Over the past 5 election cycles, Republicans have outperformed generic polling by approximately 1.5%
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | Republicans (R) | Democrats (D) | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 4/19 - 5/10 | -- | 46.9 | 43.1 | Republicans +3.8 |
| Monmouth | 5/5 - 5/9 | 751 RV | 50 | 43 | Republicans +7 |
| Economist/YouGov | 5/8 - 5/10 | 1361 RV | 49 | 51 | Democrats +2 |
| Politico/MornCons | 5/6 - 5/9 | 2005 RV | 42 | 44 | Democrats +2 |
| CNN | 5/3 - 5/5 | 645 RV | 49 | 42 | Republicans +7 |
| FOX News | 4/28 - 5/1 | 1003 RV | 46 | 39 | Republicans +7 |
| ABC News/WaPo | 4/24 - 4/28 | 907 RV | 45 | 46 | Democrats +1 |
| Emerson | 4/25 - 4/26 | 1000 RV | 47 | 41 | Republicans +6 |
| Federalist/Susque | 4/19 - 4/27 | 800 LV | 49 | 39 | Republicans +10 |
| NPR/PBS/Marist | 4/19 - 4/26 | 1162 RV | 47 | 44 | Republicans +3 |
| Quinnipiac | 4/21 - 4/25 | 1409 RV | 45 | 42 | Republicans +3 |
But assuming the GOP can actually even garner a 3-4 point national popular vote victory, this would definitely win back the Senate and House with room to spare. At this point things would really need to change for Democrats between now and November. I don't see the underlying conditions changing and the things that Democrats are hoping can help them are probably dead ends. More to the point, their attempts to change the subject are falling on deaf ears. People care about what people care about. It is extremely difficult (if not counterproductive) to tell a voter that he or she should care about something different than what they do.
This is like that old legal theory. When the law is on your side, argue the law. When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When neither is on your side, pound the table. Right now the conditions do not favor the Democrats. The priorities do not favor the Democrats. So what do the Democrats do?
Well the whole Jan 6th commission, attacking "MAGA" as extreme, or putting up extreme abortion bills with no hope to pass is little more than "pounding the table". It's all they have and it's unlikely to work.
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John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1524724595705757696
Sometimes, when the news of the day is extra-depressing, I cheer myself up by thinking about the sheer, unbridled joy that will erupt across America when Joe Biden is gone. There will be dancing in the streets.
Justice Goldberg
There can be no question that a State has a legitimate interest in protecting its judicial system from the pressures which picketing near a courthouse might create. Since we are committed to a government of laws and not of men, it is of the utmost importance that the administration of justice be absolutely fair and orderly. This Court has recognized that the unhindered and untrammeled functioning of our courts is part of the very foundation of our constitutional democracy.
[ . . . ]
A State may adopt safeguards necessary and appropriate to assure that the administration of justice at all stages is free from outside control and influence. A narrowly drawn statute such as the one under review is obviously a safeguard both necessary and appropriate to vindicate the State’s interest in assuring justice under law.
Nor does such a statute infringe upon the constitutionally protected rights of free speech and free assembly. The conduct which is the subject of this statute—picketing and parading—is subject to regulation even though intertwined with expression and association. The examples are many of the application by this Court of the principle that certain forms of conduct mixed with speech may be regulated or prohibited.
Those “examples,” per the opinion, are “encouraging the commission of a crime,” “fighting words,” and certain types of picketing and parading in labor disputes.
Frank Scaramella
https://twitter.com/21FrankS/status/1523218477699387392
BREAKING: Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike turns down a meeting with @JoeBiden . Asked why, they said “If I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would’ve came in second.
Here you go roger, looks what's happening right outside your room in case you still haven't stepped out !!!
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VIDEO:
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The Democrats will keep Arizona, and win in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada and a? And keep the Senate majority.
Unless something extraordinary happens the Republican Party will take the house. The one good thing is that they will not try to get revenge for Impeaching the Orange Monster.
