Regardless of anything else, President Trump has made his mark on the courts with three USSC Justices (so far go good) and 54 Appeals Court Judges. He added much needed balance to the once fabled and mocked 9th Circuit Court and provided a more conservative slant to many other Circuit Courts.
Depending on the Georgia runoffs, a President Biden will have a tough time getting the same sort of liberal Judges that Obama was able to get confirmed. There is little chance of a significant Supreme Court opening during a Biden administration, with the most likely retirement come from Justice Breyer, who is the oldest member (82 years young) by a decade (Justice Thomas is 72).
The three Supreme Court Justices nominated and confirmed under Trump are all younger than I am - Gorsuch (53), Kavanaugh (55) and Coney Barrett (48). Alito is 70 and Roberts is 65. Both Kagan and Sotomayer are in their sixties. A Breyer retirement would only keep the court at the same ideological make up with the tradeoff of a replacement being probably someone "less" liberal but "much" younger.
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SCREWING UP THE JUDICIARY FOR A GENERATION......JOWLS CANT FIND HIS FAT ASS IN THE DARK, BUT SURE MAKES TIME FOR THIS CRAP!!!!!!
But even this Court is signaling that it is not in synch with the excesses of Donald Trump.
The trump legacy.....3 k dead, a dead economy and a maimed judiciary !!!!!!! Be proud Lil Schitty....helluva job donnie!!!
Outstanding.
The Three Socialist Effeminate of CHT are crying .
Good.
Look at what Alky took issue with. He never ever was on a debate team or on the Debate Stae".
"Caliphate4vrDecember 14, 2020 at 10:16 PM
How is it sexism, you idiot?
Eat your opiates, have someone change your diaper and go to bed
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Roger AmickDecember 15, 2020 at 5:34 AM
I haven't used opiates for years now."
So, in actual debate , Roger confirmed the other two points, by acknowledging the statement. challenging only the use of yet another highly addictive drug.
Early in the recovery from the liver function I was diagnosed with pain required opioids. A few months later I quit using them and haven't used a prescribed medication since!
Scott minority rule has to change.
Minority rule is fast becoming the defining feature of the American republic. In 2000 and 2016, presidential candidates who received fewer votes than their opponents were nevertheless sent to the White House. Joe Biden’s 2020 victory came not because he won nearly 7 million more votes nationally than President Donald Trump, but rather because he won about 200,000 votes more in a handful of swing states. Congress has seen a similar dynamic: Though Republican senators make up the majority in the chamber, they represent more than 20 million fewer Americans than Democratic senators do. Such lopsided electoral calculus seems to fly in the face of both parties’ principles. It cannot last.
Early in the recovery from the liver function I was diagnosed with pain required opioids. A few months later I quit using them and haven't used a prescribed medication since.
Well this certainly is on point with the USSC and Judicial appointment conversation.
BLM already showing that they are readt to pull Biden's strings. They're telling him who they approve of for his cabinet positions. He'll be the weakest president since Carter.
Though Republican senators make up the majority in the chamber, they represent more than 20 million fewer Americans than Democratic senators do. Such lopsided electoral calculus seems to fly in the face of both parties’ principles. It cannot last.
It's called being a "Republic" Roger...
Perhaps you should go back to Government 101 or perhaps American history for a greater understanding. Or perhaps you could just move to a country that isn't quite as complicated for you and your ilk?
Popular vote sucks. We in upstate NY are told to sit down, shut up and accept whatever NYC says.
Georgia Reloaded is here.
The epic saga continues, this time in Georgia. Everything is on the line.
I might just go see Mr Crenshaw
Lie, but why do it.
"haven't used a prescribed medication since!"
Really, so you no longer take the "prescribed" anti-rejection drug that last month you said you did?
