Yup. In that order. Ideally two terms for Walz followed by two terms for AOC, i.e. 16 years of uninterrupted sanity in the White House. Because boy have they got their work cut out for them repairing everything Trump & Musk broke; they’ll need time. And a supportive congress, but that might come about as some sort of knock-on effect.
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Yes… but only because progressives, her party, and constituents were all over her.
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We saw him ~20 years ago on a NYC-to-LA flight. He was in first-class, standing there with a huge smile on his face and happily greeting disembarking passengers as they walked by. Our turn, the two of us and Alda: “Hi!” “Hello!”
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But of course he would! And he had the good sense to marry a clarinetist (i kinda sorta used to play & could again…i guessssss?)
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I’d vote the hell out of that ticket in a nano-second.
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OMG So Very
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She’s not normally an asshole. Wonder WTF was going on there?!
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Old fashioned cronyism.
Nessel’s extensive personal, financial and political connections to university regents calling for the activists to be prosecuted.
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Oh, great.
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I’ll crosspost over in Law that Doesn’t Suck with details, but it looks like a federal judge overturned the NC Supreme Court ruling on the NC Supreme Court election in 2024. I’m sure it will be appealed, but, whoa, it is SCATHING. And it doesn’t mess around with “curing” ballots. It straight up orders the NC elections commission to certify Riggs as Supreme Court Justice.
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That’ll piss off the mor(m)ons.
I like it!
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Happy Birthday
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“I beg some enterprising journalist or scholar to examine the deeper patterns and sources of conflict between a group of judges who were clearly empowered by Trump’s first term yet consistently part ways on specific questions of the Trump regime and its rule.”
I’m no journalist or scholar, but I am a recent law school graduate, so I’ll take a crack at it.
- While these judges are almost certainly conservatives, they also went to law school. They almost certainly went to the top law schools in the country, and clerked under Supreme Court justices and Appeals Court judges. They know the law, they know the Constitution, and they believe in the rule of law. These judges, even the ones endorsed by FedSoc, outnumber the outright corrupt ones like Alito, Thomas, and that asshole in Texas. I disagree with them on many, many issues, I’m sure, but they believe in the Constitution and the Rule of Law, and Trump doesn’t.
- They are not dependent on Trump for their job. Once appointed to the federal bench, that is a lifetime appointment. It’s not just SCOTUS justices who are appointed for life. It’s all federal judges. District courts, appeals courts, SCOTUS, all of it. Once one the bench, they can be reassigned, but they cannot be removed except through impeachment. This has its downsides, but the upside is that these judges are no longer dependent on politicians for their continued employment. They can decide cases per their conscience, and not per their party’s platform.
- Many of them almost certainly recognize the danger to the judiciary in letting Trump get away with everything that he wants to do. They would render their own jobs powerless. Most people are not inclined to do that.
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Another example of boycotting Trump’s demands:
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Les Mis is one of his favorite musicals somehow? Does he actually think Thénardier is the good guy? Or is this one of those things where someone asked him once, and he made up something about the only thing he’d heard of?
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