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Presidential Immunity Didn’t Fall out of a Coconut Tree

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
The six Supreme Court justices who invented presidential immunity are not 'conservative.' A series of interventions by Federalist Society judges have rewritten the United States Constitution and democratic rules in favor of plutocratic interests.

The “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group Teneo

Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey ProPublica
Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture.

Samuel Alito: One Angry Man

Aziz Huq Politico
If Alito gets his way — and there is no reason to think he won’t — the Supreme Court will increasingly be a religious censor: keeping women in their lane, imposing "Christian rights," and preventing uppity scientists from getting their wicked way.

Trump Is Planning a Much More Respectable Coup Next Time

Richard L. Hasen Slate
Forget bonkers accusations about Italy using lasers to manipulate American vote totals. Expect white-shoe lawyers with Federalist Society bona fides to argue about application of the “independent state legislature” doctrine.

Dispatches from the Culture Wars - Now You See It, Now You Don’t Edition

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Broken Bridge Already Off Google Maps; There May be a Glow-in-the-Dark Cockroach, or Not; Peace Corps Says Yes to Gay Couples, Exxon Says No; New On-line Source for TV News Archives; Newseum Gets Flack for Honoring Slain Arab Newsmen; Climate Change Will Be Fought in the Courts; How Harvard Approved That Racist Immigration Dissertation; Physicist Eric Weinstein May Have the Answer to Everything, or Not; How the Federalist Society Got Custody of the Law.
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