Below is my column in Fox.com on the recent suggestion that Justice Sonia Sotomayor should step aside for a younger justice in the interest of extending a liberal voting block on the Supreme Court. It is part of a growing number of calls for changing the Court that range from buying out justices to sweating them out.
Here is the column:
“I live in frustration ... To be almost 70 years old, this isn’t what I expected.” Those words from Justice Sonia Sotomayor appear to resonate with some liberals, but not in the way intended by the jurist. Some activists and journalists are beginning to nudge Sotomayor to leave the Court in order to be replaced by a younger jurist, much as was done to Justice Stephen Breyer in 2021 and 2022.
On CNN, journalist Josh Barro bluntly wondered why Sotomayor remains on the bench when younger jurists could be brought on to guarantee a liberal vote for years to come. He indicated that many liberals are frustrated with her for not stepping down: “I find it a little bit surprising, given what Justice Sotomayor describes there about the stakes of what is happening before the Supreme Court, that she’s not retired. She’s 69 years old, she’s been on the court for 15 years.”
Sotomayor gave her frank assessment of being “tired” and “frustrated” during an appearance at University of California’s, Berkeley. She suggested that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority contributes to her daily burden. It was a notable interview not only for its content but for its moderator, UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Chemerinsky previously shocked many in the legal community by denouncing Sotomayor’s six conservative colleagues as “partisan hacks.” In response to Chemerinsky’s probing, Sotomayor took an implied swipe at her colleagues and declared: “I live in frustration. Every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart. But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting.”
She added that the workload is overwhelming: “There used to be a time when we had a good chunk of the summer break. Not anymore. The emergency calendar is busy almost on a weekly basis.”
Many clearly would like to see her lessen that load by following the pattern of former liberal colleague, Justice Breyer, who retired in 2022. Demand Justice, a liberal group that has pushed court–packing as a solution to the Court’s conservative majority, drove a billboard truck through the streets of Washington with slogans like “Breyer, retire. Don’t risk your legacy.”
At 69, Sotomayor shows no signs of mental decline. She has been a highly effective justice, stepping into the vacuum created by the death in 2020 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Of course, few ever questioned the “Notorious RBG” in her decision to stay on the Court, despite her much older age and longer tenure. While some of us noted that Ginsburg was taking a huge risk in not allowing then-President Barack Obama to pick a successor, she remained on the Court in spite of medical problems and ultimately was replaced by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Ginsburg, however, was almost 20 years older than Sotomayor. There is no concern for deterioration or death on the bench in Sotomayor’s case. It is simply a matter of swapping out justices like light bulbs before they burn out.
The grumbling from the left reflects the raw political calculations that are now commonly applied to the Supreme Court. Justices are treated as cutouts for partisan outcomes; the worth of a justice is now largely seen as her potential longevity rather than her jurisprudence. Sotomayor‘s seat is viewed as a lock for liberals, who want to trade for a new model before the new year (and a possible Republican president)
None of this is surprising in a time when law school deans have called
Seton Hall Law Assistant Dean Brian Sheppard treated such turnovers on the Court in strictly transactional terms, calling for Congress to “buy out” justices by offering them “large sums of money.”
Georgetown Law Professor Josh Chafetz and others are interested in taking a more active approach to making continuation on the Court as unpleasant as possible — at least for conservatives. Chafetz previously declared that the “mob is right” in targeting and harassing justices, and he told a law school panel in 2022 that “I want to suggest that courts are the enemy, and always have been.” He suggested that Congress should retaliate against conservative justices by considering the withdrawal of funding for law clerks or even “cutting off the Supreme Court’s air conditioning budget.”
When the audience laughed at that absurd suggestion, it reportedly triggered fellow panelist and Harvard law profe
Apparently, it is better to do that than wait for some biological clock to toll. By cutting off the air conditioning daily and harassing justices at home nightly, activists may finally induce some jurists to flee the Court.
These are the voices that dominate at some of our leading law schools, teaching students that opposing views should not be tolerated on our highest court. Doerfler is correct about one thing: There is nothing laughable about what they are suggesting. We must decide as a people if we will protect our courts or will reduce their makeup to a simple matter of turning up a thermostat.
