The Dec 30, 1922 issue of Time reported that “Battling Bob” (Robert La Follette) had authored a proposal to reign in the reactionary Supreme Court. He wanted a Constitutional Amendment that would allow Congress to overrule the Court just as it had the power to defeat a presidential veto. Other remedies for judicial tyranny that were suggested included making positions on the bench elected, allowing the public to vote to reverse rulings, or allowing the public the right of recall.
As America is once again threatened by the possibility of a reactionary judiciary, channeling the ‘original thoughts’ of long dead legislators, presumably through satanic seances, what should we the people do ?
James Carville was just on MSNBC and it reminded me that Mary Matalin hasn’t been heard from in ages. Does anyone know if she has been ill?
…just impeach Clarence Thomas for not really doing much of anything.
Before 1860 everyone of those old white men on the court was a slave holder , with the except of 2 or 3.
Big brain Brett is probably susceptible to some serious scrutiny over possible extra-legal activity involving his bills being paid, his kid In that bank, and justice Kennedy’s sudden retirement.
Jamie –
Where is Ann Coulter ?
I think she’s smokin’ meth in some bordello .
Sen. Angus King exposes the utter ridiculousness of Barrett’s “originalism”…
This contest is killing Joe Biden , and it could put Pence in the ICU . Trump’s head may explode.
Hello President Harris.
So McConnell gets his packed court but the voter backlash clinches loss of Senate majority.
Amy is THE climax of the right .
A entire plan over 50 years to “Pack the Courts” .
They won , get over it.
And Trump packed way down the bench.
Minnesota is reporting three Covid-19 outbreaks related to Trump campaign events held in September https://t.co/aFSFUirSS0
If I was a left wing ad man , I would recast this ……. “court packing” .
Jared Kushner floating launch of a new Trump-branded media outlet, GOP sources say. It’s another sign of a looming 2020 defeat. https://t.co/w2pEg6lHjk
Well we are at the peak here , nothing like before. And gaining speed,
By next Tuesday , the Trump plan may run into a lockdown.
Jared Kushner will roll on Trump , those New York DA’s are a dog with a bone.
Jared Kushner spending one night on Riker’s Island.
James Carville: “I’m really bullish on Texas. If we can drive turnout like I think we can in Texas I think we can get this thing across the finish line. I really do.” (MSNBC)
GRIT
TX is going blue. Bloomberg is helping out. Cornyn is toast and MJ’s ads like to show him next to Yertle and tRUMP.
Any Senator who doesn’t vote to block Amy Phony Barrett will have a legacy of taking healthcare away from Americans during a pandemic.
Flip the Senate! No more filibuster! Biden/Harris! Pack the courts!
Old Man, Winter has arrived!
JarJar just basically called black folks lazy. They aren’t getting ahead because they haven’t taken advantage of…? (sigh) Yep, one night on Rikers…
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/26/texas-democrats-flip-latino/
TX is now only 43% of registered voters casting their ballots. It got cold this weekend and the needle didn’t move much yesterday. I hope the remainder don’t wait until Election Day to vote.
A Lot of people are crawling across gym floors tonight.
I am so proud to be an American, and to live to say it .
We are about bury the last 2 centuries.
Everyone feels this.
It won’t be easy, but it never has been.
Here we go. ONEe of those hideous thing trumpity can do. *shudders*
Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service protections
It’s an executive order.
“Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases, union representation, at agencies across the government…change could strip due process rights and protections from more than 100,000 employees.” They’re supposed to be, a cadre of subject-matter experts for every administration….”
OK , let’s set this , No one is sitting on their ass on this thing . We’re all coming .
Craig
I really appreciate your political insights! It makes me feel good. The polls are good but I’m so glad you have good feelings about a Biden/Harris win.
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maybe this was what deutch was talking about (considering the latest jared announcement of that new trump media outlet)
Tony…I have always enjoyed politics – not so much in recent years…Almost all political commentary lacks a sense of humor…This place has often been an exception…I turned in my ballot last week and was notified by text that my ballot arrived and is being prepared for counting…🇺🇸
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You see, Republicans are horrible people! We know but the bar just goes lower. So they ram through Barrett and wish HRC a Happy Birthday. I hate these fuckers.
Hi OD
Yes, spot on! I have friends in Gresham and they are from Florida. They love Oregon’s voting system. Texts take the work out of things. So glad to see you here!
