Rep. Jamie Raskin raised eyebrows on Sunday with a CNN interview where he said that there may have to be action taken if Justice Clarence Thomas does not recuse himself from pending appeals over the disqualification of Donald Trump from the Colorado and Maine ballots. Not only is there a weak basis for demanding such recusal, the suggestion of some type of response or retaliation raises ongoing concerns over efforts to influence or intimidate justices.
CNN host Dana Bash asked Raskin, a former law professor, whether Thomas or any of the judges appointed by the former president should recuse themselves. Raskin responded that “anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say, if your wife was involved in the ‘Big Lie’ and claiming that Donald Trump had actually won the presidential election and been agitating for that and participating in the events leading up to January 6, that you shouldn’t be participating in (the rulings).”
I, for one, disagree. Under this theory, Thomas would have to recuse himself from any election or Trump related case because of his wife’s advocacy. Justices on both the left and right have long applied a far more narrow view of recusal.
However, Raskin then stated: “He absolutely should recuse himself. The question is, what do we do if he doesn’t recuse himself?”
The reference to some response from Congress or the public was left unexplained. In the past, Democrats have been criticized for fueling the attacks or targeting of conservative justices.
In fairness to Raskin, I do not believe that he is an advocate for violence. He could be referring to the public voting against Trump. I wish, however, that his fealty to the constitution would extend to opposing this pernicious and dangerous theory. Other leading Democrats in Congress have done so.
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer was widely criticized (including by Chief Justice John Roberts) when he went in front of the Supreme Court to publicly declare “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
There is nothing Congress can do to force Thomas off the appeal. The concern is that Raskin is encouraging new targeting of justices at their homes by protesters.
The interview had other curious elements. Raskin made a rather anemic effort to portray the removal of someone from the ballot as weirdly democratic under the theory that Trump picked himself for disqualification: “If you think about it, of all of the forms of disqualification that we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection is the most democratic because it’s the one where people choose themselves to be disqualified.”
That is akin to treating every criminal charge as an act of self-selection and consent by the accused.
Raskin also stated that all of the justices on the left and right “call themselves textualist and originalists.” That is not true in the sense of originalism as a school of constitutional interpretation. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson do not follow an originalist approach but rather a more flexible living constitutional approach.
Moreover, many of us do not believe that the text or original intent of the 14th Amendment support this anti-democratic theory.
Here is the interview: Raskin segment
Turley – you should stick to what you know and do – profiling and providing exculpatory excuses for a dude like Raskin only reduces you – it’s obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence – Raskin is proposing – assassination.
RE: Rep. Raskin
…actually the perfect representative for the great Harlot (Apoc 17:1) – of course, that’s one book he’ll never read… vile swine.
p.s. – thanks for providing comment form
Raskin is desperate. Calling for recusal of Justice Thomas based on what someone else said about a different topic. Beyond the pale. Good luck with that congressional retaliation thingy. Not gonna happen.
raskin has been their designated liar for a while. He took over for schitt for brains.
I concur. Shiftt is running for Senator. While he was safe in one district is California, is he too slimy for State wide office? The answer is yes. He has created enough material for attack ads, ( to be used by his Dem rivals) for at least a years worth of blanket advertising. His habit of lying to advance his agenda will be used against him.
So, until November, Shiftt has cancelled himself from playing the attack dog. Enter Raskin
…and almost as good. I’ll take the do-rag over the googly eyes any day.
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The White House was complicit in facilitating Kavenaugh being set upon by the mob, fatal consequences optional. The WH denied RFK, Jr. secret service protection, which for a man who is a part of a family that attracts assassins publicly revealed he had no Secret Service protection – a virtual “come one, come all” invitation for nut cases, fatal consequences optional. And now we have only slightly tempered threats to “Do something” to Clarence Thomas. The democrat leadership is not even afraid to intimidate SCOTUS on live TV in front of God and everybody. Al Capone was more subtle than that!
This is the same party fighting to keep “Big Election Rigging” a dominant player in our elections. The democrats play for keeps.
Turley claims: “Justices on both the left and right have long applied a far more narrow view of recusal.” Uh, WHEN would that be, Turley? WHEN, in US history, has there ever been someone occupying the White House who lied about losing an election, who stirred up his followers to try to stop the election winner’s victory from being acknowledged by “fighting like hell”, and WHEN was there a spouse of a SCOTUS Justice directly involved in such unlawful activity? WHEN, Turley? Name some examples, and then maybe some would have a more favorable view of you.