Why stay or return home to be with your family and countrymen where you can be happy, never complain, and build and establish your own fundamental law and your own country when you can come to America and have this entire country and everything you dream of and desire confiscated from Americans and handed to you on a silver platter?
Amedica ben bedy bedy goood to me!
Ain’t communism great, comrades?
Beddy funny —- Garrett Morris/Chico Escuela — Bez-ball bin beddy gud to me —- Memorable — thank you for the memory
You can’t mix water and oil.
You can’t mix water and oil without emulsifiers.
The unconstitutional communist American welfare state is a “swamp” and s-hole of unconstitutional emulsifiers that unconstitutionally force the mixture of water and oil.
So America no longer needs unconstitutional affirmative action, welfare, financial assistance, quotas, student loans, the denial of private property, rent control, minimum wage, unfair “fair housing” laws, discriminatory “non-discrimination” laws, WIC, SNAP, HAMP, HARP, HUD, HHS, etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam? Not!
Per the Constitution, free Americans may or may not “mix” voluntarily, willingly, and in full and complete freedom.
Too bad Karl Marx and his fellow traveler, Lincoln, didn’t see it that way.
You and the truth are oil and water.
Hey, that was very clever.
I like that.
Of course, we all know that the American Founders established the judicial branch, not to “interpret” (i.e. usurp power and legislate from the bench) and assure full compliance with and adherence to the clear literal meaning and intent of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Naturalization Act from their year of adoption, but to be a rabidly partial communistic political entity and sovereign (sarc/on).
Justice Sotomayor and Professor Turley’s article merely scratch the surface of what Democrats plan on doing, and are doing, to keep the Senate majority and the White House. It is impossible to think of someone more vile than James Carville knowing how he literally decimated the reputation of victims of rape. Thus it is fitting that the DNC uses James as a strategist for the 2024 presidential election. Scorched Earth is all they’ve got because, per trending polls, Biden’s presidency is indefensible
If Republicans plan on sitting on their arses as usual, then they get what any idle person deserves: nada.
“If Republicans plan on sitting on their arses as usual, then they get what any idle person deserves: nada.”
That is why every American who hates what Biden is doing to America should, at this time, give all their support to the Republican Party no matter what they believe. The Republicans must win the Presidency, the House, and the Senate by a large majority. Lawfare, used by Democrats, is so potent that large majorities are required to make the changes necessary.
[Reminder to Estovir: Saul didn’t kill all the Ameleks, so we face them today.]
Estovir, S. Meyer,
Well said.
If Republicans had a continuous IV infusion of Viagra, they would still be listless, impotent and flaccid. Pelosi had more testicular fortitude for naught than Republicans could ever muster for good. That not one single Biden Cabinet member has been impeached is disgraceful. Thats what Republicans do when elected. Recall what the GOP did in Congress when they controlled both Chambers when Trump was in office. Legislation on Obamacare, Immigration / US Border, Welfare budgets, Abortion, Balanced budget: Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Hearing Wrap Up: HHS’s Stonewalling Continues, Further Congressional Action on the Horizon
Assistant Secretary Egorin refused to answer questions related to the Department’s oversight efforts approximately 40 TIMES. This raises serious concerns about HHS’s competency, funding, and willingness to be transparent with the American people.
If HHS does not sufficiently respond to all questions submitted for the record following today’s hearing, the Department and Secretary Xavier Becerra risk future subpoenas and, if necessary, potential contempt of Congress proceedings.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-hhss-stonewalling-continues-further-congressional-action-on-the-horizon/
As if any of us had any doubt that HHS is screwing over Americans.
“Recall what the GOP did in Congress when they controlled both Chambers when Trump was in office. Legislation on Obamacare, Immigration / US Border, Welfare budgets, Abortion, Balanced budget: Nada. Zip. Zilch.” Exactly right, Estovir. These are the very same issues they campaigned on, riding side-by-side with Trump, before they were elected/reelected that November. Then in 2017, these same R’s lost their nerve to vote as they promised during the campaign. Chicken-shinola cowards. And they wonder why The People don’t trust them anymore?