But keep an eye on the house committee on the Capitol riot.
Speaking of surprises.
Democrats have sprung a trap for Republicans if they refuse to comply with Jan. 6 subpoenas: report
Matthew Chapman
On Thursday, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas to five GOP members of the House, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), after the members refused to comply with voluntary cooperation. The move raises the question of whether GOP lawmakers will comply with the subpoena.
But according to Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell, committee insiders believe they have sprung a trap for Republicans should they refuse to do so.
Specifically, wrote Lowell on Twitter, Democrats believe that the GOP refusing to comply with the subpoenas would set a precedent that Democratic members of Congress could also refuse to comply with subpoenas if Republicans win control of the House this fall and open investigations into their side.
Several of these Republicans had contact with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack, and have been cagey about what exactly happened in those exchanges.
POLITICO has noted that Republicans seem prepared to risk that eventuality, with members planning to invoke the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution to declare themselves immune from such litigation in their duty as lawmakers.
Republicans have already threatened a flurry of new investigations if they win control of the House, although many of them appear to be directed at people other than House members, like Hunter Biden or members of President Joe Biden's Cabinet.
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If they focus on Hunter Biden, these Republicans had contact with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack, and have been cagey about what exactly happened in those exchanges would testify if granted immunity and the Department of Justice has the authority to charge even Trump
Roger...
Do you realize that literally no voter cares about the Jan 6th commission. It's literally only something that people with TDS care about. The fact you continue to bring it up as if it matters is proof of your ailment.
The ascendancy of conservative, anti-Roe Catholic jurists has been forty years in the making, dating back to the founding of the Federalist Society in 1982.”
In a celebration of the Federalist Society’s 25th anniversary at Washington’s Union Station in 2007, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a founding member, told the crowd of almost 2,000: “We thought we had planted a wildflower in the weeds of academic liberalism…Instead, it was an oak.”
When Scalia died unexpectedly in February 2016, Republicans blocked President Barack Obama from filling his seat, arguing that his successor be left to the next president.
That May, longshot candidate Donald Trump enlisted Leonard Leo, co-chair of the Federalist Society’s board, to give him a list of 11 judges (which soon grew to 21) that would give him the conservative bona fides. A-thrice married wealthy playboy and longtime pro-choice Democrat, Trump knew he needed to win over Republican voters that were skeptical he could be trusted as president to reflect their values.
“All picked by the Federalist Society,” Trump boasted. “All gold standard,” Trump declared as he rallied conservative voters with the promise of delivering the Court they wanted.
Leonard Leo is a devout Catholic who makes frequent trips to the Vatican, where he surely gets a hero’s welcome for facilitating the six-vote conservative and Catholic majority on the Court. Following Trump’s election in 2016, Leo became a regular visitor to the White House to help the 45th president fulfill his promise to the white evangelical base that turned out in droves to vote for him.
When Amy Coney Barrett, a law professor at Notre Dame at the time, testified in 2017 before the Senate for a lower court position, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein voiced concern about her religious affiliation with an evangelical offshoot of the Catholic Church. “I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma,” Feinstein said. “In your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.”
Even so, it’s a stunning turnabout in religious affiliation, and not a coincidence that the main reason we’re about to lose Roe is the moral argument advanced by the Catholic church.
From Justice Byron White, a Catholic appointed by John F. Kennedy who was one of the two dissents to the Roe decision in 1973, to Justice Kavanaugh, whose Catholic upbringing made him a pretty sure bet for the Federalist Society to anoint in 2018, the Vatican’s thinking on abortion has taken hold.
More fights lie ahead as the uneasy truce about viability and access to abortion collapses under the weight of five unelected justices. “This isn’t a religious freedom case. This is an abortion rights case,” Amanda Tyler of the BJC told The Daily Beast.
“If Roe is overturned, in a post-Roe world, religious freedom arguments will be made by abortion advocates. The religious objection is not only on one side.”
