Isn’t Rand a hero of the right?
Amazing photos of Murkowski running from the press then appearing to laugh like a villain once she’s free of their questions.
https://twitter.com/pennstatetom/status/1521586905443442689
In a just world she’d have tripped and gone head first into the door or something.
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That’s real? Lolololol
I love how the US Senate looks to have a subway or something and 97% of the country doesn’t have usable public transit.
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how about none of you guys PM me and stop tagging me into threads I’m not posting in if you are going to bitch and moan when I reply?
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I follow a bunch of politics and SCOTUS podcasts and none have done an emergency episode today. Seem really odd to me.
so we can mark Bret down as “pro court packing”?
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The conservatives love all this talk of interracial marriage because that’s not on their agenda at all aside from the wackiest of wackos and then can blame the Dems for fearmongering when it happens. It’s an Overton window shift right that we would only help by engaging in it rather than focus on row v Wade and women’s right to bodily autonomy.
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Hey did that special group Biden put together to look at expanding the SC to 201 judges. How’s that going?
It takes about 18-21% of the voters in one state to elect enough lunatics in the primary who have slam dunks in the general to pass the law, one governor crazy enough, and then it goes to the Supreme Court and we find out how the far-right judges feel about it.
It’s very much in the realm of possibility. It’s not up next, but it’s on the radar. I think there’s about a 15% chance, but it’s definitely not 0%.
Strict scrutiny is definitely doing one today.
This is exactly wrong, Mississippi or whoever the fuck is absolutely going to pass a law banning interracial marriage and these fucking freaks will absolutely “leave it to the states” or whatever.
They’re not doing shrewd politics, they’re using the power two generations of shrewd politics won them. Uniquely among our two parties, Republicans understand that the whole point of gaining power is using it.
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It’s pretty likely a law gets passed, but I expect them to do gay marriage first and kind of go one by one seeing how far they can push it. I don’t think it’s a lock that there are five votes to overturn Loving v. Virginia, given that one of the five they’d need is in an interracial marriage himself and lives in Virginia. But it’s definitely in play for him to be like, “I don’t like it but states rights yada yada yada.”
If they legit go after interracial marriage I’ll be shocked. While they are getting more overt with their racism they still dog whistle a LOT and that would be a huge shift, at least from a states policy position.
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Really enjoying all the e-mails and texts today asking me to donate to eDems.
They’ll get my vote, true progressives might get my money or door knocking. If the eDems want more than my vote they can actually fucking do something about literally any of this.
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https://twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/status/1521467912162226176?s=20&t=oWVwg4RE8onIBS3d3uOInw
https://twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/status/1521511439931895808?s=20&t=oWVwg4RE8onIBS3d3uOInw
https://twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/status/1521511730584514561?s=20&t=oWVwg4RE8onIBS3d3uOInw
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I’m not going to go hunt the post down to quote it but Isaac Chotiner did an interview with Neal Katyal of “Why Liberals Should Support Neil Gorsuch.” fame and for the most part she does ok. She explains that “supporting” Gorsuch is the best that liberals could do, so if you have to pick someone then you might as well pick him.
Then she starts getting into “high on your own liberal law establishment” supply
In the Gorsuch piece, you wrote, “I have no doubt that if confirmed, Justice Gorsuch would help to restore confidence in the rule of law. His years on the bench reveal a commitment to judicial independence—a record that should give the American people confidence that he will not compromise principle to favor the president who appointed him.” Do you have more concerns now about the willingness of the Trump-appointed Justices, and obviously Alito and Thomas, to restore confidence in the rule of law and have judicial independence?
I’m worried about the Court right now and its ability to act in a way that upholds our principles. A decision like this draft gravely, gravely worries me because it is as huge a step back for women in reproductive justice as anything in our lifetimes.
As I look back on my Gorsuch endorsement, the thing I really regret is that I had hoped Republicans would behave with more principle.
In 2017?
Yeah, in 2017. When I came forth for Gorsuch, Senator Lindsey Graham came up to me and said what I did was incredibly important for the institution and legitimacy of the Court. And then fast-forward to today, where that same man voted against Ketanji Brown Jackson, when easily the same thing could and would be said about her. So I really regret that there is no principle left, and no bipartisanship left in the United States Senate when it comes to Supreme Court nominations.
This is called getting played sucker.
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