What you’re accusing the president of and justice Thomas wife are Constitutionally protected free speech. There is no limit on free-speech in our Constitution. If speech is limited then we cannot redress our grievances against our government, which is exactly what it has taken place.
American: 1. Pig isn’t “president” and doesn’t deserve the title because he cheated to get it and violated his oath to preserve and defend the Constitution; 2. No one is saying Thomas and his wife can’t engage in “free speech”–but that’s not the issue. Virginia Thomas was directly involved in the plot to overturn a free and fair election by fake electors and lying about nonexistent voter fraud; 3. there’s no “grievance against our government” involved here. The “government” has nothing to do with the fact that Trump was voted out of office by the majority of Americans. What is there to have a “grievance” over, anyway–the fact that most Americans rejected Trump? What IS involved is a malignant narcissist who cannot handle failure, who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and who, unfortunately, has convinced a number of people to believe his lies–lies he continues to spew each and every day; 4. what’s also involved here is judicial integrity–the standard for most judges is “appearance of impropriety”, and there’s more than just an “appearance” of impropriety involved here. Thomas’s wife was directly involved in the J6 plot. He has no business sitting in judgment of any matter involving J6. Sadly, there’s no enforcement mechanism for judicial ethics vis a vis the SCOTUS.
1. Pig is POTUS and did cheat and does violate his oath daily.
2. There was no “free and fair election.” There is zero chance that 81M US citizens independently voted for the slimeball FJB.
3. The twitter files prove this one to be pure lies.
4. Please tell us the opinions of Thomas that appear to be different since he was bought.
Your guy is as legit a POTUS as he is a non-plagiarist. He is directly responsible for the loss of 100s of thousands of lives because of his compromised position and the will of your neocon/lib overlords.
EABD
PS White women are rapidly becoming the face of corruption and rot in this country on a scale never before seen. They make the loss of urban america seem trivial with their world-wide influence and terrible decisions at both the voting booth and legislative support. AWFL
The “white women” problem is mostly confined to SINGLE white women. Republicans win the majority of white married women with children.
OK, Neil: 1. HOW did Joe Biden “cheat? WHERE is the proof? WHAT did Joe Biden do to violate his oath? 2. 2020 was the most-secure election in US history, according to Chris Krebs, hired by Trump to be head of cybersecurity. There were dozens of recounts, audits, etc., all of which proved Biden DID win. Even the expert hired by Trump to come up with proof of voter fraud came up empty. You can keep believing the “no way 81 million voted for Biden” trope you heard on Fox, News Max, etc all you want to, but this figure is backed up by certified vote results and multiple recounts, re-recounts and audits. What is their argument based on? Nothing, and you know it. Part of the problem is that you Trump disciples don’t realize just how much Americans find Trump repulsive–part of this record number reflects the fact that Americans weren’t going to allow Trump to stay in office, plus the absolute disaster of his fake “presidency”–COVID out of control, businessess, schools, restaurants closed, no leisure travel, record deaths and illnesses–worse than most industrialized countries, worst recession since the Great Depression, trade war with China, praise for dictators, and alienation of our EU and NATO allies. Trump was a total failure pretending to be “President”. And, his failures of leadership, lies and pushing of fake cures did result in unnecessary deaths from COVID,. Biden turned all of this around, and all alt-right media does is lie about his successes–claiming that we are in recession (lie), that the country is in “disaster” (lie), that Biden hasn’t done anything (lie)–the economy is the best in decades, and Biden has created more jobs and gotten more legislation passed than most of his predecessors in modern times. His infrastructure bill has created thousands of good-paying jobs.
What was the “grievance” you claim? The fact that Trump lost, can’t handle it, and induced his dumbaxx fans to storm the Capitol? The federal government had nothing to do with Trump’s loss–it was a state-by-state defeat. Trump told his fans to come to Washington to try to stop Congress from accepting Biden’s victory–and they came, many in military gear–and this gambit failed, too.
Just WHO are the 100s of thousands who lost their lives because of Joe Biden and HOW and WHY is this his fault?
Gigi = the face of ignorance and TDS.
wow….your such an ignorant troll….TDS has rotted and consumed you…..you’re devoid of any intelligence.
When ? Try the 1876 Harrison Tilden election. Or honestly most any 19th century election where vote buying was commonplace by both parties.
Or try 1800 when Thomas Jefforson tied in electoral college votes with his Vice Presidential running mate Aaron Burr – you know him I hope.
