Well…there was some good news about the supreme court yesterday when Justice Breyer, one of the only 3 judges left who actually follow the law, announced he will be retiring at the end of the present term at the end of June…and that means the Joe Biden will be able to appoint a justice that is not pushed by the Federalist Society, the right wing organization that has funneled millions and millions of dollars into the fight to get only unqualified right wing ideologues on the court. I almost laughed when I heard Susan Collins, who backed jamming Barrett through to the court in the last 30 days before the dems took over the senate, opine that there is no need for speed in getting the next justice appointed…yeah, since they already did it for one of their pet justices but it’s different now…the dems are in control so she thinks they should delay and delay until the possibility of the repubs taking the senate back in November so McConnell can steal a 4th seat. Luckily, Chuck Schumer is using the Barrett appointment as a template for getting the next justice through and will use exactly the same timetable as McConnell did…and we need to play hardball to make sure we get a true progressive that is not beholden to business and the right wing of this country…so, I am waiting to see how this all comes together over the summer…and to see if Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginny is indicted for her part in the January 6th insurrection…and she was all over the conspiracy so she should be….geez…
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Trump loses…again…
Well…you would think idiot boy would get tired of all of the losing in every damn court in the country…okay, he hasn’t lost yet in the civil case in NY but it is looking like he will in a few weeks…but yesterday, idiot boy lost big in the supreme court with an 8-1 ruling that turns all of the info that the January 6th committee requested from the National Archives over to them…probably today…and that info will flesh out the who, what, when, and why of the WH’s role in the insurrection and could possibly lead to criminal charges all the way to the top…I am a little bit geeked about that since the committee has been releasing lots of info on what went on and who is responsible….and could possibly make the stonewalling of Mark Meadows and others moot since these are detailed records of who was there, who they talked to including texts, phone calls, and e-mails and the content of those calls….so, the idiot boy really should be thinking of making a run for it…I’m sure Putin would grant him asylum before he is charged with insurrection…but that won’t matter since he won’t be able to come back if he leaves or he’ll be arrested…we can only hope…
Gorsuch and Alito spouting fox talking points…
Well…with the arguments in the SC today about vaccine mandates that the Biden administration has imposed to try to stop the spread of covid, it is just stunning that Gorsuch used a fox talking point to justify striking them down saying that flu kills “hundreds of thousands” every year….the only place that is a “fact” is on fox news when the real death toll is in the 30-40K range…in no way comparable to covid…and if he gets his way, mandatory vaccination for any and all disease…say measles, mumps, and rubella that is now required for kids to go to school will be struck down and then you can guarantee that these diseases will explode and he will basically gut any government regulation of public health issues. but the stunning thing came from Alito where he worries that the news will report that he is responsible for thousands of deaths if he strikes down the regulations…not that people will die, nope, how it will reflect on him is his only concern…and he is pushing for allowing an injunction that would stop the mandates from taking effect until they “study” the arguments more….in direct conflict with how they ruled in the Texas abortion case where they allowed the law to go into effect as they “studied” the arguments. This is how you delegitimize a court, where it is clear they aren’t following any precedent but are working hard to support their right wing views with little regard to the law…after all, vaccine mandates have been in force since the 1920′s and every court has found them to be legal…but that doesn’t matter to these hacks…geez….
The Supreme court has a sad….