The boozer writes: “Alan, did you see the jobs report today? The economy is cranking in high gear! Why should we ‘hate’ that???”
You are illiterate and innumerate. You have to delve deeper into the jobs report, such as the number of hours worked, the net per hour compared to previous years, the benefits that are lacking, and the numbers that the government hired, not the private sector.
You are worthless in discussion.
S. Meyer,
Yes, the jobs report was ridiculous.
Upstate, if small businesses lose twice as many employees as large ones, will that be reflected in the BLS? The BLS methodology was altered.
Full-time workers
March 2022 132.587 million
Jan 2023 132.577 million
That is a decline. Part-time workers increased.
I lack data for part-time workers, but many companies offer part-time jobs to avoid benefits so that the same person could have three part-time jobs: McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s. They need to make up for the losses sustained under Biden economics, so one person requires more than one job, and the spouse requires another part-time job.
Reality demonstrates a contraction, but the actual proof will hit families in the face while the Boozer coasts off in happiness by emptying bottles.
The White House is Clownhouse (1989)
Lin already said that a half hour ago.
“Lin already said that a half hour ago.” (It will likely be deleted when the moderator gets to it.)
Dummy, do you know what reading posts sequentially based on arrival means?
You are even more of a dummy than stated because you didn’t read her article. It was from June 2019, so the report couldn’t know the numbers in my response.
You reveal yourself naked and foolish, lacking intellect and showing yourself to make up responses without reading the data.
The Biden admin has repeatedly been caught playing with numbers.
We are left having to rely on non government sources
In my domain – which si a leading economic indicators – this went to h311 in August and now are just starting to reocver – Because I am getting work as vulture calitalists start picking the bones of the bussinesses that are starting to fail do to high interest rates.
We saw inflation tick up again in Q4 dashing hopes of interest rate reductions.
I do not know what the truth is – but just as many sources are predicting recession as are claiming things are honky dory.
I would would love to see an economic recovery and bet that the remaining incompetence of he Biden admin was enough to assure they get booted in Novemeber.
But I am more inclined to beleive things are getting worse.
The only ray of sunshine I see is that for every indiotic economic mistake the US is making – the rest of the world has been making bad choices for fart longer and copious amounts of cash are still flowing into the US because as bad as things are the US is a better investment than the rest of the world.
The bad news is that is keeping inflationary pressures high.
The good news is that has thus far prevented serious recession.
John, in the discussion, the left breaks the economy apart because a good economy is good all over or getting better, and that includes the future. When inflation is rampant, the left says we are doing well because we don’t have a recession, and when in a recession, they say they conquered inflation. As you speak, the saving grace to our economy is foreign investment, most easily noted in our stock market. Money flows to high returns and low risk. Which stock market is safer, the US or China? Of course, the US. Another saving grace for the economy is the remaining Trump policies that created an excellent, vibrant, and growing economy. But for Trump’s prior management, this country would be in a free fall.
The numbers we receive from the Biden administration are cooked. You know that, and I understand that, but the silly people like a story that we are doing great, that is, until the roof caves in. Then they are dead. How do we know how the economy is doing? We are both heavily involved in the economy. We can see the present and recognize those things that are dangerous to the future. Anyone interested can do that, but only a few of our corporations think long-term, caring only about what they get. To them, tomorrow is someone else’s problem.
If we were to send out a random questionnaire to the American people, the vast majority would say we are moving in the wrong direction. The very rich and bureaucrats have no stake because all the policies exist to protect them in the short term, and nearsightedness is endemic within that group.
Lin, thank you. I just posted to Upstate, and here you are with information that makes sense.
I quote from your source: “it’s…i a report widely covered in the media, as topline figures, like jobs added, blare across chyrons and online headlines.” But, the data is based on surveys (manipulated) to feed the idiocracy that actually thinks TV news anchors know what they are talking about. “1. These data are estimates because they are based on surveys, not counts.” The idiocracy will repeat these claims well after the actual numbers are known.