And it took 76 votes of congress before Jefferson finally defeated Burr.
Jefferson was then stuck with Burr – his political opposition as VP for 4 years. Then in 1807 Jefforson trumped up a Treason charge against Burr and had him tried by the US AG at the time.
More recently Hillary lied about losing an election. Stacy Abrams lied multiple times.
Whether you like it or not – attempting to overturn an election – by challenging it in court, by attempting to challenge it in congress, by persuading legislatures to appoint alternate slates of electors in contested states, By demanding that Secretaries of states actually follow their states election laws – the 8th circuit has alread concluded as a matter of fact and law that did not occur in 2020.
All of that is perfectly legal.
This is NOT the USSR
“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
Joseph Stalin
This is why US elections are SUPPOSED to be conducted according to laws passed by legislatures and signed by governors – not made up by Secretaries of State.
This is why in the US ballot counting is supposed to be done publicly with observers and the press present to confirm that no cheating takes place.
This is why in the US ballots are supposed to have a perfect end to end chain of custody it they are to be counted.
This is why 49 US states make ballot harvesting – which was rampant in 2020 illegal.
This is why in 38 states the requirement for secret ballots is part of the state constitution.
The 4 requirements of a secret ballot are
an official ballot being printed at public expense,
on which the names of the nominated candidates of all parties and all proposals appear,
being distributed only at the polling place and
being marked in secret.
This has been part of U election law since the late 19th century as a result of the massive voting fraud in the 19th century.
Mailin voting can not anywhere ever meet those requirements.
This is why a majority of states require voter ID – a valid government issued photo ID presented to an election official as roof of eligability to vote on the day of the election.
This is why the constitution specifies an election DAY – not week. not month.
With the exception of Poll taxes, there is no constitutional bar to making elections difficult.
Whether those of you on the left like it or not, Conducting elections that can be trusted is a Supra constitutional requirement,
Even the constitution has no meaning ifelections can not be trusted.
Trust does NOT mean the people who voted for the aparent winner beleive the results.
It means nearly everyone beleives the results.
It is not necescary for voters to trust the person who won the election.
It is not necescary for voters to beleive that a good choice was made.
It is absolutely necescary for nearly all voters to beleive the election was conducted following the law.
2020 inarguably WAS NOT.
I would note numerous courts have actually concluded that.
Delaware found mailin voting unconstitutional.
Wisconsin found 7 or 8 major violations of michigan election law.
The 8th circuit found 3rd party election lawfare to coerce states into ignoring their election laws unconstitutional.
Several states found their signature matching did not comply with the law.
Several people were convicted of running large ballot harversting operations – though plea deals reduced the scale of what they plead guilty to.
In newark in the 2020 democratic primary a local judge found over 200,000 fraudulent ballots,
In bridgeport connecticutt recently a judge threw out a democratic party using evidence weaker that the TTV 2000 mules evidence of massive ballot harvesting in the 2020 election.
A house election in SC in 2018 was tossed over small claims of ballot harvesting.
If election fraud is possible – it WILL occur. The history of all elections everywhere ever teaches us that.
Philadelphia has had someone convicted of significant election fraud every single election during my entire life.
The same Raffensberger who refused to look into claims of fraud in Fulton county in 2020, later used the same claims of fraud in Fulton County in 2020 to have the state come in and take over Fulton county elections – because of a LONG history of election fraud.
Some time after the bitter deviceisve 2000 election in Florida two FL election officials in 2 different counties were removed by the state for very serious election law violations in 2000.
From after the 2000 election right through to the present I have been fighting to eliminate black box computer systems like Dominion from US elections.
Both Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and many many other democrats opposed the use of electronic voting machines – including tabulators right through until the 2020 election.
What Changed ? Dominion – then Diebold was closely tied to George Bush in the aughts and democrats were afraid they would rigg the elections for republicans. By 2020 The leadership of Dominion was publicly promising to deliver the election to Biden.
There are lots of things we can do to both make elections easier and more importantly more trustworthy.
Some of those things are opposed by BOTH parties. Just about all are opposed by the left.
The first most important rule is KISS – Keep it simple stupid.
We saw in 2022 in NV and AZ as well as many places in 2020 the consequences of convienience over trust. and simplicity.
The moment you allow voting at any time other than election day, you guarantee that you will not have results election night in any election that is within a few percent. Many of the states that have gone to mailin voting have gone to EXCLUSIVELY mailin voting for that reason.
