Indeed. As a polio survivor, I wish the vaccine had been available. Now I am stunned and appalled at people (and parents) who buy the bullshit peddled by RFK Jr and company. Insane. Manslaughter by the manipulation of the truth and the dismissal of the scientific work that has saved billions of lives.
I listened to Extreme Court today on NPR. Just the fact that they would question the decision by the Appeals Court tells you all you need to know about who owns six justices. This case should never have been heard. Trump should be involved in four trials right now. Let him rotate between them.
I feel like I have been listening to a radio show. Ali to: Is he not in a significant position?…Is this not a peculiarly open-ended statutory provision, that it applies to any fraud that interferes with any governmental operation, right?.. (like me))thinking about my chickens at the end of summer. Mr. Dreeben: it’s designed to protect the function of the government of the United States, then goes on to ,say that transfer of power is pretty important, Alito says, yeah I’m not going to get into specifics. Then, he talks about the loser of an election not being able to go home in peace but gets thrown in jail (as though nothing happened between Trump losing and then going home) Oh where is Kate McKinnon?
I am an eternal optimist. And I find myself near tears most of the time these days. Any sense of security has vanished ~ and I am old and debt-free. I can only imagine what 20- and 30-somethings must be feeling...
All the reporting I have read so far on the arguments has left me horrified. I am very much afraid the SCOTUS is going to decide Trump has immunity. I say Trump because they are not hearing this to decide if future presidents (aside from Trump) can commit crimes in office with impunity, they are hearing this to save Trump's filthy butt. The questions they are asking are groping for a way, however weak and transparent and constructed of flimsy deliberate pretenses regarding reality (with that last bit I'm struggling to describe Alito's pretense at being aghast grand juries almost always provide an indictment when a (well prepared of course) prosecutor requests one. That of course is just one example of the kind of weird willingness we're seeing to appear blatantly ignorant.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson constructed clear and compelling hypothetical examples which demonstrated faults in theirs, but being in the minority I fear she's trying to interject truth into a hostile environment where it cannot possibly survive. Far more than prior courts, this one has made it easier to see where they are going because their decisions do not require a knowledge of the law, but only a knowledge of their politics.
I am begging Providence, the fates or whatever works, to be wrong, but it looks like the Supreme Court decision will decide Trump cannot be held responsible for his crimes committed while in office and their arguments as to what that includes reveal they would gladly extend the protection as far as possible. This seems like one of the most flagrant displays of disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law and the balance of power this body has yet put on.
I also fear that even if we can give Biden a House and Senate with a majority of Democrats that he won't increase the Supreme Court. He had the proper conditions before and he said he didn't think it was the way to go. I'm very pro-Biden, am in awe of what he's been able to get done, but he does have blind spots and can be a stone wall about them... and I fear this is one. I suspect he is stuck in the "if we do it they will do it" without noticing "they" haven't been waiting for precedents before they break guardrails and that guardrails aren't actually delineating the honorable thing to do, just the prior norms under prior realities.
I really, really want not to be outraged again tomorrow. This is a big one.
Indeed. As a polio survivor, I wish the vaccine had been available. Now I am stunned and appalled at people (and parents) who buy the bullshit peddled by RFK Jr and company. Insane. Manslaughter by the manipulation of the truth and the dismissal of the scientific work that has saved billions of lives.
I listened to Extreme Court today on NPR. Just the fact that they would question the decision by the Appeals Court tells you all you need to know about who owns six justices. This case should never have been heard. Trump should be involved in four trials right now. Let him rotate between them.
I feel like I have been listening to a radio show. Ali to: Is he not in a significant position?…Is this not a peculiarly open-ended statutory provision, that it applies to any fraud that interferes with any governmental operation, right?.. (like me))thinking about my chickens at the end of summer. Mr. Dreeben: it’s designed to protect the function of the government of the United States, then goes on to ,say that transfer of power is pretty important, Alito says, yeah I’m not going to get into specifics. Then, he talks about the loser of an election not being able to go home in peace but gets thrown in jail (as though nothing happened between Trump losing and then going home) Oh where is Kate McKinnon?
I am an eternal optimist. And I find myself near tears most of the time these days. Any sense of security has vanished ~ and I am old and debt-free. I can only imagine what 20- and 30-somethings must be feeling...
All the reporting I have read so far on the arguments has left me horrified. I am very much afraid the SCOTUS is going to decide Trump has immunity. I say Trump because they are not hearing this to decide if future presidents (aside from Trump) can commit crimes in office with impunity, they are hearing this to save Trump's filthy butt. The questions they are asking are groping for a way, however weak and transparent and constructed of flimsy deliberate pretenses regarding reality (with that last bit I'm struggling to describe Alito's pretense at being aghast grand juries almost always provide an indictment when a (well prepared of course) prosecutor requests one. That of course is just one example of the kind of weird willingness we're seeing to appear blatantly ignorant.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson constructed clear and compelling hypothetical examples which demonstrated faults in theirs, but being in the minority I fear she's trying to interject truth into a hostile environment where it cannot possibly survive. Far more than prior courts, this one has made it easier to see where they are going because their decisions do not require a knowledge of the law, but only a knowledge of their politics.
I am begging Providence, the fates or whatever works, to be wrong, but it looks like the Supreme Court decision will decide Trump cannot be held responsible for his crimes committed while in office and their arguments as to what that includes reveal they would gladly extend the protection as far as possible. This seems like one of the most flagrant displays of disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law and the balance of power this body has yet put on.
I also fear that even if we can give Biden a House and Senate with a majority of Democrats that he won't increase the Supreme Court. He had the proper conditions before and he said he didn't think it was the way to go. I'm very pro-Biden, am in awe of what he's been able to get done, but he does have blind spots and can be a stone wall about them... and I fear this is one. I suspect he is stuck in the "if we do it they will do it" without noticing "they" haven't been waiting for precedents before they break guardrails and that guardrails aren't actually delineating the honorable thing to do, just the prior norms under prior realities.
I really, really want not to be outraged again tomorrow. This is a big one.