Watch the rats kids. . Most seem be going down with the ship.
OK, so trumpity tv will compete with fox. At $6.99 or whatever, will his basket of deplorables spring for that just to hear him rant and talk treason? I doubt that he’ll be making a $billion like Deutsch said. Reminds me of trumpity U. And ya know what happened to that.
Radio Free Qatar
I looked up Donny Deutsch. He’s from Queens, wen to Wharton in Philly, and joined his father’s business. But he says he’s a Dem and a feminist.
Trump in Omaha and Maine ………………….. He’s fishing for one EC vote .
These House districts in Maine and Nebraska could hold the key to who wins the White House
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/26/trump-vs-biden-election-maine-and-nebraska-could-make-a-difference.html
Trump in Omaha in the last week looking for one vote in the EC.
This is not the move of a winning effort. This is a fight in the gondola of the Zeppelin as a the electrical storm drives in to the ground.
Now they are in a corner . And they know it.
Ruth says, Get to work bitches
The 48 senators who voted against Barrett represent 13.5 million more people than the 52 senators who voted for her.
If Amy is an “Originalist”, then she should resign & Thomas ‘s votes are worth 3/5 ‘s .
Let’s gut this fiction like the dead crap that it is !
A set of wing nut myths baked in wing nut ovens with classy names,
He had to go to Nebraska after Sasse ~leaked~ his own phone call. As he told the idiots in Eerie, I wouldn’t be here with you unless I had to be here, because you disgust me but I need you.
tRUMP’s media could also just be a more focused propaganda arm of a second term. Faux Noise will be in his dust bin.
It ain’t over until it’s over.
Will he and JarJar and the rest of the tRUMPsky crime syndicate get tRUMP teevee in prison?
That’s why I don’t buy it. He knows prison awaits, so tanking his campaign on a media prospect makes no sense.
The Democrats will have to write better laws. That is a plain fact.
The 52 Senators who committed this atrocity WILL have hell to pay. Considering how old most of them are, they have 10 to 15 years left in Earth, tops. May they be scorned and cursed the rest of their days, as millions lose healthcare or will no longer be able to afford it due to pre-existing conditions like having tested positive for COVID. The Republican Party is dead and they did it to themselves.
Fox News tells staff that a long-tenured producer has died — but neglects to mention that he died of COVID. Just one of many ways they’re trying to downplay the pandemic.
https://t.co/ZMz4ZI7mwE
Trump thinks another Supreme Court justice big political gain but it’s a net loss, igniting Democratic turnout while conservatives who got what they wanted decide he’s served his purpose, done with craziness.
25% of early Texas voters are 18-29yo, Trump’s worst age group.
So’s I goes home and spend an hour or two futzing in the kitchen then an hour bantering with Lp and Mrs P then zone out for another hour and miss an entire thread. Now I’m going to bed knowing that a constitutional originalist was ceremonially sworn in as a Supreme Court justice who when the Constitution was written would have been enslaved by the guys with the pens, and more to the point, ideas embodied in that document. Ordinarily I would celebrate that. Somehow that’s not the emotional state I find myself in. On that cheerful note, good night.
Not gonna publicize any links but my regular tour of right wing dark web sites reveals Obama’s recent pro-Biden speeches are sparking a resurgence of conspiracies about his birthplace. Only a matter of time before Trump gives them a wink and a nod. He’s already begun recently in rally speeches with repeated emphasis of Hussein when saying Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
I’m all in favor of digging into brett kavanaugh’s gambling debts and associates – a fishing trip – to build a case for impeachment and removal. I’m also in favor of digging deeply into clarence’s past, to find a few more Anita Hills. Maybe the guy’s first wife has a few remarks to make on second review.
as cbob said above “Democrats will have to write better laws. “
with the new scotus imbalance toward the hard right conservative/originalism it’s imperative that the congress gets its act together and repair the flaws the court had pointed to in the civil rights act, the campaign financing laws and the ACA when they struck out portions and weakened others. ASAP before we lose more.
it’s not just a case of reining in the court, but also a case for making sure the court does not reign in the legislative branch’s realm.
upon flipping the senate, will the 1st step be scrapping the filibuster? little will get done if mitch & his no nothings can still thwart what the majority wants done.
also imperative that dems do not fall into a morass of internal power struggles right off the bat. too much needs to be accomplished in that honeymoon period.
the hill:
The pendulum swing back will take a big big slice
I like Donny Deutsch… but I agree with BiD. Trump isn’t trying to set up his next gig… he knows the New York DA is itching to get at him. He talks to “the red meat” because that’s what he does. He’s just a one trick phony.
hurray for the polls….