Well…you would think that stealing 3 seats and putting unqualified partisans on the SC would make them more popular, wouldn’t you? And overturning Roe in the Texas case should make them more popular shouldn’t it? Not following 50 years of settled law should also make them more popular shouldn’t it? Okay, pretty obvious sarcasm there and that leads up to the latest poll on whether Americans think the SC is doing it’s job as it’s supposed to and only 37% of Americans think so…and over 60% think the court has gone to far to the right and are letting their political views color their decisions….but, that is the court McConnell stole and it really is in danger of completely destroying any moral authority they used to have…and now Amy Barrett shows how tone deaf she is by downplaying the justices personal biases while giving a speech at Louisville’s McConnell center after being introduced by McConnell himself to a swooning crowd of McConnell donors…this isn’t even a court anymore…it’s more of a wing of the repub party that can’t win elections without cheating and who packed the courts with cheating…I wonder why people think the court is illegitimate? geez…
The SC upholds the ACA again…
Well…yeah, running late again today with getting two rides in and going out to the beach to lie in the sun for an hour…and when I got back here, there was news that I wanted to talk about. Just this morning, it was announced the the SC has upheld the ACA for the umpteenth time in a 7-2 ruling that surprised most court watchers…and they rejected the suit from 20 repub state AG’s because they have no “standing” to even bring the suit that the trump judges in lower courts pushed up to the SC….what that means is that there was no harm to the parties filing the suits so they can’t bring the suits…and the big repub argument was that they were harmed by the elimination of the individual mandate that people had to get insurance….and since there was no longer any penalty, they couldn’t call it a tax anymore so the entire law had to be thrown out…yeah, sounds pretty convoluted to me, too, and the court felt the same to get to a 7-2 vote…even the unqualified judges whose seats that McConnell stole voted with the majority and I’ll bet that just pisses off moscow mitch. I do wonder how you get harmed by not having to pay a penalty? Without trump judges, this suit would have been thrown out the first time it was brought a couple of years back…and you can see that these idiots are not even judges…they are just partisans playing judges on tv…but it is going to take a while to get rid of them…geez…
The best reason to expand the court…
Well….hey, all of you dems in the senate who oppose expanding the supreme court, listen to what moscow mitch had to say about blocking all of Biden’s supreme court picks if the repubs retake the senate…just this morning he promised that none of his picks would even get a vote…so that would mean that the court would permanently have a right wing majority built on corruption of the approval process and would slide even further into illegitimacy…and the only way to counter that is to expand the court right now and have all of the picks for the new seats be real judges who would follow the law and not legislate from the bench like the right wingers do now…so dems, do you think keeping the filibuster is more important than fixing the court? If you do, you should just resign right now and let someone into your seat that will fight for this country against moscow mitch and the rest of his traitors…geez…
Women’s control over their bodies is over this fall…
Well…now we are sure that both Kavanaugh and Barrett lied their asses off when they both said that Roe v. Wade was settled law and that they didn’t see any reason to take any more cases that deal with a women’s right to choose…both of them just signed on to take up a case on abortion from Mississippi that was designed to get to the supreme court and take women’s rights back 60 years….and it will be decided this fall and you can bet with the 6-3 right wing majority that is the court now, that will mean that any restriction that any state wants to make on abortion will be just dandy with the SC…it isn’t even enough that there is only one clinic in Mississippi that performs abortions, these repub assholes won’t be happy until they make sure that women don’t have any rights at all…after all, their bible says they don’t and that is what they use to legislate in that backwater….this is just more of the same bullshit taking of rights that is the only reason for the repubs to exist anymore…just to hate and make sure that they crap on people they don’t like…I hate these people…
Holy crap…this is big!
Well….wow, big news today that has to have the idiot trump shaking in his boots…the supreme court just ruled that prosecutors in New York can have the 8 years of tax returns that they subpoenaed related to a tax fraud case they are building against him….and in addition to the bank records they already have, trump is almost sure to lose everything and probably end up in jail since he has spent his entire life cheating on his taxes. Now, we won’t be able to see any of them until the trials start since they are being released under grand jury rules but they will come out…and then the entire world will know how much of a loser trump is….and I’m sure this is going to snare his criminal kids, too…couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch…
I guess when you run out the clock, it’s all good…
Well…hey, I guess the new word from the supreme court is that if you run out the clock until you’re out of office, it’s all good and you won’t be held responsible. Just today, the SC dismissed multiple lawsuits against the idiot boy for violating the emoluments clause of the constitution (you know the one where an elected official is not supposed to take money from outside the government while in office that trump did every damn day)…saying that the suits were “moot” since he is no longer in office….giving him a pass on all of the bribes he got by renting rooms in his hotels at inflated prices to foreign governments and from these same governments renting office space at one of his buildings. Now, I think the SC missed an important chance to clarify what is legal and not legal in the way of these direct payments and you have the trump crony justices to thank for it…I guess he did finally get some “help” from his justices…they just saved him from having to pay all that money back…what a bunch of crooks….
A supreme court smackdown…
Well…wanted to get a comment out early on the supreme court smackdown delivered to idiot boy yesterday evening when they ruled that the suit from the moron in Texas, Paxton, had no merit and they were not going to overturn the election on lies and stupidity. Even Alito, who dissented from the ruling on procedural grounds, added that he would rule that the suit would not succeed even if they took the case up…and even trump’s toadies, who he counted on to appoint him president for life, joined the majority in rejecting the case. You know what came next? Of course the Texas repubs were crying in their beer and threatened to take like minded states and form their own country that would “follow the constitution”…which is the biggest piece of irony I’ve seen in quite a while….this should end all this nonsense but with trump and his cronies, who knows? What I do know is that they are still fundraising as if the decision never happened and are still running ads that say the election was “stolen” from them and this is all that fox news viewers will see since they will never report the truth….we all knew this would be the ruling but were still holding our breaths until it came…now, just go away, trump…we’ve had enough of your crap…geez…