The Supreme Court term is finally, really and truly over. So I can just eat hot dogs today without constantly looking over my shoulder in case some horrible new ruling drops.
Right? Tell me I'm right.
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Have a nice 4th of July.
Sure, at least that's that even though there is a roaring toxic violent dumpster fire burning in front of you.
Just because a new ruling isn't dropping doesn't mean it's over.
It's just beginning now that the floodgates have been opened. The presidential election is just a sideshow at this point. There is a SCOTUS majority selected for their commitment to dismantle the administrative state and shrink federal power. Nothing stops them for a great many years, unless there is a massive blue wave that gives veto proof control and 2/3 agreement on constitutional amendments. Nothing so far suggests that this will happen.
Republicans have been working for this for 50-60 years? Since FDR? Since the end of the Civil War?
Shrink federal power == drastically reduce the power of departments and agencies to curb the excesses of the business sector while protecting the safety and health of the citizenry. Meanwhile the Court is hoping to empower their favorite amoral former President to set up Bribery, Inc. to sell appointments to the coming spoils-system government, jail opposition, and help them bring about Gilead.
I’m starting to look at a breakup of the U.S. as not the worst outcome. The Trumpy states can have him and the Roberts Curia. But not the Federal dollars they get now.
Republicans have been working for this for 50-60 years? Since FDR? Since the end of the Civil War?
Since Erasmus.
If you ask Samuel Alito I'm certain he would say this is where it all went to hell.
This species of Catholic psychotic may be worse than all the rest. They will justify any abuse whatsoever in the interests of blind obedience.
Happy UK election day
You're right. Eating dogs is a meditation. Have you ever had yours Chicago style? You feel less guilty because you're having a "little salad" with your Viennas.
No need to worry about the SC any more. Now you need to worry about paramilitary MAGAt
BrownshirtsRed Hats and an utterly lawless Executive. And they're both much more violent and much angrier than the SC.Thanks again Republicans!
Oh I think they teed it up nicely to make some follow on rulings that anything that happens in the Oval Office is official duties stuff.
In other words, just give it a few months. They’ll be back.
Anything a Republican does, yes.
does that include fellatio?
because a yung brett kavanaugh would be shocked to find out his conduct in the starr inquiry was trampling on the inalienable rights of the presidency.
Supreme Court finally leaves us alone
Has it?
First Monday in October is before Election Day.
This gang of psychos is going to do anything it can to disallow a Democratic victory, should there be one.
Something has to be done about this before then.
There's no time for extensive study and committee hearings on the topic.
[insert Committee members next to dog surrounded by fire] It's fine.
What can be done though? If the Dems held the House and had a resolute 2/3rds majority in the Senate, they could impeach, convict, and bar from office the Evil Six. We don't command the votes in Congress to do it.
With simple majorities we could pack the court and limit the kinds of cases it can hear. We don't have a majority in the House.
The States could originate a constitutional amendment, but the Republicans control more than enough state houses and governors to bottle that up.
Is the House required?
There is nothing in the Constitution about it's nature or composition.
I think the president simply needs to appoint people and the Senate needs to confirm them.
For impeachment and removal, the House is required. To expand the Court, I think legislation is required -- size set by statute -- but I may be wrong.
That is correct.
If it's not in the Constitution it's a mere norm, or tradition.
A pleasant nicety.
Silly boy
Conservatives don't actually want to be part of the United States, as they make clear at every opportunity. They just want all it's money.
the elon musk, peter thiel, & david sacks piece.
What conservatives really want, more even than just getting away with it, is they want you to fear them.
They think this makes them special, and projects their own ineradicable anxieties onto anything else.
That's what Trump's appeal is really based in.
So, if that's the world you want to live in, terrified of your neighbors and anything else you can imagine happening, vote for these freaks because that is all you're ever going to get from them.
I was born in February of 1946 and have COPD that's getting worse, probably from too much inhaling and holding it too long. I've been deliriously lucky to have lived in the freest and most generally prosperous period of history anywhere anytime. I even got to live on a "commune" for two and a half years.
Sure, there are a few bitsy countries in Europe which are wealthier, but they don't have a 3000 mile wide hinterland with more than a hundred unique and beautiful national parks, almost all of which I've seen. So I am deeply grateful for the life I've had.
But I have no illusions that it will continue. The jerks who used to sit at the back of class and throw spitballs at us nerds in front (or worse) are now rampant and the evil gnomes for whom they've voted all along when they could are in control. They'll drive the country into the ditch, turn their backs on the countries of the world who have looked on us as a mentor and leader, and then whimper and complain when things crash around us all.
So I'm not sad that I probably won't see another summer. It would be too painful.
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that a president can sell pardons there's nothing more to say.
BTW, Roberts' opinion, with it's three buckets (each with arcane and obscurantist criteria), expansive and peculiar aspects, shallow and tortured historical understanding, logical inconstancies, and Olympian dismissal of dissent, is ... let's just say it:
A dim person's attempt to be clever.
The bigger the impact the more clever is must be. So completely change the power relations in the Constitution on behalf of a wanton criminal and you're the smartest Justice in history.
it's roberts saying, "bill clinton did nothing wrong (in pardoning marc rich".
After these last decisions of the SCOTUS Six, I hope to never again hear how I should be more considerate & understanding of the right's positions.
They have no scruples, the highest court not being held accountable, & now having essentially decreed that neither is the holder of the presidency under any limitations - other than his/heroine ethics, if any.
Those hyperpartisan jurists who claim that only they decide the meaning of all laws, according to Roberts, do not acknowledge their own lack of knowledge in the fields of science - especially medicine, as well as education. They claim to be "originalists," yet ignore the origin & intent of the Second Amendment. They also lack respect for the intended goal of separation of church & state, at a time when entire religious congregations have violated the requirement that they refrain from political involvement to retain their tax-exempt status.
Project 2025 plans to ban porn, and send every porn maker to prison.
Because that's the wingnut thing and it's the only thing they ever want to see because everyone else is some kind of perv and it's weird. And they all need to be locked up. For their own good. In the slammer. Women in particular.
There are whole bunches of sections here about women and what they can and can't and should be doing, prior to and during their porn careers in the big house.
tell that to all the milf performers like brandi love & cheri deville who are backing trump.
I see what you spend your weekends on.
You know that calm in the eye of the hurricane?
That.
Before the end of summer, SCOTUS will take up a Trump appeal of a Chutkan in limine decision re immunity, causing the case to pause again, putting its stamp on one last indignity to the Constitution: The immaculate, indefinite pause for the One who shall complete the reinterpretation of the Constitution, ending liberal democracy.