SCOTUS can do whatever they like. Suppose Trump was on the ballot (SCOTUS ruled that states had to list him even if they think he's ineligible, they already decided this previously over the insurrect… (View Post)

Obama can't win Calvinball against the Supreme Court. I think it's unlikely to happen but if it does it could look something like this: - Republicans push some spurious legal theory about the term li… (View Post)

FPT This is classic Innovator's Dilemma stuff. The incumbents have great engineers, they know the new thing is coming, and they know how to make the new thing. But all the short-term incentives of th… (View Post)

If Burnham did engineer a vacancy, would the NEC have the power to go, "ok cool, all-women shortlist"? (View Post)

The counterpoint to this is it turns out there's an audience for really long politics podcasts. In the US it's mainly been Rogan, Lex Fridman, people like that. They tend not to do very hostile quest… (View Post)