S. Meyer: Your point is well-taken, and a good one. Here are some things backing up your comment:
First:
“1. These data are estimates because they are based on surveys, not counts…The monthly jobs report is based on surveys. It’s not like the decennial Census, which seeks to actually count every person living in the U.S…That’s an important thing to keep in mind. The data are not actual counts of the number of jobs added or the number of unemployed people.”
https://journalistsresource.org/economics/bls-monthly-jobs-report-key-facts/
Second:
Many employers will increase their part-time employment openings (making 2 or 3 jobs out of one) because (1) they do not need to pay as many benefits to those working less than 40 hours; and (2) they can report “more jobs,” thus stimulating consumers’ perception of job growth in order to stimulate confidence and spending…
“Do the BLS employment projections make a distinction between full-time and part-time jobs? …The BLS projections do not make a distinction between full-time and part-time jobs since the data sources – Current Employment Statistics (CES), Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) – do not distinguish between these two job characteristics.”
https://www.bls.gov/emp/frequently-asked-questions.htm#fulltime
Third:
There appears to be no distinction between the creation of NEW jobs, and the reinstatement of old jobs that were canceled, causing layoffs and job deletions during the pandemic.
Every dependent, leech, moocher, and parasite in the world is an American-in-Waiting, right?
I wonder if any actual American would ever expect to obtain a position on the Supreme Court of Africa, China, Russia, etc.
What happened to America?
Oh, yeah, Karl Marx and his fellow traveler, Abraham Lincoln.
If only the Supreme Court had fulfilled its duty throughout American history, America would not be communist today.
Just wanted to say too, thank you Professor Turley and co.; you may not realize how great your bravery is or how much it matters in 2024. Thank you for this space.
Agreed.
James,
Well said.
Thank you to the good professor, his staff and all the normal people who comment here.
amen.
Justice Sotomayor, may I forward this thought…The Court is only busier, and you personally feeling more pressure, is because more people who share your left-leaning beliefs are ignoring the Constitution and its Principles; you know, the same document and ideas you’re supposed to be upholding and enforcing?
JAFO, sounds like you did a thorough root cause analysis and came away with a very sound conclusion. When the Regime goes full Lawfare-mode on our constitution, she should not be surprised at the result.
Sotomayor should not be surprised at the results when so many of the voting public are as dumb as FishWings. Take note that FishWings has a mouth, but nothing of value has ever come out of it as long as I have been on this blog. Then we have the idiot club and the drunks. America is lost in a sea of non-thinking people.
Then we have the idiot club and the drunks.
Just thinking about that, I need a drink!
The 1st result was her getting on the court. That should have been the tell for her that SCOTUS’ plate was going to get very full.
During her hearings, Sotomayor clearly demonstrated that she didn’t understand the difference between the US Supreme Court and a local court, but I think she understood what a woman is. The left is going downhill with their nominations attempting to meet the lowest level, FishWings, below the basement. Is that possible?
JAFO,
Good point and well said.
I am not sure the DEVIL(soro) Returns Souls. Good riddance to you!
Selected Babylon Bee headlines:
– Rep. Jayapal Demands Slur ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Stop Being Used To Describe Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally
– Biden: ‘Black History Is Just As Important As Normal People History’
– Dodgers Sign Soup Throwing Climate Protester To 8 Year, $321 Million Contract
– Nikki Haley says we must avoid peace in the Middle East at all costs
– Biden names Elmo new press secretary
– Gaza votes for cease fire in Chicago
– Mayorkas says he’s not sure how he can be impeached when he doesn’t even do anything
– California becomes first state to ban heterosexual marriage
– Brock Purdy excited to finally see Taylor Swift live as he can’t afford Eras Tour tickets
– Iowa charges God with hate crime for casting Satan into Lake of Fire
– Nation has vague, distant memory of some old rule where the President couldn’t just declare war on anyone he wanted
– Facebook reminds users its terms of service specifically allow for Orwellian social engineering
– Biden campaign says he is so close to a VP pick he can smell her (a reprise from 8/1/2020)
is part of a growing number of calls for changing the Court that range from buying out justices to sweating shooting them …
FTFY
cf. Chuck Schumer, Liz Warren, DOJ / Merrick Garland, et al
Jonathan: “This isn’t what I expected” could be the title of another column–this one about Melania Trump. She keeps a pretty low profile these days. But in DJT’s latest campaign filings his PAC reports that Herve Pierre Brailard, who serves as Melania’s fashion consultant, is being paid $18,000 a month–for a total to date of $368,000. DJT’s PAC is also paying Melania’s hairdresser well over $100,000.