Such lopsided electoral calculus seems to fly in the face of both parties’ principles. It cannot last.
it was and is designed, quite specifically, by the founders TO last.
that's the fucking point. for some reason you seem to consistently reject our representative republic as it was designed, and you consistently advocate in favor of the tyranny of the majority. you relish the opportunity to silence and destroy your political opposition.
so much for Biden's unity and healing, eh alky?
and you wonder why secession is a hot topic among the right these days.
I understand that we are a federal democracy. We give states of lower population get 2 Senator seats. In the popular vote for President, each vote in Wyoming is equal to 9 votes in California.
But I'm still troubled with minority rule of the judicial branch.
Your insults are contrary to your own blog request.
This debate has been going on since the founding of the United states of America.
But I'm still troubled with minority rule of the judicial branch.
courts are not there to "rule" but to "judge" consistent with the US Constitution.
you're become so accustomed, err, addicted to liberal judges legislating from the bench delivering new "rights" with no constitutional basis, losing that advantage terrifies you.
abortion is not a "right", gay marriage is not a "right", and healthcare for all is not a "right", yet liberal justices have contorted their role, and our constitution to create those "rights" out of thin air.
hopefully those days are over for at least a generation, and your wants, wishes and desires must pass legislative muster with the voters at the ballot box as it should be.
you guys can never do things on the up and up, you always have to game the system as we've seen in your theft of the election.
the constitution as it stands matters alky, and we all need to live by it all the time. not just as a matter of convenience.
I understand that we are a federal democracy.
Actually we are a Federal Republic or more accurately a constitutional republic, although some might refer to us as a Representative Democratic Republic or even a Representative Democracy.
We are not a Democracy in the purest sense of the word as that would require pretty much all decisions to be voted on. We become a Republic because we elect leaders to represent us. We are a version of Federalism because of our mix of Federal, State, and Local Governments.
But at the end of the day, we are driven by a Constitution that provided limited power to the Federal Government and more power to the State and Local Governments.
Our founding fathers understood that a strong Federal Government has the best (or worse) chance of becoming a corrupt totalitarian type Government that attempts to overrun individual freedoms with the least amount of accountability.
The fact that Idaho has the same amount of Senators as California is simply a check on the power and potential tyranny of a corrupt National Federal Government.
The reality is that you live in California. California is responsible for California and only responsible for California. The fact that more people live in California than Idaho, does not give Californians the right to tell Idaho what to do or how to run their Government... or to use the Federal Government to push your misguided California policies on the rest of the States through the Federal Goverment.
And then there’s the Electoral College.
The number of electors in each state is equal to the sum of the state’s membership in the Senate and the House. This gives an advantage to smaller population states. Again North Dakota has about one electoral vote per 224,000 people, while California gets about one vote per 677,000 people.
So, the “winner-takes-all” (except Maine and Nebraska) Electoral College model dramatically enables minority rule. No other established democracy has an Electoral College.
Remedy? Elimination of the Electoral College. The House voted in favor of such a constitutional amendment in 1969, but the proposal died in the Senate, by old segregationist interests.
As Senator James Allen of Alabama put it: “The Electoral College is one of the South’s few remaining political safeguards. Let’s keep it.”
The GOP has benefited greatly by this minority rule, but it goes against Republican’s core principles of supporting free markets.
Dr. Ziblatt, explains: “The Republican party is [like] a protected firm in a marketplace, artificially benefiting from the political system in a way that allows it to win even when it doesn’t win a majority. If we had free democratic competition, it would have to change its strategy. When Republicans cannot win a majority of votes nationally and still retain power, the free market of ideas is diminished.”
If we continue down this path, this leads us from minority rule to one party rule. (See Kentucky). That is not what the founders intended.
When there is no competition of ideas in local, state, and federal elections, intelligent progress becomes impossible. Research and compromise disappear, and decisions are made on ideology only.
Autocratic principles creep into the system from the likes of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party.
It would never pass but I would get rid of the electoral college system
Scott, the Texas suit was to overturn the election results in 4 states.
