Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Board of Education are following the lead of other major cities and eliminating gifted school programs in the name of achieving greater racial and social “equity.” Eleven “high-achieving selective-enrollment schools” will be eliminated, according to Chicago Board of Education CEO Pedro Martinez, to reduce “stratification and inequity.” As we have previously discussed, major cities with failing public education programs are erasing performance gaps in their schools by decapitating the top performers rather than elevating the performance overall. Other schools have also eliminated or lowered proficiency standards to achieve higher passage rates.According to the Daily Mail, the Board will vote today on the Mayor’s plan with the support of the president. The Chicago Tribune blasted Johnson in an editorial for reneging on a campaign promise not to abolish the selective schools.President Jianan Shi has portrayed gifted programs as just adding stress by allowing some students to achieve higher levels of education. Shi declared “the goal is […] to change (the) current competition model so that students are not pitted against one another, schools are not pitted against one another.”Some of these targeted schools are among the nation’s top performers, including Walter Payton College Prep (ranked 10th), Northside College Prep (ranked 37th), and Jones College Prep (ranked 60th). However, these schools only highlight the failure of the system overall.One can imagine how thrilled countries like China must be as we decapitate our educational system to bring down both standards and schools to a low median.
As previously discussed, school boards and teacher unions have long treated parents as unwelcome interlopers in their children’s education.
That view was captured in the comment of Iowa school board member Rachel Wall, who said: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community.”
State Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Wis.) tweeted: “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
Parents who question unpopular policies are often treated as extremists.
Michelle Leete, vice president of training at the Virginia PTA and vice president of communications for the Fairfax County PTA, said parents would not force them to reverse their agenda: “Let them die. Don’t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.”
I have been a huge supporter of public schools my whole life. While my parents could afford private schools, they helped form a group to keep white families in the public school system in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. They wanted their kids to be part of a diverse school environment. I also sent my kids to public schools for the same reason. I view our public schools as important parts of our society as we shape future citizens.
Teachers and boards are killing the institution of public education by treating children and parents more like captives than consumers. They are force-feeding social and political priorities, including passes for engaging in approved protests.
As public schools continue to produce abysmal scores, particularly for minority students, board and union officials have called for lowering or suspending proficiency standards or declared meritocracy to be a form of “white supremacy.” Gifted and talented programs are being eliminated in the name of “equity.”
Once parents have a choice, these teachers lose a virtual monopoly over many families, and these districts could lose billions in states like Florida.
Chicago is literally telling families of highly competitive students to leave public education or reduce their expectations. For those who can afford it, they must now look to private or religious schools. Most cannot afford such choices and the state has long been hostile to vouchers. Indeed, the state (which has long been dominated by the far-left teachers union) recently became the first state to rollback on vouchers as other states are expanding such programs.
As a proud Chicago native, it is hard to watch what is happening in the city under Johnson and this city council. I still hope that sanity will take hold in the city before they do irreversible damage, but this education plan hastens the decline of one of America’s greatest cities.
Every story on Amerika should start and end with, “Communism is fun!” Just for the sake of diversity.
The anti-Asian sentiment in big cities is frightening. This is yet another assault against the Asian community.
OT …
Steve Vladeck (AT Austin law professor):
“By a 4-3 vote, the Colorado Supreme Court has held that former President Trump is *disqualified* from holding future office—and thus cannot be on the presidential ballot in Colorado:
https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/Supreme_Court/Opinions/2023/23SA300.pdf
“The ruling is stayed until 1/4—presumably if #SCOTUS wants to step in. Whatever you think of the merits, it seems impossible to believe that this is the last word—and that the U.S. Supreme Court won’t now *have to* take up and resolve the question of Trump’s eligibility under Section 3. Today’s ruling forces the issue.”
correction: that should be UT (Univ. of TX) Austin, not AT Austin
THIS IS WAR
This is our legal system. If you don’t like a ruling and you have standing, you appeal. Anyone advocating violence is anti-American.
Abraham “Crazy Abe” Lincoln
It isn’t a “legal” system because the elected and appointed officials have been committing the crimes since 1860.
Secession was constitutional, the illegal act of denial was committed by Lincoln.
The Supreme Court of 1973 was totally unconstitutional, criminal and corrupt; abortion is a State issue.
The entire communist American welfare state is invalid, illegitimate, illicit, and unconstitutional per Art 1, Sec 8, and the 5th Amendment right to private property.
