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Sophie the Bearable

@sophiethebear

Labrador with a law degree - sailing, bicycling, photography, humanism, history, urbanism, and ganked memes

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Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Jul 13

Ya stick wit da wolves

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Jul 8

I rest your case

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Jun 16

These are our secret happiness weapons on pizza night

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· May 29

BREAKING: Emmet Otter announces Jug Band will not play America 250 show

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· May 29

BREAKING: Moss Eisley jazz band pulls out of American 250 concert lineup

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Apr 30

It also has this fascinating commentary on separation of powers.

The federal Constitution nowhere expressly declares that the three branches of the government shall be kept separate and independent. All legislative powers are vested in a Congress. The executive power is vested in a President. The judicial power is vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time establish. The judges are given life tenure and a compensation that may not be diminished during their continuance in office, with the evident purpose of securing them and their courts an independence of Congress and the executive. Complete independence and separation between the three branches, however, are not attained, or intended, as other provisions of the Constitution and the normal operation of government under it

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easily demonstrate. By affirmative action through the veto power, the executive and one more than one-third of either House may defeat all legislation. One-half of the House and two-thirds of the Senate may impeach and remove the members of the judiciary. The executive can reprieve or pardon all offenses after their commission, either before trial, during trial or after trial, by individuals, or by classes, conditionally or absolutely, and this without modification or regulation by Congress. Ex parte Garland, 4 Wall 333, 380, 18 L. Ed. 366. Negatively one House of Congress can withhold all appropriations and stop the operations of government. The Senate can hold up all appointments, confirmation of which either the Constitution or a statute requires, and thus deprive the President of the necessary agents with which he is to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

These are some instances of positive and negative restraints possibly available under the Constitution to each branch of the government in defeat of the action of the other. They show that the independence of each of the other is qualified and is so subject to exception as not to constitute a broadly positive injunction...

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Apr 24

Reminds me of…

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Mar 29

The stack I’m working through at the moment. Everyone show us your stacks!

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Feb 25

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Feb 6

This earlier docket entry is really sweet, though.

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Jan 25

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Jan 22

Karma police Arrest Bovino His Hitler hairdo Is makin me feel ill

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Dec 18

The comments are gold

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Dec 18

Handy quotation from a recent Florida case castigating counsel for citing non-existence case law hallucinated by AI. Russell v. Mells, Case No. 2D2024-1560 (Fla. 2d DCA Dec. 10, 2025).

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Dec 5

This one was my personal fave:

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Dec 2

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Nov 27

My sister can be culinarily intimidating when she chooses

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 31

The neighborhood raising the bar

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 30

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 28

Who wore it better?

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 21

You're right. He just threatened to at one point. I think this is the funniest thing to come out of the whole kerfuffle so far:

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 21

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 18

One of half a dozen separate protests in Clearwater FL draws 3,000 in a line almost a mile long

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 16

Women don’t like the vehicle

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 7

Thanks, Obama!

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Oct 7

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Sep 19

You reading this?

Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Sep 3

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Sophie the Bearable@sophiethebear· Sep 3