The state of Texas does not have the right to tell them how to run their electio .
I'm using your own words to make you look foolish again and again
Idaho doesn't have the right to tell the people of California to run their state government
I doubt Idaho cares
Our founding fathers understood that a strong Federal Government has the best (or worse) chance of becoming a corrupt totalitarian type Government that attempts to overrun individual freedoms with the least amount of accountability.
The President you have been sucking his dick said
I have the authority to do anything I want under the Constitution
If you weren't a cultist, you would have called him out, but like Indy said that you have lost your mind
It would never pass but I would get rid of the electoral college system
of course you would. since you've consistently failed to convince the electorate of the appeal of your ideas via the legislative process, you insist upon silencing your political opposition, destroying them under the boot of a tyrannical majority.
your team is not conciliatory, does not respect diversity of thought or opinion, and exists only in the context of a "my way or the highway" modus operandi.
gee, you would think that since democratic socialism is SO popular, you guys would've crushed it down ballot. instead you'll be operating with the smallest house majority in 100 years.
this is in fact how we ended up with Trump to begin with. the nation is sick of the coastal elites and all of their lame brained ideas.
myballs said it earlier very well - we in Upstate NY have NO voice. every decision is driven by NYC liberals. and if we had an electoral college system in NYS, a democrat wouldn't get elected for another century. we now exist under one party democrat rule, and all the idiocy it contains. bail reform has delivered us the highest crime rates in 30 years, we're losing upwards of 150,000/ year in population, our economy fucking SUCKS. and the influx of parasites has us seeking a $60 BILLION federal bailout.
The President you have been sucking his dick said
I have the authority to do anything I want under the Constitution
a bald faced fucking LIE.
just like the 'fine people on both sides' LIE.
this is where you inevitably end up every time you lose the debate alky.
you start cranking out LIES to change the subject.
time for you to tell us again how you'd litigate sec. "320."
LOL.
Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under
Section 2
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Scott, the Texas suit was to overturn the election results in 4 states.
The state of Texas does not have the right to tell them how to run their electio .
I'm using your own words to make you look foolish again and again
Texas correctly pointed out that other states need to make changes to their election laws "constitutionally." not by judicial fiat as PA did with no time limit, no postmark and no signature.
it's a domino effect, genius. if 4 or more states can simply make their electoral laws whatever the fuck they want on a whim, their corruption creates that domino effect, disenfranchising other states and their voters.
that's ALWAYS been the point of the Texas suit, and that's always been the intentional misinterpretation of it by design.
fuck you and your pigeon chess victory declarations alky.
“Then, I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,”
The Supreme Court said that you are full of shit
Look it up Jimmy Hitler jr.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
“Then, I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,”
ah, the pathological LIAR capitulates and includes the full quote.
educate yourself on the totality and scope of Article II, and all that it contains:
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/section-2/
Trump was referring to Executive Power, which is open to broad interpretation, hence, the existence of White House Counsel to help the President navigate and not over reach his powers.
and the Supreme Court would say that it is YOU who is full of shit, since Executive Power in accordance with Article II is broad in scope, and could not possibly speak to every circumstance by which it would be invoked, particularly in our modern technological age.
It was in reply to the kputz
i gave you the link. look it up yourself, Agolf Twitler, you drunken fucking SOT.
POSTED ON DECEMBER 16, 2020 BY SCOTT JOHNSON IN CORONAVIRUS, MEDIA, MINNESOTA
CORONAVIRUS IN ONE STATE (139)
We have passed the peak of the current wave of the epidemic in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The surge was regional in nature and has receded regionally regardless of the varying approaches taken by the authorities in these states. That’s the way it appears to me (tweet below).
One would never have a clue that this might be the case from the regular Minnesota Department of Health briefings. I have posted the audio of yesterday’s briefing below. Kevin Roche observes in our email correspondence this morning: “The press lets [Walz et al.] act like the [current shutdown] orders had anything to do with the change in cases. All you have to do is look at the curve.”
