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Supreme Court Ruling on Immunity Means Biden Can Stop Trump. He Should!

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
collage featuring Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices, Biden, and Trump

Biden has immunity to end Trump’s campaign Biden and the Democrats should stop worrying and scaremongering about what a reelected Trump might do. Instead, they should realize that the Supreme Court just ruled Biden can use the DOJ, FBI, or even Seal Team 6 to ensure Trump never sets foot in the White House again.… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Donald Trump, immunity, Joe Biden, Seal Team 6, Supreme Court

Supreme Court Grants Trump Absolute Immunity’ for Official Acts

Monday, July 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
collage of Jan 6 riots with Trump and Supreme Court justices after immunity ruling

Trump is immune Former presidents are immune from prosecution for official actions taken while in the White House, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, but do not have immunity for unofficial acts. The 6-3 ruling along ideological lines appears to mean that parts of Donald Trump’s federal election-interference trial could proceed in D.C., but only… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: election interference, Jan. 6, Justice Sotomayor, presidential immunity, Republican-appointed Justices, Supreme Court, Taney Court, Trump immunity

Trumpism at the Supreme Court Makes Justice Sotomayor Cry

Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon of Justice Sotomayor raging against conservative justices for their judicial activism

Trumpism rules conservative justices Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she often cries over how conservative justices are trashing the Constitution. But their willful delay in ruling on Trump’s frivolous immunity claim is enough to make any patriotic American cry. Of course, there should be no crying at the Supreme Court. After all, its proceedings are as… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Conservative Justices, Constitution, Immunity Case, Judicial Norms, Justice Sotomayor, Liberal Justices, Supreme Court, Trumpism

Clarence Thomas for Thurgood Marshall: The Worst Bait and Switch of All Time

Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
marking Thurgood Marshall nomination to the Supreme Court and how Clarence Thomas has undermined his legacy

Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Justice On this day in history, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court Justice, shattering racial barriers. He was the brilliant mind behind the strategy that eradicated state-sponsored segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. He founded The Legal Defense Fund to aid the Civil Rights… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Anita Hill, Civil Rights, Clarence Thomas, George H.W. Bush, Jim Crow, Ketanji Brown Jackson, ProPublica, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justices, Thurgood Marshall

Supreme Court Justices Acting with ‘Absolute Immunity’ to Help Trump

Friday, April 26, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Supreme Court oral argument on Trump's claim of absolute immunity

Supreme Court justices are above the law The Republican-appointed justices (RAJ) who control this Supreme Court act as if they’re above the law. Their imperiousness, however, is the defining feature of the Roberts Supreme Court. Most notably, they refuse to abide by a code of ethics that constrains every other federal judge.  More troubling, however, is their imperious overturning of long-settled legal… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: absolute immunity, code of ethics, Democrat-appointed justices, presidential election, Republican-appointed Justices, Supreme Court

NIL Money Forces NCAA to Return Bush’s Heisman Trophy

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
images of Reggie Bush campaigning for the NCAA to return his Heisman Trophy

NCAA treated Bush like a servant In 2010, the NCAA made a public show of stripping Reggie Bush of his Heisman Trophy. They condemned him for accepting so-called illegal benefits, claiming that brought the amateur status of college sports into disrepute.  Mind you, Bush merely accepted petty cash from boosters to help his poor family make ends meet. Yet,… Read more.

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Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: amateur athletics, athlete rights, college sports, Heisman Trophy, NCAA, NCAA hypocrisy, Nick Saban, NIL money, NIL revenue, Reggie Bush, Supreme Court, Supreme Court ruling, USC football

Supreme Court: Texas Can Enforce Its Own Immigration Law

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
immigrants crossing the southern US border with images of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Biden and of supreme court inset

Federal law vs. Texas law  The federal government has exclusive authority to enforce immigration law. That’s because federal law takes precedence over state law. This precedence stems from the Supremacy Clause, a bedrock principle of the US Constitution.  That’s why Texas petitioning the Supreme Court for the right to enforce its own immigration seemed so farfetched. It made… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American politics, Biden Administration, Current Affairs, Federal vs. State Authority, Political Commentary, Red States Rebellion, Secession, Supreme Court, Texas Immigration Law, US Constitution

Supreme Court Decides to Hear Trump Immunity Claim, Giving Him De Facto Immunity

Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Images of President Trump nominating Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett with image of Supreme Court in background

Presidential immunity? The Appeals Court said, hell no Donald Trump’s autocratic and notorious claim is that a president enjoys “absolute immunity” for every presidential action. He stretches this to the absurd, suggesting immunity would even shield a president ordering Seal Team 6 to assassinate political rivals. This outrageous notion was what the US Court of Appeals for… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: democracy in peril, partisan judiciary, Political hacks, presidential elections, Supreme Court, Trump immunity claim, US legal system

Governing by Extortion: The GOP’s New Normal 

Friday, January 5, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
New speak and GOP holding hearing on migration at the border with image of Trump attending court trial and cartoon of Republicans at the border.

For 150 years, the Grand Old Party (GOP, aka Republican Party) was the proud standard bearer of Lincoln’s legacy. Yet, in just four years, Donald Trump transformed the Republican party into a cult led by a mafia don. This transformation must have Lincoln rolling over in his grave.  The party now thrives solely on loyalty to Trump –… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: civil war, GOP, government shutdown, Immigration Law, Political Extortion, Republican Party, Supreme Court, Tommy Tuberville, Trump, Ukraine Aid

Supreme Court Will Rule 14th Amendment Disqualifies Trump from Being President Again

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 12:51 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Jan 6 insurrection with images of Trump dancing on stage, the 14th Amendment, and Republican justices inset

The 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump Yesterday, in a jaw-dropping ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court shocked the world. It found that Donald Trump incited the Jan 6 insurrection. Based on that finding, it ruled that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies him from being president of the United States.  Here is how The New York Times reported on its historic,… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 14th Amendment, Colorado Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Legal Analysis, Presidential Eligibility, Roberts Court, Supreme Court, Trump, US Politics

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