Comparing current, seemingly random brutality deployed by federal agents in Minneapolis and St.Paul with repression and terror of regimes in history: Soviet KGB terror, for example, was fundamentally random. “A regime based on terror … deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.”
One small test will be whether recent special counsel reports about the president on justice.gov are left in place on the web.
In The Atlantic, Lora Kelley digs into the complicated reality of what role nominees for vice president have in determining election outcomes. This, plus polling about J.D. Vance, gives me optimism about Kamala Harris’s campaign, and I have some thoughts on Senator Mark Kelly’s credibility on a unique set of important issues.
On the U.S. Supreme Court majority’s policy choices in Trump v. United States and Trump v. Anderson: “They’re not textual, they should not be constitutional, and they contradict the wiser judgment of the founders in key ways.”
Jamelle Bouie makes a good argument for “a plain reading of Section 3”—and against objections to disqualifying Trump as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.