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AOC tries to impeach Thomas and Alito

| July 12, 2024 | 23 Comments
AOC tries to impeach Thomas and Alito

  Well, if you can’t beat ’em, impeach ’em. Seems to be the theme of the Democrats – if they can’t win by the rules, try to change the rules. Disregarding decades of liberal majority on the Supreme Court, the Dems squealed like outraged shoats when the Court became barely conservative-leaning. God knows Roberts and […]

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Clarence Thomas defense

| June 29, 2024 | 20 Comments
Clarence Thomas defense

Interesting opinion piece on Fox from Mark Paoletta alleging that the hit campaign against Clarence Thomas is riddled with inaccuracies, and that the authors don’t care. Let’s start with how Thomas supposedly received $4.2 million in gifts over the last few years. That’s 20 years, by the way, since 2003. “He traveled to Dallas in […]

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Sometimes the Supremes try…and fail

| June 4, 2024 | 6 Comments
Sometimes the Supremes try…and fail

Yesterday we had a blurb on the Supreme Court getting it right – good for them. People also need to remember that they also get it wrong,  and have to reverse themselves. “Well, we phrased the decision poorly and idiots will now try to twist the law to their own benefit” such as Hunter’s defense […]

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Big NRA win in Supreme Court

| June 3, 2024 | 20 Comments
Big NRA  win in Supreme Court

The Supremes handed a nice victory to the NRA last week. Not uncommon, right? This one was – a UNANIMOUS decision. Authored by Justice Sotomayor.  Supported by the ACLU. With a combination like that on your side, you can bet the other folks were trying on some egregious shit, man. Oh. look. it was the […]

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Supremes screw the pooch again

| May 11, 2024 | 20 Comments
Supremes screw the pooch again

While I generally like this set of judges, they sure aren’t infallible, and proved it in a major way today. In a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, the justices affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuits by the two plaintiffs, who were denied prompt hearings to reclaim vehicles seized by police in […]

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Supremes tweak free speech limits

| March 16, 2024 | 12 Comments
Supremes tweak free speech limits

The Supreme Court decided Friday that there are indeed some internet limitations on free speech. But not like it sounds, they are restricting the ability to curtail it. The decision was based on two lower court cases from California and Michigan in which it was ruled that public officials could block or ban critics on […]

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Texas Border Standoff

| January 25, 2024 | 261 Comments
Texas Border Standoff

Texas Guard standoff with feds continues, despite Supreme Court ruling Texas officers are still erecting border wire and some Republicans are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to defy the high court. By Davis Winkie and Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune This article was shared as part of an ongoing project between Military Times and […]

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Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On

| January 8, 2024 | 54 Comments
Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On

Diversity! West Point and the Naval Academy can keep affirmative action — for now By Irene Loewenson Two federal judges recently rejected legal attempts to halt affirmative action in the military’s service academies, at least for now. The anti-affirmative-action group Students for Fair Admissions filed lawsuits this fall seeking to end the use of race […]

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