Gotta say I’m surprised Scalia’s kid got rejected from any law school. Which one was it?
It was the University of Virginia, which while good, isn’t a top top school. I imagine that he was amazed at the rejection as well and that contributed to his attitude.
Possibly a factor that I thought I recalled from the time, but couldn’t confirm with a cursory online search: One of Jesse Jackson’s sons had disciplinary problems at Virginia and was rejected by the law school. Jesse Jackson held a press conference about the undergrad disciplinary board and law school admissions having a racial bias. Law school admissions rejected Scalia’s kid to prove they reject mediocre kids of famous people of any race?
don’t downplay it, that’s consistently listed in the top 10 public universities
This.
UVa is a top flight law school.
Yeah this seems like a big deal but it’s lost in the nonstop stream of big deals, everyone is desensitized. Imagine if BLM happened while Obama was in office and someone from the White House had called a “rioter” (that is, someone holding a sign).
I mean, there’s nothing left to uncover. The media and elected democrats keep rolling with “he was in on it,” meanwhile Trump is holding rallies yelling “I was in on it and they’re patriots and I’m gonna pardon them.”
It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Democrats still somehow not understanding that there is no magical force in the world that will rid us of Donald Trump no matter how obviously criminal. The last line of defense is you, assholes. Do your job.
Who me?
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The Dems think that 2024 will solve the issue once and for all with the least amount of political fallout. I obviously don’t agree with that and think it is an enormously risky strategy.
What they don’t see is that even Trump losing primaries (which start in a little over a year) could lead to chaos and violence.
The dems don’t want to solve the issue. Period. Their actions make this clear.
I think they want to generally, but are (legitimately) afraid of being murdered.
The other factor is that Ds really want to run against Donald Trump, see their actions in the 2016 R primaries through the 2022 R primaries.
This is probably more subconscious then explicit reasoning.
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it’s definitely better for democrats to run against Trump than desantis in 2024, this time they’re actually correct.
Yeah, Biden would almost certainly get wafflecrushed by DeSantis in 2024 with Trump out of the way (and not intentionally undermining DeSantis out of spite).
And the only reason Biden would even have an out, imo, heads up against DeSantis is because the Supreme Court went all the way in overturning Roe rather than going for the John Roberts incremental approach.
Merrick Garland, seen here as a man who is about to accept that he would never be on the supreme court, or win a single case arguing in front of the supreme court.
FYP
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FYP.
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I’m with Clovis on this one. I think the Democrats kind of want to solve it, like they’re all for preserving democracy, however they’re MORE for preserving our current corporate-friendly pecking order. Their concern is that most of the reforms that would protect our democracy would also help progressives in primaries, and help create a more representative and functional democracy.
That leads to the will of the people prevailing on more issues, which leads to things like single payer healthcare, and they’d rather risk a Trumpian dictatorship than risk socialized healthcare.
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They have like 48 senate votes for single payer and court expansion, I don’t agree there at all.
Do they really though? If it magically only took 48 votes to pass it, I’m pretty confident that it wouldn’t pass. I think there are a lot of “yay” votes that are only “yay” votes because they know that they’ll never be put to the test.
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They want to solve problems, but they think the system isn’t fundamentally broken. They believe their ability to beat progressives in primaries is democracy in action and proof the system works, that we do have a functional and representative democracy.
It’s a mistake to think they’re sophisticated 11-dimensional chess players massaging things to get their preferred outcome. These are people who have faith in the system and believe good will win out in the long run, which it will until it doesn’t.