And I think Joe Biden ought to be out there saying it.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Maybe on Monday
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 03/04/2024 08:22 am:
The LA Times offered these six:
1. Trump did not engage in insurrection
2. The justices lack sufficient standards for applying the amendment
3. The section requires congressional authorization
4. The amendment prohibits holding office, not running for office
5. The Colorado courts were out of step with state law
6. The president is not a federal “officer” under the amendment
1. Trump did not engage in insurrection
2. The justices lack sufficient standards for applying the amendment
3. The section requires congressional authorization
4. The amendment prohibits holding office, not running for office
5. The Colorado courts were out of step with state law
6. The president is not a federal “officer” under the amendment
UPDATE 09:09 am: And there it is:
“Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the states, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse,’’ Monday’s ruling stated.
[...]
The court has moved less quickly to resolve Trump’s separate claim of presidential immunity from prosecution. As a result, the criminal trial over his role on Jan. 6 may not be held until after the November election.
Last week, the court announced it would hear Trump’s immunity claim, setting arguments for the week of April 22. Under that schedule, the justices are not likely to rule before June.
LA Times
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Steve Vladeck on SCOTUS granting cert in J6 case
OK, that's good, but did they have to wait two weeks to do it?
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
What name will he call her?
And what threats will she receive?
The comments on this post are nasty enough. And this isn't Twitter. I mean Xitter.
The first three I see:
Actually, it's a pretty bold move for Murkowski.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Friday, March 1, 2024
Mehdi Hasan has a new venture
You can subscribe at that link.To be clear: racism has been mainstreamed and normalized across the West. Donald Trump is about to usher in a new era of fascism in the United States. And the highest court in the world has said it is “plausible” that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
Nevertheless, most news organizations won’t touch the R-word, the F-word, or the G-word. They hide behind euphemisms and ‘both sides’ coverage. Far too many journalists hold back from speaking the truth because they don’t want to offend conservatives, or ‘sound biased,’ or risk losing their connections to the people in power. We have reached a point where I can’t help but be reminded of this line, often misattributed to George Orwell: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
I hope that Zeteo will be revolutionary in that sense, a vanguard of a new media movement. One which prioritizes speaking truth to power over securing access to power.
Zeteo News
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Supreme means Supreme
And apparently there's no way for American citizens to check their power.
Hell, Clarence Thomas hates black people.
Hell, Clarence Thomas hates black people.
Go ahead and read that entire gobsmacking New Yorker article about Crystal Clanton and Clarence and Ginni Thomas.In one sense, it hardly matters whom Justice Thomas hires as a law clerk. His conservative judicial views are well known and unwavering, and it’s improbable that one of his clerks would bend his decisions in any discernible way. Also, had Clanton apologized, it’s unlikely that many people would still care. But hiring a young woman who was fired for racial bigotry, and who has never apologized for it, could scarcely send a worse message to Black litigants and lawyers, or do more to undermine the Court’s promise—carved into its building’s grand façade—to deliver “Equal Justice Under Law.
[...]
”In the fall of 2021, reports surfaced that Clanton had lined up two successive clerkships: the first with U.S. District Court Judge Corey Maze, of the Northern District of Alabama, and the second with Judge Pryor, of the Eleventh Circuit. Ruth Marcus, the Washington Post opinion writer, posted a column asking of Pryor, “Why is a prominent federal judge hiring a law clerk who said she hates Black people?” Democrats on Capitol Hill filed an ethics complaint with the Eleventh Circuit, complaining that Maze and Pryor had hired “an individual with a history of nakedly racist and hateful conduct.” They warned that placing such a person in “close proximity to judicial decision-making threatens to seriously undermine the public’s faith” in the federal courts. And they argued that no member of any minority would “trust that they will receive equal justice before these judges.”
New Yorker
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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