Since Melania did not appear at a single campaign event for her husband in 2023 how is the $368,000 justified as a campaign related expense? Good Q. And how is the over $50 million DJT has paid for his lawyers for his defense in the various civil and criminal cases related to his “presidential campaign”? Another good Q for the FEC to look into.
So there you have it folks. Mr. and Mrs. MAGA in rural America continue to send in their hard earned money expecting it to be used by DJT for his presidential campaign when it is actually being used to pay lawyers and Melania’s hair dresser. They say a sucker is born every day. And DJT is sucking them dry over and over again!
Biden’s Democrat Party is so ruthlessly, menacingly, staggeringly extreme on immigration they are not even willing to remove lawbreaking criminal aliens who steal identities and prey on seniors.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) January 31, 2024
155 House Democrats voted today against deporting criminal migrants who commit social security fraud.
They’d rather protect illegal aliens than our seniors.
RT if you think that’s insane!
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) February 1, 2024
“I am appalled to see a majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives voting to prevent illegal aliens who endanger the lives of American citizens by drunk driving from being deported. Americans deserve leaders who put their safety and prosperity first,” said Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX).
If you want leader to put America first, you should be concerned about all of the Republicans saying that they won’t pass an immigration reform bill because they don’t want Biden to have a win.
For example Rep. Troy Nehls: “Congress doesn’t have to do anything to secure our southern border and fix it. … Why would I help Joe Biden improve his dismal 33 percent, when he can fix the border and secure it on his own? He can secure it on his own through executive order.” Biden cannot solve it on his own, and any member of Congress who’s concerned about it should put country before party and act.
is this from the voices in your head?
There is no problem with existing immigration laws. Enforcement is lacking.
Money is needed for enforcement.
Take it out of the money used to feed, house, educate, and provide healthcare for illegals and then tax businesses that use illegals at 100x the standard rate.
Need money, my ass. FJB needs money for his war mongering asshats – F him.
Another Anonymous Lying Soviet Democrat Coward attempted: Bribery Biden cannot solve it on his own, and any member of Congress who’s concerned about it should put country before party and act. Money is needed for enforcement.
Bribery Biden merely has to enforce existing immigration laws instead of violating his oath of office to do the opposite. If he needs more than existing laws, he has the same executive powers he used to cancel Trump’s immigration orders and policies to simply reinstate them. He doesn’t need Congress for that – he needs Congress to help him with his America destroying charade.
As for money: there’s more than enough money if Biden ever stops spending it on allowing Illegal Aliens into the country, then providing them with transportation, housing, food and clothing, etc after allowing them in rather than booting their asses out of the country as the existing law says Biden should do.
The very last thing Soviet Democrats and their feckless Soviet Democrat Marxist Useful Idiot Apparatchiks here do is put America before the Soviet Democrat’s Marxist party theology.
Biden Admin Shells Out $200,000 For Research On App To Teach Men How To Sound Like Women
https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/biden-admin-trans-voice-app/
Those are loan repayments
All of us, even leftists, should support Trump’s efforts to resist Lawfare. The future of the Republic is at stake.
CNN Host Kate Bolduan Brought To Tears As Light-Hearted Segment On Groundhog Day Goes Off The Rails
https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/cnn-kate-bolduan-groundhog-day-segment-laughter-punxsutawney-phil/
What does this have to do with Justice Sotomayor?
Dennis McIntyre/Baghdad Bob tried his second desperate end run today: Jonathan: “This isn’t what I expected” could be the title of another column–this one about Melania Trump. She keeps a pretty low profile these days.
Dennis is obsessed with attempting appear as though Professor Turley and he are on a very special first-name basis. Get together on the weekends for private chitchats, they do! He wants another column to be titled About former First Ladies – but not the former First Ladies of racist and rapist Soviet Democrat presidents I voted and work for!