The American Founders gave Americans the solution; arrest them posthumously:
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
Yet violence was the response to the Dred Scott decision. In a political system where judges have arrogated enormous political power through the power to interpret a constitution, a judicial decision can easily lead to political conflict. The Dred Scott opinion was an important step to Civil War. The attempt to keep the Republican frontrunner off the ballot may also lead to violence.
“a judicial decision can easily lead to political conflict”
And the Constitution has a way of addressing it: amendment.
“The Dred Scott opinion was an important step to Civil War.”
Because idiots and traitors chose to become violent and secede.
“The attempt to keep the Republican frontrunner off the ballot may also lead to violence.”
Only if more idiots choose to become violent. That response is both illegal and unAmerican.
Secession is not prohibited by the Constitution.
Secession was and is fully constitutional.
Lincoln had no authority to deny secession.
Secession is historically and globally ubiquitous.
The Supreme Court has a duty to “support” the Constitution by immediate Judicial Review, as Chief Justice Taney did in the case of Lincoln’s unconstitutional suspension of habeas corpus.
If the Supreme Court adheres to the sworn oaths of its Justices and “supports” the Constitution, Real President Donald J. Trump will be on the ballot in all 50 States.
Every act of Lincoln and his successors was and is invalid, illegitimate, illicit, and unconstitutional to this day, with emphasis on the improperly ratified “Reconstruction Amendments.”
This is not surprising. The only way to keep them voting Democrat is to keep them poor and uneducated.
As a parent of over achievers, their education started early. Obviously as whites are being removed from decision making, blue states like California are falling apart.
I am the only one here on topic!
I’m am sorry to witness this neat little place being wrecked with social media cretins.
Prof. Turley
You are learning precisely why “public” almost anything is a BAD idea.
Even where lunatic left wing nuts do not take over something such as education – Government is incapable of dealing with different values concurrently.
We need to tailor education for the gifted – failing to do so will make ALL of use poorer in the future. The major advances of the future will come from the work of a fraction of a percent of the most talented people.
At the same time we must better educate those less capable.
Education must meet the disparate needs of many many many different students. Public schools can not possibly do that.
Inevitably one or two groups with dominate – directing government resources at THEIR values, at the expense of others.
It does not matter whether gifted programs are being cut or if they are being expanded at the expense of other programs.
We have only one system that even comes close to optimally fulfilling the values of all of us – and that is free markets.
Nothing else comes close.
You are upset at the moment because YOUR oxe is being gored. Because Public education is moving away from YOUR values.
While I would join you in asserting that it is headed in a very harmful direction. It is still headed towards the values of a group that has gained power.
The problem is not what they are seeking to do. It is that they are FORCING it on everyone – even those that do not share those values.
But EVERYTHING “public” is ALWAYS FORCING some values on all of us.
This is the core to why government MUST be limited to those things that are necescary and only government can do.
In everything else we ALL need to be free to pursue our own VALUES to the extent we are able to – without the use of FORCE.
Only free markets provide that.
One should realize the entirety of education in the United States was put into a Marxist Revolution by the dummiecrats.
Now, they will have an army of dummies to easily control, and later, slaughter.
I am ashamed of this country and the evil it now lauds and the policies it seeks foreign and domestic.
When it all crashes down, they will be vengeance.
Teachers and police will get their “social” justice.
Politicians…you shall reap the whirlwind. Enjoy your power now.
Professor Turley, if there are not classes for higher achievers, where will we get the next group of Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Carol Swain, Walter Williams, Sen. Tim Scott, Charles Paine. I know there are more. Their parents/guardians wanted the best for them, The Best. I know there are parents today, who are just making ends meet and cannot possibly afford a private education for their bright child. I do miss the likes of Ms. Marva Collins.
I don’t want the federal government involved fully in the school systems. This was a discussion that I had with my daughter about a better way to fund education–but I don’t feel it is at the federal level. They tend to ruin everything. Maybe more state control (but I even worry about that). In my state, the expense is borne between the cities/towns and the state, more so the cities/towns–which can be an issues between the wealthier and the lesser. (In New Hampshire, it is fully the cities and towns.) It becomes an issue when taxpayers vote on these issues. At this point in time, many property owners cannot afford increased taxes (fire, police, schools, town maintenance). Good schools attract people to keep the town alive. But children mean increased costs. Children with IEPs mean more costs. Immigrant children mean more costs. Children not receiving an education to their potential could possibly mean more costs. Some students may be slow at learning but then the “aha moment” happens and they get it
Teachers/administration/unions are trying to keep parents out of the classroom until they run out of money and then, boy, do they want the parents to help. They send home lists of items needed for the classroom, catalogs for fundraisers, newsletters for Scholastic book sales. They don’t want parents to look inside of the books (laptops these days). IMHO, the more secretive they get, the more harm can be done.
