crossed the line from journalist to courtier.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On the one hand, this is true of every significant technological innovation. We got electricity; we got a zillion pounds of CO2 in the atmosphere. We got cars; we got cities destroyed with highways, etc. On the other hand, no normal human would put it the way Altman has.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Based on what I see currently, the answer appears to be (a) the trustees, (b) the major donors (to the extent (a) and (b) do not already overlap), and (c) the most vocal and persistently obnoxious commenters on the university's Facebook parent group page.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you punish enough Trumpist and Trump-enabling elites, a lot of ordinary Trump voters are going to be running away from their previous views as fast as their legs can carry them.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I support a pitiless accountability campaign aimed at Trump and the GOP officeholders and elites (business, academic, professional) who enabled him. I do not support anything like that directed at ordinary schlubs who voted for Trump. And in any event ...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Politicians are missing this huge fish they could land--restraining every service related to kids (sports, photos, textbooks, etc.) from maximum extraction.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes. Students protesting over the war in Gaza.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Academic elites only held accountable if they’re black.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m the kind of kid who had a better chance back then. And I’m not complicit in anything.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I went to university on a Pell grant and law school on a privately-funded scholarship. And back then, the schools I got degrees from were more open to non-rich kids than they are now.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, Dems are weak on just about everything except fund-raising texts, at which they excel.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yep. It's like 7%, says the google. Shameful.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

***I should add that Notre Dame is near the bottom in Pell grants too. As a Catholic, I would hope that the Catholic Church would do something about this, pronto.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Until elite universities do more to become engines of social mobility, they don't deserve the fed'l govt's support.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, most importantly, the dedication of serious resources to helping less-affluent and especially first-gen students thrive.

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