Scott
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Roger...
Do you realize that literally no voter cares about the Jan 6th commission. It's literally only something that people with TDS care about. The fact you continue to bring it up as if it matters is proof of your ailment.
The coldheartedtruth ls
your TLS has been evident since he was nominated , and on the January 6th insurrection date it has destroyed your mind.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres-no-separation-of-church-and-state-on-the-supreme-court?ref=wrap
Florida is turning into a Trump Kingdom.
Ron DeSantis to appoint new Florida secretary of state who could oversee his 2022 re-election: report
Bob Brigham
May 12, 2022
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis will get to appoint a new chief elections officer who will oversee Florida's 2022 election -- in which the governor is running for re-election.
"Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee is stepping down Monday in a precursor for a likely run for a Tampa Bay-area congressional seat. Lee submitted a letter of resignation to Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a Thursday email sent to the state’s county election supervisors by Maria Matthews, director of the state’s Division of Elections," the Tampa Bay Times reported Thursday.
This will allow DeSantis to appoint a new official, who will oversee the Florida Division of Elections, which is within the Department of State.
"Since joining the DeSantis administration, she has won bipartisan praise, particularly for the state’s handling of the 2020 election, one of the state’s smoothest in decades," the newspaper noted. "Despite the state’s success with that election, DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Legislature have passed numerous changes to the state’s voting laws in the name of rooting out voter fraud. Nearly all of those changes have led to lawsuits by civil rights and advocacy groups, which have argued they were unconstitutional."
It is against the backdrop of Trump continuing to push his "big lie" of election fraud that DeSantis will appoint a new secretary of state to replace Lee.
The secretary of state was elected by the voters until the passage of Amendment 8 in 1998. In the same election, Katherine Harris was chosen by the voters as the last elected secretary of state.
Yep,,,,the party of no is trying every way to eliminate them from working for the country and just going through the motions to stay in power anyway they can!!!!! With polls showing that abortion and the economy as the major drivers for voters. I wonder out loud how long Lil Schitty can maintain his hope of victory!!!!! Also, note that the full abortion issue is probably not reflected in this gaggle of polls and also noted how the gap
A bipartisan push in Congress to adopt another round of coronavirus aid is in fresh political peril, as Republicans continue to block Democrats from swiftly approving as much as the Biden administration believes is necessary to prepare for an expected new surge.
Five days after federal health officials warned a new wave could infect 100 million people, lawmakers still find themselves struggling to overcome familiar partisan divides. There appears to be no immediate pathway in the Senate for a long-stalled agreement to spend $10 billion to boost the availability of tests, therapeutics and vaccines nationwide.
For weeks, the White House has sounded urgent alarms about the need for more aid, arguing it has already committed most of its existing public health dollars to specific uses. Some key federal initiatives even have run out of cash, leading the administration to slow purchases of critical supplies while shuttering a program that had provided free testing to uninsured Americans.
Yep.....seems Alito has failed with his class peers at Princeton....Most of the comments have been repeated over and over and sure is a word salad of bullshit logic to fill his catholic bias and make people think he is omnipotent!!!!!!
'Appalled' Princeton classmate of Justice Alito’s on abortion draft opinion: 'I wouldn’t have given this a C'
Fri, May 13, 2022, 2:42 AM
On The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s former Princeton classmate weighed in on his leaked draft opinion signaling the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Susan Squier, a professor at Penn State University, was less than impressed with what she’d read.
“I’m trained as a literature and medicine scholar, so I pulled up the whole document and I read it,” Squier said. “And as someone who works with literature, I noticed nuance and word choice, and I was appalled at what I saw.”
As many others have, Squier scrutinized Alito’s decision to invoke 17th century jurist Matthew Hale in his draft opinion. Hale put women to death for witchcraft, and believed women had no ownership whatsoever over their own bodies. Hale believed that women belonged to their fathers until they got married, at which point they became the property of their husbands.
