8-1 decision with Uncle Clarence as the lone dissenter.
Lol what a great line in this article.
One of the biggest Actual Scandals of the Donnie Dumb Dumb “Presidency” was journalists not demanding that he explain basic things that every President needs to know. It wouldn’t have made a difference I guess but the Emperor had absolutely no clothes and the self appointed Bold Truth Speakers And Keepers Of The Sacred Records went around reporting “Republicans say the President has the very finest clothes.”
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1506756935785369602?s=20&t=nKiJF6eAyU10cJLVZT1B8w
When you’ve lost Dersh, you might want to reevaluate some of your life choices.
That article is fantastic.
Pastor better hope he doesn’t opt for the chair, it seems.
lulz
https://twitter.com/frerogogo/status/1507028508194840592?s=21
https://twitter.com/frerogogo/status/1507028686293417994?s=21
I haven’t watched much of the hearings so I just watched some of her exchanges on the child pornography stuff and holy shit she was poorly prepared for that. The Biden Administration fucked that up big time.
The proper response was something like:
“As a judge, I do my best to make sentencing decisions that match the intent of the law and the guidelines that Congress has established. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I personally agree with them. In this case, the guidelines were established to differentiate between the more or less serious offenders. Those possessing towards the high end of the spectrum were more to blame for the proliferation of child pornography, and more likely to end up distributing it, and thus more deserving of longer sentences both to be punitive and to be preventative. In attempting to apply that same logic to sentencing in the age of the Internet, judges, myself included, are trying to apply an escalatory scale that matches the numbers possessed now. I would encourage you Senator, and your colleagues in the Senate and the House to pass new guidelines that are anchored in the age of the Internet, so that there is no longer any debate or confusion over what Congress intends in these cases. Regardless of whether I agree personally with you or some of your individual guidelines, judges cannot apply a sentence because a lone Senator John Smith says the intent of past Congresses was such, no individual or group of members of Congress can speak for the Congress. There needs to be a law passed with a majority, and I would encourage that.”
The real scandal is that the journalists don’t know either
Should ask if he believes if his buddies convicted of child porn should be held to the same standard.
The meaning of pi is hair. The purpose of sand is potato.
I would say it’s okay as long as it’s an electrocution.
Ok I’ll eat my hat. Republicans are aiming for marriage equality next after Roe v Wade
Cornyn then lectured Jackson about the alleged evils of Obergefell . “When the court overrules the decisions made by the people,” he told her, “as they did in 32 of the 35 states that decided to recognize only traditional marriage between a man and a woman, that is an act of judicial policymaking.” The senator went on to claim that “ Dred Scott , which treated slaves as chattel property, was a product of substantive due process.” (That’s not actually true, but it marks an obvious effort to sully decisions like Obergefell with the taint of racist origins.) Cornyn also dismissed Obergefell as “court-made law that we’re all supposed to salute smartly and follow because nine people who are unelected, who have lifetime tenure, whose salary cannot be reduced while they serve in office—five of them decide that this is the way the world should be.”
Republican Sen. John Kennedy picked up this baton a few hours later. Kennedy criticized Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of Obergefell , for refusing to identify a “formula” for fundamental rights and instead going “case by case.”
“Can you understand,” Kennedy asked, “why some Americans go, ‘Wait a minute. These are unenumerated rights. Are justices interpreting the Constitution or are they just deciding a right when they get five votes and it’s just a moral conviction?’ ” Republican Sen. Ben Sasse also grilled Jackson about substantive due process and the court’s authority “to create new fundamental rights.” He returned to the subject on Wednesday, then expressed disappointment when she declined to disavow the doctrine.
In case it wasn’t clear what these senators were up to, Cornyn made it explicit on Wednesday afternoon. “The Constitution doesn’t mention the word abortion,” he lectured Jackson, “ just like it doesn’t mention the word marriage .” These senators appear confident that the Supreme Court will overrule the constitutional right to an abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which should come down by June . They are so confident, in fact, that they prodded Jackson to say whether she would abide by Dobbs once she joins the court, rather than fight to revive Roe . But on the whole, Republicans were noticeably less engaged over abortion than they were about same-sex marriage.
It’s easy to see why. The GOP, alongside the conservative legal movement, has built up a massive infrastructure to fight the culture wars. After Roe , it will need a new target, and marriage equality is the obvious choice. Republicans never really gave up on the issue, but rather staged a tactical retreat after Obergefell , pressing for sweeping exemptions from civil rights laws to legalize discrimination against same-sex couples. But after Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett replaced the gay-friendly Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this retreat slowed to a crawl, and Republicans sought to regain some ground. They pressed the Supreme Court to roll back protections for same-sex couples (to no avail—yet) and have now launched a campaign to mandate anti-LGBTQ discrimination in schools. A GOP legislator in Texas has asked Attorney General Ken Paxton to declare that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage remains valid and enforceable.
lol
Like, yeah, obviously. Maybe don’t have a stupid ass system that depends entirely on norms the bad guys don’t give a shit about?
https://twitter.com/the_law_boy/status/1507136411492880384?s=21