Children can be convinced—we have Santa Claus. We also had an issue in the Catholic Church. It’s not always good. Yes, something needs to be done but not at the expense of the smarter students–some of whom could become as lost as the not very smart student. Parents, the good teachers (not political advocates), administration, and town officials need to get together for the future of our country.
I do not know what your issue with the catholic church is. Regardless churches are fundimentally constrained by the free market.
Pick the church you like – or none. Give or don’t. If you do not share the values of a church – leave.
That said private catholic education has proven that students can get a good education affordably.
Catholic schools have performed equal or better than public schools on a small fraction of the cost.
Catholic schools will take anyone – catholic or not. They are cheap and for those who can not afford them they provide significant assistance.
The point is NOT how great catholic schools are. It is that we can educate our children well for less than the cost of car payments.
There is absolutely no reason for public education to exist today.
The absence of public education would mean far more choices for all of us at less than we currently pay – directly or indirectly in school taxes.
For parents with gifted kids – there will be gifted schools. For those who really want their kids educated in woke nonsense – there will be schools that cater to that.
There is no need to “fund” education. Just sell of the public schools, eliminate school taxes and the market will take care of things, and most people will pay less to educate their kids in the way they want, than they do now to have their kids educated the way some loon in power wants.
@Anonymous: RE:”Professor Turley, if there are not classes for higher achievers, where will we get the next group..” From those who are fortunate enough to have been given access to educational institutions where high achievers are fostered. This, either through accident of birth, or through parenting with vision.
Puppet ‘Tom’ Says:
Dennis McInlyre Please state your answer to the burning question of the day. Are you among the 30% (plus Gigi and Svelaz) who still believe the economy is great.
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Tom, as we know, is really Estovir the Blog Stooge. He is also Thinkthrough, James, Hullbobby, Upstate Farmer, Iowa2, Shakdi, Guy Ventner, J. Feldman, Edward Mahl, Ralph Chappell and many, many more; including some new puppets today.
Here Estovir is baiting McIntyre into what what Estovir imagines is a trap. But does Estovir have hard statistics saying the economy is bad??
Estovir probably has only poll numbers in which Americans think the economy is bad based largely on grocery prices and what had been, until recently, a lame stock market.
But the truth is this economy has an amazing year as documented below by Economist Paul Krugman, a Princeton University professor and columnist for The New York Times.
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As recently as March, the Federal Reserve committee that sets monetary policy projected that we’d end this year with 4.5 percent unemployment and with the Fed’s preferred “core” measure of inflation running at 3.6 percent. Last week, the same group projected year-end unemployment of only 3.8 percent and core inflation at only 3.2 percent. But actually the news is even better, because that last number is inflation for the year as a whole; over the six months ending in October, core inflation was running at 2.5 percent, and most analysts believe that when November data come in later this week, it will show inflation down to around 2 percent, which is the Fed’s long-run target.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/opinion/inflation-economists.html
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An uneployment rate 3.8% with inflation winding down to 2.5%. These are amazing numbers for an economy Republicans claim is ‘terrible’.
Watch for Estovir’s puppets to swarm this post with snarky comments about Paul Krugman and, or, The New York Times. Puppets like Upstate Farmer, for instance, will write, “The New York Times, you must be kidding!”
And you can bet that mysterious green slime
will start smearing turds all over the threads. That’s Estovir’s method of taking the blog hostage. It means he’s having another hissy fit because his puppets have been named.
First MOST of what you are arguing is Fed projections in an election year.
This is the same FED that caused the inflation we had in the first place and then missed it for 18months.
Regardless, I have followed various economic data carefully for a long long time – and particularly the Biden admin.
Never before has the data from any administration been so blatantly corrupt as this one. Sources we have relied on in government for unbiased data have been garbage during the Biden administration.
You can debate how trustworthy your data is – it does not matter much.