“When I read it I thought, ‘I wouldn’t have given this a C if he had been my undergraduate student.’ It was very badly sourced. He didn’t consider the context at all,” Squier said. “And this from a man, I’m sorry to say, who was trained as a historian at Princeton, as well as a political scientist.”
Oops.......
The issue of abortion has jumped in importance for Americans as midterm elections approach in November, vying with the economy for voters’ top issue in a new poll in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the landmark Roe v. Wade decision will be overturned.
A new survey from Monmouth University showed 25% of adults saying abortion was their top issue when voting in congressional elections, up from 9% in 2018. The economy was just slightly ahead, with 26% saying it was their most important consideration.
Taken May 5-9, the polling came after the leak of the high court document.
The shift on abortion policy is most pronounced among Democrats: 48% say a candidate’s alignment with their views on the issue is extremely important, up from 31% in 2018.
Among Republicans, meanwhile, Monmouth’s polling found a decline in seeing abortion policy as an extremely important factor in voting: 29%, down from 36% in 2018.
Sweden is going to join NATO!
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
A day after Finland’s leaders declared unequivocally that the nation would join NATO, the Swedish government signaled on Friday that it could soon follow suit, issuing a scathing report outlining how Russian aggression in Ukraine had fundamentally altered the security equation in Europe and saying that only NATO membership would offer the nation stability and protection.
The report did not make an explicit recommendation, but a formal government decision on the issue is expected soon. It came on the same day as top officials from the world’s wealthiest democracies were meeting to confront the prospect of a prolonged war in the heart of Europe and its wider impact around the world — particularly on food and energy prices.
A Russian blockade of all Ukrainian ports has left tens of millions of tons of grain meant for export sitting in silos, worsening a crisis that is threatening food security, particularly in poorer nations. At the same time, Europe is striving to break free from its dependence on Russian energy, a difficult and costly task
Sorry rrb but your hero is not going to win.
Sanctions on Russia and President Vladimir Putin must remain until its invading troops leave Ukraine, the British foreign secretary said before a three-day meeting with international allies.
“Putin is humiliating himself on the world stage,” Liz Truss said Thursday night at the start of a three-day meeting of G-7 foreign ministers. “We must ensure he faces a defeat in Ukraine that denies him any benefit and ultimately constrains further aggression.”
Truss urged Britain’s allies, gathered in Weissenhaus, Germany, to go “further and faster” in helping Ukraine by working out a “pathway” for it to receive NATO-standard military equipment. The “best long-term security for Ukraine will come from it being able to defend itself,” she said.
President Theodore Roosevelt is on Mount Rushmore because he broke up the monopoly of Standard Oil.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday led the introduction of new legislation that would enable federal regulators to forcefully crack down on corporate price gouging, a practice that progressive lawmakers and economists say has played a major role in driving U.S. inflation to a 40-year high.
According to a one-page summary released by Warren's office, the Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2022 would "prohibit the practice of price gouging during all abnormal market disruptions—including the current pandemic—by authorizing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general to enforce a federal ban against unconscionably excessive price increases, regardless of a seller's position in a supply chain."
The summary notes that the bill would also "create a rebuttable presumption of price gouging against firms that exercise unfair leverage and companies that brag about increasing prices during periods of inflation" and require "public companies to transparently disclose and explain changes in their cost of goods sold, gross margins, and pricing strategies in their quarterly [Securities and Exchange Commission] filings."
"Corporations have price gouged consumers for extra profits—and gotten away with it—for too long," Warren (D-Mass.) wrote in a Twitter post on Thursday.
Warren introduced the new bill alongside Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who said in a statement that the measure would "shine a light on price hikes and help prevent big corporations from exploiting a period of inflation to gouge consumers with higher costs."
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) introduced companion legislation in the House.