All the numbers have moved in the right direction. There is no evidence of a Thanksgiving surge. Yet Governor Walz continues to insist on micromanaging our lives. While the current shutdown regime expires Friday, the subjects of Governor Walz have looked longingly to him for a restoration of responsibility for the management of our own lives.
It is not to be. Per Blois Olson’s Morning Take email update, Walz will announce at a 1:15 p.m. press conference this afternoon:
• Indoor drinking and dining will remain closed at least through January 11. Restaurants may resume outdoor dining limited to 50 percent of capacity, or 100 customers.
• Fitness studios and gyms will be allowed to reopen at a quarter of their capacity subject to a 100 person limit. Patrons must wear masks and maintain 12 feet of social distancing. Fitness classes can resume January 4.
• Family gatherings will be allowed with one other household, up to 10 people, and up to two other households outside.
• Outdoor entertainment venues can open subject to a 25 percent capacity limit with a 100 person maximum.
• Youth sports teams can resume practices on January 4.
Walz’s spokesman lets on that Walz will “prioritize[] in-person learning for elementary students[.]” It has taken a back seat so far, to the detriment of al the minority communities to which he professes devotion in the current politically correct terms.
A new executive order will of course fill in the details and lay down the law. Whatever the details, Walz continues to exercise minute control of the “dials” of our lives (as he calls them) and the press continues its utterly servile performance.
I don't reply to the racist rodent bastard anymore because he getting desperate l
You have been busy Scott.
Yesterday Joe Biden introduced his nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the execrable California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (video below). Biden himself didn’t seem too familiar with the guy or with the department. Biden slurred his speech and struggled to approximate Becerra’s name in the big announcement for what should have been a nomination to the Department of That’s Easy for You to Say.
Do you know how to say Xavier
Exavier in English
Lydia's daughter is named Xavier.
It can be used for men and women.
Off topic but it looks like Mitch McConnell is no longer intimidated by the lame duck President
They are negotiating a bipartisan bill on covid-19 recovery plan.
Trump wants stimulus checks with his name on them
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I don't reply to the racist rodent bastard anymore because he getting desperate l
LOL. i stomp your ass and walk it dry with the greatest of ease alky.
and this time was no different.
now... tell us again about your jurisprudence prowess on sec. "320."
LMAO.
Biden himself didn’t seem too familiar with the guy or with the department.
he called him "baccarrhea"
like diarrhea.
LOL.
and referred to HHS as health and education.
your election THIEF is a fucking MESS.
Do you know how to say Xavier?
Exavier in English
A lot of people struggle with Spanish speaking correctly
Kind of off topic because I'm still troubled by this story.
Here are three reasons why the company is so dangerous, as explained by Adrienne:
1. It prioritizes scale above all.
Somewhere along the way, Facebook decided that it needed not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size. That decision set Facebook on a path to escape velocity, to a tipping point where it can harm society just by existing.
2. And, in doing so, it allows the worst parts of humanity to go viral.
Facebook is an agent of government propaganda, targeted harassment, terrorist recruitment, emotional manipulation, and genocide—a world-historic weapon that lives not underground, but in a Disneyland-inspired campus in Menlo Park, California.
3. No one company—or person—should retain so much power.
Facebook’s megascale gives [Mark] Zuckerberg an unprecedented degree of influence over the global population. If he isn’t the most powerful person on the planet, he’s very near the top.
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The social media era is very difficult.
A lot of people struggle with Spanish speaking correctly
Perhaps the President Elect shouldn't be one of those people?
Roger Amick said...
Do you know how to say Xavier?
Exavier in English
yup, but it's a moot point alky.
Slow Joe fucked up Becerra's last name. not his first.
and there is no "Health and Education" agency or department.
your retard-elect is a fucking mess.
here's where the alky stole his facebook fantasy:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/12/facebook-is-a-doomsday-machine/617401/
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