Thinking recently about questions for nominee Amy Coney Barrett, and her Originalism theory, I thought of an interesting argument — “Originalism is not a valid judicial theory because there is no evidence that the constitutional framers believed in it.” See that? How can you have a valid “Originalist” theory that the Constitution is rigidly to be…
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Nominee Barrett: How does your “originalism” theory account for Women? For African Americans?
Another in a line of proposed questions for Amy Coney Barret at the confirmation hearing. I actually think it is criminal if these questions are not asked. You are an open and staunch advocate of the “Originalism” theory of interpreting the Constitution, a theory popularly associated with your model, Justice Antonin Scalia. Originalism and Women…
another protest shooting, this time in Denver
Taking bear repellent to a gunfight doesn’t work in all states. This event, still being investigated in Denver unfortunately replicates the incident in Portland where a RW counter-protester assumed that leftist protesters were not armed with guns. In that case, the shooter was hunted down by a US Marshalls SWAT team and killed. initial assault…
Justices Breyer and Scalia debate each other. On TV. Fairly and politely.
As we all begin to turn our attention to the Supreme Court again, I came across the below YouTube video of a 2009 debate between US Supreme Court Justices Breyer and Scalia. It is a breath of fresh air and I believe it is unthinkable today. (Scalia may deserve some credit for this as he seemed to…
because the Second Amendment covers shooting out your window, accelerating after road rage
More Florida men-a-tee, standing their ground even as it moves beneath them at 101 mph, hot brass flying around the cabin of the pickup truck. Shooter appears to have shot through a partially opened driver side window, and then there’s that jump-cut to the front-facing image of presumably the target vehicle; OTOH he might have filed a false police report….
72% of Justices appointed before Trump supported Roe. Does Barrett accept any limits on her power?
I’d like to crowd source reaction to the following proposed list of questions — because we don't have much time to prepare for confirmation hearings. The questions are not said with hope of derailing the nominee, but recognizing (very much so) that the confirmation hearings are part of a larger political debate/audience and Dems need to make…
Portland Proud Boys day of rage fizzles as promised crowd of 20,000 turns out 500
Much jackboot-quaking as a much-touted demo in Portland had a weak showing north of the anarchist jurisdiction. x tickled by this because I watched 5 seconds of the KATU coverage and the proud boy on the mic said something like 2,000 people were there— voltaverse (@voltaverse) September 26, 2020 x BLM car caravan from Vanport…
RBG not even buried and Trump announces patriarchy's handmaid 'Aunt Lydia'
A new generation of “forward to the past”, anti-modern conflict for which the GOP should pay in November. x “The likely shift in the court’s makeup — from Ginsburg, a liberal icon, to an outspoken conservative — would be the sharpest ideological swing since Clarence Thomas replaced Justice Thurgood Marshall nearly three decades ago” https://t.co/rQnSB9ViyZ…
The US has surpassed 200,000 coronavirus deaths. Who sent the ricin to Trump
Ricin attacks against the WH seem more routine rather than random and their origins do seem to follow ideologies more worried about the extremism within the White House, although why would Canadians want to harm POTUS. Darn that NAFTA 2.0. The most recent example just happened, when a ricin envelope was sent to the White House in…
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) — Supreme Court says Justice Ruth…
Oklahoma City threat legacy: there are no stochastic lone wolves
Other than Trump’s deliberate mass-casualty response to COVID-19, there was an earlier event that had similar malevolence. This is not about “antifa” as a threat, rather it is the continuing, intergenerational threat of right-wing domestic terror, made more possible by Trump’s election and not triggered by isolated individuals. x TREASONOUS SABOTAGE OF INTELLIGENCE: The right-wing domestic terror…
“And I will tell you something, that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution.”
In an interview yesterday, Trump went all in on sanctioning extralegal political killing, because death squads seem right for his presidency, shooting people on the avenue, Fifth Avenue. x Trump on a purported antifa sympathizer who allegedly killed someone in Portland being killed by federal forces: “This guy was a violent criminal, and the US…
Was Michael Reinoehl shot “clutching a cellphone and eating a gummy worm as he walked to his car”
Trigger-happy extralegal shooting by federal law enforcement. US Marshals fired many rounds into/at him. But surely death squads don’t exist in America. When police last week surrounded Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist suspected of fatally shooting a member of a far-right group in Portland, Ore., the wanted man wasn’t obviously armed, a witness to the…
Trump tries to cut federal funds to “lawless zones”, like his sanctuary city threats, it's a stunt
Like the fantasy airline flights filled with numerous thugs, the delusional election stunts continue. The riff here is on “autonomous zones”. x This is the latest attempt to distract from the fact that COVID-19 has infected over 6 million Americans, killed 185,000 people, and destroyed the American economy. The only anarchy zone in America, where the…
Kyle Rittenhouse, junior patriot, brought a gun to a skateboard fight, and Mom helped
Trumpian legal defense logic would suggest that like the COVID toll, Wendy Rittenhouse helped her kid with his guns but she didn’t get killed, and the death toll from her son’s shooting spree was a lot less than Newtown. Trump claims he’s saved millions of lives even as his inaction and incompetence has more than doubled the…
Trump's carnage is self-fulfilling prophecy as vigilante incels take to the streets
More revelatory would be whoever created the “Kenosha Guard” page on FB, as Kyle Rittenhouse has been arrested on first-degree murder charges. x Police chief describes the seventeen year old that killed 2 people as “trying to resolve the conflict”. What could he possible mean by that?— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) August 26, 2020 If there’s…
Jacob Blake protests in Kenosha Wisconsin
Blake is currently paralyzed from the waist down having been shot seven times by police. x BREAKING: Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is paralyzed from the waist down, his father tells the Chicago @Suntimes. Doctors don't know if the paralysis will be permanent. https://t.co/pCiKvzTK2Z— The Associated Press (@AP) August 25,…
Proud Boy aims handgun at protester, violates state law ORS 166.190 (Pointing firearm at someone)
Proud Boys appeared at today’s “Back the Blue” demonstration in Portland OR, one brandishing a firearm like the St Louis couple defending their villa. Perhaps another last-minute speaker at the RNC perhaps to speak about self-defense law when you have superior force. Plenty of violations today. One qualification is that there were technically not enough police to declare…
USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)
Reports in various places of locks placed on mailboxes. Leaving mailboxes but they’re sealing & locking the openings! Darn semantics, leave the boxes, take the cannoli and the constitutional democracy. The labor slowdown may doom the entire effort despite any funding correction because IMPOTUS* continues the disinformation campaign about mail-in ballots. Meadows says no more…
Did an ex-military contractor throw IEDs at Portland protesters
Like the DHS and DoJ contractors deployed with the miscellaneous tactical units, a variety of former military are formally and informally at play during the Portland protests. In this case, a rogue element was pursued by citizen activists because these “contractors” were trying to escalate peaceful protests. The Military Industrial Complex has dregs as well as…