Rakeen Mabud, chief economist at the Groundwork Collaborative, applauded the new bill as an "important" step toward reining in corporate profiteering and argued that "a federal price gouging statute would help curtail this exploitative behavior."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/elizabeth-warren-targets-corporate-price-gouging/ar-AAXe0US
Modern artillery combined with drones have helped Ukraine push back on Russia's invasion.Max Butterworth / NBC News
May 13, 2022, 1:03 AM PDT
By Patrick Galey
PARIS — They were developed more than a century apart, but an unusual combination of decades-old and cutting edge technology — heavy artillery and remote-controlled drones — is helping Ukraine’s army make inroads into Russia’s eastern occupation.
The cannons, howitzers and other heavy guns provided by NATO members and allies are similar to the weapons that have been battlefield staples since World War I, lobbing explosive shells farther than the eye can see. They are being used to great effect to suppress Russian positions and allow Ukrainian infantry counterattacks in the Donbas region.
Heavy artillery is typically deployed against enemy infantry and equipment. It uses an “adjusted fire” approach, meaning small changes to trajectory are made between each salvo until a target is hit. For decades, that meant armies sending personnel to the front lines and radioing instructions to the gunners several miles back.
’Serious news for our country, for our defense’: Zelenskyy thanks Biden for Ukraine aid package
Freedom of assembly clearly has limits with one built right into the language of the First Amendment in that the assembly must be “peaceable.”
Violent action, like speech that incites violence, is not protected.
While this is a reasonable limit, it also provides an unfortunate method of delegitimizing protest – those in power can claim protests are inciting violence or lawlessness.
In Justice Clark’s lone dissent in Edwards v. South Carolina, he employed the threat of violence to justify the police’s actions in arresting the peaceful protestors. Clark claimed the protestors were not engaging in a “passive demonstration” and that the police were preventing a possible riot.
The fear of possible violence supported laws passed after the Nat Turner rebellion in 1831 to prohibit the assembly of free Black people all over the south.
The majority of these assemblies were peaceful and often devoted to schooling or religious worship. But the threat of another rebellion was enough to justify outlawing this basic constitutionally protected freedom. Theodore Dwight Weld said these laws were indicative of “‘the right of peaceably assembling’ violently wrested” in 1836.
At the same time in the north, abolitionists, including free Black people and white women, were taking advantage of this constitutional right to hold meetings, conventions and give speeches.
While these abolitionist tactics set the stage for the suffrage movement and the Civil Rights movement, many at the time criticized an assembly of a mixed gender and interracial group.
The behavior of the abolitionists were criticized while mobs disrupted their meetings and speeches. At an 1835 meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, the mayor burst in with his constables to demand the women go home rather than control the mob of people disrupting the meeting.
Racial justice protests in recent years have been delegitimized with claims of violence and looting even though data shows that 93 percent of such protests were completely peaceful.
While there have been no reports of violence as a result of abortion protests this week, even though Susan Collins called the police about sidewalk chalk, the Senate has still decided to pass a bill to increase security for Supreme Court justices.
While not a big deal on its face (who cares if they have security), the need for the bill implies a threat of violence that there is no evidence for.
Once again completely peaceful protests are being maligned with the mere possibility of future violence which would delegitimize their constitutional protection.
The governors of Maryland and Virginia are trying to stop the protests by demanding that the Department of Justice enforce a federal law that prohibits demonstrations intended to influence judges on decisions.
This is a particularly obnoxious attempt to stop the protests considering justices are clearly influenced by politics and conservative justices regularly give speeches at political gatherings. Clarence Thomas won't even recuse himself from January 6 cases despite his wife’s involvement.
It’s ridiculous to think any of these justices would be swayed by public opinion and enforcing this law to stop the current protests could set a dangerous precedent that limits constitutional rights if protesting anything related to a Supreme Court case.
The real history of protesting in the United States is that those in power are always threatened and seek to find ways to suppress protests, but the public imagination forgets those actions and fondly remembers successful protests as deeply American. Senators and justices concerned with their legacy might want to reread how much our history books love a good protest.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/sneaky-way-right-protest-imperiled/
https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/sneaky-way-right-protest-imperiled/
Once again completely peaceful protests are being maligned with the mere possibility of future violence which would delegitimize their constitutional protection.
