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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Americans would NOT pay more to bring jobs back to America if it increased their household costs

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

State party should just throw the names of every Dem state legislator between the ages of 40 and 60 in a hat pick a replacement that way, the odds are better than any deliberated calculated decision they could make.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Minus the adjectives and hyperbole, Alito's first paragraph summarized what happened

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

To quickly understand a Supreme Court opinion, quickly flip to the dissent. They'll usually explain in the first paragraph or two what the majority has done and what they think it means

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Federal judges seem to be getting tired of the endless requests for time extensions from U.S. government lawyers. It's been endemic for the last year as DOJ lawyers say they need time due to workload and to consult political leadership.

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Will Singer @wsinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We’re not clear as to the specific member of the Bishop-Henchman libertarian power couple, but safe to assume it’s a man

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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Maryland legislature last night passed @govwesmoore.bsky.social's Transit Oriented Development bill with amendment proposed by @actfortransit.bsky.social. The ACT amendment exempts mixed-use development on @wmata.com station parking lots from all local zoning rules that limit density & use. 1/2

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether the Historic Preservation Review Board should be prevented from stopping projects for height and mass reasons. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether there are not enough historic districts, enough historic districts, or too many historic districts. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Map of DC historic preservation districts for the next two questions

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing parking and travel lanes to build protected bike lanes. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing parking and travel lanes to build dedicated bus lanes. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing the Height Act entirely, only in certain cases, or not at all. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on how many more homes the District should build in the next 5 years: about as many as the last 5 years, twice as many, or three times as many. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether apartments should be legal in all parts of the District. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Gorsuch to Barrett: what's your deal, I can't figure you out Roasted everyone but the Chief Justice

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Gorsuch to Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to uphold what the President did. However vague the statute, however unprecedented the action, however attenuated the causation, you voted yes. So why are you in the majority with me in this case? Why?

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Gorsuch to Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to strike down what the President did. You said vague statutes, unprecedented actions, attenuated causation, that those are all fatal. So why are you in the dissent in this case? Why?

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"Put not your trust in princes" Psalm 146:3-5

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Many of them live in DC and said they were voting for Oliver, but Oliver wasn't on the DC ballot...

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"We have National Park Service-run spaces, from parks to small triangles, where clearing depends on federal choices and timelines rather than local needs.... The transit system clears train stops but not bus stops" www.commonplace.org/p/joe-bishop...

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Why Can’t D.C.—Or Anywhere Else—Remove Snow?

The response to a non-exceptional snow storm undercuts public confidence in the nation’s capital and beyond.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Looking like the President will miss today's deadline to submit a budget: "On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year." 31 U.S.C. § 1105(a)

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 24/11/2025

Almost every Safeway in San Francisco is planning a total rebuild into "housing over grocery." At least three recent proposals. Meanwhile, zero proposals from Safeway in the East Bay. sfyimby.com/2025/11/prel... sfyimby.com/2025/11/perm... sfyimby.com/2025/11/bern...

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Preliminary Plans Filed For Safeway in Outer Richmond, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY

Preliminary plans have been filed for an eight-story apartment complex at 850 La Playa Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The project will...

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Watson v. RNC. It appeals a 5th Circuit decision holding that federal law requires election ballots be received by officials no later than election day. Mississippi, like 30 states and DC, counts mailed ballots to come in after election day.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

continuing resolution, keeping the current spending levels from the last passed budget

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal asking to overturn the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision, without comment and without dissent. The case involved former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis and damages she owes to a couple she denied a marriage license to.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This is a Senate deal, House not on board. Most Dems will oppose but it will need only 10 Senate Dems to support. The thinking is that the House will be pressured to pass what Senate passes.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Rumored deal to end the government shutdown. -CR and ban on reductions in force of fed govt employees through 1/30/26 -Minibus: Adoption of military construction/veterans, agricultural, and leg branch portions of budget -Promise of vote in Dec on enhanced ACA subsidies.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sauer, in his final argument, sticks with his position that the tariffs are not an exercise of the power to tax, but of the power to regulate commerce.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

In response to a question by Jackson, Oregon's Gutman says the tariffs do not address fentanyl because they are too indirect and aren't on traffickers. Jackson points out that embargoes and sanctions often are indirect, and a pressure points.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There’s an obvious reason that Congress hasn’t authorized imposing a 1% tariff to respond to an international emergency: what emergency would be addressed by such an action?

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Kavanaugh says the challengers think the President could do embargoes and quotas but not a 1% tariff, leaving a donut hole, and asks how that makes sense. Justice Jackson jumps in to say Congress wanting to allow a halt to trade in an international emergency makes more sense than a tariff.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Katyal's 20 minute argument was about an hour.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Barrett asking some questions about the administrative feasibility of refunds, warning it could be “a mess.” Katyal says that’s not a reason to not do it, but the Court could choose to only make relief prospective going forward.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Katyal, with help from Justice Barrett, clarifies that licenses are not the same thing as tariffs. Licenses may involve fees but are fundamentally about government permission to do something.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Kavanaugh asks whether the challengers’ argument comes down to whether the law says “tariff” or not, and if that makes sense since quotas and embargoes aren’t much different. Katyal says no, what matters is context and here the statute is not clearly aimed at tariff actions.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Kagan says at the time of IEEPA, Congress thought it had a legislative veto. The statute originally had one, but legislative vetoes have since held a violation of the separation of powers. Interesting question.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Alito jokes with Katyal - who is President Obama’s former Solicitor General - if he thought he would be the person to revive the non-delegation doctrine. bsky.app/profile/jbhe...

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Alito says other authorities might allow the President to do the tariffs, should this case just repeat over and over? Katyal says the President can use Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 or Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the proper authorities to impose tariffs.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Alito asks if the plain language of a 1930 law authorizes the President’s actions. Katyal replies no, government hasn’t invoked it, that law applied only to most favored nation status, and it has lapsed. (We noted this in footnote 2 of our brief, on page 25.)

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Alito is pressing on Katyal’s argument that there is a category shift between regulation and taxes. He asks if the President could impose an emergency tariff on an enemy heavily tied to U.S. trade? Katyal says no, he can embargo or go to Congress.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It is clear that Justice Kavanaugh views the definition of “regulate importation” as key and whether the Nixon 1971 precedent authorizes what has happened here (and why Congress didn’t add tariffs to the statute afterward). He’s brought it up several times.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Barrett asks if it really is an emergency ("unusual and extraordinary") if we're tariffing every country. Sauer answers with a hypothetical about tariffing South Africa in the 1980s. He should've said Nixon did across-the-board tariffs in 1971 and the President determined the same remedy was needed.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Justice Barrett raising another challenge for the government’s case: IEEPA allows the President to regulate importation by “instructions, license, or otherwise.” So are tariffs “otherwise” or “license” and if license, why aren’t they structured that way?

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