The ultimate judge is the peopel – and inarguably they disagree – this economy SUCKS.
Maybe by Nov 2024 they will feel different – I doubt that.
I have seen a number of “signals” that the economy is preparing to “take off”. But there are also large numbers of signals it is in serious trouble.
I suspect we are going to get some of both. There are a few narrow areas of the economy that are doing well.
But there is enormous economic risk.
Today Morgan Stanley just announced that they are putting together a war chest – because there is a massive amount of commercial realestate that is in very serious trouble, that is underwater, can not refinance and must int he next 12 months. The volume of commercial loans that are late in making payments is double the norm.
The FED has been striving for the past two years to do the impossible – something that has never before been done, to reign in inflation without a recession. Shockingly the had “succeeded” thus far. But an awful lot of evidence suggests that all they have actually acomplished is kicking the can further down the road.
Again Economic signals are all over the place – A few are quite good – many are very poor.
We have also returned to the yoyo economy of Obama – from the stability of Trump.
Obama had qtrs of far higher growth than Trump – followed by negative qtrs. The economy yoyo’d all over.
That is almost as bad as a recession. And that is what we have now.
Brandrunner,
If you are correct – Biden will win in 2024 in a landslide.
There are futures market were you can bet on that and if you are correct make a fortune.
I have had an absymal 2 years. I have had to lay people off, cut expenses
But I actually expect to do well next year. Not because the economy is booming. But specifically because those in commerical real estate that have been holding on for dear life for almost 2 years, can not hold on any longer. There is $2T in commercial real estate loans that are under water and can not be refinanced that are coming due int he next 24months These properties have been desparately trying to hold on waiting for a recovery. With each month more an more can not hold on any further.
Regardless, the vulture capitalists are circling. This could be far larger than the housing bubble/financial crisis.
We have a tripple whammy coming.
First higher interest rates mean that many investments that worked with lower interest rates do not anymore.
Next – related to the first – the value of commerical properties in tanking. There is a massive surplus of commerical office space due to permanent changes as a result of covid, and the shift of retail from brick and mortar to online. Occupancy rates in malls, shopping centers and commerical offices are way down. That means there value is way down.
Some of this was unavoidable – it can not be blamed on Biden or Democrats.
But inflation and high interest rates threaten to make a problem that would painfully solve itself over a decade into a significant short term financial shock – one that has been looming (and growing) since 2020, but has not yet hit us.
While I and most americnas think things are bad, that we are headed in the wrong direction and that things are more likely to get worse – not better.
Everything is not getting worse. Commercial warehouses are doing well. Online retail is doing well.
We are likely in the midst of the early phases of “reshoring”
China and alot of asia are economically in trouble. China’s problems are enormous and worse they have pissed off most of the world.
Businesses are leaving china, or at the very least they are not expanding chinese operations. They are building elsewhere.
Much of that is in other parts of asia, But a significant portion is in the US.
There are lots of global geopolitical changes in the works. Changes that are going to continue for decades. But that we are well into the early parts.
Europe is deindustrializing. China is deindustrializing. The US is re-industrializing.
Globalization is coming to an end. Trade is going to become far more regional.
Whether Trump actively understood this or not, his shift of US foreign policy focus from Europe and Russia to Asia is a reflection of the changing global realities.
Russia is quite obviously a paper tiger. NATO does NOT need the US anymore. it is capable of taking care of itself.
Equally importantly US interests in Eastern Europe, in Europe, in the mediterainian and the mid east are diminishing rapidly.
All of those areas are European problems that the Europeans can deal with without the US.
Conversely Asia – particularly the countries other than China are increasingly important US interests.
Central and south america are also likely to become more important to the US – Particularly Mexico.
Mexico is a massive problem for the US. We depend increasingly heavily on Mexico for production we can not do affordably in the US.
And that will only become more important as China fails. Mexico has a bottom of the first world population reasonably educated, in close proximity to the US, with very low transportation costs. That is the good news. The bad news is that they are teetering on becoming a failed narco state right on our border.
There is a very high possibility of US troops being deployed into Mexico over the next decade. The US desparately needs a stable government in Mexico and an end to the drug cartels. And we need that entirely independet of the issue of Drugs.
Put simply the US interests increasingly do NOT lie accross the atlantic, but either in our backyard or accorss the pacific.
We are going to see massive amounts of global turmoil as this evolves.
