Gorsuch – The Politicus

Made up Memos, Rules, and Traditions

To begin with, the Constitution makes no allowance for the arrest of a lawless current or former President. If that presidential exception existed, a sitting president could stand on Fifth Ave and shoot someone; Oh, wait! Despite the mountain of evidence, Donald Trump is not in jail for inciting a...

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July 25, 2022

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It Is Well Past Time To Confront The Truth Of The Republican Party's Threat To Democracy

Watching the depressing and alarming spectacle of 17 Republican states joining Texas’s bad faith, frivolous Supreme Court application to overturn the election in favor of Trump, I am reminded that in September 2015 I wrote a post titled “The Sad Truth of John Boehner’s Resignation” — which received 1,275 Recommends, 789 Comments and,...

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December 10, 2020

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Trumpery: State of Texas sues Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin directly in #SCOTUS.

The latest bit of gross stupidity and waste of state taxpayer funds is one state suing others because fraud, something, something…. abstracting from actual votes is more representative of the will of the people….maybe…and go Constitutionally big or go home. This Texas parlor trick requires the same thing all the...

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December 8, 2020

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POTUS* does a drive-by waving for the teeming thousand(s) because Joe Biden flipped 5 Trump states

Lemmings, with the Secret Service locked and loaded. Was this also a protest of DC gyms’ occupancy limits? x This loser parade must’ve left their self respect at home. https://t.co/ztC8SLOMUC— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 14, 2020 x MOMENTS AGO: Trump supporters rush to see the president's motorcade driving by. pic.twitter.com/h0brs4gfC0...

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November 14, 2020

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Don't forget that Republicans also eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees

Just a quick reminder about something I see largely left out of the coverage of Republicans’ bad faith regarding the Supreme Court: Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. This was supposed to be a seismic event, but I don’t hear it discussed much anymore in the overall Supreme...

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October 29, 2020

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Biden is crushing Trump in swing-state ad spending

I’ve told friends that I’m not going to completely relax until the moment Joe Biden is sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts on January 20. (And after he’s reelected, I’ll look forward to his swearing-in ceremony with Hillary Clinton, the chief justice of the newly packed Supreme Court, which Thief...

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October 18, 2020

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Ah . . . too late I guess and I should have written this before about Nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

I have written two posts about suggested questions for Nominee Barrett — here and here. But watching a good deal of today’s confirmation hearing, and listening to her dodge way too many questions, I realize I should also have set out some suggested questions to highlight how thin are her qualifications...

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October 14, 2020

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a chickenized economy, gigging work everywhere

Industry concentration and monopolization have become boring and technical so the exploitation of labor now gets a meme-term from Zephyr Teachout that sounds more like a QAnon conspiracy: chickenization. COVID-19 does have something to do with it considering the acceleration of the pandemic in meat production centers. It involves something more akin...

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October 7, 2020

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Watch Stephanopoulos allow Republican Senator to blatantly lie about the filibuster. MSM FAIL!

This interview is a classic example of why Americans don't vote in their interest. A Stephanopoulos follow-up question on this filibuster lie was a no-brainer. Mainstream media allow liars the use of our airwaves to misinform us. An unchecked filibuster lie x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. When...

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September 27, 2020

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90 minute debate in six parts, Trump will fail because bluster and bull aren't a October Surprise

The toast is not yet burnt. Trump will need to win all three events. Won’t happen because all Trump has are bizarre lies and falsehoods. x One week from today, President Trump and former VP Biden will meet on the debate stage for the first time. Rachel @Maddow, @NicolleDWallace, @JoyAnnReid...

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September 22, 2020

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RBG has passed away at 87

Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died of complications from cancer. In a statement dictated to her granddaughter Clara Spera days before her death, she said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.” x WASHINGTON (AP) —...

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September 18, 2020

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IA-Sen: Chuck Grassley (R) Pours Cold Water On Joni Ernst's (R) Trump SCOTUS Hearing Fantasy

So this happened yesterday: U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Friday that the Senate should hold hearings on any Supreme Court nomination President Donald Trump might make this year, even if he loses November's election. “(If) it is a lame-duck session, I would support going ahead with any hearings that we...