Mailin voting can not be made secure. PERIOD. But until recently we have not had a close election in a state with mailin voting so there wasw litte reason to be concerned about fraud.
It is likely there was very large scale fraud in the Newsome Recall election. But there is zero chance the fraud was large enough to overcome Newsome’s large margin of victory. So there was no challenge.
With in person voting and good chain of custody for ballots, in person fraud is unlikely to exceed several thousand votes in any state.
It is possible inperson fraud tipped the 2016 NH Senate election to Hanson – that election was within about 1600 votes.
But without ballot stuffing by election officials or a complete lack of eny voter identification – large scale inperson fraud is not possible.
But small scale is. There are two major forms of in person election fraud with voter ID.
The first is college students who either vote in the state where their college is or try to vote both in their home state and the state where their college is. as a rule states do not allow college students to vote unless they are residents and they make it hard to become residents – not to stop them from voting, but to prevent out of state students from getting instate tuition rates.
The second which si SOMETIMES students but more often older adults is people who actually legally reside in two states. It is arguably legal for them to vote in the same election year in two different states. But it is certainly illegal to vote for president twice, and likely illegal to vote for federal representatives in more than one state.
In states with lax id requirements we see trhe same problems as we did during the 19th century. Politican groups usually not linked with parties bus people from elsewhere to where they need votes – often accross state lines and frequently people who can not legally vote anywhere.
in places without voter ID and places without clean voter registation rolls – that would be all 50 states, it is pretty easy to do that.
But there is only so large a bussing operation you can run without getting caught.
And the most important limiting factor we have on election fraud – which is why election integrity laws are so important is that the higher the odds of getting caught the lower the odds of fraud – even if fraud is easy.
Regardless you can eliminate or significantly diminish in person election fraud by requiring voter ID and requiring that ID have an address within the precinct.
After that you need to reconcile the number of ballots with the number of voters as a post election audit. Those should match nearly perfectly in each precinct. In states where there are 100,000+ more ballots counted than voters who voted – we KNOW we have ballot stuffing by election officials. Or more accurately – we know that for inperson elections.
You must have paper ballots everywhere.
And they MUST be preprinted by the state before the election – none of this nonsense as in AZ in 2022 where ballots were custom printed at the polls and people were allowed to vote at any precinct not just the one their home was in.
An election ballot today has a value of about $300 – that was the going rate for Ballots in Michigan in 2020.
That should not surprise as accorss the country who gets to controll trillions of dollars of spending is on the line.
One of the things the left completely discounts is the possibility of a political election fraud – i.e. not affiliated with either party in anyway.
How much is it worth to a sales team with a defense contractor that a specific senator is re-elected ?
Rigging mailin elections by third parties is not only relatively easy,
But does not require large numbers of people to know about it.
With unattended ballot boxes and no security cameras – PA cameras were wiped shortly after the election in violation of federal law.
A single person can forge several hundred thousand ballots and get away with it at a cost maybe .10/ballot.
I can go on and on about the ways that election fraud can be committed, and the ways to protect against it.
But what is certain is wishfull thinking will not work. I would further note that both parties are capable of Fraud – as well as third parties.
If yuou do not make election fraud hihgly likely to get caught and prosecuted – ultimately both parties will be doing so large scale. \
I have no more patience for the modern Democratic party, they are a regime, they are a hive, and I reject them out of hand. if they are the ones complaining, it is assured they are also the perpetrators in any given circumstance, and we see through it like cellophane. Climb a different tree, modern DNC. You no longer exist as a viable option in my mind. Those in the party in denial: get out, because history is not going to look kindly on those that just went along.
James,
Well said and I agree.
The Democrat party looks more and more like 1930s Germany, Mao’s Culture Revolution, Stalin’s USSR and modern Iran.
History tells us the left will always resort to violence when they don’t get their way.
Clarence Thomas is the only one with the sole power to recuse himself, the decision is his and his alone[.]
Screw all the rest of you, If Hunter Biden can mock-up his own defiance of Congress non what was obviously the News production of the Week. Clarence can tell you all too go to hell in a hand-basket on a whim and I wouldn’t blame him one iota.
Hunter Biden is not, and has never been, a government employee, much less a Judge who will be sitting in judgment on matters involving his own wife.
he was in the air force you ignorant banal vapid airhead.
Hunter also got the gig on Amtracks BoD That’s govt.
People in the armed services are NOT “government employees”.