It is already well under way.
The US has the smallest navy we have had since before WWI. At the same time we have the most powerful in terms of projecting power.
But our ability to protect global trade is nearly gone.
The 2nd most powerful navy in the world today ? Japan. China’s navy for all its numbers is unable to protect its own global supply lines.
We are seeing right now that the Houthi are threatening Trade in the Mideast – and the US navy is unable to provide protection.
@Turley,
You seem to forget the simplest reason why Johnson wants to get rid of this program.
Under the program, few schools will have 90% plus scores for reading at grade level.
Most would have extremely low scores.
But if you kill the program, then those students would be forced back to their original schools and they would help to raise the scores of those schools.
So statistically speaking, those schools will look better on paper…all at the expense of giving these kids a way out.
The better thing would be to continue the program and improve the scores at the schools on the higher end… working towards those schools that have failing stats.
The reason you start high and work down… is that there are other problems that cause kids to get lower scores than just the teachers.
Consider this a lifeboat problem. You save those that you can save and work back towards those who you can’t.
Note that this is a pragmatic approach where you realize that you can’t wave a magic wand and things happen. You fix what you can and then work on solving the harder problems.
-G
What exactly is fixed?
When California, under No child Left Behind, forced my gifted kids to slow down I submitted an essay titled, “No child left in front”. We live in a most bizarre society!
This deprogramming began back in the 1964,1965, acts and is now fully accelerated in most of America’s cities.
Tocqueville Described conditions back in mid 1800s. You are now there and this is irreversible. They running back South from up north, and voting in same crap they are fleeing from.
The illicit and unconstitutional “Reign of Terror” of “Crazy Abe” Lincoln was the inflection point, turning America to communism beginning in 1860.
Secession was and is fully constitutional and reprehensible slavery must have been legally abrogated through legislation in the American society of laws.
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“They consider…that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln…to lead his country through…the RECONSTRUCTION of a social world. [B]”
– Karl Marx Letter To Fellow Traveler Abraham Lincoln, 1865 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
Who benefits from well educated contributing adults?
Not Democrats
The citizens of a restricted-vote republic under the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, being faithfully “supported” by its Supreme Court.
That’s who.
George
Have you any hope whatsoever that this “restricted vote republic” will ever exist again?
Have you any hope that we’re gonna ship 50 million people to Liberia?
I’m genuinely curious why you feel the need to post it every day, often multiple times.
There is no RVR. There never will be. Your daily reference to it serves no rational purpose. Are you a rational person? Car 54?
Thank you for your faithful patronage.
I’m sorry. My bad. I’m simply presenting what must have been the result of the herculean efforts of the American Founders, which were destroyed by Lincoln and the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) over a period of 163 years through the generous application of terror and violence, commencing with the Civil War, which was derived from “Crazy Abe’s” unconstitutional denial of not prohibited and fully constitutional secession, reprehensible slavery requiring valid abrogation through the legislative process in a society of laws, as you would be compelled to agree.
Tell you what. I’ll meet you half way. You rescind the vote of all those illegal aliens, those who could not be admitted to become citizens (and vote) in 1863 and all of those subsequent who entered on false pretenses and abused laws, and get rid of the unconstitutional communist American welfare state and we can call it good.
I am compelled to agree that I am a dreamer.
So were the American Founders.
Somebody illicitly and violently destroyed their dream, however.
You could have just said “there’s no point”.
@Speakup
That’s not true.
As a society we all benefit.
However… that’s not the issue.
You have a Mayor who is a socialist and a teachers union leader. That’s how he got elected.
Here, you have the issue of some getting out of poverty because of their education.
This shines a brighter spotlight on those schools that are failing their students.
That’s the problem.
You keep these kids in the rest of the school system and then each school’s testing scores go up, but at the sacrifice of these students being deprived an education.
And when you’re a School Teachers Union leader, you only care about the aggregate scores, not doing what would be best for the community overall.
-G
“The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.”
– Richard A. Rowland, 1926
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
– Ronald Reagan, Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987
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The communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) “lunatics” have insidiously and contradictorily imposed the insane “dictatorship of the proletariat,” the “dictatorship of the hired help,” in “the land of the free” under the people-freeing, government-restricting Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) are the direct and mortal enemies of the American thesis (i.e. freedom and self-reliance), the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, patriotic Americans, and America.
