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Gregg Nunziata

@greggnunziata.bsky.social
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Executive Director of the Society for the Rule of Law. Philadelphia Lawyer. Former counsel to Senate Republicans.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
WATCH: @chkbal.bsky.social webinar on whether the proliferation of “acting” exec branch officials accords with the Constitution and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. With @greggnunziata.bsky.social @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social @thomasberry.bsky.social and Christina Kinane of @ispsyale.bsky.social
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The Use and Abuse of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act
A distinguished SRL panel discusses the rise of "acting" executive branch officials and whether circumventing Senate confirmation undermines checks and balances.
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Supreme 13 @supreme13.org · 23/09/2026
Today in @theunpopulist.net, @greggnunziata.bsky.social argues that judicial independence will be at risk if Democrats expand the Supreme Court for political reasons in 2029. www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-scheme-t... A few points in response below...
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A Scheme to Pack and Unpack the Supreme Court Will Backfire Badly
It will sap precious political capital from more worthy reforms and lead to greater political polarization
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please consider subscribing to the Checks and Balances Podcast. Each week, we host deep discussions about law, liberty, and threats to both. @chkbal.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ChecksBalan... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/033vrpL...
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Checks & Balances
Protecting the Constitution and rule of law against illiberalism, without regard to political party or partisan affiliation. Checks & Balances is a newsletter and podcast of the Society for the Rule o...
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I hope you enjoy my special conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning legal historian Dr. Ed Larson. Bonus Episode: Why 1776 Still Matters at America's 250th Birthday open.substack.com/pub/chkbal/p...
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Bonus Episode: Why 1776 Still Matters at America's 250th Birthday
Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Dr. Edward Larson, on the Declaration of Independence, the Election of 1800, and America at 250.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We know Democrats oppose right-wing authoritarianism. The question remains: is it the right-wing or the authoritarian part that bothers them? It is a question they must answer soon, I write in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social today. thedispatch.com/article/demo...
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The Democrats’ Time for Choosing
The Biden administration squandered a chance to strengthen the republic. Can the party take advantage of its next opportunity?
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Grateful to @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social for joining me on this week's episode of Checks and Balances, from the Society for the Rule of Law Institute. @chkbal.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7l75...
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David French: The Executive Branch Is Becoming an 800-Pound Gorilla
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The conservative Society for the Rule of Law Institute opposes the confirmation of Todd Blanche as Attorney General. Read our letter. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Our Official Letter in Opposition to Todd Blanche's Attorney General Confirmation
The Attorney General should demonstrate a commitment to the Rule of Law and impartial stewardship.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@greggnunziata.bsky.social: "[T]his investigation reflects a Justice Department eager to punish people who have had the temerity to criticize the president or in any other way challenge his authority." When will GOP senators finally take a stand against this systematic abuse of power?
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Warnings flood GOP lawmakers as conservatives outraged by DOJ's E Jean Carroll probe
Republican lawmakers already on the defensive over Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “slush fund” and his controversial IRS deal approved by acting-Attorney General Todd Blanche have a new “headache,” repor...
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Let's be clear. The President is proposing to hand out (your money in) cash rewards to criminals who tried to subvert the Republic for him, criminals he's already scandalously pardoned. I also opposed the Obama-era sue and settle collusion with idealogical allies, but this is another level.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“Senior DOJ leadership has willingly put politics before the law, servility to the president before their oaths, and overseen the destruction of the department.” — @greggnunziata.bsky.social, Executive Director of the Society for the Rule of Law
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Top Treasury lawyer resigns as outrage mounts over Trump’s ‘$1.7B fund for allies
The Treasury Department would have been responsible for distributing payments to those who successfully filed claims with the anti-weaponization fund
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Anyone who thought Democratic prosecutors were overzealous towards Mr Trump should be boiling now. The president claims to want to end the weaponization of the law. Of course the way to end it is to end it not turbocharge it." — @greggnunziata.bsky.social Society for the Rule of Law Exec. Director
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Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8bn fund for friends is bad
The president threatened to sue his own administration, and will hand out the pay-off
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Help us, help you bring rule of law programming to your law school campus.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Society for the Rule of Law is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Rule of Law Ambassadors Program. Law students committed to constitutional governance and the separation of powers are invited to apply:
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NOW ACCEPTING RULE OF LAW AMBASSADORS FOR THE 2026-2027 ACADEMIC YEAR - Society for the Rule of Law
The Society for the Rule of Law is a national membership organization of conservative, libertarian, and center-right lawyers, alongside independent and open-minded constitutionalists, committed to def...