Uh, yeah they are. Who employs them if not the government?
Joe Biden has made decisions involving those who Paid his son constantly.
Virginia Thomas is not and never has been a government employee, much less a judge or president.
Hunter Biden is on the record promising to deliver the excerise of government power by his VP father.
There is only one remaining possible argument that Joe Biden was not part of a public corruption/bribery scheme.
And that is that Hunter Biden was actively defrauding those he was selling influence to.
Either the promises that Hunter Biden made to clients to get money were True – in which case Joe Biden was bribed.
Or they are false in which case Hunter Biden has committed fraud in half a dozen countries.
I would further note that a private party soliciting a bribe – even fro private services is a crime in the US and most of the places Hunter got money.
That is based on international treaties that required changes to nations laws that the US forced on the world.
Politicians will do what politicians do. Yet, seemingly threatening a Supreme Court justice is not classy leadership. I get rhetoric and the frustration of not getting one’s way. However, this constant haranguing of justices is neither good nor classy. I get Justice Thomas is hated for being the wrong replacement, but when does it end?
Unfortunately Rasking follows a rich history dating back to biblical times ….he certainly invokes the ‘GOLDEN CALFERS’ who turned on Moses and would feel totally at home with the KAPOS of Auschwitz…snitching on their Brethren with aplomb. HE IS A DISGRACE…how could this blockhead be a Law Professor…
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“Well, if Claudine Gay was a White male or female, or even a Black conservative, she would have been fired by now.”
“The penalty normally for plagiarism at that level is that you lose your position, but most people would resign. “
“She plagiarized my work as well as several other people.”
“It’s my understanding that 20 instances of plagiarism was found in her dissertation and publish words.”
“There’s no way you can’t know it. My book won the highest prize in the profession and two other national prizes.”
“It was cited by the US Supreme Court and numerous lower court decisions. There’s no way that Claudine Gay, her committee members, her reviewers, and other people didn’t know that she was drawing on my research.”
“Harvard University is morally bankrupt and we see this at every turn.”
“Now they have themselves in a conundrum where they’re trying to redefine what is plagiarism. I believe they’re doing this because they don’t want to fire their first ever Black president, someone who was clearly a DEI appointee.”
“For me, as a person who became a Black conservative, not citing my work had long term consequences because your statue in political science and in any other fields pretty much depends on how much you have cited your citations.”
“If you have someone that’s as prominent as she became and they have research out there, and they are not acknowledging the similar work in the area, that damages you because you don’t get the number of citations you would have gotten.”
“The scandal is indicative of a larger problem with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives on college campuses.”
“It’s not following the Constitution. It’s very dangerous.
“It’s harming people and racial and ethnic minorities are the ones that are harmed most. I think that people need to realize that critical race theory, diversity, equity and inclusion programs are not necessary.”
“[The] White progressives [backing Gay at Harvard have caused irreparable damage].”
– Dr. Carol Swain
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‘[Harvard’s governing body…found Gay responsible for ‘a few instances of inadequate citation,’ and that Gay is requesting corrections to address those instances. The statement also included a statement of support for Gay, claiming she ‘is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.’”
– Harvard University
One of the most serious societal issues we face is lying without consequence.
“[We gave you] a [severely restricted-vote] republic [of good and decent men of decisiveness and destiny, distinctly not guilt-ridden moderates and milquetoasts], if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin
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You couldn’t.
You lost your resolve.
Jamie Raskin’s 25 year old son, Thomas Raskin, was a second year law student at Harvard. He committed suicide Dec 31, 2022.
If I were a Democrat, I might use Rahm Emanuel’s strategy, “never let a crisis go to waste”, be a hateful Democrat, and say the son killed himself because his parents were failures at parenting, that his father and mother cared more about politics than their home life, that they were ideologues first and caring parents dead last. A Harvard second year law student and they did not know he was suicidal? Murderers
It is a good thing I am not a Democrat but instead a Trump MAGA supporter who relishes causing all manner of havoc on Jamie Raskin just like Democrats do to Republicans. Raskin should be impeached from the US House for undermining the US Constitution and threatening US Democracy. He is a vindictive, partisan hack who is waging revenge because his uneducated, unqualified wife was boycotted in the Senate when Biden nominated her to vice-chairwoman for banking supervision at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. They literally couldnt run their family but they think they are qualified to help run the US government.
