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"The Alito Theory[...]

If a coup is attempted and succeeds, the couper becomes president and faces no consequences. If a coup is attempted and fails, the couper is immune to prosecution and free to attempt another coup in the next election. And perhaps even in the election after that."

Joel Mathis @joelmathis.bsky.social

One of my grand mistakes was treating thinky conservatism as anything but a set of rationalizations. www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati...

Conservative Legal Philosophy Was All a Lie, Too

The textualists and originalists have taken off the mask.

www.thebulwark.com

27 April

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PCNiles née Furyu @pcniles.bsky.social

If the SCOTUS rules that Trump is immune from prosecution for committing criminal acts (planning a coup to steal a free and fair election and stay in power) while he was a sitting president and cannot be prosecuted now that he is not, then President Biden is also immune.

Let a Biden coup begin!

24 December 2023

Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social

Very cool and awesome that of the nine people deciding if someone can run for president following a failed coup three of them were put in place by the couper and another is married to a coup participant.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social

First we get questions from the justice whose wife participated in the coup. Sure hope he has an open mind.

08 February

🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social

if it fails its a coup attempt and we have already established That Is Allowed. if it succeeds it is just an Unusual Election

06 April

Emerald Lavigne; it's been 4 months - why isn't my knee better?! @leftoidsadhu.bsky.social

Keeping a guy who attempted a coup off the ballot sure is damaging to faith in the election system.

30 December 2023

Truth Axe @truthaxe.bsky.social

Sam Alito is a pathetic little cuck w/ a Napoleon complex.

Dump attempted a coup, complete with war rooms and private mercenaries that he sommoned and incited.

If the US was in distress, it was because of his fuhrer and the coup attempt.

Alito is a PAB for acting the victim.

Also, happy Friday!

2 days ago

אריאלה 🎗️ @sodone.bsky.social

Yes, in fact it is identical to the last election and generally normal, if you just ignore the fact that after that last election, the losing candidate attempted a coup, got indicted for it, and then formulated a plan to replace the entire executive branch with loyalists if he wins this time,

01 March

Jinesh Gheeya, MD, PhD @jinesh.bsky.social

It fails basic scrutiny. Like attempted coup is not a coup unless it succeeds. So dumb.

13 January

Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social

The insistence on referring to it as an attempt to overturn the election rather than an attempted coup--because those are things that happens in other places-- is a major hindrance in stopping the next attempt.

Dr Henry @cmhenry.bsky.social

real talk tho, if you look through a few of the big coup datasets in political science, the only time a coup plotter didn’t repeat (& succeed) after a failed attempt were in cases of exile or execution

18 January

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social

I am ever more convinced that Alito and Thomas were involved in the attempted coup.

At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display

An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case.

www.nytimes.com

2 days ago

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social

the scariest horror movie at Sundance is a documentary that games out an attempted coup around the next U.S. election.

What Would Happen if There Were a Coup After the Next Election? These Generals Gamed It Out.

The results were not reassuring.

slate.com

23 January

Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social

Wow, Trump's lawyer just said the President ordering the military to stage a coup is an official act and the President is immune from prosecution.

25 April

Rodrigo Lima @rodrigo-lima.bsky.social

It was an attempted coup and a lab for the attempted coup em january 8th, 2023 here in Brazil.

12 April

New Year’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social

Put simply, the consequences for Trump for losing the election and accepting it and losing the election, attempting a coup and failing are identical: he dies in prison.
The latter has the upside to keeping him out of jail if he succeeds, so he’s going to try to coup with every resource he has.

Micah @rincewind.run

this is why I keep harping on about how much this is an existential election for him and how dangerous that is

Trump is at the point where the only way - absolutely the only possible way - for him to wriggle out of losing all his money and going to jail is to become President again

20 March

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social

electing someone who was the architect of the attempted coup last time to the position where they will be in charge of certifying the next election sure sends a signal and I hope people are listening because the coup is still ongoing and 2024 looks to be already in danger

25 October 2023

The Face of Sedition @faceofsedition.bsky.social

The truth is that Trump attempted a coup and should be executed for treason.

10 March

Average Joe @spiv.bsky.social

They're considering the case of the president who attempted a coup when literally everyone understood that he wasn't above the law, and their conclusion is that we need to make presidents above the law so they don't attempt a coup?

01 May

Needleroozer @needleroozer.bsky.social

If we treated coup attempts the way the rest of the world treats coup attempts, Trump wouldn't be in a position to try another coup attempt. If there is another coup attempt and the participants are not immediately arrested our nation is doomed. We will go through another four years of inaction.

15 March

Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social

There is no honest way to both sides this. One president attempted a coup to stay in power. The other side prosecuting him for that coup is not the same, at all.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social

Life imitating parody.

14 January

geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social

the supreme court could return today and lift the stay to allow the trial of the ex-president running for president for an attempted coup to go forward before the election. there's literally nothing stopping them other than that it is an illegitimate body that supports the coup in all but aesthetic

25 April

En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social

the problem is that doing something about a violent attempted coup attempt would be divisive and partisan and therefore must not be done

29 November 2023

Simply Rich @rtanderson.bsky.social

It's time for media outlets, reporters, and journalists to call 1/6 what it was, a failed coup attempt.

I mean, it was time the day of, but I understand denial.

A president is the United States staged a coup to stay in office after losing the election.

Why is he free?

11 February

Czech Hunter Biden @conkrete.bsky.social

People want to try and call the December 6, 2021 flashmob an attempted coup might often forget that today is the 60th anniversary of a real coup

22 November 2023

Mooch @cachiporra.bsky.social

Remember when Trump murdered a half million people and then attempted a violent coup that failed and then experienced no personal consequences and is now being prepped for re-election by both his party and the entire American media including new entrants to the misinfo market like CNN and the NYT?

08 November 2023

jamerman @jamerman.bsky.social

If hijacking the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimate election is not a coup attempt then what is it?

28 April