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is a really important point. Don't let legalisms blind you to assault on our freedoms
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is ridiculous on its face. MAGA is a new thing, distinct from and generally opposed to the 40 year, democratic project to change the courts
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What governs U.S. military action in Iran, statutorily and constitutionally? SRL convened Scott R. Anderson and Jamil Jaffer for a conversation on war powers. Moderated by Executive Director @greggnunziata.bsky.social.
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What Constrains the President's Actions in Iran?
Jamil Jaffer and Scott Anderson discuss relevant legal and political checks on executive power during recent U.S. military operations in Iran.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This would be comical if it weren't so chilling. The entire senior leadership of the Justice Department should have resigned over something like this. They betray their oath and their country by their complicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...
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Trump Administration Secures New Indictment Against Comey
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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Legislation to rein in our 'unbound' executive should be a priority. Obvious first steps would include strengthening the enforceability of congressional subpoenas, protecting against politicized law enforcement, and limiting the president’s emergency powers and ability to profit from his service."
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In this post, I endorse @greggnunziata.bsky.social's call (in @theatlantic.com) to rethink conservative support for sweeping executive power, and add a few extensions and caveats of my own: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
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Rethinking Conservative Approaches to Executive Power
Conservative legal commentator Gregg Nunziata outlines reasons why conservatives should reject broad views of executive power.
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A fascinating analysis by a conservative jurist of the evolution of American conservative legal thinking that helped create an “executive unbound” and put our constitutional system in danger. @greggnunziata.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Age of American Caesarism
The legal right spent decades empowering the presidency. Now it must reckon with the system it helped create.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The Constitution's central premise is that liberty requires divided authority. @greggnunziata.bsky.social's new Atlantic piece argues the conservative legal movement helped erode that premise and now has to be the one to rebuild it.
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What to Do About the New American Caesarism?
In The Atlantic, Gregg Nunziata argues that the conservative legal movement needs to rediscover its skepticism of executive power.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The legal right spent decades empowering the presidency. Now it must reckon with the system it helped create. @greggnunziata.bsky.social, Executive Director of the Society for the Rule of Law, in @theatlantic.com.
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The Age of American Caesarism
The legal right spent decades empowering the presidency. Now it must reckon with the system it helped create.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If legal conservatives wish to defend the structural Constitution, we must rethink our approach to executive power. So I argue in @theatlantic.com today. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Age of American Caesarism
The legal right spent decades empowering the presidency. Now it must reckon with the system it helped create.
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
With @greggnunziata.bsky.social, I have done a podcast. He heads the Society for the Rule of Law (@chkbal.bsky.social). We talk about his life in the GOP (and mine). Reagan, Scalia. Rubio (for whom he worked). And the rule of law -- something precious and rare. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/the-rule-o...
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The Rule of Law, a.k.a. the Ballgame
A talk with Gregg Nunziata
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/04/2026
What are the constitutional limits on the president’s emergency powers to wage war on another country? Conservative attorney @greggnunziata.bsky.social joined The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss the courts, Congress, and executive overreach: bit.ly/4cM4l5v
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hugely looking forward to moderating this webinar tomorrow at 6pm with former SDNY Judge Shira Scheindlin, Society for the Rule of Law Exec Director @greggnunziata.bsky.social, and head of Law Firm Partners United Neel Chatterjee. Registration open to all, details below.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Who decides when an election is over? Federal courts shouldn't invent deadlines Congress never imposed.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
America faces serious challenges, and Senate Republicans this week are debating the "SAVE America Act" and "investigating" Special Counsel Jack Smith, revealing a party totally in thrall of one man's dangerous delusions and frauds.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
So much of the questioning from conservative justices in RNC v Watson reflected mere policy concerns. But the Court shouldn't do policy. That's the foundational idea of the conservative legal movement. That shouldn't change because elections hurt the president's feelings.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We're a relatively new, relatively small organization. But we are growing. We are conservatives who put the law and Constitution first. Our brief in this case caught the attention of SCOTUS. And we're just getting started. Join us. Support us. societyfortheruleoflaw.org
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Society for the Rule of Law
We believe in the rule of law, the power of truth, the independence of the criminal justice system, the imperative of individual rights, and the necessity of civil discourse.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I have old-fashioned conservative views about voting. I think it should be in person, on one day. But I also believe in the Constitution, the law, and federalism. States have great leeway to establish the manner of their elections. The RNC is wrong in the case before SCOTUS.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The Pace of Judicial Appointments is Slowing substack.com/@chkbal/note...