Dennis/Baghdad Bob wants an article on how about First Lady Killary cheated on her taxes for five years and got one of those special Soviet Democrat IRS/DoJ Get-Out-Of-Jail passes – only had to refile for those tax years and pay the taxes owing? How First Lady Killary stole the White House china and everything else that wasn’t bolted down when she left?
Does Dennis/Baghdad Bob want to talk about Hillary Clinton being besties with Harvey Weinstein, giving him free rein to visit the White House and play house with The First Daughter?
Does Dennis/Baghdad Bob want to talk about Moochelle Obama, keeping a low profile these days spending her ill gotten millions living her life of White Privilege in one of the many mansions they bought like the one on Martha’s Vineyard? How Moochelle and Barack got their first luxury home thanks to being mobbed up with a gangster who also taught him moneylaundering, Tony Rezko? Getting a million dollar mansion for less than $400,000 is a pretty good deal – when the vacant lot right next to the mansion (and it’s landscaped grounds sold) for almost $700,000.
Want to look at those First Lady finances, Dennis/Baghdad Bob?
That would be the same Moochelle Obama who ALSO had an open door policy for Harvey Weinstein to come and hang around with the First Daughters in the White House. Weird how they weren’t millionaires until after they spent eight years redistributing the taxpayers’ wealth from the White House.
So there you have it folks, Dennis McIntyre/Biden’s Baghdad Bob continues to shill for the same rapist presidents and their First Wives who not only allowed a felon who the Secret Service warned them was a serial rapist and pedophile to come hang out with their daughters. In fact, the Obama’s got Harvey Weinstein to give one of their daughters an internship – where she worked UNDER him. Which may or may not have been better or worse than Biden’s First Daughter having to endure years of “inappropriate showers” with The Big Guy during her teenage years.
Can we talk about First Daughters as well as First Ladies, Dennis/Baghdad Bob? Compare the Biden Felon Children: drug addicts and sex perverts – to the children of Trump?
Finances instead? Okay! Does Dennis/Baghdad Bob want to do the math of how much Americans paid out to advance the First Lady Killary/Obama/Biden/ DNC “Russia Dossier”, using the FBI, CIA, State Department etc to do so?
Or calculate how much Trump’s legal bills would be if his fellow police state fascists hadn’t assigned their versions of Lavarentiy Beria to take out Trump after their Russia Dossier failed?
You’re so pathetically transparent and devoid of human worth Dennis McIntyre/Baghdad Bob. Go sign an Organ Donor Card so that there’s at least a faint hope that your existence will have at least one moment of usefulness resulting from your birth.
Quite obviously, Sotomayor can define a WOMAN.
What makes you say that?
but isn’t allowed to
Looking at the current cultural and judicial theological mind set of the United States Democratic I think of an Eddy: defined as a current running contrary to main current. Then I remember that there is also a more frightful development when you create narcissistic whirlpools: Wikipedia defines narcissistic as (the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one’s idealized self-image and attributes). Others add the lack of empathy as a personality attribute. This whirlpool the democrats are fostering of lawless ignorance (the border is a prime example) and cultural norms (inappropriate instruction of children is another example) is surely the Road to Perdition after serving the penance of Tyrannical governance. These democratic fools have sewn anarchy in the streets, pestilents like the order of Luther within the media and internet, and the workplace with their Woke ideologies causing division within the societal races, religious orders, and economical glasses. The path of this governmental experiment [The United States of America] and its “freedom of the individual” is being assaulted and eroded at its foundational trust by the leftist’s dream of Utopia. The lefts hypothetical of a living Constitution is the most dangerous notion, we the people need no more rights that what are already guaranteed “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America” in addition as declared in the Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. I hope that soon the democrats wake from their dream and see the light before the whirlpool swallows us all into Tyranny.
Using Luther as equating the Democrats as Evangelists of obedient desecrates to the doctrine of the liberal left and chastity from the temptation of other pathways into the future.
May God help us All!
Was “We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation,” Obama announced. “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone…and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions.” the first time the Marxists said the quiet part out loud? With no meaningful pushback, it does seem that was the point in history when the Regime greenlighted every other Marxist to come out from their hiding places and finish the destruction of this country.
Yeah, no President before Obama ever signed EOs. He invented it.