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July 19, 2020

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SCOTUS rules on two Trump-related cases. Vance and Mazars: both 7-2 against Trump

Cases go back to the lower court, so the Trump tax returns issue will not get seen before the election, because it goes to the Grand Jury in Vance. In the case of the House with Mazars, it also goes back to the lower court on the issues of subpoenas, still blocking House committees...

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July 9, 2020

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Cheat or Bail, Trump is still losing

Trump will do anything to win, but when he loses, more likely will spend the time between election day and inauguration day on revenge and pardons. x Trump's Presidency Is About to Enter Chapter 11 || By: Nicholas Grossman https://t.co/wS8wYfzHLN Ã¢Â€Â” SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) July 7, 2020 (1) Cheat Trump never...

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July 7, 2020

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ME, CO, IA, SC, NC & AZ-Sen: Colllins' (R) Brett Kavanaugh Problem Is Also These GOPers Problem

First off, she needs to be called out for her bull shit: Embattled Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in a statement Monday that she agreed with the Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana’s draconian abortion law, adding that while conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the minority, his opinion “gave...

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June 30, 2020

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A Cautionary Note On The Latest Effort By Trump And The Republicans To Judicially Overturn The ACA

As most surely know, Trump and the Republicans have filed their initial brief before the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the entire ACA, arguing that the elimination of any tax penalty to enforce the individual mandate renders the original constitutional justification (Congress’s taxing authority) a nullity and that — under something...

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June 27, 2020

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SCOTUS rules that LGBTQ can sue for workplace bias

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Title VII protections now includes LGBTQ in a single watershed decision. Happy Pride month. x .@business: The ruling came in one of two LGBT workplace-bias cases the court has been considering. The justices could rule momentarily in the second case, which concerns discrimination against transgender workers. https://t.co/9xv8jXJF2N— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist) June...

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June 15, 2020

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TX-Sen: Pete Buttigieg Helps MJ Hegar (D) Take Down Moscow Mitch's Right-Hand Man

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D. IN), in support of MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: MJ Hegar (D. TX) There is so much at stake this November. I said it on the campaign trail, and I’ll say it again now:...

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May 4, 2020

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GA, MT, ME, AZ, CO, IA & NC-Sen: PFAW Increases It's Number Of Top GOP Targets To Defeat

Received this e-mail today from the People For the American Way: PFAW’s Take Back the Senate Fund has added THREE critical targets to our list of top 2020 Senate races: Shifting dynamics in the states of these right-wing Republicans have made their races more competitive. These stalwart Trump allies join...

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April 30, 2020

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Woeful Response To Pandemic Highlights Need For More Progressives In Congress

Woeful Response To Pandemic Highlights Need For More Progressives In Congress By Donna Smith, Executive Director – Progressive Democrats of America Pitch In Time And/Or Money To Help Us WinMake Easy, Effective Calls From Home And/OrGive To Support PDA’s Win 2020 Victory Fund Today on “Candidates Tuesday,” Progressive Democrats...

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March 24, 2020

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ME-Sen: The New Republic, “How the Media Created the 'Moderate' Susan Collins (R)”

The New Republic has a new piece out about how the media is responsible for creating the myth that U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) is a “moderate”: To portray politics as “political theater,” reporters need players. And for more than a decade, Collins has been cast as a dutiful moderate,...

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March 16, 2020

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GOP’s Cornyn repeatedly threatened judges; now demands Schumer apology

Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday expressed regret that he “used the words I used yesterday” in warning Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch of the public backlash their reproductive rights rulings will produce. While Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proclaimed, “There is nothing to call this except...

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March 7, 2020

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Trump and Republicans want SCOTUS to delay death of Obamacare until after election

The background: The Trump administration and several red states have backed a — ridiculous, mind you — challenge to the Affordable Care Act arguing that Congress’ removal of the tax penalty connected to Obamacare’s individual mandate has made the entire law unconstitutional. Republicans hate Obamacare so much — because you...

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January 11, 2020

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MA-Sen: Ed Markey (D) Is Starting To Change His Tune On What To Do About The Filibuster

As many of you know, the filibuster has been the top issue for me in the 2020 Democratic Primary. I support Elizabeth Warren because she has called for eliminating the archaic 60 vote rule that has constantly killed progress time and time again. Her, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro,...