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The Pace of Judicial Appointments is Slowing
Judges view the president’s insistence on political loyalty as damaging to the judiciary.
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Jonathan H. Adler @jadler1969.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Brian Fitzpatrick on how to address the lack of meaningful viewpoint diversity in academia. lawliberty.org/diversifying...
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Diversifying the Academy – Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Is it possible to recruit more conservatives for our universities?
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
President Trump's net worth has reportedly increased b $1.4 BILLION in the first year of his second term. Tune in for a cross idealogical discussion about the problem public corruption, self-enrichment by public servants, and what to do about.
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Brendan Ballou @brendanballou.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I spoke with @greggnunziata.bsky.social about political corruption and the legal path to fight it. I'm always grateful to speak to groups like Gregg's, because whatever liberal/conservative policy disagreements we have, we're united in a deeper commitment to the rule of law. youtu.be/T4bt0ugXLAs?...
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Virtual Event | Shutting the Door Against Public Corruption
YouTube video by Society for the Rule of Law
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I spoke to CBSNews about Trump's second-term judicial nominations: "No judge is going to be excited about the prospect of a president selecting future nominees based on any conception of loyalty to the occupant of the White House. That offends judges across the ideological spectrum."
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"[T]he failure to condemn this is morally cowardly, but it's also politically shortsighted... The MAGA movement and the coalition that elected Donald Trump itself was pluralistic." — @greggnunziata.bsky.social, executive director of Society for the Rule of Law
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I spoke with @npr.org bout some Congressional Republicans' anti-Muslim and anti-pluralism comments, and the cowardice of those who refuse to condemn them. www.npr.org/2026/03/14/g...
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
As Executive Director of the Society for the Rule of Law, and a former Republican Chief Nominations Counsel, I was immensely proud to join these briefs. These cases dramatically illustrate the importance of the separation of powers in protecting our liberty.
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
@greggnunziata.bsky.social of @chkbal.bsky.social: “All of us—but especially lawyers—have a duty not merely to use this system, but to proclaim its worth and to defend it from corrosion, exploitation, and abuse.” chkbal.substack.com/p/stewardshi...
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Stewardship in the Storm: Our Duty to the Rule of Law
The law cannot be seen as a loaded gun on the table.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"Is this what a military takeover of the civil justice system might look like?" Garri Hendell, Lt. Colonel in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, on why deputizing military lawyers for immigration enforcement is bound to fail.
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The Myth of the Army’s Loyal Beekeepers
Why deputizing military lawyers for immigration enforcement is bound to fail.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"Perhaps it is too late to restore separation of powers in matters of war. But the continuing survival of our Republic as framed by our Constitution demands that we do not give up the fight..." Our charter member Richard Bernstein makes that case in Checks & Balances.
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Separation of Powers and the Dead Girls of Iran
A pillar of American democracy suffers yet another blow.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I wrote about what we gain from the rule of law, and what we owe to it, here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Stewardship in the Storm: Our Duty to the Rule of Law
The law cannot be seen as a loaded gun on the table.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Judge Luttig called it "unprecedented." This week, the former Fourth Circuit Judge, joined by more than 175 former federal and state judges from both parties, filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court challenging the Court's growing use of the "shadow docket."
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Judge Luttig's Amicus Brief on the Shadow Docket
More than 175 former federal and state judges signed the unprecedented brief.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Most Americans have never heard of reconciliation, yet it shapes every major budget fight in Washington. Robert VerBruggen, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, explains how it works, why it's broken, and what a fix would look like.
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How to Fix the Senate’s Broken Reconciliation Process
The fight over the SAVE America Act demonstrates the extent of our Congressional dysfunction.
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I wrote about what we gain from the rule of law, and what we owe to it, here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Stewardship in the Storm: Our Duty to the Rule of Law
The law cannot be seen as a loaded gun on the table.
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Society for the Rule of Law @chkbal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The law cannot be seen as a loaded gun on the table. For some, the law is just a tool for power. Treat it that way, and you undermine the system that protects everyone, left and right. @greggnunziata.bsky.social explains in Checks & Balances.
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Stewardship in the Storm: Our Duty to the Rule of Law
The law cannot be seen as a loaded gun on the table.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The only person Trump never threatens or criticizes is Putin. Ever.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
After three years of foot dragging and delays by Trump supporters, the Jan 6 plaque is hung as Capitol opens for the week youtu.be/0CMFCgS5yHI?...
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After three years of political foot dragging and delay.. the Jan 6 plaque is hung
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