I vividly recall Obama’s first EO, on his first day in office.
*Crocodile tears.
As of February 1st 2024 Biden has written 131 executive orders. Trump wrote 220 in his 4 years. Of course it was Trump who said he would shred the constitution. And Trump said that out loud.
Oh Fishwings, you are a gift. You idiots think my comment was about EO’s. Nope. Try again. said he would shred the constitution. 😀😁😂🤣😃😄😅😆
So you quote Obama on EO’s, but it had nothing to do with EO’s? Just how far does your head go up there?
Nope. I quoted Obama on his declaration to make Congress irrelevant by EO’s. Now, as far as shredding the constitution, do Biden, or at least the Obama Marxists running his administration.
But will Biden issue an EO to help fix the catastrophe at the border? It seems not.
@Fishwings
And you have written at least 3,000 posts in that time with your pedantry, ignorance, links to thoroughly debunked media narratives, and party misdirection. Thanks for that. It makes all of our experiences here so much better.
Love, James. 💋💋💋 If you weren’t a peach, I’d give you a prune.
She’s on a court that has thrown stare decisis in the garbage can, she’s on a court that does nothing when her fellow jurists take and receive money and vacations from close personal friends. She’s going to watch the conservatives flip 180 on constitutional “originalism” and “textualism” when it serves their purpose to protect Trump. And she watching fundamentalists’ so-called Christians flood the court with wish lists tearing apart the separation of church and state. And that’s just a couple of reasons, no wonder it’s not what she expected.
. . . putting words in her mouth.
@Fishwings
You are often the mouth (or at least typing) equivalent of a paid f*rt. Good chimichanga dinner, that was. In this day and age of advanced algorithms, I guess it’s something that you do this in person at all, so small kudos. But not much. Very small. 💋💋💋 And yes, I am just going to keep kissing you. 💋💋 You are treasure of ignorant flatulance. Keep bringing it, we love it! 💋 Oops, the dog did it. 🥱 I guess dogs will be dogs. 🥱🥱 I kiss you a million times in your chicanery and adolescent confusion, hoping that someday you’ll grow up. Moooi!! 💋💋
It is really funny to hear liberals supporting Joe Biden, the 81 year old man with obvious dementia, for another 4 years in the WH and yet demanding that the 69 year old Justice resign due to her age.
The left always needs a battle. We went from gay marriage, a change I supported before Biden, Obama or the Clintons, to demanding that men compete against women in sports, men be allowed to parade around with an erection in a spa in CA because they say they are a woman. to felonious men claiming to be a woman and being sent to women’s prison where they rape women, real women. The left never stops, nothing is enough, the Overton Window keeps moving and the next thing you know we have an male “Admiral” dressing up like a lady, a nuclear disposal big shot wearing dresses and lipstick to go along with his bald head and schools teaching 7 year olds that they can be any gender they want.
HullBobby,
Well said.
I recall hearing a NPR article about how terrible it was for trans convicts, who could not get into women’s prisons.
They did mention a women’s rights group fighting against trans men in women’s prisons in the failed state of CA.
What the left OUT was the fact several women were raped by those men pretending to be women and that is why the women’s rights group was doing the fighting.
Dear Prof Turley,
Time flies. And it’s not like the other Justices are spring chickens. On the SCOTUS age scale, thought Justice Sotomayor is still in her prime?
Like a lot of us, I suspect Sotomayor has grown exasperated and weary of the deeply polarizing and divisive effects of partisan politics on jurisprudence and the American Experiment writ large.
‘A House Divided Cannot Stand’ .. . and neither will the SCOTUS.
If SCOTUS succumbs to this outrageous, manufactured partisan-divide, there will be no American institution ‘left or right’, including the 4th estate, to protect the citizens from the ravages of increasing hyper-partisan political insanity. In a world gone mad, society itself will soon be on the chopping block. .. Reputation, reputation, reputation, O’ I have lost my reputation and what remains is bestial.’
The [madness of] semi-private opaque Republican-Democrat party already controls all the official organs of power, the exercise of Democracy (i.e. voting) and increasingly, through its media surrogates, society at large .. . and, like a cancer, must be excised from the American body politic before it’s too late, imo.