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November 11, 2019

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Republicans and their Willful Destruction of ‘The Constitution

I try really hard not to scream when I hear, “the both sides do it” argument, that is usually offered up by Republicans, whenever trouble strikes. They pull out, “but what about…” instead of admitting a problem exist. Even as kids, we learned the folly of, “if Billy jumps off...

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September 20, 2019

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MA-Sen: Why The Filibuster Is The Big Issue In The Primary Between Markey (D) & Kennedy (D)

Here’s the latest news out of Massachusetts: Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, the last member of the Democratic dynasty serving in Washington, plans to formally announce Saturday that he is launching a primary challenge to Senator Edward J. Markey, an audacious political move that could open fissures within the Democratic...

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September 18, 2019

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Biden Does Not Know When To Stop Digging.

You all are going to hear about this from plenty of other diarists, but Joltin Joe Biden just can’t quit digging his own grave on misreading the political times. Biden says he would probably resubmit Merrick Garland for the SCOTUS if he wins the presidency. And this is what he...

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July 5, 2019

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To Impeach, Or Not To Impeach? That Is The Question.

If you’re a President, you have a better chance of winning the Powerball lottery than you have of being impeached. I mean that literally. If you buy a ticket, you at least have a one in some odd million chance of hitting it lucky, but no sitting President has ever...

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April 19, 2019

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McConnell brags about obstructing Merrick Garland nomination 16 days after whining about obstruction

Fuck you, Mitch McConnell. Fuck you in your scurfy chelonian exoskeleton. ThinkProgress: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday ignored his past condemnations of Democratic obstruction, releasing a three-minute campaign kickoff video for his 2020 re-election bid, centering on his successful 293 day blockade of Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination...

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April 18, 2019

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Where The Judicial Rubber Meets The Road

There are rough seas ahead for the John Roberts led Supreme Court, with no safe harbor in sight. Over the next 6-12 months, there are quite likely three critical issues that will be thrust in a national spotlight to their chamber by The Pampers President, issues that the court would...

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April 10, 2019

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The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 105)

As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1215. It was revealed Trump had directed Michael Cohen to...

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January 24, 2019

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The 2019 “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done” Year End Summary Report

Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy areas and scoring their relative impact, we have attempted to understand how the Administration operates and measure where it’s done...

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January 20, 2019

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Notorious RBG Votes From Her Hospital Bed to Stymie Reinstatement of drumpf's Asylum Ban!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted from her hospital bed and Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the good guys to turn back Trump’s Justice Department’s attempt to reinstate the ban on asylum seekers. UPI “Dec. 21 (UPI) — The Supreme Court on Friday denied the Trump administration's request that it be allowed to enforce...

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December 21, 2018

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The real reason why Trump is so unhinged lately

Ya know, when you were a kid, your parents always told you that the only to handle a bully was to stand up to the bully. That was easy for your parents to say, because they weren’t the ones who were going to get their ass kicked in the middle of the...

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November 17, 2018

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Reminder: Senator Mitch McConnell Is the Republican Nancy Pelosi.

Senator Mitch McConnell is an unpopular guy not only in his home state but nationally, and given the response from Republican voters in other states, McConnell is the Republican version of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. Remember that little special election for a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama? McConnell intervened in that special...

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November 17, 2018

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28 days to go. Eyes on the prize people!

You know, I’ve got to hand it to El Pendejo Presidente. When it comes to politics, he literally could fall into a shithouse, and come up with a sealed box lunch. Brett Kavanaugh was always meant to serve as a distraction. Trump could have picked any of a number of...

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October 9, 2018

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For the GOP to win, Kvanaugh must lose.

This really isn't that complicated. There are only two possible outcomes to the Kavanaugh nomination Either Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed, or he won't. There are only two sides here, Democratic and Republican, and each outcome will provoke a largely predictable reaction from each side. This isn't pure speculation, there...

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October 4, 2018

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No Matter What Happens With Kavanaugh We Will Soon Have A Totally Illegitimate Majority on SCOTUS.

Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law. In this article in The American Prospect he argues his case that we will soon have a completely illegitimate Majority on the Supreme Court. “….each of the five conservative justices—Clarence Thomas, John Roberts,...

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October 2, 2018

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The hidden landmine for Kavanaugh and the GOP.

What a ride, huh? Don't worry, I'm not going to re-litigate the last 36 hours here, how can you make something this weird any weirder? But, there is one little thing I want to point out that is a so far unreported byproduct of today's whirlwind of events. So far,...

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September 28, 2018

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What the hell was that?

That was … what do you call it? Kind of nuts. It wasn’t a press conference. I mean, there were reporters there, and someone claiming to be the president. But … but … Oh, far, far too much crazy to sift through. I was worried he might actually take a dump on the floor,...

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September 26, 2018

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The Pussy Cat of Indiana – Senator Joe Donnelly – Coughs Like He Has a Hair Ball on Kavanaugh.

Donnelly’s office said the following: “Senator Donnelly takes his responsibility to consider Supreme Court nominees – regardless of the president making the nominations – very seriously. With both Judges Garland and Gorsuch, and now with Judge Kavanaugh, Senator Donnelly has evaluated Supreme Court nominees based on their understanding of the...

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September 17, 2018

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Josh Marshall May Have Found Out Who Kavanaugh's Partner in Sexual Assault Was… (snark)

Ruh-Roh. Looks like Chuck Grassley’s gonna need another letter. x Huh, maybe we should ask Neil what happened? Turns out Gorsuch (Ã¢Â€Â˜85) went to the same DC prep school as Kavanaugh (Ã¢Â€Â˜83) and at the same time. CanÃ¢Â€Â™t get them both on the Court soon enough to stick it to...

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September 15, 2018

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MA-Sen: Elizabeth Warren (D) Keeps Up The Pressure On The Senate To Reject Trump's SCOTUS Nominee

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) What we saw this week wasn't a Supreme Court confirmation hearing – it was a charade. Donald Trump and the Senate Republicans are still hiding over 100,000 pages of Brett Kavanaugh's...

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September 7, 2018

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IN-Sen: GOP Poll Has Sen. Joe Donnelly (D) Beating Mike Braun (R) 51-39

The GOP polling firm, the Trafalgar Group, has a polling testing the Indiana U.S. Senate race between the incumbent U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly (D. IN) and businessman Mike Braun (R. IN). The poll has good news…. for Democrats! The poll was conducted between 7/31/18 to 8/7/18. It surveyed 1,420 respondents. The...

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August 15, 2018

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Judicial fascism is coming to America…unless we convince the Senate to reject Kavanaugh!

President Trump has appointed Brett Michael Kavanaugh, a far-right federal appeals court judge, to the soon-to-be vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court currently occupied by right-leaning Associate Justice Anthony McLeod Kennedy. Kavanaugh, if confirmed, would represent the fifth man of a five-justice bloc of hardline fascist activist judges, the...

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July 10, 2018

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Collins and The Media Are at It Again.

Here we go again with Collins and the malfunctioning Media: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said Sunday that she would not support a Supreme Court nominee who had “demonstrated hostility” toward Roe v. Wade, “because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions,”...

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July 1, 2018

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The real answer to Supreme Court power politics that no one acknowledges

I’ve been as outraged as anyone about the Republicans’ theft of J. Scalia’s former Supreme Court seat — and now President Trump’s appalling opportunity to compound the damage with a second appointment. And I have read the numerous pleas for Dems to extract justice, including this reasonable and provocative Kos diary calling on Dems...

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June 29, 2018

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Trump's SCOTUS shortlist is an American nightmare

I’m sure everyone will be very surprised to know that Trump’s shortlist of SCOTUS candidates is not exactly everything we’d like to see in a replacement for Kennedy. Or anything we’d like to see in a replacement for Kennedy. But there are some really scary options on that list. Like the guy in that...

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June 27, 2018

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Justice Gorsuch must recuse himself from Russia litigation and should resign if collusion is proved

As we all know, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was only confirmed to the Supreme Court after, and as a result of, an unprecedented Republican embargo against President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to replace the deceased Justice Scalia. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended this outcome as follows: “The next justice...

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February 18, 2018