Michael Podhorzer (@Mike

Michael Podhorzer

1,269 posts

Michael Podhorzer

@Mike_Podhorzer

Former political director of the AFL-CIO. Senior fellow at CAP. On Bluesky at @mikepod.bsky.social

Washington, DC

Joined June 2011

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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Jul 1, 2024
1/ At long last, can we all stop pretending that Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh are legitimate jurists? They are politicians who were effectively “appointed” to the Court by the Federalist Society, which has turned the Supreme Court into an unaccountable
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Jun 19, 2024
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the presidential immunity decision. If you’re wondering whether the MAGA majority on the Court will let Trump off the hook, they already have. By doing so, they have already interfered in the 2024 elections. They’ve forced a historic
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
May 31, 2024
Yesterday’s verdict made it clear why the Federalist Society Supreme Court Justices and Judge Cannon are doing everything they can to prevent Trump from facing a jury in the J6 and classified documents cases – it’s because they know that when everyday Americans review the
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
May 19, 2024
Alito and Thomas have made clear their insurrectionist connections. So why are we debating whether Alito should recuse himself, instead of demanding Roberts dismiss Trump’s immunity appeal so the J6 trial can begin immediately? (It’s called “dismissed as improvidently
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Jun 19, 2024
Replying to @Mike_Podhorzer
Imagine you were told that in another country, a president who had been defeated in a free and fair election attempted a coup, for which he was indicted—but four years later, the very judges he had appointed have helped protect him from standing trial so he could return to
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Oct 18, 2024
We should be alarmed by how unalarmed we are about a second Trump administration. This race is closer than it would be if more people understood what a second Trump term would actually mean for them. 🧵
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Jul 1, 2024
Replying to @Mike_Podhorzer
2/ Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are the only five of the 116 justices to serve on the Supreme Court to have been confirmed by senators representing less than one half of the US population. The panel on the left shows how dramatically different that was just 24
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
May 21, 2024
Supreme Gaslighting: It took just 25 days after oral arguments for SCOTUS to restore Trump to the Colorado ballot. Yesterday was 25 days after oral arguments on Trump immunity, and crickets from the Court—even as it’s clearer than ever that Alito and Thomas were complicit.
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Apr 30, 2024
While we focus on what SCOTUS means for Trump, we forget what Trump means for SCOTUS. If he wins, he could replace Thomas, Alito, and 40+ federal judges over 75 with young zealots. Trump is the means to the end of an ongoing Federalist Society coup. That coup, in charts: 🧵
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Jun 19, 2024
Replying to @Mike_Podhorzer
Since Bush v. Gore, the GOP-appointed justices have consistently acted to benefit Republicans electorally. Here are some of the biggest acts of election interference we’ve seen from MAGA/FedSoc judges:
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
May 22, 2024
It's no coincidence that the "Appeal to Heaven" flag Alito flew is both a symbol of January 6th and of Christian nationalism. It’s no coincidence that Mike Johnson displayed the same flag outside his office. Alito and Johnson pledge allegiance to the same flag, and the
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
May 31, 2024
Replying to @Mike_Podhorzer
As I previously wrote, it’s long past time we acknowledge that the only reason Trump’s J6 trial did not start on schedule, and why we don’t have a verdict now, is because of Alito and his similarly conflicted fellow justices.
Supreme Gaslighting
From weekendreading.net
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Jun 19, 2024
Replying to @Mike_Podhorzer
Let's be clear: All six GOP-appointed SCOTUS justices, and Judge Aileen Cannon, have current or former associations with the Federalist Society. None of them can be impartial about cases involving Trump, because his defeat will also mean the defeat of their hard-fought
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Michael Podhorzer
@Mike_Podhorzer
Jul 1, 2024
Replying to @Mike_Podhorzer
4/ The Roberts court has completely remade federal elections to advantage Republican interests—in nearly every instance on a straight party-line vote.
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