*we need a ‘Citizens United’ to outlaw all privately owned political parties. .. they’ve cornered the marketplace.
When a baby is spoiled by always getting his way, having to live a responsible life isn’t what he “expects” either.
OldManFromKS,
Right.
Reminds me of the videos of a bunch of young people crying, one literally, about having to work a 9 to 5 job.
An apt description of Trump.
It seems that for some of our leftist friends, if they couldn’t say “whatabout Trump,” they wouldn’t be able to talk at all.
>”When a baby is spoiled by always getting his way, having to live a responsible life isn’t what he “expects” either.”
There’s no reason to drag Hunter Biden into this.
*see Turley’s ‘Hunter’s Epic brief’ story below.
How ignorant are we? There is a very good reason that the Supreme Court can never be assembled as a partisan divided institution! The reason is actually very simple, the Constitution of the United States, like the Articles of Confederation before it, is a participation versus compliance agreement between the States to form the Union, and it must establish the benefits, privileges, rights of participation in decision making, and cost of membership in the Union. And because the States have agreed to comply with all the decisions they make together as a Union, there must be a conflict and dispute resolution agreement when decisions are made by a properly assembled and properly operated legislature disenfranchise or otherwise affect one or more States disproportionately. The process for resolving these conflicts and disputes must be agreed to by all the States because they also agree to abide by the decision to resolve their differences. This is where the Supreme Court comes into play.
Since all the States are agreeing to abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court, they must also participate in assembling a court by consensus agreement, and the only way to do that is by the process established by Article 9 Clause 2 of the Articles of Confederation:
[Articles of Confederation
Article IX Clause 2
The united states, in congress assembled, shall also be the last resort on appeal, in all disputes and differences now subsisting, or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following. Whenever the legislative or executive authority, or lawful agent of any state in controversy with another, shall present a petition to congress, stating the matter in question, and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given, by order of congress, to the legislative or executive authority of the other state in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question: but if they cannot agree, congress shall name three persons out of each of the united states, and from the list of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen; and from that number not less than seven, nor more than nine names, as congress shall direct, shall, in the presence of congress, be drawn out by lot, and the persons whose names shall be so drawn, or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges, to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges, who shall hear the cause, shall agree in the determination: and if either party shall neglect to attend at the day appointed, without showing reasons which congress shall judge sufficient, or being present, shall refuse to strike, the congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each State, and the secretary of congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing; and the judgment and sentence of the court, to be appointed in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive; and if any of the parties shall refuse to submit to the authority of such court, or to appear or defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence, or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive; the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to congress, and lodged among the acts of congress, for the security of the parties concerned: provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the State where the cause shall be tried, “well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour, affection, or hope of reward: “provided, also, that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the united states.]
Notice it’s impossible to assemble a partisan or biased court, and all petitions for redress must be made to Congress, all decisions are final and cannot be overturned, because it is the last resort on appeal, and all the States must participate in assembling the court. Also notice that there must be a pool of no less than 7 and no more than 9 judges and only 5 judges are chosen by lot starting with the partitioner to hear and decide the dispute, and that does not include the Chief Justice who presides over the proceedings, they do not participate in the proceedings.
The only things that changed with the adoption of the Constitution of the United States was that the pool of judges was continually seated with the “Good Behavior Clause”, the addition of the Chief Justice to preside, and the President to make nominations for replacements when vacancies occur, a number and required qualifications each nominee must possess determined by the States as they are assembled in the Senate through their rules for their proceedings, if you are wondering that falls under the advice part of the appointment process, then the States deliberate those candidates qualifications and suitability and determine a choice by vote, 1 vote per State, and a majority of all the States is necessary to the choice, that is a consensus choice, legislative process, the consent part of the appointment process, then the President is empowered to appoint that choice.
I understand that we are a naive and basically ignorant society, but we all should be able to understand that partisan is not collective, and in the United States we have a collective governing system based upon distributed power, not a consolidated system based upon individual power determined by competitive partisan elections to establish the composition and control of our governing institutions.
Some liberals will eat their own to get anyone ever more illiberal.