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Nonilex<p>That blurring contributed to a long-term shift in civilian <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawEnforcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawEnforcement</span></a> — one that encouraged the adoption of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> - style equipment &amp; tactics, &amp; helped lay the groundwork for the sort of aggressive <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> force that is common today.</p><p>What accounted for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Army" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Army</span></a>’s restraint? Although society was as divided as it is today, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> elites were not yet <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/polarized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polarized</span></a> &amp; still placed trust in apolitical <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/expertise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expertise</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Title10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Title10</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PosseComitatusAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PosseComitatusAct</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Marines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marines</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a></p>

On Tues, Americans will elect the next #POTUS & hundreds of #Congress members. In doing so, voters will also shape the 3rd branch: the #judiciary.

Federal #judges — whom the #president picks & the #Senate confirms — have become even more powerful in recent yrs as a #polarized Congress has failed to pass major #laws on many issues. As a result, the judiciary has shaped #policy on #abortion, #immigration, #guns, #VotingRights & more.

#law #SCOTUS #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
nytimes.com/2024/10/31/briefin

The New York Times · The 2024 Stakes for JudgesVon Ian Prasad Philbrick
Fortgeführter Thread

#JoeLieberman generally voted w/his party (#Democrats), but he sided w/ #Republicans on cutting the capital gains tax, vouchers for parents to send their children to private schools, & placing restrictions on consumer lawsuits against corps, the latter of special interest to #Connecticut’s large #insurance companies.
His willingness to buck his party put him at odds w/teachers, trial lawyers & other powerful Dem constituencies. But it gave him influence w/in the increasingly #polarized #Senate….