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Biden’s Fed nominee Raskin imperiled by Democrat’s opposition
Raskin’s “previous public statements have failed to satisfactorily address my concerns about the critical importance of financing an all-of-the-above energy policy to meet our nation’s critical energy needs,” Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, said in a statement. “I have come to the conclusion that I am unable to support her nomination,” he said.
After Manchin’s statement, the White House signaled it was sticking with her and was trying to line up Republican support.
Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican whose support Democrats have courted on key votes in the past, told reporters she also would not vote for Raskin, citing “gaps in experience” among other issues.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrat-manchin-says-cannot-back-bloom-raskin-fed-statement-2022-03-14/
You had me at “vindictive, partisan hack”.
But seriously, you’ve convinced me that the only way to settle this is with mud-wrestling by the wives, Ginny and Sarah.
MD’s 8th District, post Morella, is a nursurey for democrat scum of the earth. a truly AWFL district.
Braking News and good news: Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned.
Is she running for POTUS?
Impeachment – in late 1700s, one of the first US impeachments was for Supreme Court Justice Chase who was considered to be too political.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
Impartial adjudication means unbiased and without favoritism per the “manifest tenor.”
The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional – Article 1, Section 8, severely limits and restricts the power of Congress to tax and to regulate, while the 5th Amendment provides dominion solely to property owners, excluding all other individuals and all levels of government.
The Supreme Court has failed in its sworn-oath duty to support the clear meaning and intent of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Start here: Secession is not prohibited and is fully constitutional; American constitutional freedom persisted for a mere 71 years until it was ended by the despot, dictator and tyrant, Karl Marx’s fellow traveler, Abraham Lincoln. Every act and residual effect of Lincoln remains illicit, illegal, invalid, illegitimate, and unconstitutional to this day.
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
So Raskin’s separating himself from the pack of hard-line leftists who wish to prevent voters from having a choice this coming November by being blood-thirstier than the rest. Shame on him for trying to pervert the Constitution for his own partisan purposes.
Professor Turley, I enjoy and glean much information from your editorials. I believe that sometimes you cut people to much slack when you state what their motives or intentions were in making statements. I concede that we cannot know what is in a persons heart or mind unless they provide us with some insight. I believe that Rep Raskin has provided that by many of his past statements when he accused President Trump for threating or intentionally instigating violence with his statements. Then we should view his statements as being made for that purpose, because that appears to be his thought pattern .
I absolutely agree that what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
I do not agree that we should toos the protections of Free Speech for Rep. Raskin – because he has sought to do so for Trump.
It is immoral to claim constitutional rights for yourself you refuse others.
It is also unfortunately unconstitutional to refuse constitutional rights to people because they have refused them to others.
Just imagine if Trump wins and the Republicans take the senate!! Maybe WE could end the filibuster and then pack the Court. All Democrat ideas btw.
As I understand it, the House could choose to impeach Justice Thomas for violating the Good Behavior clause of the constitution and then the Senate could, maybe, convict to remove Justice Thomas from office.
So write your congressperson, yes?
That would be the correct process. I would note that the constitutional grounds for impeachment those besides the president are much broader than the president.
Separately, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE attempt to impeach Thomas. As Soon as Possible.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
Our past exchanges make it clear you do not have the intelligence required to understand that acting on your own ideology is a mistake.
This is one of the common misconcpetions of those on the left.
We are constantly told that despite never working in the past that communism or socialism will work this time – because we did not have the right leaders last time. Ignoring that any scheme that does not work with those who it attracts to leader it, can not ever work,
there is the separate problem that communism and socialism do not work either in theory or practice.
Libertarianism is such an excellent ideology that it works even as badly implimented as it is in the US or even to a lessor extent in Europe.
But there does come a point at which free market libertarianism is unable to push things forward when wrapped too tightly in statist, communist or socialist chains.
The Biden administration has not failed because it has the wrong people, or because mistakes were made – though some of that is true.
It has failed because the ideas of the left are not merely wrong, they are a self contradictory mess that fails the more strongly it is tried.
So PLEASE keep trying to do stupid things so that everyone will see exactly how stupid they are.
The question is when will you ?
John Say, I won’t follow you over that cliff.
You already did go over that cliff.
John Hasson
@SonofHas
Chuck Schumer put a target on Justice Kavanaugh’s back prior to the Dobbs ruling and then someone tried to assassinate Kavanaugh
Now Jamie Raskin is putting a target on Justice Thomas’s back…
John Say,
Well said.
write santa….it would do you more good, lol
naive normie