Congress last set the number of Supreme Court Justices in 1869. They decided on 9 Justices because at that time there were 9 Circuit Courts and they made each Justice responsible for a single Circuit Court. There are now 13 Circuit Courts. We’ll remember this in 8 days.
Jamie, excellent point on how the number of justices was set. 13 is a nice number – that would bring the court back to the equilibrium it has had (more or less) during the last 20 or so years – a rough ideological balance with one justice who often swung the balance on divisive cases.
Get rid of Mitch
One week ‘til Armageddon!
…literally had to quit drinking because it was killing me, and not slowly. It’s gonna be a loooonnnggg week😭
The Goopers tried to reduce the number of judges to five. Last in first out I say
I think kavanaugh is the low fruit. Pick off that sickly mass of addictions 1st, for lying to the Senate. That rash-like redness on his puss tells me that he’s sober in modest moderation.
However, Ms Cracker may have charted a more swift course with Ms Justice Barrett.
That would also take out The Rapist and the Mansplainer
Hey Rob Portman. How do you explain your vote to your son
Never before have so many high-ranking staffers of an incumbent president opposed his reelection and endorsed his opponent.
Former Trump voters realized that all along he was nothing but a 2-bit con man. Outspoken Trump critic Bruce Springsteen helps hammer the point home in this new take on an old classic.
A little something to calm the nerves
wapo:
Financial Times: Donald Trump’s debt totals at least $1.1bn. Should he win re-election, about $900m of it will come due during his second term https://t.co/nxwa0GhbtN
Cash-strapped Trump campaign pulls Florida ads.. https://t.co/cp1K0vmoUh
$ 1.1 Bn?
jarad will need to sell a lot of subscriptions to trump tv to cover that and god knows what 1st daughter will have to hustle. better start counting the WH silverware.
trumpcampco basing their whole election strat on one Biden misstatement in the debate.
Of course, the theft of the election strategy is another matter.
Time for the traditional closing days death watch news coverage, the Trump campaign is game over. Let the staff infighting, finger pointing, ass covering begin.
It is all Melanoma’s fault because she wouldn’t hold hands with him in public
and refused to wear leather pants like Ivanker
And then from Wapo: Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens ‘the rule of law’ Twenty former U.S. attorneys — all of them Republicans — on Tuesday publicly called President Trump “a threat to the rule of law in our country,” and urged that he be replaced in November with his Democratic opponent, former vice president Joe Biden. “The President has clearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees and prosecutors to serve his personal and political interests,” said the former prosecutors in an open letter. They accused Trump of taking “action against those who have stood up for the interests of justice.” The letter, signed by prosecutors appointed by every GOP president from Eisenhower to Trump, is the latest instance of Republicans backing Biden. In August, dozens of GOP national security experts signed a full-page newspaper ad endorsing Biden over Trump. “He has politicized the Justice Department, dictating its priorities along political lines and breaking down the barrier that prior administrations had maintained between political and prosecutorial decision-making,” their letter says. The effort was organized initially by Ken Wainstein, a former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., who later served during the George W. Bush administration as assistant attorney general for national security. A spokesman for the Trump campaign dismissed the letter from the former prosecutors as arrogant and offensive, noting that it is Trump who has the support of police officers and their unions. “No one should be surprised establishment elitists are supporting Joe Biden,”… Read more »
Why The Supreme Court Ended up with Nine Justices
and How that Could Change
I think there needs to be an active public group whose sole purpose is to get the Trump Supremes to quit A lincoln project to rid the court of Trump stink Phony Barrett must go. Her legal theories are entirely motivated by racism and religion.
she must go
Who is voting for Trump We have to get rid of them too. Where ever Trump goes he has to take his voters with him
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FWIW, on the Covid-19 front the top 20 states for hospitalized folks per 100K population are all states listed by RCP as Red, leaning red or tossup – and only 3 of those are toss ups. 11 of the bottom 12 are blue or tossup – with only one (PA) listed as a tossup. Red states are better at putting their folks in the hospital with covid and blue states are better at keeping them out.