Former congressional lawyer

Fairfax Station, VA
Joined June 2008
I strongly recommend watching Jack Goldsmith’s interview with Caleb Nelson about Nelson’s forthcoming article (Against the Dictatorial Presidency). open.substack.com/pub/execut…
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Whatever one thinks about Trump, he has revealed that our structural Constitution, the checks & balances upon which everything depends, is in an advanced stage of decay. Revivingit is the pressing business of our time. It's a project which should unite Americans left and right. – at Phoenix, AZ
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This is our President’s fault, not the Ukrainian President’s fault. He blames the victim, not the attacker.
Axios Report:The cost of Ukraine's refinery campaign is falling on Zelensky, not Moscow, according to White House officials. They warn the strikes on Russian oil refineries are hurting his relationship with President Trump more than they are hurting Russia.
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Maybe @SenJohnCurtis would like to suggest a congressional hearing on this.
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Yikes, I guess the anti-semitism at @haverfordedu is worse than I thought.
NEW: Haverford Professor Guangtian Ha has been arrested and charged with cyberstalking a Jewish colleague. Posing as a MAGA anon on X, he allegedly messaged another Haverford professor around 50 times between October 2025 and May 2026. In addition to posting vile antisemitic messages (see below), he allegedly posted his colleague’s “home address, infant child's name, a photograph of the family's mailbox, countless antisemitic slurs and threats, and reference to real-time observation of their home.” The target’s wife twice moved out of the home with their three children because they were so terrified. Ha is a member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine. He has called complaints about antisemitism on campus “Zionist witch hunts.” Originally from China, he is an associate professor of religion at Haverford who studies Islam in China. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia. His dissertation is entitled, “Religion of the Father: Islam, Gender, and Politics of Ethnicity in Late Socialism.” He won the 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion for his book, The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China. He is “charged with one count of cyberstalking pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2). The statutory maximum for cyberstalking is five years' imprisonment, three years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment.” Here are some of the messages he posted (brace yourself): “Jew, get the fuck out of my country” “Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion” “If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments” “LM jews are going to have it big time, jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy. Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons.” “@[Victim 1] Eliminate the jewish cockroaches. Exterminate the jewish state. [Victim 1], you will have nowhere to go. Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust.” “@[Victim 1] Fat jew, leave lower merion.” “@[Victim 1] Jew, watch your [Victim I's minor son's true name]. There shall be a sign.” After the victim took security precautions: “@[Victim 1] The goyim have woken up, jew. Run. Flee. Leave. Blurring your home on google map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won't help.” “[Victim 1], the jewish state will stop existing, whether you like it or not, which is why as an Israeli zio jew you want to recreate america in 'iSrAeL's' image. This won't work. You and your family have no future here. Homeless dogs jews will once again become, if you do survive.” “That's right[Victim 1]The end of American jews is close. Let's start with the jews in Lower Merion. Watch out jewish nigga.” “[is] that blood, [Victim 1]? We know jews are blood-sucking demons. Only the libtard niggas [...] will protect you. But soon we are going to make sure you have no place to hide, fat rat.” “Nothing wrong to hate jews. We started to decline the moment we stopped hating, eradicating and expelling jews. Babylonians knew, the Romans knew, the Spaniards knew. American jews have been exposed. Fuck anti-Zionism. HH [i.e., “Heil Hitler”].” Haverford College has placed Ha on administrative leave and barred him from campus. His information has been wiped from the college’s website.
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The seditious conspiracy at the highest levels of government was when President Trump tried to illegally remain in office after losing an election. That law enforcement investigated that awful crime, even if it overreached in any particular, is not what should shock.
This was a seditious conspiracy against the Republic waged from within the Department of Justice and at the highest levels of government.
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Senator @ChuckGrassley was once famous for nonpartisan oversight. He's been asleep at the switch as this Administration destroys and weaponizes the agencies he oversees. Worse, he's arranging hearings meant to deflect and distract from abuse of power. It's a shameful end of a career.
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Mike Stern retweeted
Don’t put politics above God and disregard how God has commanded us to live and treat one another. Save your soul and love your neighbor. Do not obsess about worldly concerns, save your soul, do the work of God each day: protect creation, do good works, don’t divide His children.
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Mike Stern retweeted
Well it’s getting too expensive to own the libs, you can only rent them now so congrats
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A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now.
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For too long our two major political parties have been focused on short term issues like the economy, healthcare, foreign policy and social issues like abortion and guns. I am forming a new political party that will deal only with symbolic issues like building monuments and renaming things. What is your top symbolic issue?
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Literally nobody says this. And you’ve spent many thousands of hours of federal law enforcement to so far make fewer than 100 arrests over 1.5 years for election fraud. All of which have been one-off actions. No widespread plot. No “machine rigging.” Over 150 million voted in the 2020 election alone. Get real.
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Mike Stern retweeted
Freedom Wins! Today the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act targeting the lifelines sustaining Putin’s war machine passed the US House of Representatives with a strong, bipartisan vote of 262-159 and is headed to the President’s desk. I know my friend Lindsey is smiling in Glory. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦
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