The Supreme Court had better begin to “support” the literal manifest tenor of the U.S. Constitution before it is too late.
Start here:
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general (all, the whole) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the value of money, commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes, and land and naval Forces. Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
The entire communistic American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure only.
Dumb ’em down!
When every game ends in a tie….then we shall have equity
FREEDOM FROM BIAS OR FAVORITISM
THE FREE WILL OF THE FREE PEOPLE, IN FREEDOM AND FREE MARKETS, HOLDS DOMINION
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Merriam-Webster
equity
noun
eq·ui·ty ˈe-kwə-tē
plural equities
1a: justice according to natural law or right
specifically : freedom from bias or favoritism
Jonathan: Following up my previous comment I would like to weigh in on the pressing issue of whether a president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution.
If the SC takes the case and decides DJT is immune from criminal prosecution what does that mean for our Democracy? It means the president is a King and above the law. The history of the Founding documents indicates the Founders wanted just the opposite. They wanted a constitutional republic in which no man is above the law–not even the president.
The Q is whether, when DJT called on his supporters to attack the Capitol and stop the certification of the electoral votes, those acts fell inside or outside the “outer parameters” of presidential authority? Those who support DJT’s claim assert he was merely “enforcing the election laws”. That claim flies in the face of the facts. On Jan 6 DJT was not trying to “enforce” the election laws. He was trying to overthrow a legitimate election to stay in power. That’s outside the “outer parameters” of presidential duties.
Justin Levitt, professor at Loyola Marymount University of Law, says DJT’s claim of presidential immunity is “charitably, complete nonsense”. When DJT launched his attack on the Capitol he was acting as “candidate Trump”–well beyond his duties as president to make sure the “laws are faithfully executed”.
Lower courts have already ruled that DJT is not immune from prosecution both in the civil and criminal context. In 2022 the SC addressed the issue as to whether DJT could claim “executive privilege” to prevent the Jan. 6 C from getting access to WH documents. The vote was 8 to 1 against DJT’s claim. Only Clarence Thomas dissented. If the conservative SC were to overturn case precedent and rule in favor of DJT’s claim of immunity what would that mean for next year’s election? It would mean that if Pres. Biden were to lose he could simply cancel the election without any accountability. Be careful what you wish for SC!
Yea, thats what it means. Steaming turd
Please cite the Constitution for any immunity of high office.
Of course, the President may be indicted, prosecuted, and convicted, understanding that the Vice President shall assume Presidential duties upon any incapacity of the President.
Bizarre and arbitrary conferment of immunity of high office exists only in the whimsical and unfounded ramblings of the embarrassingly egotistical and high-criminal DOJ, which illicitly attempts to usurp the powers of the legislative and judicial branches as the executive branch incredibly and impossibly attempts to exempt itself from law.
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To wit,
Office of Legal Counsel
U.S. Department of Justice
A Sitting President’s Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution
The indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform it constitutionally assigned functions.
October 16, 2000
M e m o r a n d u m O p i n i o n f o r t h e A t t o r n e y G e n e r a l
In 1973, the Department concluded that the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions. We have been asked to summarize and review the analysis provided in support of that conclusion, and to consider whether any subsequent developments in the law lead us today to reconsider and modify or disavow that determination.1 We believe that the conclusion reached by the Department in 1973 still represents the best interpretation of the Constitution.
A crying shame! Those entrusted to educate and prepare our children for life, are hopelessly ignorant themselves. Either under the spell of a totally corrupt, Marxist teachers union or brainwashed fools, unable to understand that a free society must have well educated, knowledgeable citizens to survive. With idiots like this making educational policy decisions, our country is doomed!
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll TRANSFORM the whole world.”
– Vladimir Lenin
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Comrade General Secretary, Ineligible Non-President, and Son of an anti-Colonialist, anti-American, Radical Jailed-By-The-British-For-Six-Months Activist, Foreign Citizen, Barack Hussein “Barry I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta Soetoro” Obama, has so pervasively infected this nation with bizarre and insane ideological incoherence that he is FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING the entirety of the United States of America.
And all you —-ing milquetoast un-Americans are allowing it to happen.
An ignorant population is easier to control than an educated one. The Khmer Rouge knew that when they wiped out all of the “intellectuals.”
For those who can read, may I recommend Edward Gibbon’s tomes on the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire. We’re mirroring that moment in ancient history.