The governors of Maryland and Virginia are trying to stop the protests by demanding that the Department of Justice enforce a federal law that prohibits demonstrations intended to influence judges on decisions.
This is a particularly obnoxious attempt to stop the protests considering justices are clearly influenced by politics and conservative justices regularly give speeches at political gatherings. Clarence Thomas won't even recuse himself from January 6 cases despite his wife’s involvement.
It’s ridiculous to think any of these justices would be swayed by public opinion and enforcing this law to stop the current protests could set a dangerous precedent that limits constitutional rights if protesting anything related to a Supreme Court case.
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The real history of protesting in the United States is that those in power are always threatened and seek to find ways to suppress protests, but the public imagination forgets those actions and fondly remembers successful protests as deeply American. Senators and justices concerned with their legacy might want to reread how much our history books love a good protest.
Thunderstorms here over an inch of grass and grain producing rain.
More on the way, ponds are full.
So are the barrells we use to collect roof run off over 500 gallons of it.
Saving water is a duty to Mother Nature
8 skipped posts of Alky.
Boring.
Be forwarded, inflation is Systematic In Bidenomics .
11% PPI .
[The PPI is an important government economic report that suggests the future direction of inflation or deflation. Unlike the CPI, which is a lagging indicator, the PPI is a leading indicator.]
BREAKING: Evidence of Biden Payments from China Support Tony Bobulinski and Show the Bidens Made Millions Swindling America
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/breaking-evidence-biden-payments-china-support-tony-bobulinski-show-bidens-made-millions-swindling-america-2/
Biden Crime Family
Where's Garland ?
not protecting justices
or parents
or children
but trying to find a non-existent "greatest threat"
and raiding journalists who defy the ruling class
Brent Scher
https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1524719791260459008
The White House said safe smoking kits don’t have crack pipes in them.
So @FreeBeacon went out to see for our selves.
The answer: Yes, Safe Smoking Kits Include Free Crack Pipes. Read @PatrickHauf:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/yes-safe-smoking-kits-include-free-crack-pipes-we-know-because-we-got-them/
And the claim had been "fact checked" "false"
by the regime "fact checkers"
Banana Republic
FAKE NEWS
state media
Jimmy Failla
https://twitter.com/jimmyfailla/status/1525106721173262339
Just a heads up that in honor of Jen Psaki’s final day at the WH all my Tweets today will be snarky, condescending, and false.
Never have more lies been uttered in that room
and to a lap dog "press"
good riddance
now we have a new "press secretary" living with her CNN anchor girlfriend
can't make this shit up, they don't even try and hide it anymore
FAKE NEWS
deep state
enemies of the people
at least the last press secretary really was transitional
Some Republicans have found a brain
A Louisiana legislator who introduced a bill that would classify abortion as homicide withdrew the proposal from debate Thursday after colleagues voted to amend the legislation.
State Rep. Danny McCormick, the Republican who sponsored the measure, dubbed the Abolition of Abortion in Louisiana Act, made the decision after the state House voted 65-26 to change several provisions in the bill, removing language that would allow women to be charged with murder for having abortions.
"The vast majority in this room claim to be pro-life, yet today, when Roe is on the chopping block and we have the clear opportunity to end abortion in our state, we are faltering and trying to explain it away," McCormick said on the House floor.
Gateway pundit is a fucking joke
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Some Republicans have found a brain
Sorry to hear you lost yours roger
Though it has been evident for some time
Did you find out if it was actually yours ?
Never have more lies been uttered in that room
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I guess you forgot about that whale chuckle bee and her twisting of the truth......asshole
Did you get a free Biden crack pipe roger ?
Hunter is living somewhere in you area
Maybe he can come visit ?
