Last summer, when fellow progressives began heckling Justice Stephen Breyer to retire immediately, I defended him in part as follows in “Re Justice Breyer: To Retire, or Not to Retire, That Is (Not) the Question,” July 3, 2021: ________ Full disclosure, I am probably more progressive/liberal than Bernie Sanders and AOC. More to the point,… Read more.
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Abortion Brings Out Political ‘Stench’ at Supreme Court
It seems everyone in Washington was alarmed at the way arguments on Mississippi’s anti-abortion law played out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. This, because the Republican-appointed justices kept signaling their intent to betray legal precedent, even common sense, to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that granted abortion rights. Nicole Wallace was communications… Read more.
Re Justice Breyer: To retire, or not to retire, that is (not) the question.
A few months ago, AOC and her (expanded) Squad were all over TV and social media appealing to Justice Stephen Breyer to retire – to save American Democracy and to seal his judicial legacy. But it appears either uncertainty or frustration has gotten the better of them. Because, as Spectrum News NY 1 reported on… Read more.
Trump Is Making It Impossible for His Supreme Court Picks to Do His Bidding for Re-election
Just weeks ago, I commented on how President Trump was making it impossible for Attorney General William Barr to do his bidding, despite Barr’s obvious interest in doing so. The problem was that Trump kept telling everyone what he should have been telling no one. In that case, it was that he wanted Barr to… Read more.
Operatives Planting Discarded Ballots So Trump Can Say, ‘See, I Told You So!’ (BTW, His Pick for the Supreme Court Was Obvious)
The Justice Department alarmed voting-law experts Thursday by announcing an investigation into nine discarded ballots found in northeastern Pennsylvania, a case immediately seized upon by the Trump campaign as evidence of a dark Democratic conspiracy to tamper with the presidential election. President Trump also appeared to cite the case, telling reporters at the White House… Read more.
Supreme Court Restores the Obama DACA Legacy Trump Hoped to Destroy. ‘Dreamers’ Can Wake Up!
President Trump has had many humiliating weeks. But this one might just take the cake; and it’s not even over yet. First, came reports that his niece has written a family exposé that promises to make Mommie Dearest look like a lullaby. The book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s… Read more.
Supreme Court: Kavanaugh Climbing Hill to Redemption; Thomas Wallowing in Valley of Resentment
No doubt you recall Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s congressional testimony. She presented a very credible allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Her testimony should have disqualified him. But the intemperate and incredible way he defended himself proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he was unfit to serve. Despite all that, Kavanaugh… Read more.
Nomination of Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court Affirms Politicization of Judiciary
Constitutionally, the US government is composed of three co-equal branches. Yet one of those branches, the Judicial, has become little more than a mantelpiece. After all, Republicans and Democrats now routinely adorn it in their partisan image, respectively. And both parties seem to think that winning control of either or both of the other two branches,… Read more.
Reason in a Time of Partisan Rage
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Obama Presents ‘Consensus’ Supreme Court Nominee, Merrick Garland
Even if Obama nominates an appellate judge like Sri Srinivasan to replace Scalia, Republicans will fight to their political death to delay, until they effectively block, his appointment. This is noteworthy because, just three years ago, the Senate confirmed him 97-0 to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,… Read more.