VERY lo iq is having another rough morning
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Law & Crime
Scholar Explains History of Supreme Court Leaks and Why He Feels Chief Justice Roberts Presides Over an ‘Accountability-Free Zone’
ADAM KLASFELD MAY 11, 2022 4:03 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts
Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts sits for an official photo with other members of the US Supreme Court in the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, June 1, 2017.
Roughly a century and a half before the publication of a leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, another monumental Supreme Court disclosure would live in historical infamy: the Dred Scott decision.
“Before it was issued, one of the justices—Justice Catron, who was from Tennessee and voted in the majority in Dred Scott—was in constant contact with the White House, constant contact with [then-President elect James] Buchanan, after the election and before his inauguration to tell him what was happening in the Supreme Court in that case,” Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Professor Steven Lubet noted on the latest episode of Law&Crime’s podcast “Objections: with Adam Klasfeld.”
Catron wasn’t the only suspected high court leaker.
Then-Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the 1857 decision which found that Black people had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect,” was seen whispering in Buchanan’s ear before the latter took the oath of office.
“Nobody knows what [Taney] said, but then Buchanan, in his inaugural address, said, ‘I understand that the Supreme Court is going to fully resolve the issue of slavery in the next few weeks, and then we won’t have to worry about it anymore,'” Lubet noted, summarizing the 15th President’s remarks.
When Politico obtained and published the draft majority opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, some commentators compared that leak to Time Magazine’s early scoop on Roe v. Wade, the decision that Dobbs appears poised to overturn. But Lubet believes that Dred Scott is the more apt historical comparison in terms of the impact of the breach.
Since Time published the outcome mere hours before the opinion went public, Lubet noted: “I don’t think anybody got too upset about that, or if they got upset, it didn’t stick because Roe v. Wade was such a tidal wave.”
In a recently opinion piece on Law&Crime, Lubet argued: “It’s Time for Chief Justice Roberts to Take a Look in the Mirror.”
The latest episode of “Objections” details in greater depth why the professor believes the chief bears some responsibility for what he calls the Supreme Court’s “accountability-free zone.” The Supreme Court is the only one in the United States never to have adopted a code of conduct, and it has remained silent in the face of controversies involving justices.
“U.S. Supreme Court justices speak at what seemed to be fundraising events with some frequency,” Lubet noted. “I tried to get behind this. I sent repeated emails to judicial chambers.”
When the professor has pressed for information about those events, he said that he received “no answers, no answers.”
Nor does Lubet spare criticism based on perceived political affiliation: He called the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s proclamation that she would move to New Zealand if Donald Trump became president “flatly unethical,” not merely “ill-advised,” as she conceded.
“I don’t think judicial ethics is a partisan issue,” he said.
Lubet also noted that Justice Clarence Thomas had to revise thirteen years of his annual financial disclosures due to his improper failure to report his wife’s income, including $680,000 from the conservative Heritage Foundation. He also believes the court has turned too much of a blind eye to Ginni Thomas’s text messages to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows — messages which reveal her apparent endorsement of outlandish 2020 election-related conspiracy theories.
“Clarence Thomas should not be sitting in cases involving Jan. 6, because his wife was, if not a key player, she was an active player,” the professor noted. “And in fact, [Thomas] sat in the case involving subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee, one of which could very reasonably end up being served on his own wife.”
Currently, justices are the sole arbiters of whether they recuse on any given case and have no obligation to explain their decisions.
In the episode, Lubet traces the development of the first U.S. judicial code of ethics to former President and ex-Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and he explains efforts after Watergate to make those guidelines mandatory, rather than aspirational. He also unpacks ongoing efforts in Congress that would require the Supreme Court to develop an ethics code, create new mechanisms for recusal, and expand access to court proceedings through live-streams.
Real lawyers not the gateway Pundit
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Gateway pundit is a fucking joke
Says the clown who plagiarizes shit from "RAW STORY!!!11!" like it's his fucking job.
THWAP!!!
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